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docs.google.com 4mo ago

Adapting to the New AI Landscape in Software Engineering

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sudoku.logicalintelligence.com 5mo ago

Energy based AI reasoning model – Sudoku solver performance comparison

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twitter.com 6mo ago

The New "Full Stack"

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news.ycombinator.com 6mo ago

Ask HN: What AI systems have you adopted across your work and personal life?

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www.forbes.com 5y ago

Twilio Set to Acquire Segment for $3.2B

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www.wnycstudios.org 6y ago

Bit Flip: The biggest bug you've never heard of.

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www.arcgis.com 6y ago

Covid-19 Dashboard

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en.wikipedia.org 6y ago

Jōmon Period

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windo.app 6y ago

Show HN: Windo, a Simple Timezone Tool

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: What's your favorite technical Podcast?

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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 7y ago

Effects of Adaptogens on the Central Nervous System (2010)

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www.apa.org 8y ago

Gut bacteria manufacture 95% of body's serotonin

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: What leaders do you follow in the science and engineering fields?

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github.com 8y ago

Show HN: BLK STACK; the anti framework, framework

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www.theverge.com 8y ago

A fourth gravitational wave has been detected

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

Must watch for anyone into crypto currencies

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medium.com 9y ago

To Live Longer, Travel

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medium.com 9y ago

Want to live “longer”? Travel

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: What technical skill should I learn to prepare for the next 10 Years?

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medium.com 9y ago

An Introduction into Modern JavaScript

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github.com 9y ago

Show HN: Hot Module Reloading and Server Side Rendering with React and Redux

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arstechnica.com 10y ago

Spotify, security firm Avast report hacks that spill user data

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www.telegraph.co.uk 10y ago

Scientists discover how to 'upload knowledge to your brain'

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www.nasa.gov 10y ago

NASA Begins Testing of Revolutionary E-Sail Technology

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austininno.streetwise.co 10y ago

Austin Startup Sees a Big Future for Little Homes

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blog.bufferapp.com 10y ago

Pablo 2.0 by Buffer

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instagram.com 11y ago

9 years and 3+ billion miles later

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www.radiolab.org 11y ago

Mau Mau

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www.cbsnews.com 11y ago

Obama opens up diplomatic relationships with Cuba

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alex-ray.github.io 11y ago

Show HN: Chat like Question and Answers

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"Writing" code is cheap but this just scratches the surface. Its a completely different paradigm. All forms of digital generation is cheap and on the verge of being fully automated which comes with self recursion loops.

Automated intelligence is now cheap....

Yeah I don't buy the build internally argument. Its not necessarily the building of an internal tool that is the problem it's the maintenance and service level guarantees that you get from a vendor that are arguable more valuable so you can focus on the thing that matters for your company. Product market fit is now more important than ever and there are so many additional options now; focus on the "right" thing is more valuable now than ever before.

There is a common theme of "the end result is all that matters" but there are pretty big long term repercussions of design and implementation choices. For side projects and POC experiments this feels like the right approach but the risk flip flops for large scale projects that have the more risk associated with them. Maybe it is just through testing and validation checks?

Typical OSS is a luxury belief.

If it's not supporting a business it typically fails and is being supported by businesses as a proxy.

The core issue is that maintainers have a luxury belief counter to this. OSS is a strategy/tool for companies.

The only exception to that is fundamental software that creates entirely new markets that can sustain it like bitcoin.

That being said there is no crisis, sustainably supported OSS will continue to thrive.

I like the idea of having a four day work week that everyone is expected to work and one day that is a flexible optional deep work type of day. No required meetings and no shipping etc. The idea being that people can choose to take it off if they want to or work half the day etc.

38% decrease in people moving to California 12% increase in residents moving out of state last year.

In San Francisco Bay Area, it's even more stark. There was a 45% decrease in entrances from other states to the Bay Area and a 21% increase in residents leaving for other states.

Famous last words; would love to see where Crested Butte is at in five years. The only business that will be left will be the ones supporting the rich second homers why wouldn't it just stay like that or even get worse?

100%, the amount of houses that are just sitting up at Park City, Sun Valley, [insert popular ski town] is shocking.

You summed it up perfectly, react-query aims to literally solve this exact problem.

It does it quite well I might add.

React, Mobx etc are all reactive frameworks exactly for this reason. Given a set of data render x, update the render every time the data changes.

It's 100% a competitive edge to be able to adopt new technology faster than others. "The future is here it's just not widely distributed yet". Kudos to you for recognize that early on.

It's funny that hiring for this skill it still uncommon.

I was one of the first few cohorts at the first "coding bootcamp" by Shereef Bishay called Dev Bootcamp.

This was the first skill they taught us and they told us the exact same thing.

"You are in the business of learning, learning fast is going to be your greatest skill."

Another insightful principal that I am reminded of often.

"Businesses rarely fail because of a specific technical hurdle, more commonly they fail because the team fails."

This was back in 2013, he was spot on with almost everything he taught us.

Good stuff.

I would love to see the open source community get together to create a web based open source version of Microsoft Word rather than hundreds of basic text editors.

Even adding something as basic as "Pages" would help move this in that directions as it would open up the ability to export to actual document types like PDF and DOCX.