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benburleson
·há 5 meses·discuss
I think these types of projects are really great for developers to exercise their end-to-end skills -- developing all pieces of the product. Kudos for launching it!

As someone who's done this before, the value is all in that experience and finding those gaps that you didn't know existed.

One important gap I originally didn't know about was needing a market for my product idea. I thought just because I had a clever idea that it would sell! Turns out that's not the case most of the time.

And in this case, I don't think there's a market for no-code solutions that simultaneously require HTTP API integration (that's not no-code, that's low-code), when there is a really simple low-code solution that doesn't require a network round-trip.

Again, kudos on completing the exercise of releasing something! It's a step most developers don't take, and absolutely worth the experience no matter where it goes.
benburleson
·há 6 meses·discuss
Ha, thanks for letting me know! I hope it's not causing too many problems out there :-)
benburleson
·há 6 meses·discuss
Interesting. Wayne Rosing (Silicon Valley pioneer and early engineering lead at Google) has been working on a global telescope project for a long time now also.

https://lco.global/
benburleson
·há 7 meses·discuss
I've found the most useful prompt tip is to add to the end of every prompt:

"Ask questions for clarification as needed."

Claude will then present a list of questions I answer, either directly, or sometimes those prompt more thought or questions from myself.

Either way, that statement helps escape the assumption that I just want some slop reaching the goal in the quickest way possible.
benburleson
·há 12 meses·discuss
Which raises the question: If the productivity gains are realized by the employer, is the employer not paying this subscription?
benburleson
·há 6 anos·discuss
Not surprising at all; people always say sex/porn has brought most of the advances of Internet technology (at least in the earlier days).
benburleson
·há 7 anos·discuss
As a fulltime web dev, I had a guess of who's cloud that was, but had to look the name up.

They may have numbers due to Chinese usage, but no Western company is going to use Chinese hosting, ever.
benburleson
·há 7 anos·discuss
A little bit of reading between the lines combined with Google's history of sunsetting services that aren't creating enough profit.
benburleson
·há 7 anos·discuss
Not always true. Sometimes customers hate the vendor, but there is no viable alternative.

Just remove a couple pain points and you can create a shift.
benburleson
·há 7 anos·discuss
The downside is requiring charging or batteries. I just have a hard time justifying the hassle when I have no need to make those devices wireless.

And my battery always (when I had one) died mid-day, so it forced a work break, which isn't always bad anyway
benburleson
·há 7 anos·discuss
In this case, is the freedom of wireless worth the hassle+cost of batteries?
benburleson
·há 7 anos·discuss
Which is insane.. do people really use the wireless capability of their keyboard or mouse? Especially when you can't use your freaking mouse when it's charging? Serious insanity.

Edit to add: of course I know people use those keyboards... I meant are people actually moving with them in ways that makes the wireless capability useful? Do most users not stay in a pretty close proximity the whole time?
benburleson
·há 7 anos·discuss
The wording is a bit slippery. I believe that one could get into big trouble for truly not knowing they were not in compliance, but the fact that is says "who believe," to me, means, "as far as I am aware, this is true." There are a lot of undeclared assumptions in that statement, and all of those are at the cost of the person signing that statement.

Alternatively, we see politicians walking back false statements or changing stance daily because the thing they said previously was what they believed based on the facts present at the time -- and they are never held to account.