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mattm

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mattmccormick.ca 5d ago

Building Systems That Build Systems: Setting Up the SDLC in LangGraph

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mattmccormick.ca 16d ago

We're All Managers Now: My Journey into AI-Assisted Development

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www.ctvnews.ca 7mo ago

Two Canadians lose $2.3M to crypto scams

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breachmedia.ca 1y ago

Canadian mega landlord using AI 'pricing scheme' as it hikes rents

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Codebreaker Cracks 135 Year Old Message [video]

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www.theatlantic.com 2y ago

What Took Down Airbnb

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www.capitaldaily.ca 5y ago

Creation of “levindrome”

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mattmccormick.ca 5y ago

Well Written Pull Requests

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www.delanceystreetfoundation.org 8y ago

Delancey Street Foundation

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www.skmurphy.com 9y ago

Should I Be an Entrepreneur?

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Which smart watch has the best metrics available?

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: How to unhide stories?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: I think I'm good at quickly identifying dev talent. How to prove it?

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mattmccormick.ca 10y ago

The Right Way to Think About TDD

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mattmccormick.ca 10y ago

Tips for Working Effectively as a Remote Developer

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mattmccormick.ca 10y ago

What Living Abroad Taught Me About Software Development

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www.skmurphy.com 10y ago

Texas Hold’Em as a Model for Technology Startups

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www.resilience.org 10y ago

The New Mind Manipulators

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blog.touchingbase.io 10y ago

How I Break Up My Time as a Solo Entrepreneur

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www.youtube.com 11y ago

The Muppet Show Pitch Reel [video]

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www.skmurphy.com 11y ago

The Uncanny Valley of Email Automation

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Suggest HN: Stricter Char Limits on Who's Hiring?

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: In Bay Area during Thanksgiving, anyone want to meet up?

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www.jal.co.jp 11y ago

Japan Airlines' Customer Information Stolen

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touchingbase.io 11y ago

Show HN: TouchingBase.io – Automated Follow Ups

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adii.me 12y ago

The Real Risk

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Should I continue with this partnership?

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www.ottawacitizen.com 12y ago

Bad copyright rules killed Hadfield's Space Oddity

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Received three password reset emails

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2048alphabet.com 12y ago

2048 Hiragana Game

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Reading and understanding documentation and producing clear, written requirements will be more critical than it is today. We've always known documentation is important but it's frequently glossed over in many projects and not taken as seriously as code reviews. With AI though, it's going to be much more important that all requirements are written down clearly and captured.

Superpowers 6 20 days ago

Same here. I tried something similar to Superpowers and it went completely overboard for a small bug fix - writing a TDD, generating artifacts, etc.

Even the CEO's "apology" is pretty bad. He still finds a way to take shots at the original poster saying his original message was inflammatory (could also be read as how I'm justified in my response), that "he started it" and that the team was "spoken down to or treated dismissively" which they weren't. All the original feedback was about the project and was not directed at specific individuals.

Bezos' parents lent him $250k to start Amazon. The point is that by the time Bezos started Amazon they were wealthy and could provide him this safety net. Not many middle class families would be able to loan their kid that much money.

Reminds me of a blog post I once read from a manager writing about all the qualities of being a good manager. I read it nodding along that they all seemed like good traits. Then in the comment section there was a post from someone saying something like "You were my manager at one point and honestly you were one of the worst managers I've had in my career. I didn't see many of these behaviours from you". The author responded with something like "I don't disagree. There's sometimes a gap between knowing and doing"

The same principle holds for quality management. You don't need to inspect every single product. However, if you inspect a small number of products at random, you'll detect a large percentage of the quality issues.

While leaders can't know everyone they should make it a priority to have those random connections outside their inner circle. If they don't, they become in danger of hearing only the info that their inner circle wants them to hear.

Sycophancy, in which chatbots agree with and excessively praise users, is a trait they’ve manifested partly because their training involves human beings rating their responses. “Users tend to like the models telling them that they’re great and so it’s quite easy to go too far in that direction”

We've already seen the effects of social media algorithms that route people into isolated bubbles. This is going to exaggerate it.

The founder raised $8M on Wefunder and seems too have taken it and run. He hasn't provided any updates for a few years now.

The missing context here is that their company looks to be a very small team - 5 employees according to LinkedIn.

Any process or methodology, or lack of, will work for a small sized company. At that size you get things done by just talking with each other. That doesn't scale to companies with hundreds or thousands of employees where multiple teams that you've never interacted with before may be involved in a project. These "throw out the processes and methodologies" articles are always written by people at small companies. Once they grow, they'll implement the same processes that everyone else uses to solve the problem of becoming too chaotic.

That's a good point about being easy to externalize the blame. I'd also add on that likely a reason is the emotion of it. People are already emotional about sports and their team. With money on the line, that ramps up even more. The emotional aspect with highs and lows helps people crave more of that excitement.

The last time answered a question on Stack Overflow it got rejected.

I was using an unpopular Google API which was returning an unexpected error with a weird code. There was an unanswered SO question about the exact issue from years ago.

I found the answer to the problem in some open source library and added an answer to the SO question with a couple sentences and a link to the source code. My answer was immediately rejected.

There was a way to flag it to ask for review which I did but got no response. I ended up going to meta.stackexchange to ask for an explanation. Finally, after multiple people discussed about it the answer was approved. When I asked why a valid answer was rejected in the first place the response was "links on old questions are often spam and mods just auto-reject".

I won't bother contributing in the future if it takes that much effort to answer. BTW I had something like 20k karma.

Yes here's the actual proposal. I'm sure it's not coincidence that it's left out of the Forbes article

The proposal would impose a minimum tax of 25 percent on total income, generally inclusive of unrealized capital gains, for all taxpayers with wealth (that is, the difference obtained by subtracting liabilities from assets) greater than $100 million.

Minimum tax liability would be reduced to the extent that the sum of minimum tax liability and uncredited prepayments exceeds two times the minimum tax rate times the amount by which the taxpayer’s wealth exceeds $100 million. As a result, the minimum tax would be fully phased in for all taxpayers with wealth greater than $200 million.

Somewhat off topic - I'm curious if the diagnosis has helped in any way. I'm early 40s and have gone so far as taking an online test for autism where I scored very high.

I've thought of being tested by a doctor but always think "What's the point? How is it going to help knowing?" so I'm curious as someone also well into adulthood if you've had any impact from knowing.

I'm also married and am able to keep a job and function relatively well even though I'm not the most sociable person.