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mtoddsmith··on Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on?
AOL's primary business was dialup modems. Those died off after internet became ubiquitous.

They pre-dated Yahoo and Google as an index of the internet.

mtoddsmith··on Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on?
Might have been updated later on.
mtoddsmith··on Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on?
Wild seeing "19 years ago" as the last commit time.

https://github.com/aolserver/aolserver

mtoddsmith··on Ask HN: How can Netflix and Amazon Prime be this bad at recommending content?
Try True Detective
mtoddsmith··on Ask HN: What do I do about LastPass and how do I switch?
How does bitwarden get pwned?
mtoddsmith··on Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll
A lot of the changes he wants to make will upset a lot of users and advertisers. Better that hate it targeted at a puppet err CEO than himself. This is his version of bullet time.
mtoddsmith··on Breaking up with JavaScript front ends
Problem: we hate frameworks Solution: creates new framework
mtoddsmith··on Show HN: A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in
How is this different than keep.google.com
mtoddsmith··on A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes
How about some relaxing driving music?
mtoddsmith··on AirPods Pro (2nd Generation)
I have Powerbeats 3 which I assume function similar to other apple earbuds. I use them while cycling & mountain biking and find that sometimes when I pass another person they stop working. Anyone experience the same behavior? Is there a reason?
mtoddsmith··on Running Stable Diffusion on Your GPU with Less Than 10Gb of VRAM
Integrate this into a game for infinite playability.

Does the image generator return some kind of seed that allows you to reproduce the result?

mtoddsmith··on EverQuest’s long, strange 20-year trip still has no end in sight (2019)
WoW is pretty hard for younger kids to get into. Minecraft and Roblox are available on ipads and WoW is not.
mtoddsmith··on EverQuest’s long, strange 20-year trip still has no end in sight (2019)
Not going to bed until I get my rotting corpse! multiple 30min corpse runs and at 3am I get my corpse only die again before I make it out of the dungeon. Those were the good ol days.

One thing that made EverQuest good were the sounds. They were mesmerizing at times.

mtoddsmith··on Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022
There always those really weird esoteric bugs that someone has already slogged through lots of trial and error to resolve. SO is great for those kinds of problems.
mtoddsmith··on Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines
YYYY-DD-MM as a folder / filename does not sort correctly. Not a fan.

I much prefer YYYY-MM-DD for its sorting behavior.

mtoddsmith··on Show HN: A central bank simulator game with a realistic economic model
If interest rates are high then the typical borrower can no longer compete with the cash buyers buying up all the real estate. How does that play out?
mtoddsmith··on “Code” 2nd Edition
I love the antiquated ordering process. Wish I could just click buy from my iPhone or send crypto.
mtoddsmith··on Ask HN: How are you dealing with the M1/ARM migration?
At some point we're going to have the opposite issue. Stuff will work for ARM but not x86. Thanks Apple.
mtoddsmith··on Ask HN: Why aren't code diagram generating tools more common?
Something like this?

NDepend Dependency Graph https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23fBxM2v22k

mtoddsmith··on Ask HN: Is there an “uncanny valley” effect with startup MVPs?
I'm gonna play stupid and ask "where do I get the url for the properties I'm interested in". It's not explained at all on the page.
mtoddsmith··on Ask HN: Visualizing software designs, especially of large systems (if at all)?
The most important rule is that you can’t include everything in a single doc as it quickly gets too big and complicated.

So you need to break it down into multiple documents that cover different use cases and include only the components for a small set of use cases.

Then use the C4 model to break up the docs.

mtoddsmith··on Tell HN: The loneliness of a pretty good developer
What is 35_33
mtoddsmith··on Billing systems are a nightmare for engineers
Hour 1: 10 KW used for 0.5 hour = 5 KW (10 x 0.5) Hour 2: 20 KW used for 1 hour = 20 KW (20 x 1) Hour 3: 0 KW used for 1 hour = 0 KW (0 x 1) Hour 4: 30 KW used for 0.5 hour = 15 KW (30 x 0.5) TOTAL = 40 KW used x $10 ⇒ $40

Shouldnt that be 50kw used in total?

Now we know who's writing all the bugs :)

mtoddsmith··on Ask HN: Can you share websites that are pushing the utility of browsers forward?
Are you saying its an electron app running web assembly?
mtoddsmith··on Ultimaker and Makerbot merge to form new 3D printing company
Pretty sure they focused development resources on projects that made money.
mtoddsmith··on Ask HN: Any other self taught devs terrified of interviewing these days?
Someone with 10 YOE of desktop experience can't compete with someone with 5 YOE of cloud based experience for a saas opportunity.
mtoddsmith··on Ask HN: How do you deal with rude interviewers?
How many simultaneous connections / users can a single server support?
mtoddsmith··on Food Deserts in America
In every one of these discussions about nutrition, food costs and availability, should be a link to a site with a step by step guide on how to buy and prepare healthy tasty food on a budget. Does such a site exist?
mtoddsmith··on When Americans dreamed of kitchen computers (2021)
We have the google nest hub in our kitchen and use it for recipes, weather, Wikipedia or “kid questions” and news / YouTube, music and intercom. I just wish apple had the same since I’m on iPhone and now to pause and think is it “hey Siri” or “hey google”. Can I make google respond to “ hey Siri”?
mtoddsmith··on Ask HN: How do you keep track of software requirements and test them?
What happens when your requirements span multiple projects and repositories and microservices including frontend and backend work etc.? That doesn't all fit into a git PR.
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