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by dgb23 1y ago
Gamified learning apps, in a broad sense, seem to be very effective for _practice_.
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There's also a standard to turn XML into HTML via XSLT.
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That depends on how the power structure are set up and whether the people have more direct control over legislation via votes.
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I don't think the extreme right is pushing this. They are typically anti-EU. I speculate that this is a result of centrist/neoliberal establishment wanting to solidify control. The extreme right is typically using failures like th
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More generally it's concentration of power. It's far more difficult to do these kinds of things when people have the direct vote.
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My hunch is that to exploit LLMs one should lean on data driven code more. LLMs seem to have a very easy time to generate data literals. Then it's far less of an issue to write in a niche language. Not familiar with Elixir but I assume
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There's something fundamentally different between writing the program directly that you visualize in your head versus staying one level away and reviewing someone else's code. I'm really talking about the former.
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I like "doom prompting", it feels exactly like that! One effective use of these tools is to get past the blank page dread. Let it write _something_ to get going, then turn it off and start working. Recognizing where this cutoff sh
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> For a good 12 hours, over the course of 1 1/2 days, I tried to prompt it such that it yields what we needed. Eventually, I noticed that my prompts converged more and more to be almost the code I wanted. After still not getting a w
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I want to add something to this which is rarely discussed. I personally value focus and flow extremely highly when I'm programming. Code assistance often breaks and prevents that in subtle ways. Which is why I've been turning it o
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An excellent way to position yourself towards an open source alternative. Everything they do seems to be grounded in an engineering mindset and with respect to users.
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I've used React in the past to build some applications and components. Not familiar with RSC. What immediately comes to mind is using a uniform recursive tree instead, where each node has the same fields. In a funny way that would mimi
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I hear you. A good friend of mine is a cleaner. She has the work ethic of a draft horse and takes pride in being meticulous and going the extra mile in a timely manner. Happy clients are of utmost importance for her and she cherishes the on
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The times we just operate on patterns is when we code boilerplate or just very commonly written code. There's value in speeding this up and LLMs help here. But generally speaking I don't experience programming like that most of th
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I don't 100% understand. Do they really just look at search engine stats? https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_defin... That seems like it's a potentially interesting signal, but the index i
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It doesn't surprise me at all. Idiomatic Go leans on value types, simple loops and conditionals, gives you just enough tools to avoid unnecessary allocations, doesn't default to passing around pointers for everything, gives you mo
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I found that effect disturbing and distracting. It's rendered in a canvas element that you can delete via the inspector.
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My worldview is materialist and deterministic in principle. But day to day I'm an existentialist with a touch of spiritualism. To me, a fairly pragmatic way of characterizing these tools day to day is to anthropomorphize them. One bene
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Why is producing all that waste and complexity necessary in the first place? We often get distracted by benefits and forget to look at the costs. And we often overdo things to a degree where previous wisdom has to be re-discovered again and
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With the risk of giving you a non-answer: In my personal experience there’s no substitute to building relationships if you’re an individual or small company looking for contract/freelance work. It starts slow, but when you’re doing goo
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by dgb23 1y ago
I think that's just in the nature of these tools. They are better at doing things you can't do (most of the things), but worse at the things you can do (very few things). Ex: If you're a lazy typist like most, then a code ass
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Some challenges as an autodidact: - Some people assume you lack theoretical/foundational knowledge. - Guidance/mentorship is harder to come by. - You’re likely learning on your free time while working. Quality time is hard to carv
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by dgb23 1y ago
That sounds like an extremely useful insight that makes this kind of research even more valuable.
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That sounds very careless. Not only does this break an obviously deliberate feature, it also violates the robustness principle. Whether one likes it or not, it’s a guiding principle for the web. Most importantly this „fix“ was bad for its u
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Interesting take. On the topic of work ethic: If we measure it via labor participation rate then EU and US are similar with some countries being lower and others being higher than the US in that regard. Switzerland as an example is quite a
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An interesting and useful perspective. There seem to be a lot of parallels with Switzerland in that regard.
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Point 1 sounds interesting but I can't comment on it, because I don't remember ever having encountered it. Point 2: One of the most important techniques as a self-taught programmer is to develop an instinct for "foundational
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Frontend development is time consuming and difficult because it's often inherently stateful, there is typically a tension between aesthetic and functional dimensions and you're interfacing with people, who are unpredictable and va
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Standardization is definitely important for foundational protocols and APIs. However, I‘m glad SWE isn’t standardized to the degree you describe. It’s a field full of fads, deliberate inefficiencies and grandiose claims on shaky grounds. It
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Plain data is really convenient for testing though. I think the reason that your example is so useful is not generally because of testing, but because the thing you're interacting with has operational semantics. It's a good use ca

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