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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
You have it completely backwards; bad code can solve a problem. It may objectively work, even if it's bad because it's not maintainable, doesn't handle edge cases, etc. If you're one of the many shitty programmers employ
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
> I imagine this market will be disrupted by an AI-based app that costs much, much less (and only occasionally hallucinates that you look good in something that actually looks awful). GenAI can't even distinguish between "good&
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
average HN commenter: React is artificial complexity, you should be able to make any website using jQuery and plain HTML, because that's what I did when I last did front-end development in 2007. also average HN commenter: If you use Py
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
Whoops yes, got them mixed up. Same sentiment, though. Keep in mind your coworkers are the ones who passed the interview. How much hiring have you done? 199/200 of applicants not being able to code is probably an underestimate th
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
Spolsky's fizzbuzz article is the standard reference, but the reason it got so popular is that it resonated with anyone who's ever tried hiring a developer. It's not "tabs vs spaces"; there are just many people empl
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
This article specifically seems reasonable. There's still some very smart people at Google. Unfortunate that the culture eroded so much over the past 5-10 years and may be unrecoverable, though.
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
Low overall skill level in the populace is not the same as isolated competence. And in software, you really only need isolated competence. We've seen repeated examples in the West where a team of 10-20 highly competent engineers is abl
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
Let's say LLMs work exactly as advertised in this case: you go into the LLM, say "find corruption in these financial reports", and it comes back with some info about the mayor spending millions on overpriced contracts with a
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by hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
> The higher up you go in the corporate ladder, the easier your job is. Less stress, more respect, less hours. Decisions you make are hard to tie back to incompetence Curious how far you've gotten and where because this doesn't
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by hnthrowaway6543 3y ago
And that just goes to show you how context-sensitive and subjective the emotional quality of sounds and music is. Half the people watching that video get teary-eyed when hearing it :)
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by hnthrowaway6543 3y ago
> Another way to think about timbre is by comparing instruments. In an old stand-up bit, Steve Martin strummed the banjo and mused, “You just can’t sing a depressing song when you’re playing the banjo . . . You can’t just go, ‘Oh, death,
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by hnthrowaway6543 3y ago
Generally my stance with these forks born from community drama is "wait and see." Sometimes the fork will gain traction and become the de facto "true" version (see Hudson -> Jenkins). Sometimes the fork will flop and
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by hnthrowaway6543 3y ago
Tangential to the article since that was a voluntary departure, but this is absolutely happening, yes. My partner decided to get "into tech" in ~2018. Her reason more or less amounted to looking at me and determining "it&#x27
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by hnthrowaway6543 3y ago
> Apps are more transparent and equitable with how they expose profiles to other users. Don't bias toward highly liked people to increase perceived "quality" and shadow-hide show profiles that aren't liked often (and
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by hnthrowaway6543 3y ago
> And that creates a problem for the sellers of used cars that are actually good. These sellers are like, "What the heck?! I KNOW my car isn't a lemon! It's worth way more than what you're willing to pay!" And so
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by hnthrowaway6543 3y ago
Cancel mobs for stuff like this for Joe Average may have worked in 2018, but now are effectively over. It's equals parts a post-ZIRP cultural shift of companies no longer pretending to care about DEI, a post-Elon Twitter cultural shift
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by hnthrowaway6543 3y ago
> I would wager that most Chinese people fear racism and prejudism towards them more than Ma considering how common and politically popular Sinophobia has become again. I would wager that you are completely wrong for thinking this. Chine
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by hnthrowaway6543 3y ago
You're gatekeeping a lot here. I realize that some poly people are much more dedicated to the lifestyle and truly believe in being able to maintain multiple partners. But there's no way to distinguish between that and the "
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by hnthrowaway6543 3y ago
> How Did Polyamory Become So Popular? Housing prices. Seriously. Polyamory is on the rise, and divorces are at a 50-year low[0]. This isn't a coincidence. Where a couple would have divorced in the past, it now is financially infeas
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by hnthrowaway6543 3y ago
> Locking people up or making drugs illegal will change nothing but cause there to be more pain. Making drugs illegal and locking people up, or straight up executing them, is actually extremely effective at stopping drug addiction, as
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by hnthrowaway6543 3y ago
> For most who hold it, this position is backed by the person's religious beliefs. It is intolerant because the implementation of their position is, in effect, forcing others to abide by their religious beliefs. Is that not the case
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by hnthrowaway6543 3y ago
So by your own admission, what speech counts as "intolerance" is not universal and subject to interpretation. Could you explain who is responsible for deciding which views are considered intolerant, so that we know which speech we
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by hnthrowaway6543 3y ago
From the article: is "Abortion should be completely illegal" an intolerant view? I don't agree with the statement, but if someone agrees with that because they believe that life begins at conception and a fetus should have
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by hnthrowaway6543 3y ago
> Did anyone ever make a claim that master —> main was going to have a significant, direct impact on the fight against racism? Obviously, it's a step, It's not obvious at all. The music industry has been using the term &quot
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by hnthrowaway6543 3y ago
I'd like to think society will be less racist, misogynist and such in the future. But there will be scrutiny of the specific actions taken, because frankly, a lot of "anti-racist" behavior has been upper-middle class white pe