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khamba··on Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative
> it's built with Ruby on Rails, for those interested. I highly suspect it would have taken me 2 more years to get to this point without Rails!

Lovely. I am working on something on Rails myself, and this framework works really, really well with LLMs!

khamba··on Another Round of Layoffs at Meta
> I don't know why you feel the need to give people your background/ability/level to bolster

I felt it was justified after you called their opinion a "junior's" rant.

khamba··on Ask HN: At a peak of my dev career, I hate my life
Thank you for posting this. I was reconsidering writing a response to that, but you phrased it very well.

An excellent eye opening article I have read about this: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/N2pENnTPB75sfc9kb/outside-th... which discusses scientists believing in religion. The arguments also apply to any rational person who forms beliefs based on evidence which I would say is a necessary property to be intelligent. Hence it irks me when someone says "intelligent people believe in god too"

khamba··on Things I learned from building a production database
Individual Contributor. ICs are not managers, or Team Leads, or any of people leading positions.
khamba··on HashCow, BTC.TOP have halted China operations after Beijing crackdown on Bitcoin
Equities are not (marketed as) a USD alternative? This is a bad faith argument.
khamba··on Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update
> Fake reviews are not that hard to spot.

This statement seems very suspect to confirmation bias. How would you get to know if what you think is genuine was actually fake? This part of feedback loop is completely missing, and hence I find your above statement hard to believe.

khamba··on U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise
Although I do not disagree with your comment, I would do a double take befpre accepting the source you cite because they are very much incentived to proclaim the result they proclaim.
khamba··on How to Live with Dying
Yes, it states so in the original article.
khamba··on Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition
A sibling comment suggests deleting the card, but I personally like to use the suspend feature.
khamba··on Zuckerberg: this election is not going to be business as usual
A better example of a Republic that is not a democracy is Vatican City.
khamba··on How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2012)
> Can someone explain the downvotes?

Someone may have taken your comment as a defense of the article not publishing year (which is a ridiculous defense) and hence the downvotes.

It is definitely really bad UX if you have to "view source" to find information.

khamba··on Should I Use a Carousel?
I agree with what you are saying.

> Carousels are good for things users should be vaguely aware of but are not likely to click on

Carousels should be used to set the _tone_ of the webpage, and not be meant for content to be clicked on.

For example, all major fashion e-commerce website dedicate large amount of homepage screen-estate to a carousel showing their major brands, current discounts, etc. The user can still use the search or menu functionality to look for what they want (and I think majority do), but now the tone of the business has been set.

khamba··on Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?
Could you recommend a good CBT book?
khamba··on How to Secure a Linux Server
I was pleased to notice that the author used DuckDuckGo search link in their article instead of Google.
khamba··on Uber Joins Lyft in Race to Tap Investors
AMD, Nvidia
khamba··on Ask HN: How do you continuously monitor web logs for hack attempts?
Thanks for the youtube link. Seems interesting. I am going to watch it in full.
khamba··on Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
This looks interesting. Is there any solution that you are already using?

> especially when someone needs to touch the code

Do you not generally touch the code? Is some kind of WYSIWYG editor used to create an email or is the code human written?