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New comment by jayceekay in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

jayceekay — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:59:42 +0000

They said cottage industry, not software industry.

Edit: s/he/they/woops sorry

New comment by jayceekay in "Ask HN: What is the best place to hire part time devs?"

jayceekay — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 15:15:22 +0000

hi there - i'm a full stack (primarily backend) eng. who is available for part time work. you can email me at jayceekay at gmail. ex spotify if it matters. best to you!

New comment by jayceekay in "Asdf – language tool version manager"

jayceekay — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 02:38:34 +0000

you always have that option though and i assumed it was a fairly common debug thing to have to do if you use docker enough. not just for the times it works (ie you find a bug between the layers) but for all the times it isn't the culprit.

the other post mentioned setup, so i thought he meant they imposed presetup containers for developers to use?

New comment by jayceekay in "Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down"

jayceekay — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 02:54:56 +0000

i'd also help! (backend swe)

New comment by jayceekay in "Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegotiable price"

jayceekay — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 02:46:32 +0000

> "Diplomacy is the art of saying “good dog” until you make it to the rock."

this was new to me and the 'to the rock' part didn't make sense to me, so i looked it up.

http://marvin.cs.uidaho.edu/About/quotes.html this page says it's actually this: "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock."

find a rock as in kill them? :O

New comment by jayceekay in "Building a no-code toxicity classifier by talking to GitHub Copilot"

jayceekay — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 05:17:35 +0000

didn't watson turn out to be useless and spaghetti code inside? aka ibm's marketing arm

New comment by jayceekay in "Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?"

jayceekay — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 04:03:48 +0000

so many of us are patting ourselves on the back right now :\

New comment by jayceekay in "Avy Can Do Anything"

jayceekay — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 05:46:00 +0000

What if you're using neovim with all its possible plugins and moving like a god. It's given neovim is the best editor. What then?

Ask HN: Need help thinking of a term I just read about here

jayceekay — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 08:04:00 +0000

I'm trying to remember what a specific term is called that I've seen in blog posts around here. Probably not specific to SWE, but it's when two options are, for all intents and purposes, equal, but there is a "soft" motivation/influence factor on behavior of others.

I'm not sure if my example is any good because I'm not even sure if I'm thinking of the right idea. But for example, as a team we have the option of adding code into a codebase that we plan on freezing and phasing out, vs. spinning up its replacement now. Spinning up a new codebase, while it has an upfront cost, will nudge people to write more modern code, test more (assuming the scaffolding is put in place), etc. Sorry that this is super vague.

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New comment by jayceekay in "Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?"

jayceekay — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 06:14:58 +0000

if the choice is between them not existing vs selling out, do you still blame them? at least there's an avenue to consume their content

New comment by jayceekay in "How to learn to pick a database software and design a DB for your application?"

jayceekay — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 03:51:15 +0000

how to build your knowledge? assuming this is a project for recreation, just build it, it doesn't really matter what you use. both are viable for low traffic sites. the valuable thing is that you're gonna learn the ins and outs of one or the other, especially if/when it starts to get some decent traffic. without knowing the specifics of the forum it's tough to recommend one vs the other, but honestly you should optimize for just getting it done.

New comment by jayceekay in "A History of Visa"

jayceekay — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 23:18:29 +0000

awesome article, thank you!

New comment by jayceekay in "Finding a Therapist"

jayceekay — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 04:32:37 +0000

that was great, thanks.

New comment by jayceekay in "Mugshots.com’s alleged co-owners arrested on extortion charges"

jayceekay — Sun, 20 May 2018 02:44:11 +0000

the government posts them for transparency, so they're not accused of just disappearing people

New comment by jayceekay in "Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?"

jayceekay — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 04:13:42 +0000

i admire what you're doing but I wonder why spend any significant amount of time on most if not all points on this list? if the goal is "couch -> working developer" then I don't think they're relevant to getting ramped up and working as a programmer/dec/swe who can deliver value. the black boxes you talk about might be better off taught in a lazy fashion so to speak.

a lot of these seem devopsy. I've definitely delved into a lot of these as an extracurricular activity over the years or have had to learn for work reasons (like being the only guy willing to take on the devops type work) but I'm not sure it belongs in a boot camp type curriculum.

New comment by jayceekay in "Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge"

jayceekay — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 01:37:40 +0000

i had a galaxy s6 for the past 5 months and it was a nightmare. i made the mistake of not doing my research, approving an OTA upgrade to 5.1.1 and made it impossible to root my phone. recently got a nexus 5x and i am so happy to have a stock google phone again.

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jayceekay — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 04:01:19 +0000

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-06/north-kore...

New comment by jayceekay in "0.30000000000000004"

jayceekay — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 00:06:13 +0000

got it, thanks!

New comment by jayceekay in "0.30000000000000004"

jayceekay — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 00:06:04 +0000

ah yes, the _all_ is what i missed. thanks.

New comment by jayceekay in "0.30000000000000004"

jayceekay — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 17:29:09 +0000

> In contrast, 1/3, 1/6, and 1/7 are all repeating decimals because their denominators use a prime factor of 3 or 7.

doesn't 1/6 use a prime factor of 2 as well?