<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: dbetteridge</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dbetteridge</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:51:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dbetteridge" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dbetteridge in "Coding agents could make free software matter again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah that's the thing making my head spin, tack a 30% profit margin on that and it's 550usd per day?
Probably going to be more than that for rocketship growth and investor expectations.<p>Is that the game? Lock in companies to this "new reality" with cheap tokens then once they fire all their devs, bait and switch to 2X the cost.</p>
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<p>Ah a fellow Aussie, hi! Sorry to hear about the redundancy (Atlassian?).<p>I did implicitly assume USD but yeah still crazy cash, that'd pay for 2 junior-mid level devs in aus D=</p>
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<p>$700 a day of tokens can't possibly be sustainable right?<p>That's 2X the salary of a lot of the world's software developers</p>
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<p>Alpha Centauri yes, the edge of the universe no :D<p>Edge of observable universe is something like 46 billion light-years away, even at 0.9c thats 50 billion years of travel (22 billion years experienced by the traveller)<p>But yes, you <i>can</i> travel places by constant acceleration but unfortunately it still dwarfs in comparison to those places out of our reach.<p>Unfortunately also, the universe is expanding at a rate faster than the speed of light so you actually cant ever reach the edge</p>
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<p>That would be an accurate summary of almost all software.<p>Either it's quickly produced and thrown out the door as it's a startup trying to iterate and find market fit asap or because it's a bigcorp who's metrics are all not related to software.</p>
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<p>No, the majority of people use something a lot of Americans struggle with "Public transport".<p>The MRT and bus system in Singapore is great for getting around to the point that you don't <i>need</i> a car, but if you <i>Want</i> one it must be new and you have to pay for a license as road space and parking space are physically limited.</p>
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<p>Nah, only if you're not willing to self host.<p>I run a 6 person server on an Intel NUC, without major issue.</p>
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<p>Premium economy is a thing, but debatable on the sardine thing.<p>Basically closer to "old economy", where you have leg room and real utensils</p>
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<p>Not everyone on hackernews is paid SV salaries?<p>That plus flights from Australia are expensive enough in economy, business class is easily 4-10x that cost.</p>
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<p>Yes!! That was the software, thanks for the memory trigger</p>
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<p>Ah Microsoft and naming things... Name a better combo<p>But fair enough, I don't recall which exact version I was mucking with that long ago.</p>
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<p>I recall using ntlm rainbow tables to crack windows hashes in high school in like 2008?<p>Amazing that this is still around and causing someone enough of a headache to justify spending money on.<p>Also amazing what a teenager with lots of free time and a bootable Linux usb can get up to.</p>
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<p>One is too many...</p>
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<p>Fair enough! I had a cursory search in the post for mention of conduit and couldn't see anything obvious so wasn't sure.<p>AFAIK fibre cable should be pretty flexible, though not a massive fan of tension.<p>From memory bends shouldn't be less than 5cm radius or thereabouts so it depends on your conduit size!<p>Nice post btw, appreciate the detailed planning involved.</p>
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<p>Came to the thread to see if anyone else had mentioned conduit.<p>It's cheap as chips and saves you a lot of future brick cutting or concrete breaking</p>
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<p>Question from a casual bystander, why not have a virtual/staging mini node that receives these feature file changes first and catches errors to veto full production push?<p>Or you do have something like this but the specific db permission change in this context only failed in production</p>
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<p>Doesn't help you much I imagine, but the one time we had a dev like this he was fired after multiple complaints to the team lead.</p>
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<p>Politics should follow the exponential backoff model xD<p>Every time your law fails to pass you cannot revisit it for a longer period of time.<p>1year
5years
10years
Etc<p>Means that laws with enough political will get passed, but bad laws can be more easily blocked.</p>
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<p>It's a great analogy.<p>People seem to apply different rules of decorum interacting with "free" software that they wouldn't apply anywhere else.<p>Is it the internet aspect that makes it so? Or the ease of feedback to the creator?<p>I don't know, but it has become very obvious that what worked in the smaller "high trust" internet, doesn't work as well for a lot of people now.</p>
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<p>> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.<p>Rich or poor, smart or dumb. 
We all are slaves to the mighty dollar.</p>
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