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Unfortunately, I tried to use zed as my daily driver, but the typescript experience was subpar. While the editor itself was snappy, LSP actions like "jump to declaration" were incredibly slow on our codebase compared to VS Code / Cursor.

Really interesting article, unfortunately it seems quite lucrative to scam seniors, and very hard to prevent, especially when they don’t think they’re being scammed.

I understood it to be the reverse - they advertise on LinkedIn, and the trackers determine whether the users convert once they click through. Not great, but at least not as ill intentioned

Happy mrge user here - congrats on the launch! It’s encouraged our team to do more stacked PRs and made every review a bit nicer

Using a time-based expiration rather than a usage-based expiration should help

I appreciate the author’s openness in sharing their experience - it’s really worthwhile to share experiences where money isn’t everything, and that it can be a poor generator of meaning.

Speaking of meaning, I think it’s a task for everyone to find their life’s calling - something you’re uniquely suited to do. Sometimes that pays the bills and sometimes it doesn’t. I’m a bit surprised that “start another saas company” wasn’t really on the list for Vinay, but there’s probably a good reason for that. For me, I found that starting a family completely changed my life, as well as helping me appreciate more the family I already had - but I suppose that’s not something that lasts forever either. Good luck to the author.

Big fan of mise, moved over from asdf and never looked back! kudos jdx

This sounds like an incentive to fire/outsource all of your lower-paid employees

That's wonderful - I used to solder with a cheap iron until university. A nice iron gets a lot hotter, and it makes everything easier and faster. It may not matter for keyboards, but on a small PCB where everything is a few mm part, the precision of a good tip matters too.

This is quite a pessimistic article with some sweeping generalizations across tech… it may be true in some places but I disagree that software engineering is at its core fungible (yet)

Cool project! I clicked on it hoping it was a way to easily visualize my own personal stats. Anyone know of a project like that? Grafana for personal data :)

Loved this article. My two "superpowers" as a dad - superglue and new batteries. Sometimes I get to bring out the soldering iron - my wife will bring things home from Buy Nothing so I can fix it, the kids play with it for a day, and then we let it go again, but this time in working condition :)

Congrats! I was an angel investor in a regional transit airline (https://www.surfair.com/) - there are a lot of wonderful places out there especially in the US that folks aren't traveling to because of logistics. As someone with a family as well, I'd love to learn to fly if it could be made safer and easier. Hoping you guys succeed!

If someone ever invented a gun that is guaranteed to never fire when pointed at a human, assuming the safeguards were non-trivial to bypass, that would certainly improve gun violence, in the same way that a fingerprint lock reduces gun violence - you don't need to wait for 100% safety to make things safer. The government would then put restrictions on unsafe guns, and you'd see less of them around.

It wouldn't prevent war between nation-states, but that's a separate problem to solve - the solutions to war are orthogonal to the solutions to individual gun violence, and both are worthy of being addressed.

This is a fascinating idea - although I wish the definition of search in the LLM context was expanded a bit more. What kind of search capability strapped onto current-gen LLMs would give them superpowers?

This sounds like what a lot of companies do - except the scaled problem with this approach (and the certification approach of the grandparent) is that most companies want to avoid candidates who've memorized a specific solution, as then they don't get any data about whether they can code anything aside from what was memorized.

The other problem is that implementing bubble sort will tell you about their skills in a particular dimension, but being a software engineer these days may look very different depending on the job.

This. I built my last company on elixir. Deployments of clustered BEAM in cloud VMs are far more complex than load-balancing across node or python servers, not to mention serverless. Any custom genservers we wrote always had stability issues. Type safety was a problem that caused crashes in production. Elixir is a really fun language and BEAM is powerful but it’s by no means a clear choice. My new company is on Next.js and it’s much easier to hire / develop / deploy.

Distill | Software Engineer | Remote (PST Overlap) | Full time | $120k-220k USD + equity

Distill builds high quality profiles of people and companies using AI. If:

- you think scraping, knowledge graphs, and wrestling with LLMs sounds like fun

- you don't mind working in typescript

- you have solid overlap with PST

- and you love writing elegant code at high speeds

Then come and see what we're building. tim (a) distill.fyi

We're multi-time founders, ex-YC, VC-backed, pre-launch, and a tiny team. Most of us are parents of young kids.

Congrats on the launch, I'm excited to give it a try. I'm curious how you're having it edit files in place - having built a similar project last summer, I had trouble with reliably getting it to patch files with correct line numbers. It was especially a problem in React files with nested div's.

Not OP, but I understood that to mean any difference in IQ below average (100) has a high impact on success, but differences above 100 have relatively less impact

I'm still maintaining Delphi software that my dad wrote in the 90s and is actively used today. Delphi (and Windows, which can still run it!) is pretty amazing, even if writing Pascal is less pleasant than most modern languages due to things like having to pre-define all the variables at the top of a block.

I returned the Steam Deck when I received it - it was larger than expected and just didn't feel ergonomic. The Portal on the other hand almost feels like holding the DualSense. It's a nice, though limited, device.

This is true for the user, but not good enough for developers, who unfortunately need to stay on top of all of this to build functioning software. If users report bugs you can’t repro, you may have to dive into all of these.

And that’s the point of the article really, to try and get more app developers onboard.

That was a regular frontend bug though, not an issue with the LLM

Another reason number domains are popular in Asia is that they are much easier to type, especially historically on mobile

V8 has had concurrent GC for a while - https://v8.dev/blog/concurrent-marking

Seems like an extreme headline, as these images were clearly tagged as generated by AI. If someone buys the image and uses it to mislead, it doesn't seem like that's Adobe's fault, as real photography can and has been used in that way too.

Organizations are generally pyramids, where you have fewer people on top than on the bottom. You can't promote everyone, so you have to decide on criteria - and hard work in software engineering isn't always high-leverage work. In my experience the best engineers can figure out the right work to get done, saving hours of hard work that never even needed to happen.

Product CEO only works for companies where the product sells itself, which in my experience is only a small fraction of companies

As a YC founder, YC doesn't teach founders anything when it comes to how to split equity. The economics you're describing is a function of (overly) high valuations in private markets, which leads to equity grants that don't appreciate very much when liquidity happens. This is great for folks that got in early (founders and early investors) and bad for everyone else.