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krzkaczor commented on I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me   grell.dev/blog/ai_rejecti... · Posted by u/serhack_
siva7 · a month ago
There is some dirty secret i learned in my time as a eng. manager: Working in open source / Being the maintainer of a popular library / Blogging about software: All this things won't give you necessarily a competitive edge but can work against you. It's counterintuitive but sometimes teams are looking for a more low-profile hire.
krzkaczor · a month ago
How so? Care to elaborate? I get that bloggers/educators can sometimes be not the best fit for IC roles but doing open source seems like a huge advantage.
krzkaczor commented on Chaijs.com just let their domain expire   chaijs.com/api/bdd/... · Posted by u/omgmajk
o_____________o · 4 years ago
What alternatives do you like?
krzkaczor · 4 years ago
I like simplicity of mochajs but chai felt really outdated. Jest on the other hand is so complicated and magical that I have no confidence in tests that I write using it. That's why I've created earljs: https://earljs.dev/

It's a modern, fully typesafe chai replacement that works great with mocha. Very inspired by Jest (matchers, snapshots) but without magic that makes Jest hard to reason about.

krzkaczor commented on reMarkable Connect subscription plans   support.remarkable.com/hc... · Posted by u/gapo
krzkaczor · 4 years ago
I am surprised to see no mentioned of Onyx Boox Air in this thread. I bought it recently instead of Remarkable 2 and it's amazing.

You simply can't beat open ecosystem like android with some proprietary crap (unless you're FAANG). Having chrome browser fully in-sync with desktop one is a killer feature for me.

krzkaczor commented on Postgres to TypeScript Interfaces and Enums   github.com/vramework/sche... · Posted by u/yasserf
krzkaczor · 4 years ago
It seems like it only generates types for entities.

My dream library would be basically a generated client that looks like knex or objection but with full type-safety and mapping.

I don't like prisma that much as it takes control/power from the developer. But it can be great if you don't know SQL.

krzkaczor commented on Objection to ORM Hatred   jakso.me/blog/objection-t... · Posted by u/dsego
krzkaczor · 5 years ago
Objection.js is neat but give me Objection with full type safety (Prisma style) and I am in haven.
krzkaczor commented on Reserve – A flexible pool of stablecoins designed to reduce risk   reserve.org... · Posted by u/hnuser
throwaway4good · 5 years ago
Then it would be very similar to MakerDAO?
krzkaczor · 5 years ago
Yes, in principle it looks very similar to MakerDAO but I think some details are different.

For example DAI is pegged to one USD to make it as useful as possible but "The Reserve token will initially have a target value of $1.00, but is designed to go off of the peg from the US dollar in the long term.".

krzkaczor commented on Reserve – A flexible pool of stablecoins designed to reduce risk   reserve.org... · Posted by u/hnuser
CryptoPunk · 5 years ago
Well, you don't have to have a standalone coin to get the features you desire. For example the AZTEC Network, which is a privacy protocol, can be used with any Ethereum-based ERC20 token, including algorithmic stablecoins like DAI, and soon Reserve.

A demo a couple years ago showed AZTEC being used to conduct privacy-protected DAI transactions for the first time:

https://twitter.com/avsa/status/1068536063470125056

Since then, AZTEC's privacy technology has become more efficient in terms of gas, and more effective at protecting privacy, going from protecting merely the privacy of amounts, to protecting the privacy of amounts transferred and sending/receiving addresses.

AZTEC is also developing a zk-Rollup, which increases Ethereum's maximum throughput from 15 tps to 3,000 tps, so that these private stablecoin transactions can be done at scale (though not 3,000 tps, since privacy comes with a computational and state storage overhead, but still much greater than 15 tps).

krzkaczor · 5 years ago
Correction: DAI is not an algorithmic stablecoin. It's backed by collateral of multiple different assets.

https://blog.makerdao.com/busting-makerdao-myths-seven-misco...

krzkaczor commented on Show HN: A remote browser product, open-sourced   github.com/dosycorp/brows... · Posted by u/slowenough
slowenough · 6 years ago
This represents over 1 year of work.

Why am I open sourcing this?

I don't see any other RBI / CBII vendor open sourcing their platform and in the security industry "closed source" can create issues.

But what about business defensibility?

I agree. Open sourcing removes the trade secret aspect that could make a defensible business.

At the same time, a determined hacker would already have my source code. A hacked "free wifi" connection here, a bit of social engineering there, and my so-called "competitive advantage" could be easily removed. Access to GitHub, Gitlab, other accounts would prove no obstacle for someone motivated, and open sourcing is a way to remove the advantage any small group of parties has by keeping it secret.

How do I self-host it?

There's instructions on the repository page.

krzkaczor · 6 years ago
Are you familiar with https://mightyapp.com/ it looks like there are people working on something very similar but closed source & VC backed. Thoughts?

u/krzkaczor

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