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by dack 2y ago
this is cool, but holy crap that's a lot of work for a seemingly-simple type of feature!
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by dack 2y ago
Man, I completely recoiled when reading this. I spent a bunch of time in my 20s and early 30s trying out different organizational systems but I realized I just don't care. I care about doing interesting things, not organizing them. Al
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by dack 2y ago
the distinction is rarely necessary in most discussions though, so if that's the intention, it's not all that helpful
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by dack 2y ago
i'm always super impressed by brett victor and highly admire his work. that said, I have to admit that it doesn't really feel "right" based on what I've seen. there's so many limitations to the physical world t
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by dack 3y ago
Seriously, just ask ChatGPT and tell it you are an experienced developer and don't need to be told the basics. It can then give you a helpful overview and get you oriented. then you can read code, docs or other detailed sources to deep
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by dack 3y ago
reminds me of unison in some ways. did that provide some inspiration?
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by dack 3y ago
There's no reason they can't have amazing documentation, but I imagine they don't because people are going to use the platform anyway. People are basically forced to use it because that's where so many of their customers
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by dack 3y ago
This is great for what it does, but I want a more generic LLM integration that can do this and everything else LLMs do. For example, one key stroke could be "complete this code", but other keystrokes could be: - send current buffe
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by dack 3y ago
Breaking backward compatibility should be reserved for extreme cases, and this doesn't sound like one. It's possible the way the author handled it was poor and caused part of the dispute, but I think the right thing would be to ma
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by dack 3y ago
I'm thinking through the ethics of this myself, but I think it's a reasonable argument that you can have the freedom to do what you want with things that you own _assuming you don't impact others_. The issue with a dangerous
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by dack 3y ago
I know about the developer who, instead of building their game, decides to build a game engine. But that appears to have not been enough for you - this appears to be a game meta-engine! :) It sounds like quite a technical achievement to ac
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by dack 3y ago
this is why users should just have their own relay and we should make it easy to do that
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by dack 3y ago
I think someone could say they are cold and ask for more blankets, and the owner could say they don't have any more blankets
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by dack 3y ago
even if you like the place, hard to beat lunch with the wife
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by dack 3y ago
> I am taking the author at his word that when he reports something as fact, he is not lying They aren't claiming that the author is lying, but that they might _still_ have the facts incorrect. For example, as you said, the woman wa
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by dack 3y ago
in a collaborative environment, it's rarely 30 seconds to make such a change though. usually you have to make a commit with message, make a PR, submit the PR and get someone to review it (many orgs require code review for every change
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by dack 3y ago
if you're going to "parse, don't validate" then the signature should probably be func validateUser(user UnvalidatedUser) (error, User) this way, you can't accidentally forget to validate your user before using it in
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by dack 3y ago
did they tell you they are not going to extend an offer, or just ghost you? makes me wonder if they somehow forgot about your negotiation or something? I've never heard of a company doing this so I am similarly baffled, and hope the jo
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by dack 3y ago
I love the way you approach this. you both get to stay as long as you want and build good will with the staff. by being polite, you're making everyone's life easier
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by dack 3y ago
i think it was really cool that you had a working demo of the first lesson right on the main page! I did `dd` and `i hello world!` and already started to feel invested even though I am an emacs user and don't really have a desire to l
51.
by dack 3y ago
i prefer not writing tests and just saying sorry if i ship a bug
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by dack 3y ago
Glad this wasn't just me - but we were going mad for a couple hours there not understanding what was going on... I still want to know what happened. It feels like a good excuse to get a new non-asus router barring any other explanation
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by dack 3y ago
i think you have the proportion backwards i think he is saying $1000 = 10 x (retail price of printer). which would mean the retail price of a printer is $100
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by dack 3y ago
I find it funny that everyone is bikeshedding the symmetry of the "arms" and the length of the "leg" on the logo in an attempt to be pixel-perfect with the original low-res image. While it's fine and funny to be doi
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by dack 3y ago
I'm just wondering if she wanted to quit but did this on purpose to get fired instead? i.e. severance pay?
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by dack 3y ago
you're missing the whole point of the post. and also oversimplifying the situation - "computers" and reality are blurring
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by dack 3y ago
I am probably misunderstanding the article, but as far as I can tell, the two ways discussed are "JSON API like almost everybody does" and "do server-side rendering and call it the API". Not to say it's wrong to do
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by dack 3y ago
can't read the article because the site timed out. maybe the code behind his blog is too clean!
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by dack 3y ago
This is true, but we also have to acknowledge that consistency is _fueled_ by something. Sometimes intensity helps us get over a psychological bump so that we see some initial progress and then want to keep going. So it's good advice,
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by dack 4y ago
curious why it bothers you so much that someone else has a taxonomy? they didn't say you have to adhere to it. your opinion to just call all of it programming is fine too! but it's just an opinion

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