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by gregjor 2y ago
I was pointing out that people can end up with similar superficial features without common heritage. I doubt anyone considers Indonesians and Brazilians the same race, but then again I’m pretty sure a large number of Americans would call bo
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by gregjor 2y ago
We do have a name for it: foreigner. Meaning not from around here, and ancestors not from around here either. In a homogenous population like Japanese the distinction seems trivial to observe. In Europe or the USA, with more heterogenous po
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by gregjor 2y ago
A good explanation of how and why specific combinations of genes get concentrated in relatively isolated populations. What we call “race” historically got based on superficial features, not analysis of similarities in DNA. It turns out that
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by gregjor 2y ago
Most of the social media companies are scraping everything to train their LLMs. I think we’ll see some court decisions soon regarding legality. Some of the social platforms have APIs you can pay to access. Some have aggressive anti-scraping
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by gregjor 2y ago
In the business since the late ‘70s. Two crashes, two AI winters, offshoring scares, 4GLs… seen it all, never lived up to the hype. jobs come back because software needs expand like gas. Even if AI takes over most new development in two yea
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by gregjor 2y ago
A self-serving claim like all of the others about AI from people heavily invested in promoting it. Currently “AI” can do maybe 2% of what a reasonably skilled programmer can do. I doubt the horizon sits just a few years away. I’d like to gi
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by gregjor 2y ago
Possibly useful. Free, no ads, pop-ups, affiliate links. https://typicalprogrammer.com/how-to-start-freelancing-and-g... Something to keep in mind: When I talk to potential customers the one thing I hear over and over, from
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by gregjor 2y ago
Data centers. And fraud.
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by gregjor 2y ago
We can agree that some code bases and developer environments seem better than others. We don’t always have control over that. The OP described naming things consistently so you don’t have Invoice and customer_inv etc. scattered around refer
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by gregjor 2y ago
I read the original article differently. Writing code in a way that makes it easier to search doesn’t mean not using an IDE, tests, etc. It doesn’t mean not using an LSP or ctags to find symbols. It just adds to the overall consistency and
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by gregjor 2y ago
I used Google: marketing CITY, web design CITY, custom software CITY, computer support CITY. Substitute your own city. Then I found names of the principals on their web sites and called and emailed offering my services. Got multiple leads t
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by gregjor 2y ago
In theory the AI can just hallucinate the output of the program, cutting out the programming altogether. That will work for companies that already use spreadsheets and McKinsey consultants.
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by gregjor 2y ago
I haven't tried to get a big loan but I haven't had any problem buying a car, renting an apartment, or getting credit cards since I started freelancing. Worst case they ask to see a few years of tax returns. Deel shows off their c
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by gregjor 2y ago
I hope FSD and Optimus happen before the rapture.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Yep. Ongoing problem for decades. And now with “AI” to make it more ridiculous. I look forward to retiring soon and never looking at code again.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Reframe a bit. Self employment describes running a business that employs you. It’s does not describe an identity, something you can “be.” I know that seems pedantic but experience tells me that language matters. Think in terms of what you
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by gregjor 2y ago
In Uncle Bob’s case the goal is publishing more books and getting more speaking engagements. Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. And those who can’t teach flog books at conferences. (Apologies to Woody Allen, and gym teachers.) If an
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by gregjor 2y ago
What’s wrong with freelancing? A pile of employment and tax issues go away for potential customers (employers) when you freelance. Less friction. I don’t think you ask the right question. Instead of “Which companies hire remotely?” ask “How
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by gregjor 2y ago
> experienced engineers who are stubborn and refuse to use tools made after 1990 for some reason. Before calling people stubborn or assuming they got left behind out of ignorance, consider your assumptions. 40+ years experience, senior i
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by gregjor 2y ago
My usual programming toolbox includes vim, ctags, bash, rg (or grep if I have to), sed, awk, tmux (or screen), git, and usually a CLI for one of MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis. The only vim plugins I like to have: ctrlp (file fuzzy finder
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by gregjor 2y ago
OP didn’t give enough details. PHP has a built-in web server good enough for development. Go can serve HTTP without Apache or nginx as well. sqlite runs in-process, no need for a database server. No need for varnish or containers for a “lig
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by gregjor 2y ago
Substitute "astrology" or "flat earth" for "dream interpretation" and you can see the problem with your argument. Lots of people believe in it, ChatGPT likely trained on plenty of "authoritative" sour
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by gregjor 2y ago
At the time, in the context of other software development environments (like submitting decks of punch cards) the HP 2000 timeshared BASIC environment would count as an IDE. Compared to Turbo Pascal or any modern IDE it falls short. HP TSB
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by gregjor 2y ago
Me too -- in Portland, Cleveland HS, mid-70s. The HP 2000 [1] had a timeshared BASIC system that the school district made available to schools, over ASR-33 teletypes with dial-up modems. The BASIC system could edit, run (translate to byte c
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by gregjor 2y ago
Freud and Jung both wrote about dream interpretation, but I wouldn't call their work "very well researched." What would research on the meaning of dreams even look like? Something more credible and rigorous than Freud's
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by gregjor 2y ago
Not no cost unless you have a spare computer sitting around. But a possibly low one-time cost.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Dream interpretation from an AI that can’t experience dreams. What will they think of next? I’ve seen LLMs used for astrology, “psychic” readings, and other non-scientific and pseudoscientific nonsense. Human credulousness seemingly has no
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by gregjor 2y ago
PHP with any of sqlite, MySQL, or Postgres. Those have almost no dev environment required other than vim/emacs and command-line tools (screen/tmux, ctags, rg/grep, sed, awk, etc.). I use Go with different database back-ends,
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by gregjor 2y ago
That’s more or less what I use it for — keeping sessions alive. I don’t use 90% of the features. vim does splits, and there’s ctrl-Z to background it and get a shell. I know I could get more out of tmux but haven’t really needed to. I use i
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by gregjor 2y ago
I guess I don’t see the problem as absurd. As a freelancer I need to focus on the problems the customer will pay for. I don’t write code for free or in my spare time anymore, I used to years ago. i feel comfortable working with the constrai

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