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salomonk_mur

366 karma · joined February 15, 2024

Father of twins, tech entrepreneur, maker enthusiast, proud Colombian.

You can read about me and get my contact details in my website: https://www.salomonmuriel.com

meet.hn/city/co-Bogota Capital District - Municipality

Socials: - linkedin.com/in/smuriel - cal.com/salomuriel

Interests: Entrepreneurship, Hacking, Maker Culture, Programming, Social Impact, Education, Python, Go, Typescript, Data Science, Web Development

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salomonk_mur··on Brazil's Farmers Are Plowing over an Ancient Amazon Civilization
To be honest, is that such a bad thing?

I understand worrying about destroying the native ecosystems, but about some long-lost ruins?

salomonk_mur··on Quit Social Media (2016)
The pressure to quit is so large I keep quitting daily
salomonk_mur··on "Somebody Tranq That Child!"
Phones. He's talking about smartphones.
salomonk_mur··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Odds are extremely low.
salomonk_mur··on The three-page paper that shook philosophy: Gettiers in software engineering
Yes, most likely. Rebase hides the fact the 2 changes happened separately, a merge would make it much easier to see the different avenues that may lead to the bug.

We purposefully try not to do rebases in my team for this reason.

salomonk_mur··on How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
Strict adherence to old methods due to overly restrictive and risk-averse governing bodies in educational institutions?
salomonk_mur··on Jazz – Apps with Distributed State
That first link is great. Thank you so much for sharing it.
salomonk_mur··on Who Pays for the Arts?
Thankfully there are 8 billion people on the planet, each with different art tastes, and hence a different definition of what is good art.

So all of your versions are ok and coexist. There is a market for your turd, for people-art and for you elite-driven art and for many others.

In other words... No, if you can't attract and audience, there is no funding. But there is an audience for many things.

salomonk_mur··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)
Are you open to remote in America time zones but outside US/Canada? The opportunity sounds amazing.
salomonk_mur··on Multiversion Python Thoughts
Yes, uv generally does the right thing.

I hold the same opinion as you. Python packaging is awful. But uv managed to just make it work.

salomonk_mur··on A Taxonomy of Tech Debt (2018)
Typically speed.
salomonk_mur··on Ask HN: Are new AI code editors adding superficial value?
Cursor for me has been a game changer, particularly in 2 parts of my typical workflow: post-research implementation and chore mass changes. Between this 2 I think I am about 30-40% more productive than with Claude alone.

For the first example, in a recent architecture task, I took ~6 hours researching options, and would have taken ~2-3 hours implementing my version. It took ~20 minutes with Cursor given I was able to give it my desired implementation very clearly and it applies the code immediately. I take most of those 20 mins reviewing the code, not even writing!

For the second, I mean stuff like renaming many variables that have similar but not identical names, or rewriting the way functions are defined/documented so it's the same for all, or adding type hints to all functions. Stuff that you need to typically do 1 by 1 and can't do Ctrl+Shift+F or multiline edit for. With Cursor, I make the first change and it simply knows I want to do something similar for the rest of my file/workspace. I just press tab 10 times and all the changes are done. From ~30-40 minutos to ~1 minute on a task that happens often.

Both of those have made much more productive (easily worth the price). As a distant third, having the ability to have Claude + Search has also been pretty useful.

I do think that there is a danger to the tool. It is great for senior programmers, but I think a quite harmful poison for juniors. While I go from large amounts of research to a bit of code reviewing, I think a junior will likely go from 0 research to direct implementation to 20 hours of bug squashing because they trusted it blindly.

salomonk_mur··on How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023)
How is ScyllaDB (the solution used in the article) a vanilla SQL DB? Its the complete opposite!
salomonk_mur··on Mira Murati leaves OpenAI
Still, certainly the most visible.
salomonk_mur··on Analyzing the OpenAPI Tooling Ecosystem
I personally just rely on FastAPI + Pydantic.
salomonk_mur··on Analyzing the OpenAPI Tooling Ecosystem
Agreed. Most of the value comes when people other than you need (or will need) to use it.
salomonk_mur··on Analyzing the OpenAPI Tooling Ecosystem
How is Swagger a mess? It produces perfectly readable documentation and testing mechanisms.

Barebones? Sure. But far from "a mess".

salomonk_mur··on AI agents invade observability: snake oil or the future of SRE?
But still, a huge productivity boost. I think we can say that as of the lastest models, AI pairs are pretty great and save a ton of time.
salomonk_mur··on Fair: A Go library for serving resources fairly
Why would you learn and use this over typical load-balancing solutions like K8S? Honest question.
salomonk_mur··on Ask HN: When do you block out time to learn new things?
There's the thing to change.
salomonk_mur··on Show HN: Bullshit Remover
It's returning a fail to fetch error everytime.
salomonk_mur··on Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city
Yes, that is the standard UI for this problem. You select a country, then that loads a the country's divisions ilfor another select box, and that load the cities for that division.

Another way is auto complete for the city with just country preselected.

salomonk_mur··on Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city
Many countries don't have zip codes or they are not widely used or known.

My country (Colombia) relatively recently assigned them but no one uses them or require them, so no one knows which zip code they are living in

salomonk_mur··on Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure?
Which provider? Sounds great!
salomonk_mur··on Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure?
The author posted almost exactly this.

https://github.com/hadijaveed/docker-compose-anywhere

salomonk_mur··on Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models
The innovation lies in making the whole loop available to an end user immediately, without them being a programmer. My grandma can build games using ChatGPT now.
salomonk_mur··on Building the same app using various web frameworks
Yeah, that ability to improve usability beyond the basics is what he means by flexibility I think.

I agree with that sentiment. I can now build decent, working websites in something like Streamlit without touching JS (even if JS is being generated behind the scenes).

salomonk_mur··on Confirmed: Reflection 70B's official API is a wrapper for Sonnet 3.5
It's amazing what people will do for clout. His whole reputation is ruined. What was Schumer's endgame?
salomonk_mur··on The Early Days of Valve from a Woman Inside
Yes, it was 85%. 30% by Steam is a steal comparatively.
salomonk_mur··on Sleep on it: How the brain processes many experiences, even when 'offline'
How can you fit your method together with the many nuances around making a living? Surely you must structure your day to day somewhat, no?
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