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New comment by steinnes in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

steinnes — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:26:25 +0000

I can’t count how many times I benefitted from seeing the files Claude was reading, to understand how I could interrupt and give it a little more context… saving thousands of tokens and sparing the context window. I must be in the minority of users who preferred seeing the actual files. I love claude code, but some of the recent updates seem like they’re making it harder for me to see what’s happening.. I agree with the author that verbose mode isn’t the answer. Seems to me this should be configurable

New comment by steinnes in "Calculus Made Easy (1910)"

steinnes — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 13:30:46 +0000

When I was taking calculus classes, and struggling, a tutor helped me immensely in the exact same way; explaining both practical applications and often the historical context around the method he was teaching me.

New comment by steinnes in "IBM acquires Red Hat"

steinnes — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 21:25:29 +0000

  Having some proprietary code doesn't prevent companies from also making substantial contributions to open source in other areas.

... yes, but patents are not "proprietary code", in which case granting copyright is enough. If a private company contributes code I think it could even grant the copyright to an open organization, but still decide later to sue if the method/feature/function/etc is patented by them.

Not that I'd foresee IBM or any of the real players in the IT space attempting that anymore, I think most realize that alienating the F/OSS community isn't a viable strategy for a software services company in the long term.

New comment by steinnes in "Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs"

steinnes — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 13:06:41 +0000

For a lot of applications: no, it's very similar, and if you have a language that can be easily statically compiled to a binary which is free of external dependencies and independently testable, and you've setup a build-test-deployment pipeline relying on that, then perhaps in your case containers are a solution in search of a problem :-)

But there are more benefits like Jessie touches upon in her blog post, wrt flexibility and patterns you can use with multiple containers sharing some namespaces, etc. And from the perspective of languages that do not compile to a native binary the containers offer a uniform way to package and deploy an application.

When I was at QuizUp and we decided to switch our deployment units to docker containers we had been deploying using custom-baked VM's (AMI's). When we first started doing that it was due to our immutable infrastructure philosophy, but soon it became a relied-upon and necessary abstraction to homogeneously deploy services whether they were written in python, java, scala, go, or c++.

Using docker containers allowed us to keep that level of abstraction while reducing overheads significantly, and due to the dockers being easy to start and run anywhere we became more infrastructure agnostic at the same time.

New comment by steinnes in "Why FOSS mobile communication matters"

steinnes — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 06:06:36 +0000

Compelling arguments for why next generation wireless networks should be standardised by a more open and inclusive body?

New comment by steinnes in "Snap Inc. S-1"

steinnes — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 23:25:19 +0000

Absolutely.

I imagine they had a very strong bargaining position willing to commit this much, for this long. Even if Snapchat wasn't a valuable brand for Google to brag about, this amounts to ~10% of the yearly earnings [1] of Google's cloud business (SaaS and IaaS, of which I suspect SaaS like Apps for Work is the lion's share)

I'm sure they're getting a good deal, and can focus on features and getting their platform profitable, as you said.

1. "..at that pace, Google’s cloud could generate $4.1 billion in revenue in 2016" http://www.networkworld.com/article/3029164/cloud-computing/...

New comment by steinnes in "Show HN: Jet – Codeship’s CI Platform for Docker"

steinnes — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 10:34:16 +0000

I'm having similar feelings. I wish Jet was better documented. I hope the Codeship team writes some concise documentation for it, but I wonder if it's against their best interest because it will enable tech savvier customers to run the same CI infrastructure locally, as they are charging for in their service?

New comment by steinnes in "Glassdoor: Airbnb dethrones Google as the best tech company to work for in U.S"

steinnes — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 09:20:25 +0000

It's funny how Amazon isn't mentioned in the article as one of the tech companies that should by vying for top position.

Although I suppose in raw numbers most of their staff are not engineers, so maybe it wouldn't be a fair comparison.

Automatically instrumenting Flask views with StatsD

steinnes — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 22:47:32 +0000

Article URL: http://steinn.org/post/flask-statsd/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10659486

Points: 10

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New comment by steinnes in "Facebook Relay: An Evil And/Or Incompetent Attack on REST"

steinnes — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 23:31:21 +0000

Well said. My blood boils thinking back to all the times I've heard "Yeah, but that's not REST." as a response to a perfectly reasonable and sane idea/suggestion.

New comment by steinnes in "A Ghost Ship Drifting Through International Waters"

steinnes — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 21:05:42 +0000

I remember this being all over the local (Icelandic) news media a couple of years ago. Pretty interesting story: http://www.mbl.is/frettir/erlent/2013/02/28/hefur_thu_sed_ly...

New comment by steinnes in "“Adds iOS build support to gomobile command”"

steinnes — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 23:28:21 +0000

Yeah, being able to compile and link a binary is pretty far from having a nice SDK :-)

New comment by steinnes in "Asciinema"

steinnes — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 16:01:38 +0000

I quite like this service, used it a couple of months ago (http://steinn.org/post/brute-force-still-going-strong/) although I would love it if I could change my terminal dimensions (char width/height) after recording. That way I could make the terminal window fit the surrounding container on my blog.

But A+ for usability :-)

New comment by steinnes in "Introducing Empire: A Self-Hosted PaaS Built on Docker and Amazon ECS"

steinnes — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:55:43 +0000

I can identify with that, we built a custom nginx based load balancing / routing solution at QuizUp while I was there :-)

New comment by steinnes in "Introducing Empire: A Self-Hosted PaaS Built on Docker and Amazon ECS"

steinnes — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 01:29:29 +0000

Good thought, I even think the article mentions kong as a future replacement for nginx :-)

New comment by steinnes in "PM of Singapore Shares His C++ Sudoku Solver Source Code"

steinnes — Mon, 04 May 2015 11:27:48 +0000

You would be happy to have a person who mixes tabs and spaces as your PM? ... mixes tabs and spaces. Argh.

New comment by steinnes in "Google Age Discrimination"

steinnes — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 22:37:50 +0000

Yeah I'm curious too. I however looked up how many employees they had in 2014 (http://www.statista.com/statistics/273744/number-of-full-tim...), and their quarterly reports for 2014 (https://www.google.com/finance?fstype=ii&q=NASDAQ:GOOG), and got that they profited in the ballpark of 13-14 billion, and had 47,756 employees, so their profits would be somewhere between 270 and 290 thousand USD per employee.

I'm not good enough at reading these quarterly reports to be surer than this :-)

.. and on that note, having the age data of 823 employees from payscale.com seems a rather small sample set for a company of ~50k employees. I also wonder what kind of bias the source introduces, ie. whether your interest in your salary is different based on your age (I don't know).

New comment by steinnes in "[dead]"

steinnes — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 02:21:08 +0000

What he said ^

New comment by steinnes in "The Pirate Party is now measured as the biggest political party in Iceland"

steinnes — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 13:22:54 +0000

They are wonderful and honest people yes, but with more support and subsequently power the risk of corruption and/or ulterior motives grow.

Thankfully the pirate party advocates extreme transparency which should make "casual corruption" more difficult.

New comment by steinnes in "The reason people burn out on open source"

steinnes — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 14:17:26 +0000

Not really, I think both guys in the issue discussion are obviously very smart, and I can identify with their respective frustrations.

I do think Jake's comments are a little harsh as the README refers to Phantom Open Emoji in the 2nd paragraph -- however if I had just spent hours debugging something like this, making an annoyed issue on GitHub could be the outcome.