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todd3834 commented on Show HN: Engineering Offer Breakdown   engineer-offer-breakdown.... · Posted by u/JoeCortopassi
todd3834 · 3 months ago
This is super helpful. Not only does it help people understand how the system works but also this is invaluable for comparing offers. I always end up with a bunch of pencil scratch notes or if I’m really trying an excel sheet to compare offers.

I know sometimes we might only get one offer and you’re stoked about anything you get. However, I highly encourage everyone on the market to do what they can to have more than one offer. This has been the only way to truly have leverage while negotiating. I’ve also been surprised and joined a company that I thought was just going to give me leverage. Their offer was so much better and the team was a way better match for my skills and personality.

Feature Request: Add the ability to compare multiple offers and show a side by side comparison. Or maybe the ability to export to a CSV so people can do this themself.

Another feature request: add ability to compare their offer to offers on levels.fyi so they can know if they have room to negotiate.

todd3834 commented on Whisky is no longer actively maintained   docs.getwhisky.app/mainte... · Posted by u/ahamez
banqjls · 8 months ago
How can you run old 32-bit, directx 9 games on apple silicon? Is there any solution that is flawless? One of the things that stops me from buying a modern Mac.
todd3834 · 8 months ago
I imagine a virtual machine would be able to handle it just fine. Try VirtualBox
todd3834 commented on Netflix CEO Says Movie Theaters Are Dead   semafor.com/article/03/30... · Posted by u/m463
mingus88 · 9 months ago
Netflix is what you put on while you are doing other things. That’s not a criticism, really, that’s their product focus

https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/netflix-backlash-casual-vi...

I had been a Netflix subscriber since the days of DVDs by mail and finally cancelled last month. It’s not worth +$20/mo for casual viewing. And they have a bad track record of cancelling shows I actually liked and promoting hallmark quality programs instead.

I don’t think much needs to be said about movie theaters. When most shows are remakes, sequels, superhero movies or other franchises, it’s all so tired.

So sure, movie theaters might be dead, but they share a grave with Netflix.

todd3834 · 9 months ago
That's now how I use Netflix. I watch when I'm in the sauna and I've been on my phone long enough that I start to worry it will start overheating. Then I set up phone up outside the glass and Netflix gets my undivided attention. There are still so many great movies and tv shows on Netflix.
todd3834 commented on Show HN: Make your YC application stand out (Spring 2025 edition)   ycscore.com... · Posted by u/dshayan
dartos · 10 months ago
The first quote was from a “chief disruption officer” at a blockchain AI company.

There is no faster way to get me off a page than to read that.

todd3834 · 10 months ago
The name is John McStartup… it’s meant to be funny
todd3834 commented on Hacker infects 18,000 "script kiddies" with fake malware builder   bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/emschwartz
atum47 · a year ago
I saw that back in the 90's when I was a script kiddie myself. Programs that we use to hack others like back orifice or netbus were being distributed infected
todd3834 · a year ago
I can confirm this personally as I had an infected version of Sub7. I thought it was so fun to mess with my parents with it until I realized I was now compromised.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub7

todd3834 commented on Tailwind CSS v4.0   tailwindcss.com/blog/tail... · Posted by u/g3eorge
todd3834 · a year ago
I’m a recent convert to tailwind. I’m very comfortable with css and I was initially turned off on the huge horizontal lines I saw in tailwind projects.

However, more and more component libraries are based on tailwind so I decided to try some immersion therapy.

Here are the top things I enjoy that was not obvious to me:

1. The class names are css shortcuts. Using them save you a lot of time. This is probably obvious to anyone who’s seriously looked at tailwind but I didn’t see that browsing the docs. I just saw nightmarishly long lines.

2. The lines look longer when you are not familiar with the class names. I initially pulled all of my class names out into a string outside my markup and included similar to how I’m used to using emotioncss. This made tailwind tolerable for me at first. However after several days I started to feel less turned off by those lines. I think it’s because I could recognize them. I will still break down a line with something like clsx.

3. clsx helps so much vs trying to entirely rely on tailwind syntax. The docs don’t discourage this at all but for some reason I thought it wasn’t idiomatic tailwind at first.

4. My app has to support a very large number of themes. Tailwind has proven to be a very attractive way of solving this problem. CSS variables are cool but the long syntax of using them is helped a lot in tailwind.

5. Adding my own custom variants is so easy and made me feel like a power user with such a small learning curve.

All of this is just my two cents to guide anyone who is like me watching from the sideline and wondering why? Why would anyone ever want to tolerate those “disgusting long lines mixed into the html”. Neo, all I see is the lady in the red dress now

todd3834 commented on Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#   github.com/BAndysc/Avalon... · Posted by u/porterde
todd3834 · a year ago
Giving me flashbacks to the AOL punters and proggies scene. <3
todd3834 commented on Jazz – Apps with Distributed State   jazz.tools/... · Posted by u/gjvc
frenchie4111 · a year ago
Mild nit: your website hijacked the back button, I had to spam click back like 30 times to get back to this hacker news comment thread
todd3834 · a year ago
Tip for next time this happens: hold down the back button for a menu of your history. It can help get where you want faster. Although not sure it helps too much if you literally had to click 30 times
todd3834 commented on Ask HN: Isn't all SaaS just wrappers?    · Posted by u/valianter
todd3834 · a year ago
Sure, you can filter out some of the criticism as just haters. However, some of it might be deserved. It really depends on what the product is doing. Since Chat GPT is a very useful consumer facing product, any kind of chat bot built on top might not add a ton of value. Some companies are using an LLM such as GPT in very creative ways where you couldn’t get 80% of the value by just using the chat interface. You probably don’t see much hate in those cases.
todd3834 commented on Launch HN: Release (YC W20) – Orchestrate AI Infrastructure and Applications    · Posted by u/tommy_mcclung
todd3834 · a year ago
This is very cool! I love seeing tooling targeting inference. I feel like stable diffusion and LLAMA have to be the primary use cases for these types of services. DALL-E is super lacking and GPT does actually start to get pretty expensive once you are using it in production.

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