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techsin101

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    Show HN: Become better at Prompting with bit sized lessons

    Personal teaching project turned website

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    Ask HN: Do 10DLC Requirements make it impossible for hobby projects to send SMS?

    i made bunch of bots and hobby projects with twilio numbers over the years.. i had a new idea, it's my understanding to get a number you have to register a business

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    Ask HN: Fake CC that you can give to scammers and they get owned

    I was wondering why isn't there an app that generate fake cc numbers that are valid and when scammers use them, it gets traced and instantly gets reported to relevant law authoriti…

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    Comment #40472401

    seems like a dismissive attitude... engineer can cost 1M a year easily and that eliminates viability of lot of small ideas. It's no different than internet servers costing thousand…

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    Comment #40205005

    just from pure api perspective how is setA, setB, setC better than... this.setState({this.state: val}) which was already pushing limit of normal behavior which is state.A = val jus…

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    Ask HN: I can no longer like React, do you?

    If you resonate with what I said, there is no need for me to write anything here, and if you disagree then no amount of reasoning will be enough. Instead I'll just say where I am c…

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    Ask HN: Is there an AI Google map search?

    Let's say I want to write, find all swimming pools in this area.

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    Ask HN: How do I go about this startup idea?

    Virtual Receipts - you get a digital receipt wherever you use your credit card. Basically I find it annoying having to get a physical receipt and keep it around for 10 or so days i…

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    Comment #34155127

    yes this as well... wrong info is worse than no info. Short var almost is like writing _list "_" indicates it's an internal property ignore it

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    Comment #34145429

    At first I thought you were arguing against the point I made, but after reading this fully I totally agree. The worst offenders that are hell bent on naming variables as sentences …

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    Comment #34145375

    Sure, in this example user looks better. But as I said this code is not going to be existing on its own. There's going to be code preceded by this. Which is going to give a pretty …

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    Comment #34145360

    If there is every time there a single variable is being searched then it means that it was not limited to that scope and by let's go. I mean in few lines front and back and if it w…

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    Comment #34145347

    .... Always

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    Comment #34143916

    Yea, often vars are placeholders and making them descripting just makes them misleading and harder to get to the point. But yea at least I trust myself to refactor code and make th…

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    Comment #34143891

    I'd prefer it like this... // get users older than 90 a = data.results; b = a.filter(u => u.dob > 123456) seniorUsers = b.map(x => {name: x.name, age: x.age}) // self contained // …

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    Ask HN: I prefer single letter variables

    So it's almost universally accepted variable names should always be descriptive, consistent, etc... but I'm sure there are scenarios where single variable names are preferable. I c…

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    Comment #33958630

    investors pay you money you give investors equity you use that money to pay for services, like a logo you exchanged equity for logo, what's unclear there?

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    Ask HN: Is there a structure for startups where you can have 50 founders?

    There is an enormous opportunity where lot of people could give small amount of time, network or money to make lots of ideas come to life. But right now it doesn't happen because o…

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    Ask HN: How text AI generators aren't the end of search engines?

    CMV: it's over for search engines. The quality was already on the decline. now with text generated actually MORE coherent and more readable, how can search engine figure this out o…

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    Comment #33727757

    that would suck immensely for various downsides

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    Comment #33727747

    is there a tool that uses to create UX/UI designs. It'd be really cool to get inspirations...

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    Comment #33714652

    Unless entire team is spending 2 days on docs every week, docs are hell. I prefer comments in the code.

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    Comment #33708976

    also Trillium and Zettlr