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carterparks··on The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product
I think there's a lot to pick apart here but I think the core premise is full of truth. This gap is real contrary to what you might see influencers saying and I think it comes from a lot of places but the biggest one is writing code is very different than architecting a product.

I've always said, the easiest part of building software is "making something work." The hardest part is building software that can sustain many iterations of development. This requires abstracting things out appropriately which LLMs are only moderately decent at and most vibe coders are horrible at. Great software engineers can architect a system and then prompt an LLM to build out various components of the system and create a sustainable codebase. This takes time an attention in a world of vibe coders that are less and less inclined to give their vibe coded products the attention they deserve.

carterparks··on GPT-5 vs. Sonnet: Complex Agentic Coding
I'm getting an SSL error in Chrome: ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR
carterparks··on Sorry, GenAI is NOT going to 10x computer programming
It doesn't always 10x my development but on certain problems I can work 30x faster. In due time, this is only going to accelerate more as tooling becomes more closely integrated into dev workflows.
carterparks··on The Paradox of the Distance Runner
She won across all women starters.

She has, however, won in mixed field before. In 2017, she won the Moab 240 outright.

The longer the distance (see: this 240mi race and the AT FKT) the closer the division between male and female (and also age).

carterparks··on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say
They can detect analog tones for functions like CTCSS.
carterparks··on Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
Your website has the worst permalinks ever.
carterparks··on LastPass: Security Incident Update and Recommended Actions (1st March 2023)
Recommended Actions: find a better place to store your passwords
carterparks··on Leveraging Proprietary Data with GPT-3
I wanted to see what you could do to train GPT on custom data. Fine tuning was a dud but I was amazed at what composition tools like LangChain were able to accomplish even on a small dataset.
carterparks··on Email a Dumpster Fire
52k views, 268 emails torched.... ruby doesn't scale :)
carterparks··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2018)
SEEKING WORK | Based in Laramie, Wyoming looking for remote work

I'm looking to team up with an early stage startup to help them build their MVP to get them to their next round of funding.

I'm a full stack web and mobile application developer with over a decade of experience building a wide variety of apps for companies big and small. I've worked alone and I've also lead teams. I love Elixir & Phoenix, Ruby & Rails, React, React Native, Relay, and GraphQL.

I've got a portfolio at https://carterparks.com but I'd love to get on the phone to talk to you about your project. Shoot me an email: carter@carterparks.com.

carterparks··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2018)
SEEKING WORK - Rails/Elixir/React(Native) Full Stack Web (and Mobile) Developer

Location: Laramie, Wyoming, USA

Remote: Yes (but I'm happy to travel from time to time)

I've got over a decade's experience building innovative web applications using Ruby on Rails. Lately I've been increasingly interested in Elixir and Phoenix for building realtime applications. Also over the past several years, I've witnessed the heavy lifting move to the frontend and I've embraced React, Relay, GraphQL, and React Native on this path. I've worked on large teams, I've worked alone. As such, I've got experience across the full stack ranging from CSS pixel pushing all the way down to writing provisioning scripts for scaling servers.

Over the years, I've worked on a variety of projects from clients as big as a Fortune 50 company to early stage startups. Most recently, I've been working on an IoT/Mobile/Web platform for a very large company. I've spent many years in the eCommerce space helping streamline sales for hybrid online/B&M eCommerce companies. I've integrated with countless APIs.

I'm very interested in building cutting edge interesting apps. If you're looking to build another Facebook, I might not be for you.

I am in the early stages of growing my freelancing into an agency so I've also got a team on call for building out larger projects.

Let's chat! carter at altitype dot com

carterparks··on Hey Paypal, why do you need access to my microphone, camera and photos?
Camera is used for their mobile check deposit feature: https://personal.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&...

Microphone could be used for some kind of dictation feature?

carterparks··on Ask HN: Handling an international non-paying client
I'd avoid the public shaming but I would threaten legal action even if you aren't prepared to follow through. I might even hire your general counsel to write a threatening letter. And yes, stop working now. As you probably know you should have stopped months ago.
carterparks··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2014)
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Short Term On-Site Anywhere in USA

I'm a full stack Ruby on Rails web developer with over 7 years of experience in fields ranging from eCommerce to CMS to VoIP and beyond. I've got experience with legacy Rails, RSpec, Redis, MySQL, Postgres, git, and most other commonly used Rails technologies. I've been doing the HTML/CSS/JavaScript thing for well over 10 years but I've recently begun taking on Ember.js/HTML5/PhoneGap projects.

I also am experienced at system administration and security, especially when it comes to scaling, caching, and optimizing dynamic web applications.

Shoot an email to me at carter@carterparks.com and let's setup a time to get on the phone or Skype and discuss your project.

carterparks··on Just Use Sublime Text
I feel very bad for anyone that uses Nano for any kind of terminal editing. Not to mention there's a whole class of very serious developers that live in the terminal. Nano is the notepad.exe of *nix.
carterparks··on Just Use Sublime Text
I think many of these comments are failing to mention one of my primary reasons for using vim... the power of being able to use the same editor in a GUI and a shell. It takes me at least a day to setup my workstation for development but if my laptop crashes I can always SSH into my workstation VPS and get work done. It's also nice to be able to edit server configuration files with the same editor that I write code in.

Vim isn't for everyone but if you're a power user that wants to master one text editor and use it for the rest of your life then Vim is that text editor.

carterparks··on iOS 7.1
I can't connect to any Wi-Fi networks at all. This was an issue introduced by iOS 7. If a software update can break it, a software update can fix it. From what I understand the strain on the CPU from the additional processing required to run iOS 7 causes heat to become an issue for the Wi-Fi chipset.
carterparks··on iOS 7.1
Just updated. Disappointed that it hasn't fixed my ability to connect to Wi-Fi using an iPhone 4S
carterparks··on How QuarkXPress became a mere afterthought in publishing
I witnessed this turnover first hand when I was hired on as a customer service representative at the launch of QuarkXPress 5. This was a major release given that they hadn't released a major version for 5 years! Hilariously enough, we were trained to tout OS X support... via Rosetta. Native support didn't come until QXP6.

While I do think the major reason why Quark failed was due to a lack of a native OSX app, I think there's another major reason... Creative Suite.

The vast majority of desktop publishing users required Photoshop and the pricing difference between Photoshop and Creative Suite was much less than adding (or even upgrading) QuarkXPress. There's also the integration between CS apps that Quark couldn't compete with.

On a sidenote, people have mentioned how Quark was sold to Fred Ebrahimi and he outsourced the vast majority of the engineering staff to India, but did you know he also created Quark City? http://www.quarkcity.com/

carterparks··on Stop using Nagios (so it can die peacefully)
I use icinga extensively. It has a better UI but still suffers from the same downfalls the presentation presents. With that said, the solution proposed seems to be incomplete and a step back from what icinga/nagios provide.
carterparks··on Stop using Nagios (so it can die peacefully)
Most nagios users configure the pnp4nagios plugin for graphing
carterparks··on UW Professor Achieves Breakthrough in Understanding Superconductivity Properties
University of Wyoming is known as "UW" as well.
carterparks··on Contractors See Weeks of Work on Health Site
That's a lot of eating your own dog food
carterparks··on RVM 2.0: Convert 20,000 lines of shell script into Ruby [Fundraiser]
$100/hr x 500 hours = $50,0000

$100/hr is a very conservative estimate for an hourly rate for a senior level Ruby engineer that can read and understand shell code and implement clean, well documented code.

500 hours also seems very reasonable given that they'd be rewriting 20,000 lines of Bash. Not an easy task.

carterparks··on Website Impounded
If you don't pay the mechanic, you don't get your car. If you don't pay the webmaster, you don't get your website.
carterparks··on Google+ Opens to All
Except for Google Apps users
carterparks··on TrollScript, an esoteric dialect of Brainfuck.
I can't understand why anyone would choose to use this language. Clearly it is unreadable and I highly doubt this scales. Can somebody give me a good reason for using this on my Facebook clone instead of a more mature language such as PHP, Python or Java? Also, I heard somebody was developing a web framework, Trolls under Bridges. Has anybody heard about this?