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half0wl commented on Ask HN: How to get rid of Gemini?    · Posted by u/jacquesm
half0wl · 3 months ago
I'm curious - why?

I personally find the search summaries helpful more often than not, and it works nicely in products like Google Sheet.

There is an extension posted here a few days ago that you could try [0], but I think that's only for search summary.

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/block-google-ai-overview...

half0wl commented on Yaak 2.0 – Git, WebSockets, OAuth, and More   yaak.app/blog/2025.1.1... · Posted by u/nbrempel
gschier · 7 months ago
Creator of Yaak here. Let me know if you have any questions!
half0wl · 7 months ago
No questions, just wanted to say hi, congrats, and thank you for building Yaak :greg:
half0wl commented on Ask HN: Would you pass own your company's interview?    · Posted by u/zwilderrr
half0wl · 2 years ago
You should have 50/50 odds. If you don't, you're dropping the overall bar on each hire.
half0wl commented on Google Ending Support for Jamboard   workspaceupdates.googlebl... · Posted by u/nkcmr
dang · 2 years ago
[stub for offtopicness]

(come on you guys, anything this repetitive is off topic on HN. we want curious conversation here...)

half0wl · 2 years ago
And one more to the casket - https://killedbygoogle.com/
half0wl commented on Ask HN: How do you manage email on a custom domain?    · Posted by u/jcuenod
half0wl · 2 years ago
I highly recommend Fastmail [0] for this purpose. I have been with them for 5 years, and they're rock solid. I have ~10 domains on it, they support wildcards (send/recv at anything@you.com), the composer has sane defaults for multiple domains (e.g. replies are sent from the address it was mailed to) that can be overridden when you need, and you can easily create masked emails using your own domain.

$50/yr for all that is a steal. They don't charge you per-domain or have any funky tiered pricing for the stuff that matters.

Disclaimer: I am not related to them, just a happy customer :-)

[0] https://www.fastmail.com/

half0wl commented on Ask HN: How do you help junior devs improve faster?    · Posted by u/productized
half0wl · 2 years ago
How are you "training" them? It's important to drill down into what they're struggling with before you throw resources at them.

I've found that code reviews are the best way to mentor and transfer knowledge. And it goes both ways: you review their code, they review your code. When I'm explicitly training someone, I get them to review my code and I occasionally throw in some minor curveballs that I expect them to pick up on in the first few rounds (e.g. obviously incorrect conditionals, some convoluted loop, leaky interfaces, etc.) If they stamp the PR without picking up on those items, I highlight it using a "do you think this is correct/is there a better way for us to do this" line of questioning. 5-10 or so PRs later, they become the first to spot those issues :-)

half0wl commented on Tasty Python Web Scraping Libraries(2020)   elitedatascience.com/pyth... · Posted by u/RamVasuthevan
half0wl · 2 years ago
`requests` is just a HTTP library. Classifying it as a "scraping library" is confusing; it's part of the web scraping toolkit, but it's not a "scraping library".

u/half0wl

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