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ivan888 | 10 months ago | on: E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper

Yeah I’ve had this same idea for the same reasons, and came to the same conclusions that without legislation, no incentive exists to send statements as attachments in emails or to store them with a 3rd party where they can’t be tampered with when a mistake is discovered

ivan888 | 1 year ago | on: Maybe You're Not Sick of Programming

Taking real disconnect breaks (more than one week) also help a lot. Some people, including me until recently, don’t seem to do this often or at all

ivan888 | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Auto-generate an OpenAPI spec by listening to localhost

I think going from code to OpenAPI makes a lot more sense, at least for strong typed languages. And even if not directly translated from code, at least closer to the actual code, in annotations or something. Generating the spec from code removes a step, where you simply need to update code, rather than update the spec then update the code

ivan888 | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2023)

Location: New York (NYC)

Remote: Yes, but prefer hybrid

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Java, JavaScript, React, Spring, Postgres, Neo4j, Kafka, Microservices, TypeScript

Résumé/CV: https://ivan.sh/resume.pdf | https://ivan.sh/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivangreene/

Email: [email protected]

Experience as lead software engineer at an early stage startup, as well as experience in larger organizations. Prefer early stage startups in NYC

ivan888 | 2 years ago | on: I use Nix and make(1) to develop

I'm very new to make(1), but became a fan quickly.

Rather than maintaining documentation that inevitably gets out of date, if a project has a Makefile, it self documents the build process, language independently. No need to read a README to see if people are currently using yarn or npm, or find external documentation on a build tool you haven't used before; the Makefile shows the targets and what commands they run.

ivan888 | 2 years ago | on: Mac Keyboard with Hidutil

I wrote a pretty simple wrapper around this that gives the keys easy names and can store the configuration in a human readable format: https://github.com/ivangreene/keymap

Was unaware of the --matching option at the time, could be an interesting extension but I personally have no need for it

ivan888 | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: We are building an open-source IDE powered by AI

My biggest concern with tools like this is reproducibility and maintainability. How deterministically can we go from the 'source' (natural language prompts) to the 'target' (source code)? Assuming we can't reasonably rebuild from source alone, how can we maintain a link between the source and target so that refactoring can occur without breaking our public interface?

ivan888 | 3 years ago | on: From Books to Knowledge Graphs

Since we are now at the stage where it's difficult to distinguish well reasoned human discourse from that generated by AI, I think that deeply linked citation systems in the form of knowledge graphs will grow in importance. Otherwise it will be too easy for AI generated discourse to begin referencing itself, introducing biases and clinging to blatant falsehoods without an easy way to discover their origin and fix the problems

ivan888 | 3 years ago | on: ‘Luddite’ Teens

Yes, "how can we simultaneously protect while also healthily socialize children?" is a difficult question to answer as a potential future parent. Social acceptance (to a degree) is critical to healthy development, while some of the most common uniting social tools (for previous generations, high levels of consumerism and signaling; for now and the future, near-constant technology use) are viewed by some parents as unhealthy and lead some to want to abstain entirely.
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