Hacker News: JaDogg

New comment by JaDogg in "The Software Engineering Identity Crisis"

JaDogg — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:39:46 +0000

There is no such a thing as a 10x engineer. Anyone who appears as 10x only do whatever that maintains that illusion. (don't help anyone else, don't do support, keep all knowledge in head, bad documentation, etc)

New comment by JaDogg in "The Software Engineering Identity Crisis"

JaDogg — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:36:07 +0000

Yes this is what I call "the accountant/spreadsheet theory", and I think this is the most likely scenario.

New comment by JaDogg in "The Software Engineering Identity Crisis"

JaDogg — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:00:33 +0000

What I do is turn off copilot, do the design, get in the zone and enable copilot. This way I do not get it to slow me down, otherwise I just wait for it to do API calls. Even then, I turn it off when it create complete wrong implementations.

Problem is it doesn't know the layer of utilities we have and just rewrite everything from scratch. Which is too much duplicatation. I have to now delete it and type correct code again.

One advantage I have seen is that, it can defenitely translate / simplify what my collegues say, fix typos or partial-words. Which is very useful when you are working with lot of different people.

New comment by JaDogg in "UK's hardware talent is being wasted"

JaDogg — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 12:44:45 +0000

Could you elaborate further? I am a skilled immigrant in the UK. I pay my taxes and have not used any benefits. I even pay for my medication; the only free service I have used is a GP appointment or a hospital scan, which was likely covered by the IHS (Immigration Health Surcharge).

What have I done to make the country worse off?

New comment by JaDogg in "What the TP-Link Ban in the US Means for You"

JaDogg — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:07:21 +0000

What about exports? do you want to stop those too

New comment by JaDogg in "Kenney.nl: Free Game Assets"

JaDogg — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:00:47 +0000

Kenny is great, I used Kenny Shape to draw Yaksha lang logo :)

New comment by JaDogg in "Pdfcpu – A PDF Processor"

JaDogg — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 21:56:50 +0000

Looks impressive - it can do lot of PDF modifications using a single static binary.

Show HN: Xido – SF2 player for jamming and learning

JaDogg — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 16:21:24 +0000

Hi All,

I just released this new application to my itch.io store, I have created a new way of snapping to scale.

Instead of just snapping to closest note, now you can translate from C Major scale to any other scale/root. (Since C major is just the white notes starting from C it is easier to learn)

PS: I made this application in Yaksha programing language. (I'm also the author of Yaksha)

I'd appreciate any feedback or ideas.

Cheers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42666866

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New comment by JaDogg in "PWCT2: Programming Without Coding Technology – Written in Ring"

JaDogg — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 16:36:13 +0000

Good stuff, I like how individual tokens have colours in the tree view. it seems like a visual syntax tree.

New comment by JaDogg in "Things we learned about LLMs in 2024"

JaDogg — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 11:08:02 +0000

What you think of samples and FL Studio / DAWs?

New comment by JaDogg in "Things we learned about LLMs in 2024"

JaDogg — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:14:02 +0000

I think LLM web applications need a big red warning (non interactive, I don't want more cookie dialogs) like in cigarettes.

> LLM generated content need to be verified.

New comment by JaDogg in "Orbit by Mozilla"

JaDogg — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:07:07 +0000

What is a free speech plugin? were there political discussions in these threads? If so it seems like they did the correct thing removing such political plugin right?

> basic utility program decided to become political

looks like they wanted to avoid it, isn't it?

New comment by JaDogg in "Jaguar Land Rover electric car whistleblower sacked"

JaDogg — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:47:38 +0000

Both speak Germanic languages, close enough?

New comment by JaDogg in "SQLite changed temp file prefix after McAfee users called devs to complain (2006)"

JaDogg — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 18:46:52 +0000

Fun alternative is to get a paid number. You can complain for but it will cost $100 per minute.

New comment by JaDogg in "SQLite changed temp file prefix after McAfee users called devs to complain (2006)"

JaDogg — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 18:44:18 +0000

But you do not need to know about them if abstraction works, I assume it is sufficient for SQLite use case.

New comment by JaDogg in "Interview of Robert Shingledecker, Tiny Core Linux and DSL Developer (2009)"

JaDogg — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 08:17:23 +0000

I remember making my own distro with TCL :)

New comment by JaDogg in "Chebyshev Polynomials in the 16th Century (2022)"

JaDogg — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 08:15:04 +0000

That is even better :)

New comment by JaDogg in "Chebyshev Polynomials in the 16th Century (2022)"

JaDogg — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 09:55:18 +0000

Nice I did not know about this servie. looks cool. Replace x with 5 and view the PDF rendered

New comment by JaDogg in "TheDesk desktop environment"

JaDogg — Mon, 06 May 2024 11:00:53 +0000

Even if this is a serious project, particular author of this project has a right to build something, and try to carve out an audience for it. Nothing wrong with that.

New comment by JaDogg in "[dead]"

JaDogg — Mon, 06 May 2024 06:25:41 +0000

yeah, even the disclaimer is identical. Original Secretllama poster at least talked about web-llm package which powers it. But this is a just a clone. How sad.