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gxespino··on Nurses Say Hospital Adoption of Half-Cooked 'AI' Is Reckless
Former nurse turned dev.

I see a few of these AI note taking apps for healthcare and can’t help but shake my head.

This is just not how nurses work on the ward. Nurses are most worried about liability. So notes are written in a way to protect ourselves in addition to actual patient info. Probably more so now that I think about it.

gxespino··on On the cheap, like a local, and without a lot of luggage
The whole point of the article is that he prefers to "miss out"
gxespino··on Ask HN: What is your Git commit/push flow?
I like to

  git commit --amend --no-edit
often

once a piece of functionality is working, edit the commit so it makes sense

start new commit and work on next piece of functionality, repeat

clean commit history not just for me but for my coworkers who will benefit from seeing a cohesive commit diff

gxespino··on Companies that had successful pivots
Anyone else annoyed that the way this table is laid out the pivot comes first before original idea. My brain doesn't work this way...
gxespino··on Ask HN: How should I use my $2000 training budget before end of year?
Get a leetcode subscription and start interviewing in Q2.
gxespino··on Ask HN: What should I do now as a middle aged developer feeling like a loser?
He said FAANG would easily increase his salary 2-3x, which probably is the case if he is making sub $150k. He never said getting into FAANG would be easy.
gxespino··on Some Apple engineers rewarded up to $180k in stock bonuses as incentive to stay
If you have a team of 6 and everyone leaves every 12 months, it doesn't matter what candidate you bring on, job hopper or not, your organization is the one at fault.
gxespino··on My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer
You have the resume for sure.

Have you worked on your social/emotional intelligence/interviewing skills?

gxespino··on My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer
I understand where you're getting at.

I think many pessimistic people don't start or give up earlier and this leads to the self fulfilling prophecy.

Could be wrong, objective data would be needed for sure.

gxespino··on My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer
You worked on improving your poor abilities rather than accepting it as just.
gxespino··on Ask HN: How to Stay Motivated in the Mornings?
Sometimes there are no more life hacks to try and you might just have to accept that you work best in the afternoons/evenings as opposed to the mornings.

Perhaps optimizing for this is better than changing your habits and working against your natural tendency?

gxespino··on My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer
Yes, but the optimistic mindset would probably have a better outcome than the latter regardless if they failed to meet their original expectations or not.
gxespino··on My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer
"It's simply not possible for an average person like me to make that kind of money."

Putting these sort of limitations on yourself, from my experience, will dampen the effort that you put in to achieve new levels, if you even try at all. That reduced effort will result in exactly what you predicted for yourself.

So, begs the question, what sort of effort have you put in to increase your pay past the median dev salary.

gxespino··on Ask HN: Moving from tiny websites to serious tech skills?
Spend less time applying and more time truly polishing up one or two repos/side projects. Cleaning up a few repos is the bare minimum here.
gxespino··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
Been looking for something like this. Just ordered one!
gxespino··on Startup valued at $7B gets flack as CEO lays off hundreds over Zoom
Even with solutions like Handl.ai, the "shuffling documentation" portion is still a bottleneck?

No affiliation to Handl, btw.

gxespino··on Show HN: Service for aspiring programers to get code reviews from experts
I imagine reviewing a beginner programmer’s code will be less time consuming than code at work. The projects will be less complicated too.
gxespino··on Which is the stack you usually use to start your side projects?
Whatever stack you’re most comfortable in and will allow you to get up and running sooner than later.
gxespino··on Stripe CLI
Enable charges of more than $1mil please.
gxespino··on YC Fall Hackathon 2019
What is judging based on?

Is revenue a factor? Because if so, I’d argue not spending the two days building something.

gxespino··on Show HN: Jackfruit – Add an always-on video hangout to your Slack channel
Pretty slick implementation. Was also wary about the always on video rooms but it seems they’re opt in for the most part.
gxespino··on Collect Your Company Knowledge on Autopilot with OneBar
It’s literally linked in the footer like all other websites.. why would you make this claim without at least checking the footer?
gxespino··on Launch HN: Vendr (YC S19) – Buying software so you don’t have to
Do you negotiate for marketplace apps also? Like Slack apps, Github apps, etc. or is that too small fries for this?
gxespino··on Launch HN: Vendr (YC S19) – Buying software so you don’t have to
But who manages renewing Vendr’s subscription? Lol, just messing. Great idea!
gxespino··on Launch HN: FeaturePeek (YC S19) – Front-end review for the whole team
Interesting. Would love to be able to disable this for small changes (text only, etc). I'd hate to have to run an extra, potentially costly/time consuming, CI step for small UI changes.

Congrats on the launch. I use GIPHY to "preview" my UI changes in Github. I wish the rest of my team did something similar.

gxespino··on Rent the Backyard (YC S19) wants to build a studio apartment in your yard
Who has time to manage a construction project? Just show me where to sign and send me my monthly checks.
gxespino··on Announcing Startup School 2019
Why are you so worried about competition?
gxespino··on Announcing Startup School 2019
Good to know
gxespino··on Announcing Startup School 2019
I signed up but am slightly nervous about the program timeline vs where I’m at with my startup. If I’m actively iterating on the product with paid customers, it doesn’t make much sense for me to spend a few hours watching videos on how to generate good ideas.

I’ll always be asking myself “is this the best use of my time right now?”

gxespino··on Lambda School wants to teach nursing
You hear this from doctors because they are the ones who are smug and most likely feel their professions are threatened.
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