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ju_shon OpenAI’s API now available with no waitlist

I've got some insight into this (Several friends, now multi-millionaires ran and flipped tens of sites like this) They're mostly written by low paid content writers in 3rd world countries such as Vietnam and the Philippines. Primarily to drive affiliate traffic to Amazon and other retailers with affiliate schemes. They all operate on a similar format - 10 items with good reviews, write 300 words about each product, rinse, repeat, profit.

ju_shon Object-Oriented Programming – The Trillion Dollar Disaster

Does anyone have any good references/examples of taking some OOP code and converting it to functional code? Even a trivial example of OOP inheritance such as Vehicle -> Car(Vehicle) -> SportsCar(Car) with a few methods & attributes (accelerate, brake, current_speed) etc..

ju_shon Rewriting Reddit (2005)

Sanic is great. Been using it at work and it's solid

ju_shon Benefits of Not Using an IDE

I can understand people using text editors (a la Vim, Emacs) if they've been using them for donkeys years and are extremely proficient and productive with them, additionally for making quick changes to files from the terminal.

However, why any developer would reach for one of these tools now when working on application development is beyond me (other than to feel like a 1337 OG hax0r of course)

Power tools > hand tools

ju_shon An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology

Pretty sure I read this would only apply to US based users

ju_shon Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people

No, but the exclusive intent has been made clear with the title "Netflix for black people".

Feels like some kind of "Outrage marketing" strategy, I mean, look how this thread has blown up over the last hour. I'm sure the OP is smart and knew what they were doing when wording this post.

ju_shon Ask HN: What are the top pains of being a remote worker?

Yeah it really helps. I rotate through a few different spots throughout the week (3 coffee shops, 2 workspaces and my gym clubhouse) I find it helpful to change scenery and be around other people, albeit the majority of them I don't know.

For me there's something about being in a place with others that keeps me concentrated and focused on the tasks at hand, breaking up the monotony of working from the same room at home every day.

I try to have very regular calls with my team and arrange days to meet and work together from a location we can all get to with relative ease, along with full team meet ups at least every month.

RE lack of motivation, I think it's more of a company culture issue rather than WFH itself.

ju_shon Ask HN: What are the top pains of being a remote worker?

- Same predictable working environment every day

- Feeling disconnected from my company and team

- Lack of physical/ face to face human interaction

- Reduced motivation

- Lack of spontaneous opportunities to meet new people, learn from others and socialise

I try to work from (SE) a different environment at least 3-4 days a week (Coffee shop, shared workspace etc, I head there after I've had lunch) and it really makes a difference for me - The small price of a couple of filer coffee's is definitely worth it.

ju_shon A Chemical Hunger: Mysteries

Losing fat without any attempt to track calories in vs calories out is like trying to improve the performance of an algotighm without profiling it or tracking how the changes made affect the outcome.

If you’re serious about losing fat, it’s essential helps to track the calories you eat, calories you burn, macro nutrient split (carbs, fats, proteins) and your weight.

- Calculate your TDEE (Total daily energy expenditure, also known as `maintenance calories`) There are many online calculators to do this - Calculate your daily calorie intake to lose weight (Subtract 15-20% from your `maintenance calories`) - Decide on a rough macro nutrient split (40% protein, 40% carb, 20% fat is a good place to start) - Track the calories you eat and burn. There are apps for this that make it very easy (myfitnesspal is one example) - Weigh yourself regularly and record it (Daily is better, first thing in the morning, without clothes and after any restroom activity) - If you’re not losing weight, increase your daily exercise or reduce your calories by a further 5% until you see your weight going down - Note: A healthy weight loss strategy is to aim to lose 1-2 lbs per week

You can absolutely loose fat without doing any of this but it’s 100x harder and will take much longer.

ju_shon Ask HN: What huge mistake did you make early in your career?

+1 for Code, fantastic book especially for self taught developers

ju_shon Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster

The only real use case I see for this is for anyone working from an under powered machine who needs to run _really_ resource heavy web apps. If your working in tech, chances are you're running with at least 16gb ram and a half decent CPU. I'm sure there's some edge cases where this _could_ be useful, but certainly not at that price point.

Can you install Chrome extensions? Does it support things like adblock? What are some concrete use cases and examples of who this is for?

The marketing talks about the ability to have more tabs open... In my experience, once you go beyond about 25 tabs (15" mbp) they basically become impossible to mentally manage.

Maybe rather than having 50+ chrome tabs open, people need to learn how to manage resources on their machines.

ju_shon Mistakes I've Made as an Engineering Manager

better != equal

ju_shon Mistakes I've Made as an Engineering Manager

Can you back this up with anything other than your own misogyny?

ju_shon Mistakes I've Made as an Engineering Manager

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38061313_Men_and_Th...

"The present study makes several important contributions to the literature. First, it is the first comprehensive meta-analysis on sex differences in vocational interests. We synthesized evidence from interest inventories over four decades and found large sex differences in vocational interests, with men preferring working with things and women preferring working with people. These sex differences are remarkably consistent across age and over time, providing an exception to the generalization that only small sex differences exist. Second, this study provides a systematic review of the sex differences in the STEM interests that has not previously appeared in the literature. The pattern of sex differences in theSTEM interests revealed by the present study closely resembles the composition of men and women in corresponding occupations and contributes to the understanding of the gender disparity in theSTEM fields. The results suggest that the relatively low numbers of women in some fields of science and engineering may result from women’s preference for people-oriented careers over things-oriented careers"

ju_shon Mistakes I've Made as an Engineering Manager

Not sure why it required the strong caveat of "I’m white and a woman in tech"

ju_shon Pattern matching accepted for Python

Thank goodness we still have both ;)

ju_shon Ask HN: Do you wake up with anxiety?

Software developer here, suffered from periodic anxiety over the years. Not debilitating anxiety, but enough to feel the negative effects. The key for me was identifying the triggers, finding solutions and taking back control. These things worked for me.

Substances: - Coffee. Max 2 cups p/day with a 3pm cut-off time - Keep alcohol to a minimum (special occasions only) - Eliminate all other recreational drugs (Cocaine, MDMA etc..)

Diet: - Cut out fast food, junk food & refined food - Keep sugar consumption to a minimum - Eat lots of fruit and veg, especially leafy greens - Drink lots of water - Reduce meat consumption (I eat meat 1-2 x per week)

Exercise: - Lift heavy weights 3-4 times per week - Walk daily for at least an hour in nature/away from traffic and noise - Go running or do HIIT regularly (Anything to get heart rate elevated) - Move around, a lot. Get up from your desk every hour

Job: - Find something you enjoy, are good at and can be paid for - Find something challenging, do not become complacent - Work with good people who you can learn from - Keep commuting time to a minimum

Finances: - Gain a stable regular income - Cut away all unnecessary expenses - Clear existing debts - Start saving

Relationship: - If it's not working, fix it or end it. Don't procrastinate, don't delay - I personally feel more mentally stable when I'm single

ju_shon Google Images Restored

Agreed. Finding the right balance between beauty and functionality is definitely a something that seems to be in decline. I've used applications that present too much data and others that hide it all away, both equally frustrating.

ju_shon Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time

Fantastic work and great write-up!

ju_shon UX, Then Architecture, Then Tools

I think most reading this would conclude the article is directed at developers building applications with some kind of user interaction...

ju_shon UX, Then Architecture, Then Tools

UX and UI, while related in some cases are two distinct things.

UX = User experience UI = User interface

In my opinion, UX should be used to drive the UI, backend & architecture.

ju_shon Culture is Priority One (2010)

Is that even a thing?

Thanks :), will take a look at these

ju_shon Calmcode – Video tutorials for modern ideas and open source tools

Looks great! Love the clean and simple UI