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by dep_b 2y ago
Some websites are closed on Sundays because of religious reasons: https://www.babypark.nl/zondag/index-bp.html
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by dep_b 2y ago
These happen to be the Xcode and macOS-parts-not-copied-from-iOS teams?
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There's also the question of the amount of footgun you give to developers. While iOS is more performant than Android, Google gives Android developers much more guidance in best practices and patterns that help developers avoid issues a
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I'm using PHP includes and don't think I have any JS besides Matomo tracking. I just read that I can use <object> for those includes now, so I can drop another layer of complexity. The only thing I have is a blog post naviga
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That the particular word might not defined in the Freespeak dictionary issued by the Ministry of Liberty, possibly triggering Wokethink and thus should be labeled a Muricrime?
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by dep_b 2y ago
I only use social media for work and WhatsApp for staying in touch with people. WhatsApp is really the killer one that keeps me hooked into the Zuckertrump empire. Just not enough iPhones around me to use Messages, Signal use is very low ev
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by dep_b 2y ago
I remember trying to install Linux on a spare 386 with like 2MB of memory? Bought the SuSE book from the bookstore, tried to install it. Apparently the 2MB was not enough to expand the boot floppy, so I had to make a swap disk first. Everyt
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by dep_b 2y ago
The only solution is to get out there and meet actual people IRL. I call it a win-win situation. Until those get replaced by Androids as well.
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It's a blocked name on some LLM's
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Yamaha keyboards were top notch. I had a SY-85 with the nicest keyboard I've ever used for my purposes. Good feel, velocity sensitive but non weighted, fully polyphonic aftertouch.
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Maybe I just negotiated well in a good time to negotiate? But my teammates salaries were sometimes even better 90k top Amsterdam, 135k top at booking, and saw even higher than that for the same position
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Haha well I use to interview people while working there, I hope it wasn't for a mobile position?
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It’s being phased out quite aggressively there. Turned out they had such a bad reputation for tech debt thru couldn’t hire people despite paying +50% median Amsterdam developer salaries.
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Also Germans in general are more into alternatives like Firefox, Linux, etcetera as they have a healthy distrust to Big Tech. Even though if AMD is quite big itself it was more liked by a lot of enthousiasts there even when their performanc
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I'm actually surprised that _the others_ always think that the programmers somehow will make themselves obsolete first? If it gets cheaper to make software, more software will be made, until we reach the point again we're running
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by dep_b 2y ago
A quarter of all new code? Of course. Especially if you include all "smart autocomplete" code. When dealing with a fermenting pile of technical debt? I expect very little. LLM's don't have application-wide context yet. A
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I know how to find the context I need, being aided by the IDE and compiler. So yes, my context window contains all of the code in my project, even if it's not instantaneous. It's not that hard to have an idea of what code is defin
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by dep_b 2y ago
I’m looking at 150000 lines of Swift divided over some local packages and the main app, excluding external dependencies
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For me it's the same. It's usually just some hallucinated garbage. All of these LLM's don't have the full picture of my project. When I can give them isolated tasks like convert X to Y, create a foo that does bar it&#x27
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by dep_b 2y ago
A Flutter developer only sees the shitty parts of iOS and Android anyway. I imagine as a dumb carrier for Flutter Android is nicer.
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Used typed throws for a bit and I like them. I remember from long ago the Java implementation forcing me to catch them but in Swift it’s just a bit of extra compiler-enforced documentation about what and what not to expect in terms of error
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by dep_b 2y ago
"Tax avoidance schemes in The Netherlands" https://hn2.wilsonl.in/user/dep_b I guess that's why I still like posting anonymously?
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Sorry, the second one should be more like “Deekstra”
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It’s more like dye-kstra. But that would still be wrong. It’s a sound that doesn’t exist in English. Daikstra - you can pronounce this Dijkstra - a sound in between you cannot pronounce coming from English Diekstra - you can pronounce this
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by dep_b 2y ago
I showed my kid (also around that age) how you could have fun with PRINT statements in C64 BASIC. He really enjoyed it and just the idea alone that you could control the computer instead of it being a black box. Perhaps a website could be f
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The true death of desktop applications were system administrators and their draconian app policies. What do you want to do? Ask the eternally overworked BOFH of duty to go through the month-long approval process of deploying a superior desk
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But did you also take a shit in the cave? Could have been your ticket to immortality: “According to DNA analysis, the site seemed to be inhabited until the late 20th century at least. Their excrement seemed to be rich in nutrients, pointing
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The reason I’m faster than younger developers is that I go into the right direction immediately. If you present me with an unknown problem that requires deep concentration a younger version of me might stand more chance. I really suck at le
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It took Dijkstra an hour to come up with the Dijkstra algorithm. Why would you expect me to do better?
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Blogging since last year on my own site. Didn’t want any obstructions and something that loaded really fast, just hacked something together with PHP and static files. PHP is a great template language. So far I think it already led to some i

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