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by bartread 7mo ago
> Personally I usually see the opposite effect - people first reach for a too-naive approach and implement some O(n^2) algorithm where it wouldn't have even been more complex to implement something O(n) or O(n log n). And n is almos
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by bartread 7mo ago
> I'm no expert but this sounds strange. A cynic might suggest the theory might exist because nobody could figure out how life got started on its own on earth. The thing is I've never found the asteroid theory particularly sati
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by bartread 7mo ago
I don't mind you testing stuff out - it's the only sensible way to make the app better - but you need to give people choices to switch to different behaviours if the behaviour you're testing on them isn't working out wel
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by bartread 7mo ago
There’s more than a bit of irony in the author complaining about A/B testing and then, because they’re getting a lot of traffic and attention on HN, removing key content that was originally in their piece so some of us have seen it but
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by bartread 7mo ago
> here are a lot of unsafe edges to TS And one of its many problems is that it tries quite hard to pass itself off as not having those unsafe edges which, ironically, makes it easier to get tripped up by them.
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by bartread 7mo ago
> the problems it did flag mostly would be caught by minimal testing Yeah, I agree, and the thing is, you're going to write automated tests whether you're developing in JavaScript or TypeScript so the extra cruft of TypeScript
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by bartread 7mo ago
Are you finding this happens even in “Plan Mode”?
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by bartread 7mo ago
> Either you are using the wrong vocabulary or I don't think you've bothered to actually learn Typescript. All right, fine: TypeScript uses structural typing which is if you like a specialisation of duck typing but, whatever, c
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by bartread 7mo ago
I've just started using RoR for a live greenfield project since New Year. Honestly, breath of fresh air. It's the closest I've come to that old school "in the box" desktop development experience you used to get from
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by bartread 7mo ago
> Instead of firing 1600 people, why not have all of them use AI to produce more stuff and outrun their competitors. Alternative take: I can't speak for BitBucket because I've never used it, but I've had enough time with J
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by bartread 7mo ago
There is something to be said for your written constitution though: having the fundamental principles on which your nation is founded enshrined in that way should, at least in theory, make it a lot easier to settle arguments (though in prac
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by bartread 7mo ago
I had a series of two XPS laptops in my last corporate job, finishing two years ago. My uncle has also had one of them that passed on to me when he died. I can't speak for the other series you mention, but the XPS series is complete ga
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by bartread 7mo ago
> taking up 99% of a single core while being riddled with security holes. And don't forget significantly shortening the usable battery life. Windows 11 and the crapware it typically ships with are all very hard on battery life, and
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by bartread 7mo ago
If you want to know more about the history of Pergamon Press there's a great Behind the Bastards episode on Robert Maxwell (Ghislaine Maxwell's father) - who himself was a scumbag in a variety of ways that were entirely distinct f
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by bartread 7mo ago
I don't know about down but I use the VS Code extension on a Pro plan (that I'm considering upgrading from) and it's been slower than molasses flowing uphill in winter for me this afternoon. I'm (a) feeling unwell, and (
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by bartread 7mo ago
> It's starting to become obvious that if you can't effectively use AI to build systems it is a skill issue. I think it's fair to say that you can get a long way with Claude very quickly if you're an individual or par
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by bartread 7mo ago
Same age, same situation. I got completely fed up of continually having to learn new incantations to do the same shit I’ve been doing for decades without enough of a value add on top. I know what I want to build, and I know how to architect
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by bartread 7mo ago
I dunno: I think SMB 3 gets plenty of plaudits and is widely agreed to be the best SMB on the NES. Frankly, all three of the NES games hold up well even today, but 3 is for me the pinnacle even though very late in the life of the console, p
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by bartread 7mo ago
This is such a stale take. In the past 3 years I’ve worked on multiple products with AI at their core, not as some add-on. Just because the corpo-land dullards[0] can’t execute on anything more complex than shoehorning a chatbot into their
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by bartread 7mo ago
> Classic procedural generation is noteworthy here as a precedent, which gamers were already familiar with, because by and large it has failed to deliver. Yes, this is a wildly uneducated perspective. Procedural generation has often been
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by bartread 7mo ago
> installation procedure that requires a fecal sample and iris scan Do you work for Microsoft or something? Please do do not give them ideas.
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by bartread 7mo ago
Any competent product leader will look far beyond the bounds of their official support channels for useful feedback.
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by bartread 7mo ago
I think the interesting larger observation here is the perhaps both Microsoft and Apple peaked in their usability design between the mid-90s and late-aughts (I think Apple stayed at their peak for longer, particularly when you start thinkin
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by bartread 7mo ago
Yeah, same queries. Results are (mostly) much better with Google. It's honestly disappointing because I'd love to be able to ditch Google as a search engine but, whilst it's not without its flaws, it's still much better
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by bartread 7mo ago
Same experience with DuckDuckGo. I've probably been using it as my primary search engine for, well, I'm not absolutely sure, but I want to say it was sometime during the pandemic so that must be, what, 5 years? Honestly, it's
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by bartread 7mo ago
Ah, no, come on, man: at least make it y2k. I need to be able to play UT99 and Q3A at (at least) 1024 x 768 and 24-bit colour with no frame drops. But, otherwise, I'm onboard with the principle.
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by bartread 7mo ago
What you're saying is sort of fair. It's 4 clicks from https://www.gov.uk/eta to get to the beginning of the online application process: 1. The first hyperlink in the Overview section takes you to this page: http
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by bartread 7mo ago
I also properly hate this guy's website. Too much clicking around and exploring to find good, in focus, photographs of examples of his work. Maybe I should blame OP for not submitting a page with examples of the work but, whatever, I
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by bartread 7mo ago
Yeah, that's not how zero hour contracts work. In practice zero hour contracts mean that if a company wants you to work you often need to work because if you don't they can simply not give you any more hours in future. I.e., the b
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by bartread 7mo ago
Very, very cool. In a similar vein, somebody posted a version of the old timecard clocks from BBC and ABC channels in the 70s and early 80s that they'd built: https://www.mubd.net.au/tv-history/tv-clocks.html#bbc1-

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