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sevengraff··on The obscure trust looming over Anthropic's IPO
The article is mostly about how this trust is powerful and there are very few details of how it operates or under what circumstances it would take an action. When Anthropic goes public, is that the kind of thing that would need to be disclosed? Would we expect to know all the details of the trust?
sevengraff··on My Engineering Craft Regressed
>if you're spending every waking hour coding, you're unlikely to be building relationships.

I think this is a critical skill that our industry hasn't done a great job of building, and I think few industries do that well. Engineers have a stereotype of being bad at this by default and there isn't much clear help on how to improve, in contrast to the many freely accessed guides on how to improve with technology.

Also, I love the Starcraft analogy <3

sevengraff··on Educational Codebases
I'd love to see a copy of this, I think I could learn from it too.
sevengraff··on You Suck at Excel (2015) [video]
That is a super good story, thanks for the link
sevengraff··on Helix: a post-modern modal text editor
check out https://vim-bootstrap.com I'm a vim newbie but found it very useful.
sevengraff··on Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
I'm interested to read about this if you've got links to related blogs or such.
sevengraff··on Nntpit: Minimalist Reddit-to-NNTP gateway
If anyone is a member of a cool Newsgroup, reply with it, I'm interested to try such a community.
sevengraff··on Evolving a Curated Retro Game Collection
Agreed, but the ownership of the physical games has its own satisfaction. I'm in the process of selling about 300 retro console games mostly because when I play an old game I'm likely to emulate it on my phone than hook up the real thing. I'll miss having my collection, it's nice just to go through it from time to time. I took detailed photographs before selling, those will have to do now.
sevengraff··on Ask HN: Social Network for Engineers?
I think fosstodon.org is trying to be a social network for tech people, but it federates a lot of non tech stuff, so it's a mixed bag in that regard. I recently joined it so still figuring it out, social media isn't my strong suit.
sevengraff··on Ask HN: What were the things you did that made the biggest impact at your work?
Interesting, got a blog that goes into more detail?
sevengraff··on Racket for E-Commerce
Really nice write up and frank about the shortcomings without being negative about it. Thanks for sharing this.
sevengraff··on This is Samsung’s foldable smartphone
ZTE Axon M phone is as you described, but it didn't really catch on. Reviewers of the device did not like the gap from the bezels. I think it hit a sort of uncanny Valley of a gap that the Nintendo DS didn't hit.
sevengraff··on 30 years later, QBasic is still the best
It's unmaintained, but load81 by Antirez tries to solve this problem with the modern tools of Lua and SDL wrapped in a simple IDE. Check it out: https://github.com/antirez/load81
sevengraff··on Show HN: A simple personal finance Excel model generator
Looks pretty useful to me, I've been meaning to get something going to track my money. Thanks for having a simple way to bootstrap it!
sevengraff··on Why we’re betting against real-time team messaging
This seems like a real missed opportunity to build on systems that already work. I'd love to see these open systems like nntp come back. I hope someone puts in the effort to make them competitive in the modern technology world.
sevengraff··on Static Website Generators
I'm very surprised that Sphinx wasn't listed. It powers readthedocs.org and is generally very popular for software documentation.
sevengraff··on Dinosaur and Lisp
I agree, a well written article with a fun tone that builds something interesting and keeps ego in check. I hope to see more like this.
sevengraff··on Ask HN: What web framework should I use nowadays?
Your system of minimal dependency java is interesting. Do you have anything open source I can look at or otherwise get a dive into this technique?
sevengraff··on China's telescope on the moon
This article is not particularly useful. I like space and space tech, but this article just declares something to exist and doesn't go into any interesting details. I might as well read a press release from the chinese space agency.
sevengraff··on State of the Common Lisp Ecosystem
I'd love to see this breakdown for more languages.
sevengraff··on Maps of Street Layouts Colored by Orientation
Any way to export these colorful maps to a png? I desire them as a desktop wallpaper, they are wonderful.
sevengraff··on Conkeror – Keyboard-oriented, customizable, extensible web browser
I'm disappointed that I can't C-x 3 to have web pages side-by-side, but I really, really like being able to switch between tabs with C-x b. I think I'll be giving this some time.