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andsmi2··on Pre-commit lint checks: Vibe coding's kryptonite
Part of my pattern now is forcing lint before push and also requiring code coverage % to stay above a certain threshold and all tests to pass. Sometimes this goes awry but honestly I have same problem with dev teams. This same thing should be done with dev teams. And I’ve had devs fix lint errors these bad ways same as llm as well as “fix” tests in and ways. Llm actually listens to my rules a bit better tha human devs — and the pre commit checks and pre merge checks enforce it.
andsmi2··on Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
Cursor--run in cloud seems to work just fine for this. I setup my project and then github to publish web or mobile app.... i believe claude can also take instructions from github...or am i missing something.
andsmi2··on About the Reactor
Reminds me of this little reactor in downtown Schenectady NY https://www.rpi.edu/dept/ne/public_html/RCF.html
andsmi2··on Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine
NUMA scientist Dirk Pitt is quoted as saying, “I wasn’t sure what to do next, it seemed like all hope was lost. then this old man showed up, he seemed real familiar to me but I couldn’t pinpoint why. He helped me find the ships that I then used to escape from some unreasonable situation.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Cussler

andsmi2··on Show HN: Social Election 2016 a live monitor of the candidates social
I wrote this so I could watch it....during the debate....
andsmi2··on Ask HN: What are some geospatial tools I can use to solve this problem?
OSM if you mean open street map is just display. Osrm-- open street routing might work if you need routing. But postgis has routing modules and you could call Google for the routes and store.
andsmi2··on Ask HN: What are some geospatial tools I can use to solve this problem?
Postgis probably easiest/best overall. You don't need to do routing or TSM? In a native form for one use spatialite works.

The routing piece is the hardest. But if you don't have to do that then you just need something that stores groupings. For that matter if the points are a finite list that gets loaded as new then you don't even really need to store it as spatial data. Just list of drivers, destinations, times and you should be able to determine who gets where fastest.

andsmi2··on The Mid-Career Crisis of the Perl Programmer
+1 for reminding me about mumps.
andsmi2··on Bootstrapping overseas as an American
Aren't you risking tax evasion in the countries you are staying in? If you are "earning" money and living in Thailand for instance...but not paying taxes....doesn't the Thai government have a vested interest in you--if they discover you? And might that not be a rough time in some countries?
andsmi2··on Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
Understanding this problem--what would you say is the most "legit" way to advertise and earn money with a sight like this--? Adwords? Something else?
andsmi2··on The Pirate Bay is counting down
You want to be careful using Tracer T -- that's a hacking tool. http://youtu.be/SXmv8quf_xM
andsmi2··on Show HN: Incorporating Religion Denominational Data into a US Births/Deaths Viz
It would be interesting to see ages on deaths.
andsmi2··on Ask HN: Has anyone switched to Swift from Objective C? If not, when will you?
Currently I'm just working on small apps but I haven't had a problem with Swift vs Objective C. Development is much faster and cleaner.
andsmi2··on Ask HN: Which online CS course to take if I want a job tomorrow?
Just go get a job. Half the normal engineers have forgotten any of their formal CS the other half don't have a CS degree. If you taught de yourself Objective C and have published some apps you should be able to get yourself into an entry level dev job at a mobile shop. Then learn from there. If you are in a location where there are jobs like this available. If not and you just want a dev job start applying and networking to find one.
andsmi2··on How Colonel Sanders Became Father Christmas in Japan
Shades of demolition man....
andsmi2··on Copy protection scheme that was used for Dungeon Master on Atari ST and Amiga
I think this or part of this is what was on that shareware disk I got at the computer fair http://www.textfiles.com/piracy/CRACKING/act-13.txt the Buckaroo Bonzai Cracking the IBM PC sounds real familiar.
andsmi2··on Copy protection scheme that was used for Dungeon Master on Atari ST and Amiga
This was a fascinating read. Somewhere in the late 80s/early 90s I picked up a floppy with a guide to cracking at a local computer store. I was then able to crack a few games with help of turbo debugger and Norton disk editor (file editor?) -- I mostly remember looking for int 16 (ah 02?) and then replacing the next few lines with nop's or changing jni to jmp -- I knew little of what I was doing but it was a blast. I was aware of certain protection that read bad sectors on a disk but if you did an exact floppy copy you could usually copy bad sectors-- different than this article. I do remember spending a few days on my cousins copy of altered beast and being very confused by it. I think it decrypted the game from disk or u compressed from disk into me,Roy so I could see the code I wanted to change in the debugger but not on the disk. This may have led to a failed attempt at a TSR to alter the code during runtime. I thi I i e eventually gave up. I also remember finding bible verses in the caveman ugh-lympics dump I think. Fond memories.
andsmi2··on Ask HN: What do recruiters do that annoys you?
Cold call or email me. I'll call you, don't call me.

Linked in to me for no specific reason other than to build network.

Tell me about an amazing opportunity that they then forget about when I reach back out to them.

andsmi2··on Ask HN: AWS S3 billed us over $1k. What cheaper alternatives do you recommend?
This is a lot of data to transfer. As suggested caching and cloud front. And start figuring out how to pay for it (advertising or charging customers-- I would think with that much data being transferred there should be a revenue stream already to cover $1k a month or perhaps it isn't scalable)
andsmi2··on Ask HN: Do you prefer to learn by watching videos or by reading books/articles?
Doing. - Tutorials and step by steps via video or reading sometimes assist in this, but often they are to slow. This assumes we are talking about "learning" how to do something-- not for instance "learning" who the first 5 presidents of the US had been. In this case though "research" -- using multiple sources and short bursts of reading from those sources relative to the topic provide the longest lasting knowledge for me. Then toss something in like a long form biography or history book after the research has established interest, or even doing more research after the book has established more interest.
andsmi2··on Farewell, Dr. Dobb's
There is a bit of a feeling that advertising on web sites, much like SEO, is a bit of snake oil business....I agree with the op's statement-- when have you bought anything from a web advertisement anywhere? Maybe you have signed up for a service from one? But bought something? Even something very targeted.... although it does seem that "paid placement" in search -- (google search advertising) does provide some sales... Dvorak has been calling this out for some time.... advertisers seem to be catching up.
andsmi2··on Farewell, Dr. Dobb's
Somewhere late in high school my father started bringing home copies of Dr. Dobb's and I think around 11th grade -- (1993?) I was given my own subscription. I was lucky if I could understand 10% of what was written, but I would devour it -- and it provided a definite different perspective to me than the pop magazines I had been reading Compute! and many years before, Run! -- I have fond memories of the publication....I just have no longer had time to read it...sorry to see it go. Thanks for all the great content.
andsmi2··on “Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own late 80s OS”
This quote hurt my head "Windows 2000..., which was basically like 98, but crappier." But provided context for the entire thing.
andsmi2··on “Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own late 80s OS”
I don't think these are lies. I think this speaks to the level of technical understanding by the author. He thought 64k. He was writing everything in qbasic-- so a spec like that wouldn't matter. These are some good things to accomplish with basic, but it made sense when you get to the end and understand he is baffled with an ide. The term dos "clone" is weird--- I think he meant a sort of shell written in qbasic. This is essentially a "script kiddy" stuck in the outback. Admirable use of his time. I am scared about the level of worship the comments on the page provide.
andsmi2··on AWS CodeCommit
It actually isn't out till 2015.... so this is just asking if you are interested. Perhaps it's an MVP -- with a signup form....and if there is enough interest they will pursue it...
andsmi2··on Ask HN: What Book Has the Most Page-for-Page Wisdom?
How about Solomon's Proverbs? Composed between 4 and 5 centuries before Sun Tzu even lived, translated into Greek 100 years before the earliest known Art of War manuscript, and containing a collection of ancient wisdom in bite size chunks-- page for page the most wisdom you could possibly find.

Traditional English Translation: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8300/8300-h/8300-22h.htm

Modern Reading Translation: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+1&vers...

andsmi2··on Show HN: Follow App, an experiment in iterative restricted sketching
This small iPhone app allows you to "react" and iterate other drawings by tracing and submitting them as a reply. There is no undo, and only one color--black.... the drawing is fairly rudimentary, but I wanted to experiment with different back end storage capabilities and with storing and replaying paths.

In addition I'd love to see what people can do with a basic "sketch" I or others have drawn. How do they interpret it, make it different, or better.

I almost think of it as a "twitter for doodlers" --but mostly I'd just love some feedback.

It's free, available for iPhone, and ready to go. Please provide whatever feedback you can. There are a number of very obvious features that could be added--but I want to gauge the interest of the community and move on from there.

andsmi2··on Show HN: Dropu – My first iOS game
If they are reporting a bug in the app one way to prevent this is a help/about that has an e-mail address (or some other contact type--but e-mail is best) and also in your description note that they can e-mail you directly for any changes/suggestions/help -- this generally prevents 1's for bugs-- and you can deal with the "disgruntled" 1'r and calm them down and give them a fix.
andsmi2··on Tell HN: Take vacation
If you have days "Specific" for being sick--that you can't take to "hang out" then you are likely to take them when you get a mild cold-- benefit to the company is you recover faster and you don't spread your germ. However if it's just "PTO" you are likely to not "Waste" your PTO on a mild cold... thus infecting everyone and making you sick and less productive for longer...
andsmi2··on Show HN: Convert .NET formatted JSON response dates to human readable
Just something I tossed together to deal with being asked what /Date(1346997005000)/ means in human redable format -- this is the format .net/ WebAPI puts dates in by default... (it's just a timestamp--but this just makes it more transaparent....)
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