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volkanvardaron Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

Even just checking the time on phone makes me feel sick. I'm using Apple cues from the day they released. It helps, but I still cannot respond to Whatsapp messages. I envy people who can use their phones, laptops during a ride.

volkanvardaron After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand

Exactly, if your goal is to reach somewhere fast, you should use the car. Bike, if you can't effort.

But if you're a junior developer, you won't be able to gain the most vital skills.

volkanvardaron After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand

I think a better analogy is a marathon. If you're training for a marathon, you have to run. It won't help if you take the car. You will reach the finish line with minimal effort, but you won't gain any necessary muscles.

volkanvardaron Avoiding Failure Is Not an Achievement

Yes, that’s the hard truth. Failure is part of the success not the opposite of it.

volkanvardaron Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far

I totally agree. And welcome to disposable software age.

volkanvardaron What went wrong with wireless USB

I bought wirelessharddisk.com hoping it would be a thing.

volkanvardaron Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at math?

* The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, by Paul Hoffman

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714583.The_Man_Who_Loved...

* Algorithms to Live By, by Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths (not really a Math book, mostly computer science, but still has some math algorithms and their implementations to real life)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25666050-algorithms-to-l...

volkanvardaron Ask HN: Strategies for working with engineers that are too smart?

I totally agree with you. The "smart" solutions always end up with more technical debt. I really like the following quote on this matter:

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

volkanvardaron Tell HN: My child's first program

Mine are: x, xx, xxx, xxxx...

volkanvardaron What’s going on with r/AntiWork and the Fox News interview?

Yes, I was expecting to see it in frontpage before I shared. Apparently majority of hackers see this off-topic like you mentioned.

volkanvardaron Ask HN: Eating and coocking is so inneficient, better way?

Astronaut food maybe?

[1] https://foodperestroika.com/2018/11/18/russian-space-food/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_food

volkanvardaron Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

volkanvardaron Elizabeth Holmes found guilty

For anyone interested in more detail and the full story, Bad Blood[1] by John Carreyrou is a really gripping book. It was also in Bill Gates' list in 2018[2][3].

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37976541-bad-blood

[2] https://www.gatesnotes.com/about-bill-gates/holiday-books-20...

[3] https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Bad-Blood

volkanvardaron Bitcoin is largely controlled by a small group of investors and miners

So, can we say that it is kind of centralized?

volkanvardaron Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mobile device

Not to send the password in plain, maybe?

volkanvardaron Ask HN: Software design patterns for projects without a scope?

What I learned from 20 years of development experience is to follow the below in that specific order.

1. YAGNI - do not try to solve a problem which is not yours

2. SOLID - try to build in an extensible way, so you can later refactor it easily

3. DRY - it is time to modularize when you start copy/pasting