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dzonga

3,500 karmajoined 9 лет назад
All in on Agentic Applications

engineer at everywhere with a knack for product.

email: ptdzonga \\ at \\ gmail dot com

I build things.

Submissions

Microsoft Frontier Company – Announcement

blogs.microsoft.com
6 points·by dzonga·8 дней назад·1 comments

Alex Karp: Frontier Models Are Not Delivering Outcomes [video]

youtube.com
16 points·by dzonga·9 дней назад·5 comments

Ask HN: Is Multi-core a thing of the past?

3 points·by dzonga·15 дней назад·4 comments

Private Plane Crush on Texas Highway

abcnews.com
1 points·by dzonga·23 дня назад·0 comments

Stop Using JWTs

gist.github.com
492 points·by dzonga·24 дня назад·322 comments

Ask HN: Are you using a serverless SQL database?

2 points·by dzonga·в прошлом месяце·0 comments

Netflix uses Java – 2026 Edition [video]

youtube.com
4 points·by dzonga·в прошлом месяце·2 comments

We Use Phoenix Without LiveView

hanzihero.com
2 points·by dzonga·в прошлом месяце·0 comments

Pope Apologizes for Slavery

apnews.com
1 points·by dzonga·2 месяца назад·0 comments

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1 points·by dzonga·2 месяца назад·0 comments

DHS: Immigrants have to go back for Consular Processing

xcancel.com
3 points·by dzonga·2 месяца назад·0 comments

Chinese SUVs at Beijing Auto Show [video]

youtube.com
2 points·by dzonga·2 месяца назад·0 comments

George Noble on Tesla Earnings

xcancel.com
4 points·by dzonga·3 месяца назад·0 comments

Meta Layoffs – 10% in May

npr.org
1 points·by dzonga·3 месяца назад·1 comments

Rare Apple Prototypes for iPod, iPhone, Watch [video]

youtube.com
4 points·by dzonga·3 месяца назад·0 comments

[untitled]

1 points·by dzonga·4 месяца назад·0 comments

Florida Temporary Ban on H1B in State Universities

reuters.com
7 points·by dzonga·4 месяца назад·2 comments

Tell HN: Tired of Generic Long Form A.I Posts

43 points·by dzonga·4 месяца назад·24 comments

Tell HN: A.I Has No Winners

3 points·by dzonga·6 месяцев назад·2 comments

Ask HN: Price for Banking Revenue and Billing Assurance

2 points·by dzonga·6 месяцев назад·0 comments

comments

dzonga
·12 часов назад·discuss
this is great example of framing.

my take I use ruby a lot too - DHH might be disagreeable - but the one thing is one bright light i.e Rails ends up dimming the others. so when it cracks - like it did - people go to the next room, even though the current room has enough light.
dzonga
·вчера·discuss
in as much what I'm about to say might be unconstitutional -

but free speech anyways -

the U.S military i.e West Point folks & officers from drawn from the army & other branches need to take over. they're smart & get things done.

politicians and corruption from the military industrial complex have taken over.

it's no longer pragmatism, problem solving but about who greases who.
dzonga
·вчера·discuss
Ruby needs to divorce itself from Rails.

for it to find it's footing again and grow.

wonderful language, wonderful ecosystem - but the Rails albatross - will be the death of ruby.
dzonga
·вчера·discuss
codebase full of code that wouldn't fly in production.

I ain't no Rustacean - but 'unsafe' calls all over.
dzonga
·позавчера·discuss
use Node or Deno.

if you want superior developer experience - Deno.

if you want stability over everything - Node.
dzonga
·позавчера·discuss
dude was writing slop before A.I. Andrew called him out.

I don't write Rust - but I sure know that I'm not supposed to use 'unsafe'.
dzonga
·позавчера·discuss
articles like these are needed - if you've to call people out - do it.

the tech industry's fake politeness has caused pain and confusion.

& yeah - I had already stayed off Bun before the whole rewrite, but now more reasons.
dzonga
·позавчера·discuss
85K via independent means. not salary.

once you get to 85K whether via consulting, your own apps etc - you don't get laid off in case I wasn't clear.

my apologies for not being clear enough.
dzonga
·позавчера·discuss
85K via independent means. not salary.

once you get to 85K whether via consulting, your own apps etc - you don't get laid off in case I wasn't clear.
dzonga
·позавчера·discuss
I don't know if I should feel sad or laugh at the pain at the same time lol.

what a wonderful way to reflect reality for a good population of devs.

you can hack the game i.e real life

1. live in a cheaper location 2. do things that don't scale & do the ugly work

that naturally extends your runway, you don't need to apply to YC

remember the median Pay in the US - is 61800 based on ADP the largest payroll provider.

so before aiming for millions aim for 85K. yeah a far cry from the FAANG wage - but one - you will never get laid off.

85K - you can live everywhere besides the coastal US cities comfortably.
dzonga
·позавчера·discuss
congrats to the typescript team.

I have a longer blog post or audio to post. but in short - the javascript/typescript ecosystem is like working with wood.

you can have your cheap, laminate cardboard wood - Ikea type - the code equivalent will be vibe coded apps that are not original.

then on the high end - you can have your crafted furniture | wooden skyscrapers - that use custom joinery & lamination techniques using young lumber to make to make beams that are fireproof. you can also have high end stuff in the javascript/typescript ecosystem that uses A.I as one uses powerful machine tools but with crafting in mind.

for those that dare to make or dare to do - embrace the typescript|javascript ecosystem.
dzonga
·позавчера·discuss
if I'm not mistaken - Amazon Nova Sonic has been full duplex for a while.
dzonga
·3 дня назад·discuss
yeah Netflix easy to tell & some documentaries.

hell most of these you can even guess the type of camera used even if you're a non pro.
dzonga
·3 дня назад·discuss
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dzonga
·3 дня назад·discuss
the non politically correct answer - Vancouver allows you to sell the dream of a wonderful city, clean streets etc.
dzonga
·3 дня назад·discuss
does punishing corruption with a death sentence - look excessive ? Yes!

is it prone to abuse by those who yield power - Yes!

however - the alternative - where corruption goes unchecked is even worse!! if you come from a poor country e.g in Africa - you would've experienced the effects of corruption.

American are now experiencing it now - & the country is already worse off. though before corruption in American was used as an incentive mechanism - now it's just pure grift.

so yeah sentencing one or two people to death explicitly is the humane outcome vs sentencing thousands to death implicitly.
dzonga
·4 дня назад·discuss
unfortunately people won't see how bad this is.

most of the A.I researchers are already Chinese.

now imagine other talented researchers on their way to earn Nobels - they're already in China & other countries but not visible yet.

this corrupt US administration fxxked the US in ways that will be felt for decades.
dzonga
·4 дня назад·discuss
not exactly a correlation. but I have found - garbage product means garbage ads, with either hyper-personalization or mass targeted.

whereas decent | good product - means well thought ads, with either one aim to increase brand awareness or with a particular call to action.

& this is why decent brands are migrating from search | social ads to retail or ctv & other native ad platforms.
dzonga
·4 дня назад·discuss
Sony - having cinematic bloat makes sense for them. They've nailed the story driven games such as Last of Us.

however for Xbox they were not really good at story driven games, but good at Live Games such as Halo.

with Live Games - you iterate on game play, maps, skins - live events i.e community building without alienating people by dabbing in social justice.

End of day - these are all marketing problems & lack of capable leadership who knows their core audience.
dzonga
·4 дня назад·discuss
Xbox lost their identity.

Xbox was a Live Games platform. they lost that identity trying to please everyone not their core audience.

compare to Nintendo - who stuck to their identity - as fun games first. graphics not necessary.

they can cut so many jobs - but unless they return to what makes Xbox great. the platform / ecosystem won't recover.