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by drob518 5mo ago
Cracks me up that a system “card” is 319 pages.
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Quite successful. Tech company.
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by drob518 5mo ago
Exactly. I’m trying out Obsidian this year. In Bending Spoon’s defense, they have been improving the app, particularly the sync, but I don’t care about many of the new features (e.g., AI stuff).
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by drob518 5mo ago
Yep, but now they’re jacking the pricing to the moon and everyone is starting to leave for other apps. I almost did it this year and probably will do it next year.
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by drob518 5mo ago
I’m totally triggered, but in the most ironic way. Or something like that.
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I had a friend who was CEO of a startup tell me that he typically only “worked” an hour a day, not because he was lazy but just because there was so much nonsense in his schedule. He told me he was trying to get it to two hours per day.
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by drob518 5mo ago
I’m curious when folks will tire of lighting money on fire. Companies are already starting to scale back a bit, but the AI companies are still nowhere near profitability.
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Teaching LLMs to one-shot complex back ends at scale(blog.redplanetlabs.com)
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by drob518 5mo ago
Yea, that’s sad.
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by drob518 5mo ago
The buzzwords are strong in this one.
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As an engineer, I have a lot of respect and admiration for the SpaceX and Blue Origin teams. All engineering is inherently difficult and even more so when you’re doing it on a big stage. On days when I made a mistake on a hardware design, I
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by drob518 5mo ago
Yep. I showed this to my wife, also an engineer, and her first response was, “oh, the buttons were so satisfying!” We both had HP calculators. I had a 15C that got me through high school and college engineering. I was sad when it finally di
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by drob518 5mo ago
> I personally find OOP to be the most intuitive for large scale systems design, but that's just me. At one point, I was the same. But after going functional in Clojure, I can’t imagine going back. Using maps nd just having common f
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by drob518 5mo ago
Exactly. Paredit for the win.
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by drob518 5mo ago
Yep, I know, but most Lisps do not have those declarations available and even in CL they aren’t used very often. But yes, they would help in CL.
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by drob518 5mo ago
Any Lisp will do. I had mine with CL and now use Clojure. Racket is great. I’ve never used Janet, but it looks great, too. Pick one. But make sure you engage with the community and ask about editors and tooling. Don’t just fire up VSCode an
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by drob518 5mo ago
Oh, absolutely size has a lot to do with it, too. A founder and three engineers can change the plan at lunch to respond to something they see in the market. It takes admin assistants days, possibly a week or two to get the meetings set up a
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by drob518 5mo ago
Game on, I’d say.
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Blast from the past.
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by drob518 5mo ago
LOL, indeed. Clojure is fun. I haven't used Janet, but I appreciate seeing some of the good ideas that it stole from Clojure (stealing being the sincerest form of flattery, and all that). IMO, one of Clojure's greatest gifts, abov
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by drob518 5mo ago
If there's one thing that I sometimes wish Lisp had, it's types. Most of the time, I don't need or even want them. But when you're doing a big refactor or changing the shape of your primary data structure, it would be ni
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by drob518 5mo ago
That's a very reasonable try. Your statements are not unfounded. If I may ask, what's your daily driver now and why do you favor it over Lisps?
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by drob518 5mo ago
You're right, it is a big assumption, but it's not unfounded. I've worked at F50 companies and founded my own startup. It's a lot easier to get two really great designers from the far right side of the bell curve when yo
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by drob518 5mo ago
Good point. I think you’re right. We need more rigor for the AI, which would actually help code generation, I suspect. Included batteries are for humans and AIs don’t need convenience.
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by drob518 5mo ago
Absolutely! But it’s also because they don’t really understand one of the things. It’s the Blub Paradox.
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by drob518 5mo ago
I’m convinced that the biggest threat to good UIs are the majority of professional UI designers. Think of it this way… Half of all UI designers are below the median. These people chose UI design as a career. You don’t advance your career by
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by drob518 5mo ago
Yep, the key phrase is “misuse of computing resources,” if I remember correctly. IANAL, however. That said, kudos for creativity.
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by drob518 5mo ago
Spot on. For me, it clicked with Common Lisp, 15 years after I graduated from university. Now, Clojure is my daily driver. And it’s extremely difficult to explain to people. I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t even try. You’re right abou
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by drob518 5mo ago
You don’t program in Lisp, do you? I used to be confused by the smug Lisp weenies. Now I am one. And the difficult thing I’ve found over the years is that Lisp is sort of unexplainable. You either “get it” or you don’t. Yes, it has macros,
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by drob518 5mo ago
Yea, I get it. You can always disable things. For whatever reason, F1 has always felt very Microsoftish to me (and yes, I know it’s back to IBM CUA). All that stuff came from that PC era when everyone was still mostly using DOS and had seri

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