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bertanon Claude: System Prompts

Agreed. That’s why I use pi as my harness when I use Claude models through an API. Models are capable without these huge system prompts and I am not wasting context or attention. The only issue is I can’t use a subscription without Claude Code.

bertanon Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score

> The argument against good low wattage cpus is just an inane and boring one.

> Not everyone needs 15+ hours of battery life.

Low wattage is not only about battery life. It is mostly about requiring less power for the same work. However you look at it, it is good for everyone. Now that Apple has shown that this can be done, everyone else will do the same.

bertanon Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?

> Google's behavior toward an entirely different group of users.

That’s also a wrong assumption. Android devs may very well be paid GCP customers if they had a great experience with the Android platform.

I am not talking about only full stack solo developers, I am also talking about companies with mobile apps with backend needs.

bertanon Banksy's Fake Store Is an Attempt to Abuse Trademark Law to Avoid Copyright Law

Banksy doesn’t want anyone to be profiting from his own work and he has every right to do so if copyright is used. Why would that mean he should accept their royalty offer? They can just stick to nature photos on their cards. How rich Banksy is nothing to do with this.

What the card company is doing is to take advantage of his desire to be anonymous and make money from his work.

bertanon It’s time to kill the web app

I think total need for developers in the world increased so rapidly that we couldn't find people with enough experience and teaching abilities to educate new developers properly. If what Robert C. Martin claims is true, number of developers in the world doubles every 5 years.

So, I really think there is a competency issue here. However, I don't believe that it is restricted to the web; it is true for every platform. It is just that learning web technologies seems to be a better choice if you are new to programming as one can use those skills for almost every platform. (yeah you can use almost every language to develop for multiple platforms, but come on even Microsoft is using web tech for vscode)

bertanon The iPad Game That Took 9 Years to Finish, a Masterpiece

I remembered this game and decided to play again after years. The sound is not working, so I wondered what happened to the company behind. Unfortunately, it is shutdown and the game was actually pulled from the store [1]. I can still download and play it on the latest iOS, but it is a pity that other people can't.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/react-entertainment#...

bertanon Quantcast File System on S3

I wonder how it compares/relates to https://minio.io

Can it run on minio, for example?

bertanon How Eve unifies your entire programming stack

Eve aims to be a general purpose language [1] to really replace your "entire programming stack" except for high performance, real-time applications. So, don't be sad :)

[1] http://witheve.com/deepdives/whateveis.html

bertanon Clarity Design System for Angular 2

As a system designed for "designers" with guidelines, I expected something like Material Design from Google. However, I am very disappointed, even the website UX is very designer unfriendly IMHO. I cannot see a download link or a direction for it in the home page for the mentioned Sketch file.

bertanon ValueObject

One of the reasons I love Golang is that comparison of structs is among their values, not their references.

To do so, compiler complains if you have circular struct type dependencies, but I think it is OK.

bertanon Turkey blocks social media again to stall protests, here’s how to access them

By the way, here is Erdogan prescribing secularism to Egypt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8jh68yICpk

bertanon Turkey blocks social media again to stall protests, here’s how to access them

Another thing is Turkey is %90+ muslim so It is very odd that people call Erdogan islamist. So what? It is a muslim country.

You think like this but of those %90+ people, half of them don't vote for Erdogan and most of them still call him "islamist".

So, no, it is not OK to think that Islam is the same for you and me and people in IS (Deaş). That is what a secular government solves. You don't discuss things with religion interpretations, you discuss over actual facts.

bertanon Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in Turkey following leaks

I wonder when will the government sites be blocked? sigh

bertanon Ask HN: What's your favorite HN post?

yep, it seems the title has changed.

bertanon Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber

If you would like to listen to an entertaining version of the paper, here it is: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/uber-economists-dream/

bertanon Radiobox.css – Tiny set of CSS3 animations meant for your radio inputs

I love these :D A little bit childish, yes, but why so serious? :)

One can use these, for example, as an easter egg or to add some emotion to the selected item. Sparingly, of course. Surprise people when they are bored of all those forms :)

I think you should keep a list of all the sites using these, so that people can get inspired.

bertanon Zeroing Memory is Hard: VC++ 2015 arrays

Sorry, I was very bored and couldn't hold myself :)

Also, didn't know this kind of comment was not OK.

bertanon The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Engineers to Reinvent the Web

Aral Balkan and his small team are already working to develop a p2p web and they need help and funding.

[1] https://ind.ie

bertanon Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Natural Language Parser

Parsey McParseface <3

bertanon Remote code execution, git, and OS X

Why not replace XCode with brew version entirely:

  sudo cp /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/git /somewhere/to/backup/just/in/case
  sudo rm /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/git
  sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/git /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/git

bertanon Remote code execution, git, and OS X

  sudo cp /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/git /somewhere/to/backup/just/in/case
  sudo rm /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/git
  sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/git /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/git

bertanon Remote code execution, git, and OS X

Why just disable Apple's version?

You can install brew git and then link XCode git to homebrew version.

bertanon GitHub down?

"We're investigating a high number of errors."

bertanon GitHub down?

https://status.github.com/ now operational but does not show any problem?!