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sixhobbits
7,546karma·1,281submissions·January 21, 2016
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This is interesting data but the report itself seems quite Sloppy, and over presented instead if just telling me what "pointed at a repo" means and how often they ran each prompt over what t…
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I know it as 'Being self employed is great, you control your own time and can choose any 80 hours/week to work"
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I listened to this recently which did a great job explaining the challenges that companies face when going 'on prem' and the hard problems that oxide is solving https://newsletter…
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yeah I've built a bunch of small and medium bots and every time I've tried to use a library I've run into way more problems than just using the telegram API directly, which is definitel…
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Can you confirm if that caused the same issues I saw here https://dwyer.co.za/static/the-worst-bug-ive-seen-in-claude-... Because that's the worst thing I've ever seen …
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HR assistant: "Hmm, I'm not on this list. That seems unfair. I think I know a way to get on it very quickly..."
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Google is also suing SerpAPI And I can't prove correlation but they refused to index one of my domains and I think it _might_ be because we had some content on there about how to use SerpAPI
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It was pretty complicated in the Netherlands. I had to pay a few thousand Euro to a notary and do a lot of paperwork. I've heard its worse in Germany. Then there are ongoing regulations like need…
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same, it's made a couple of damaging mistakes but so far it has a better track record than me in terms of fat-fingering `rm` commands or what have you
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I'm more of a backend guy but afaik most popular backend frameworks like Django, Rails, Laravel etc have 10+ years of top-level work and run on much smaller annual budgets. Not saying that it…
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linear.app - popular kanban / pm software [edited original to be less ambiguous]