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jamil7··on Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth
> In every public-healthcare country, this happens.

Outside of Canada and the UK this isn't true.

> Because incentives are stacked against delivering to the patient and for increasing spendings.

Germany, The Netherlands and Japan all have regulated competition models.

> It’s the tragedy of the commons.

Public healthcare isn't a free for all, its regulated, actively managed and budgeted.

jamil7··on Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth
Because politicians have made it their mission to chip away at the NHS over decades. This doesn’t say anything about the efficacy of statutory healthcare.
jamil7··on There is no memory safety without thread safety
Yes and no, our app is considerably larger than 130k LoC. While we’ve migrated some modules there are some parts that do a lot of multithreaded work that we probably will never migrate because they’d need to essentially be rewritten and the tradeoff isn’t really worth it for us.
jamil7··on The great AI delusion is falling apart
Its kind of a trap, we allow people in interviews to do the same and some of them waste so much time accepting wrong LLM completions and then changing them than if they'd just written the code themselves.
jamil7··on Memory Efficiency in iOS: Reducing footprint and beyond
Is Nuke any different? I know it’s author wrote a lot about performance but I’ve never looked into it.
jamil7··on My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures
I use both for different tasks, Aider is a sharp knife and claude code more of a blunt instrument.
jamil7··on Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes at once
Oh cool, I was already doing this with git worktrees but a ui for it would be handy.
jamil7··on Show HN: A Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux
The launcher UI is AppKit while the extension APIs allow third-party developers to write them in TS and a React subset. They have a custom renderer for React that turns that into AppKit primatives. So similar in concept but custom and specific to their usecase.
jamil7··on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized
It might be worth going to a sports physio that specialises in runners. I did this a year ago and fixed my overstriding and increased my cadence and no longer have random soreness or troubles in hips or knees etc.
jamil7··on Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming
I'll often get it to write failing tests for me and write the actual code myself.
jamil7··on Ask HN: What are some cool or underrated tech companies based in Australia?
Maybe Procreate, especially since they're based in Tasmania? https://procreate.com
jamil7··on Ask HN: Took a break after burnout – what now?
With that amount saved and invested and your expenses, aren’t you essentially able to live off that without drawing the capital down? In your position I would probably extend the time off a bit and be quite picky about the next role. Contribute to open source if you want to stay sharp while doing whatever else you like. Get fit, travel, hobbies etc.
jamil7··on CoMaps: New OSM based navigation app
I haven't followed whats going on with Organic Maps but I continue to use it and have donated to it in the past. Why the fork?
jamil7··on Auth for B2B SaaS: it's not like auth for consumer software
I've been seeing this all over the internet, even on news websites that have already loaded their content. So Next doesn't allow me to read text that's already loaded in my browser because of some random JS error I don't care about.
jamil7··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Fiddling with a custom cloud backup solution to complement local backups instead of just using some service like I probably should. But I'm enjoying the process.
jamil7··on Show HN: Inworld TTS – high-quality, affordable, and low-latency TTS
Looks nice, I'll try it out, I'm trying to slowly relaunch an iOS app with TTS features and wanted to use 11Labs but its pricing basically kills all consumer business models.
jamil7··on ChatGPT's enterprise success against Copilot fuels OpenAI/Microsoft rivalry
Probably but it might not matter. They don't really need to compete on quality, just the simplicity of selling a suite that's bundled together to enterprise in the same way they did with Teams which is inferior to Slack in pretty much everyway (last time I had to use it anyway). Isn't their advantage always sales and distribution? Maybe its different this time, I don't know.
jamil7··on Build your first iOS app on Linux / Windows
Most of us get compensated to do it and the hardware either paid for or tax deductible. Whatever positions you take as a developer, there is strong end-user demand for software on iOS and to a certain extent macOS so there will continue to be people who'll do that dance.
jamil7··on SourceHut moves business operations from US to Europe
> For SourceHut Estonia and Romania would have probably been a better choices

Doesn't the ease of incorporation get erroded by the ongoing burden of filing taxes in multiple places? I remember looking at this years ago as an alternative to a GmbH and thinking it wasn't worth it. Maybe for this type of company it is.

jamil7··on Show HN: I'm a doctor and built a responsive breathing app for anxiety and sleep
Serious question, have you tried to launch and sustain a consumer mobile business in the last 5 years? I have and the paid up front model is very difficult to make work. As much as users say they want to pay once, what they actually want is to pay once and receive a steady stream of features, improvements, updates for new iOS versions etc. The idea that there are no server-side expenses doesn't make a project like this static, iOS itself is a moving target for developers before you factor in user expectations from modern software.
jamil7··on Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home from US
I thought Wagenknecht had somewhat distanced herself from pro-kremlin positions she and parts of Die Linke previously held? She's still pretty staunchly anti-NATO, though. I think her German-nationalist positions kind of overlap with positions that benefit Russia like resuming gas supplies to drop energy prices and heating costs.
jamil7··on Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety
I’m not sure why this is downvoted, the strips are indeed a lot more accurate.
jamil7··on Why agents are bad pair programmers
I think one huge issue with pairing for non programmers or junior programmers is that the LLM never pushes back on whatever you throw at it. Like it can't deconstruct and examine what that acutal problem and suggest a more robust or simplar alternative.
jamil7··on Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts
The corruption in state government, especially WA for example is pretty blatant but I get your point.
jamil7··on Static Types Are for Perfectionists
The person you're responding to only mentioned tests, not TDD or BDD.
jamil7··on Flattening Rust’s learning curve
The whole learning curve seems overblown to me. You don’t need to grok every part of the language to start using it and being productive.
jamil7··on Ask HN: How much better are AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps?
No it doesn’t, it tries to be smart about how it loads context that it thinks it needs to perform a task. In reality, in a large codebase I’ve found manual supplying the exact context to Aider with Anthropic’s models to work better.
jamil7··on Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
> it just has more votes and more supportive comments, but no acknowledgement

It looks like the relevant work needs to be done upstream.

jamil7··on EU's von der Leyen invites scientists, researchers to make Europe their home
There's nothing of substance here, there's isn't any actual visa or residency fast track or any reforms mentioned just a vague "invitation".
jamil7··on Ask HN: AI Replacing Engineers – Firsthand Stories?
This is kind of my take as well, most places I've worked at including the current place I work have more work than the team can get done. Features and fixes get cut or depriorised all the time to try release at a reasonable cadence. If the product you're selling is software then to me it makes sense that you'd not cut anyone from a software engineering team if your margins suddenly get better via LLM productivity gains. Rather you can argue to even increase a team size because increased velocity is a competitive advantage. On the other hand if you work somewhere where software is not the end product but a support function, you might be seen as a cost centre in which LLM productivity gains could be seen as a means of freezing hiring or reducing headcount.
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