So which of OpenAI's investors are also Windsurf investors?
Readit Newsmanicennui commented on OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/swyx
manicennui commented on Anime is eating the world a16z.com/anime-is-eating-... · Posted by u/vishnurnair
I mean this as unkindly as possible: please stay the fuck out of anime.
manicennui commented on New startup sells coffee through SSH terminal.shop/... · Posted by u/ethanholt1
I really like Fellow Drops: https://fellowproducts.com/pages/fellow-drops
It is SMS based. Each week they offer a different bean from a different roaster, and you reply with the number of bags you want. I've discovered a number of great roasters this way.
manicennui commented on Show HN: Meegle – Jira alternative with workflow visualization meegle.com/index... · Posted by u/linmi
JIRA obviously allows one to customize workflows as well, and I frankly don't really care about the visualization of it. The problem is that at many companies, there is one group that is allowed to change the workflow and they are more interested in conformity than allowing teams to work well.
manicennui commented on Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014) agileotter.blogspot.com/2... · Posted by u/ingve
> Nothing clever, nothing coupled
Yes, simple is good. Simple is not always easy though. A good goal to strive for nevertheless.
> nothing DRY
That's interesting. Would you prefer all the code to be repeated in multiple places?
The problem is that most developers don't not actually understand DRY. They see a few lines repeated a few times in different functions and create a mess of abstraction just to remove the repeated code. Eventually more conditions are added to the abstracted functions to handle more cases, and the complexity increases, all to avoid having to look at a couple lines of repeated code. This is not what DRY is about.
manicennui commented on Amazon owes $525M in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury says reuters.com/legal/amazon-... · Posted by u/sashk
Apparently by taking prior art (DNS, server,user interface), and packaging it into a single "product" (DNS software optimized for specific hardware) - You've created a new thing.
INNOVATION!
Which is basically how software engineering is done.
manicennui commented on Amazon owes $525M in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury says reuters.com/legal/amazon-... · Posted by u/sashk
I think that in general, "use solution A to problem X to solve problem Y instead" is, in principle, a valid patent - assuming that it's not obvious that solution A would help with problem Y. After all, patents are about "how do I solve problem Y", not about the general algorithms themselves.
However, the "it's not obvious" part is very important. Not working in the field, it's not at all clear to me if using DNS for data was an obvious idea in ~2000 for building a distributed DB or not.
You are literally describing software engineering.
manicennui commented on Ask HN: Why can't modern smartphones play music smoothly? · Posted by u/c0deR3D
Android had audio latency issues for a long time, and I think they were originally related to the fact that Linux also had high latency audio. I was under the impression that these were much better now:
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/03/an-update-...
I haven't heard about issues with latency in iOS audio, but the iPhone 8 is certainly not "modern". Are you using bluetooth headphones? Which apps are you using to play the audio?
Have you used GPT4 as a drop in replacement for Google, especially while coding?
I don't have to constantly Google things while coding.
I haven't seen LLMs do anything more useful than generating a wedding speech in the style of H.P. Lovecraft and there are people out there earnestly predicting this technology will increase efficiency 10% across entire economies. I genuinely feel like I'm living in a different world to you all.
I have yet to see an example of Copilot do something that doesn't seem like basic autocomplete/snippets that editors and IDEs have been doing for decades or code so basic that it betrays the lack of competence by the user.