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steinnes

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About steinnes

Software developer from Iceland, I enjoy bits and bytes.

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    Comment #48664536

    Interesting. As someone who has written a fair amount of evals to test and benchmark my skills and tools, I am curious what observability solutions you might be referring to? /me h…

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    Comment #48256626

    100% agree. 95% of the AI comments I see are redundant, misleading or both. Commonly they feel like the reasoning process leaking into code.

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    Comment #46982115

    I can’t count how many times I benefitted from seeing the files Claude was reading, to understand how I could interrupt and give it a little more context… saving thousands of token…

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    Comment #28007748

    When I was taking calculus classes, and struggling, a tutor helped me immensely in the exact same way; explaining both practical applications and often the historical context aroun…

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    Comment #18323306

    Having some proprietary code doesn't prevent companies from also making substantial contributions to open source in other areas. ... yes, but patents are not "proprietary code", in…

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    Comment #13985748

    For a lot of applications: no, it's very similar, and if you have a language that can be easily statically compiled to a binary which is free of external dependencies and independe…

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    Comment #13794824

    Compelling arguments for why next generation wireless networks should be standardised by a more open and inclusive body?

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    Comment #13556014

    Absolutely. I imagine they had a very strong bargaining position willing to commit this much, for this long. Even if Snapchat wasn't a valuable brand for Google to brag about, this…

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    Comment #11216037

    I'm having similar feelings. I wish Jet was better documented. I hope the Codeship team writes some concise documentation for it, but I wonder if it's against their best interest b…

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    Comment #10709708

    It's funny how Amazon isn't mentioned in the article as one of the tech companies that should by vying for top position. Although I suppose in raw numbers most of their staff are n…

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    Comment #10416499

    Well said. My blood boils thinking back to all the times I've heard "Yeah, but that's not REST." as a response to a perfectly reasonable and sane idea/suggestion.

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    Comment #10106740

    I remember this being all over the local (Icelandic) news media a couple of years ago. Pretty interesting story: http://www.mbl.is/frettir/erlent/2013/02/28/hefur_thu_sed_ly...

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    Comment #9815950

    Yeah, being able to compile and link a binary is pretty far from having a nice SDK :-)

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    Comment #9753884

    I quite like this service, used it a couple of months ago ( http://steinn.org/post/brute-force-still-going-strong/ ) although I would love it if I could change my terminal dimensio…

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    Comment #9731174

    I can identify with that, we built a custom nginx based load balancing / routing solution at QuizUp while I was there :-)

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    Comment #9729645

    Good thought, I even think the article mentions kong as a future replacement for nginx :-)

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    Comment #9485484

    You would be happy to have a person who mixes tabs and spaces as your PM? ... mixes tabs and spaces . Argh.

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    Comment #9430350

    Yeah I'm curious too. I however looked up how many employees they had in 2014 ( http://www.statista.com/statistics/273744/number-of-full-tim... ), and their quarterly reports for 2…

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    Comment #9338472

    What he said ^

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    Comment #9231667

    They are wonderful and honest people yes, but with more support and subsequently power the risk of corruption and/or ulterior motives grow. Thankfully the pirate party advocates ex…

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    Comment #8712210

    Not really, I think both guys in the issue discussion are obviously very smart, and I can identify with their respective frustrations. I do think Jake's comments are a little harsh…

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    Comment #7996718

    You've gotten plenty of replies already, many of which I haven't read. But I have this to say: I'm 31 and I often feel the same, but it's not real. Just read Dijkstra and don't wor…

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    Comment #7913088

    Sweden: The Crusher of Dreams.

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    Comment #7644196

    It's been a few months since I managed to dig into Docker for some test projects at work, but docker0 was the name of the virtual bridge interface so probably the documentation you…