amackera

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Vancouver. Software.

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Comment · 9 months ago
I'm generally in favor of "Show HN" posts that are products, but this post just seems like blatant advertising.
Comment · 11 months ago
To me it seems more like a lot of _thinking_ just to save a tiny bit of thinking.

It was a fun read though, and obviously this exercise is not about efficiency so much as exploring an interesting idea.

Comment · 11 months ago
TOS != law

They will stop letting you use the service. That's the recourse for breaking the TOS.

Comment · 1 year ago
Can you expand on why you avoid Rails? I'm legitimately curious!

Edit: I see your other replies, nvm!

Comment · 1 year ago
Very worrying. This outage is serious and we're getting almost nothing from the official channels.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Less "Firing yourself" and more like liberating yourself from a toxic unprofessional clown show.
Comment · 2 years ago
I love Temporal-- we use it at my company. It's very very good for our use case, but took a while to understand how to use it. We're still figuring things out (Workflow versioning is one thing we suck at still).

That said, I'm not sure why this post from 2023 was posted here today. There've been multiple updates to the Python SDK since this post.

Comment · 2 years ago
This is the kind of gen AI that I can really get behind. Great repo and easy to understand with the attached video. Is such a thing possible for Python? Or does the AST parser and code planner work best with static typing?
Comment · 2 years ago
People aren't static, nor are companies or roles within them. Treating every person as unchanging and treating the requirements of each level in the hierarchy as unchanging are just plain bad assumptions to make.

People grow. Companies change.

This book was meant as satire, and the fact that so many people take it as fact is honestly quite concerning.

Comment · 2 years ago
Part of the point of reconciliation is to accept unequivocally the sovereignty of indigenous peoples. Is it not morally questionable to ignore indigenous peoples' sovereign rights (over fishing, forests, lands, etc.) as we have been doing up until now?
Comment · 3 years ago
And hopefully all of us plebs as well? I might be too optimistic about the future of AI.
Comment · 3 years ago
This sounds nice, and the information on https://www.anthropic.com/company seems to back up your claim, but do you know of anything on Anthropic's corporate governance level that will help ensure this mission is followed (forever)?

The profit motive is _very_ resilient. Right now I will take it on face value that it's fuel for the ethical mission, but in the future that might change. It's far (far) more likely that the ethical mission will change than the profit motive will change.

More funding doesn't change it, it just raises the stakes.

Comment · 3 years ago
SICP is an amazing book that will make you a better programmer, but might not help you with the task of writing better professional Python programs. If you aspire to understand computing systems from first-principles, there's no better resource that SICP. I've read it multiple times and I learn something new each time.

Do the exercises too!

Comment · 3 years ago
I'm failing to see how the rewrite you mentioned delivered any value _to Netscape_.

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