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New comment by drwl in "Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes company database in 9 seconds"

drwl — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:01:51 +0000

it's spelled out in the linked tweet https://x.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248

New comment by drwl in "On With Theo / T3.gg"

drwl — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:57:35 +0000

Some feedback: - The constant interrupting each other made it hard to listen to - Also the interviewer Theo/T3.gg giving his CEO take on strategy to sandbag silverlake after finding out more context behind silverlake and automattic's relationship led me to have an unfavorable impression of the guy

New comment by drwl in "Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?"

drwl — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 20:29:08 +0000

Gusto is not pre-revenue, it has $500M+ in arr

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/27/gusto-remote-deal-500m-rev...

New comment by drwl in "Crypto 'pig butchering' scam wrecks bank, sends ex-CEO to prison for 24 years"

drwl — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:11:57 +0000

I don’t think that’s fair to say the person is not engaging content in a meaningful way. Have you read the article? It’s pretty clean cut aside from understanding who the perpetrators were. The ceo of a bank got conned and went to prison, and there’s emphasis on calling the con a “pig butchering scam”

New comment by drwl in "Crypto 'pig butchering' scam wrecks bank, sends ex-CEO to prison for 24 years"

drwl — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 23:32:15 +0000

yeah I'm with you there. Pig butchering scam [1] is just a simple con, not sure why they're attributing any importance to the name of it

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_butchering_scam

New comment by drwl in "Software I Pay For"

drwl — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 22:08:30 +0000

Thanks, yeah it does sound like we share the same thoughts regarding paying for solutions that just work

I'm resistant to moving over to Apple because of pure vendor lock in, but also I can decouple passwords from my Apple ID. For example, I use a mac for work but I don't need to sign in to my personal apple id on my work laptop to get access to passwords.

Software I Pay For

drwl — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 17:54:55 +0000

Article URL: https://drewlee.com/2024/software-i-pay-for/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41194337

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

New comment by drwl in "The Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town"

drwl — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 07:12:16 +0000

I read the entire article and that is tough. Up to 90 dB is wild.

New comment by drwl in "Things to avoid in Ruby"

drwl — Thu, 23 May 2024 23:09:55 +0000

I've been writing Ruby for the past 5 years or so and I think it's safe to say that these are very much opinionated takes on Ruby. There is no _one right way_.

A critique: 1. Verbosity vs Idiomatic, to me I find there are times the verbose approach is actually easier to read and understand

2. Long Expressions to Detect nil - this seems a bit like a strawman, sure there are better ways than to check the presence of an object/method chain, but doing the safe operator can bite you in the leg by compacting the complexity

3. Overuse of self - I skimmed through the Rectangle class declaration... it reminds me of writing Java. I rarely see self#method= used

4. Collecting Results in Temporary Variables - I think this is debatable, there's value in condensing method implementations when it makes sense, but also having temporary variable assignment can lead to better readability

New comment by drwl in "Thorium: Cross-platform patched Chromium fork"

drwl — Mon, 20 May 2024 23:53:02 +0000

I found the original commit [1] since the other Github link in the thread shows the removal. I'm not entirely sure what the thought process was around adding it to begin with

[1] https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/commit/26655c920b6a9e4...

edit: the commit link is nsfw

New comment by drwl in "A decent VS Code and Ruby on Rails setup"

drwl — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 07:38:05 +0000

Gusto adopted it when I was there (I left at the end of 2022). Like other comments, it's a bit polarizing but I found it to be useful when working in large codebases because you one didn't have to reason about return types and could just read them from function signatures.

Getting it to play nicely with Rails and other gems that did metaprogramming magic was a constant pain in the butt though.

New comment by drwl in "Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?"

drwl — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 14:35:34 +0000

I’m sure you can find individual coaches but the cost will exceed what most people are willing to spend or invest. Take executive coaches for example, they exist but from what I understand they’re largely private coaching and cost $$$.

New comment by drwl in "Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?"

drwl — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 14:10:28 +0000

My take is that there’s such variance in people’s skill levels and so it’s really hard to cater educational programming content. Personally, I’ve found getting introductory books/courses and skimming through it until you hit something that you don’t understand and then diving deeper into that bit.

New comment by drwl in "Scientist: A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths"

drwl — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:27:59 +0000

I’ve used this gem to remove a Rails Model that was heavily tangled and used in production. It had a bit of a learning curve, such as seeing how errors get handled in try {} blocks, but really nice otherwise when doing the equivalent of open heart surgery.

New comment by drwl in "Migrating our backend from Vercel to Fly.io"

drwl — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:30:14 +0000

I’m a bit out of the loop but I thought heroku died or is languishing under Salesforce. That’s my current perception of everything and no longer see it recommended in HN threads. Hopefully this does not come off as an attack (it’s not).

New comment by drwl in "Ask HN: Help with Gusto? 2021 payroll being double reported to IRS"

drwl — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 23:31:38 +0000

It’s unfortunate but tweeting or getting attention on LinkedIn can get you greater visibility. Depending on your company size too I would imagine you would have higher level of support.

Am ex gusto

New comment by drwl in "Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com"

drwl — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 01:47:56 +0000

Have you tried this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32793838#32797052

New comment by drwl in "Zoho became a $1B company without external investment"

drwl — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 22:00:42 +0000

I think that's correct. It should be free though.

New comment by drwl in "Zoho became a $1B company without external investment"

drwl — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 05:24:39 +0000

I came across this discussion and was shocked as well. Turns out there's now a button here: https://support.google.com/a/answer/2855120?product_name=Unu...

"I used my account for personal use"

RRF and Yagni in Practice: A Lesson with Kent Beck

drwl — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 16:26:16 +0000

Article URL: https://drewlee.com/2020/rrf-and-yagni-in-practice-a-lesson-with-kent-beck/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24506619

Points: 1

# Comments: 0