WalterSear

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by WalterSear 2y ago
IMHO, it's more that accepting the consequences of their actions too threatening to their sense of self.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
A malapropism. The term identity card is usually used to refer to an identification card.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
Identity is who a person sees themselves to be.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
There needs to be an LLM for that.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
The blog author is right. You're in the best spot, just don't stop swimming. The ladder is disintegrating behind you.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
> Five years later: Don't hire or train senior developers.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
I don't feel out of place. I feel frustration and in some situations, contempt: with both sides, with the situation, with the collective decisions, and lack thereof that got us here, with the hoi polloi getting distracted,yet again, by
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by WalterSear 2y ago
https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6...
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by WalterSear 2y ago
If reporters are so great at their jobs, why are they interviewing two economists, a CEO of a scholastic company and three representatives of the American Translators Association about Artificial Intelligence?
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by WalterSear 2y ago
That's the heart of the matter: Schools are teaching algorithms and data structures to students who don't yet know how to code. It's wankery, no matter what the student's future path is intended to be. You can't wor
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by WalterSear 2y ago
The tweet we are discussing strongly suggests that the student isn't using any VCS. That is what this discussion is actually about.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
It's impressive all right; just the wrong kind of impressive.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
It's not whether they know it or not. It's whether they worked on CS sufficiently complex to need code versioning while acquiring their degree.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
Whether CS grads know how to use version control tells you how much actual CS they worked with while acquiring their degree.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
If it isn't, we have bigger problems.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
I have masses of admiration and respect for Jeremy Howard and tried using this to build a bunch of fastapi endpoints. I still have masses of admiration and respect for him, but no longer so much when it comes to software engineering - due t
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by WalterSear 2y ago
Perhaps a decade or more too late for that.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
Wild indeed. https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6...
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by WalterSear 2y ago
https://nbdev.fast.ai/
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by WalterSear 2y ago
Some people, such as Jeremy Howard, think otherwise: https://nbdev.fast.ai/
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by WalterSear 2y ago
Just use Digitalis :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA23ysR2hAo
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by WalterSear 2y ago
Certainly - a jr high schooler who was talking smack.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
The article didn't discuss engineers at all.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
This was the standard practice for inducing lucid dreaming in the class I took on it at Stanford.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
Except that we've had time to observe the effects of stuff between then and now. Which is why the I don't think the parent is lobbying for a return to lead pipes.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
The first time, I lacked the self-confidence to speak up in the face of dominating people. So I internalized their behavior as "proof" of my incompetence - in the face of the patently obvious facts to the contrary, in the face of
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by WalterSear 2y ago
One take on Azure's apparent rapid growth - "receipt swapping" aka dubious financial engineering: > ...the number of users only grew by ONE percent between 2017 and 2022 while Azure revenues grew by 273%. Did companies rea
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by WalterSear 2y ago
I'd argue that there's definitely a business case for frequent and early refactoring - it just needs to be refactoring worth doing in the first place. IMHE a most code gets touched rarely, and some parts get touched all the time,
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by WalterSear 2y ago
Please no! This isn't refactoring - it's just hygienic coding. "Refactoring as you go" sets up an adversarial relationship between dealing with tech debt and the feature work that that the time and effort was actually as
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by WalterSear 2y ago
I was told recently that their executives attempted to start an AI initiative without involving anyone from their data engineering team .

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