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nhayfield··on Ask HN: How do you guys stay on top of the code that is generated?
ponytail plugin is good for reducing amount of code. i have a different ai that code reviews it and i tell it that it is smarter than the ai that wrote the code. i had to tweak it to not be too nitty.
nhayfield··on Sam Altman spells out why the AI industry wants to slow down
They pretty much already caught up though. I think the real reason is they have hit a plateau where improvements will be minimal. They are using brute force and it has a ceiling.
nhayfield··on Nobody gets promoted for simplicity
He isn't kidding. I have a directive to write the shortest, least complicated, readable business code and it makes a huge difference
nhayfield··on Ask HN: I hear the complaints about React, but what would be your perfect API?
No, not another javascript framework. Do not do this!
nhayfield··on How to get over performance anxiety in technical interviews?
i usually fail interviews for a month or two and by the third month and 12th interview i am more comfortable. repeat every time i go looking for a job. also random luck is involved on whether i remember how to do some algorithm.
nhayfield··on How do you find a job as a ex-founder?
It typically takes several hundred applications and dozens of interviews to land a position in the current climate. Just be persistent.
nhayfield··on Ask HN: PO of my team talks too much. What to do?
zone out
nhayfield··on I could not search “/= in JavaScript” without the quotation marks
try: javascript /=
nhayfield··on Can You Own a Color? A New NFT Marketplace Is Trying to Find Out
tldr: the answer is no
nhayfield··on Ask HN: How to find good engineers as a startup in an empty job market?
don't say you have a bright idea, are paying nothing, but offering 3% equity
nhayfield··on Ask HN: Why do recruiters ask why are you looking for a new position
in case you stupidly say you hate your coworkers or something similarly bad
nhayfield··on Hackers steal $130M from Cream Finance
i mean this isn't even a hack. they just used normal trading.
nhayfield··on The baby bust: How a declining birth rate will reshape the world
These type of articles are really annoying. Obviously the world is overpopulated already. Any decline is a great thing but these articles always make it out to be a dangerous thing.
nhayfield··on Ask HN: What Reliable Tools Can Convert Figma to React?
programmers
nhayfield··on Ask HN: Best cybersecurity blogs for software engineers?
https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/
nhayfield··on Ask HN: Engineering managers – how do you measure developer productivity?
by lines of code

just kidding

nhayfield··on Why millions of freelancers fear a Biden presidency may put them out of work
I mean they literally just have to add an exception for knowledge workers and then all would be fine. This is just fear-mongering.
nhayfield··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2020)
Location: Jackson, NH

Remote: 100%, Worldwide

Willing to relocate: To Europe

Technologies: Golang, Python, PHP, Javascript, React Native, SQL

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sor0SgIhqGgzBnlu3aUc_gO2kn5...

Email: nathan.t.hayfield@gmail.com

nhayfield··on Ask HN: Best approach to inheriting an out of control system?
rewrite it from scratch
nhayfield··on Ask HN: Tools to call REST API and export to CSV?
There are no silver bullets here. It is always alot of work.
nhayfield··on Ask HN: Do you use a snippet tool?
turn your snippets into exported functions. then your IDE will autocomplete them.
nhayfield··on Ask HN: Tools to call REST API and export to CSV?
datatables.net is a good modular javascript library that handles pagination and child tables and export to csv/excel. you will still need to write some code for formatting the api calls into a useable format.
nhayfield··on Test Your JavaScript Knowledge
Logged in for first time in 1 year just to say. Why'd you do this?
nhayfield··on Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?
Wish I bought bitcoin when it was $12.
nhayfield··on Ask HN: What are the best working side-income ideas for developers?
buy bitcoin, monero, and neo. wait 2 years. profit.
nhayfield··on Ask HN: Mindfulness for Hackers
Spent 90 minutes in a sensory deprivation float tank the other day. Highly recommended.
nhayfield··on Ask HN: What is a good way to think about the market cap of a cryptocurrency?
It's just the total number of coins times the current price per coin.
nhayfield··on Ask HN: How to leave Linkedin?
Probably have to recover your password and then: https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-delete-an-old-account-on-Link...

Personally I would just flag it as spam though.

nhayfield··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2016)
Location: Corona, CA

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: PHP, Python, Javascript, Redis, Jquery, MySql, Postgres, Jenkins, Jira

Resume: email me

Email: nhayfield@yahoo.com

Experienced Full Stack LAMP Developer looking for remote opportunities. Strengths include refactoring legacy code, secure code reviews, and writing complex queries (that run fast).