jantypas2

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Why I *will* pay for a coding AI
4 points by jantypas2 3y ago|1 comments
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by jantypas2 3y ago
In short, for free, let's try it out -- the short take: What it does do well, I threw programming prompts at it such as "Write me a function that takes a Golang struct, and convert it to Cobol (or Fotran, or X86 assembly), or &quo
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by jantypas2 3y ago
Yes, this does remind me of the Carterphone case I believe it was called, or Napster in some ways. Apple, and its typical arrogance, is ignoring these cases. Yes, legally, I could make a good case the Beeper is committing theft of of serv
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by jantypas2 3y ago
Of course, and as I recall, it had Perl code in it. Classic SciFi in the sense that you take reality, break one and only one rule, and see what happens as you move through time.
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by jantypas2 3y ago
A blast from the past, but you have no idea how jealous I was that the PC users had "Good Basic" but not the Apple. They could use "Real Pascal" -- I think that's what drove me to C. (Yes, I probably was one of thr
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by jantypas2 3y ago
Very cool -- shame I don't have a wall TV to just run it on. I was however, disappointed -- I saw it as a T-shirt brand "Particle Life" for physicists. The T-shirts would have slogans such as "After listening to you, I
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by jantypas2 3y ago
Well, I don't know how advanced I am (except in age). But I have found the best advanced training is the same as it was in college. No book makes up for the late night hours. I find other projects and offer to help -- there's a
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by jantypas2 3y ago
I don't know if I qualify for a CTO though people call me one (people have called me names since I was a kid but Mom always said to ignore them...) But let's tuck at that first word -- "Chief". In many cultures Chief m
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by jantypas2 3y ago
BASIC itself can't be defined -- which basic? Altair 4K, Apple ][+, Microsoft QuickBasic? Some BASICs are quite advanced, others not so much. Honestly, later versions of QuickBasic were worlds ahead of what I did on the Apple.
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Does anyone know a way to feed Kindle books to an AI
2 points by jantypas2 3y ago|1 comments
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by jantypas2 3y ago
Also, look at iVentoy. It's not free but it's not expensive, and it is "Ventoy over PXE boot". It takes a bit to set up, but I have it running on a Linux box and I can boot any machine from any image.
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by jantypas2 3y ago
Oh, agreed -- I am not suggesting one take the first job. I went through six months of interviews before taking this particular job. I am only saying, don't discard all jobs because they are not the job. Be open to new avenues. I
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by jantypas2 3y ago
Another candidate for the old-time stories would be Internet before the public Internet. Back then, as noted, we have several "nets" connected by everything from fixed circuits, to dial-up telephones (I still know where my Telebi
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by jantypas2 3y ago
No one's more old-timer than I am! I am the ultimate legacy system. Just ask my grandkids!
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by jantypas2 3y ago
Despite all the talk, believe it or not, there are still open positions -- I work for a large telecom in the Bay Area, and I'm told we have 8,000 unfilled positions. But let's drill down a bit -- what is gone is the insanity -- w
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by jantypas2 3y ago
Also, Jetbrains does not indicate if I can build my own "private AI" with just my materials -- companies are concerned about what the AI knows and doesn't know, and where it gets it -- can Jetbrains AI be constrained to just
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by jantypas2 3y ago
I love the idea of an AI assistant for coding -- the ability to check references on the fly, the ability to not have to sift from through Google and StackOverflow which aren't that useful these days, is a great idea. BUT at this pri
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by jantypas2 3y ago
Another item (HN won't let me post a long reply), is a programming environment called Onyx. (After my grandson in Africa, who has NO interest in it whatsoever as he intends to be a pilot -- but this is OK as, unless she works for Airb
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by jantypas2 3y ago
Well, a very long time ago, in a company funded far far away (and since defeated by the empire), I had the "joy" of working with Sendmail. For you youngsters, back then, back when we had dial telephones (tell us more Grandpa!), t
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by jantypas2 3y ago
That depends on what we mean by feature of course.... let's assume we mean concepts... here's my list: Believe it or not, Cobol's formatting for printed reports -- we still do print and formatted output worked well there.
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by jantypas2 3y ago
Absolutely it is -- your talking to a neuroscientist who did just that, sort of.... But it does help to take the classes. You can learn a lot of music theory in books, but until you play music in practice, you never get close. You can l
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by jantypas2 3y ago
There was another reason Usenet died -- people want other people to do the work. Oh, they'll pay for it to a degree, but Usenet wasn't plug-and-play. To make Usenet work, everyone had to cooperate and most people just don't
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by jantypas2 3y ago
Per the whoe whietspace idea -- techniaclly not a feature, just a policy statement. "This language has chosen manditory tabs at three spaces. It's not that this is better than anything else out there, but we gave you all a choic
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by jantypas2 3y ago
And now that I think about it, other than negative lifetimes, where variables reappear in code after a defined time because you might need them again, I propsoe the hidden segments feature -- with this feature, you can write code, and hide
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by jantypas2 3y ago
And of course, let's adopt Rust's logic with our new "Borrow Nagger", or just "Everything Nagger". When it compiles your code, it analyzes it, sends it out to a Reddit group and collects the comments and displ
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by jantypas2 3y ago
A correction on another comment -- this is not a multithreaded language -- it's transthreaded-- a radically new concept where your code may or may not, run code in your thread, or someoen else's thread, without your knowledge. Er
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by jantypas2 3y ago
Please no! Someone may try to actually use this in some corporate production model -- I can see the carnage now - the language, editors where you can write left to right, right to left, or even vertically with an exta cost plug-in, trainin
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by jantypas2 3y ago
No one hires for technical bullet points -- that used to be thing in the 90s where engineers had a page full of "I know this language/framework". We found it didn't really tell us anything -- the languages and framework
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by jantypas2 4y ago
It is also important to remember, languages are tools, not religions. I did a lot of Fortran work for scientific work, Pascal for desktop apps of the day, and C becuase, like today, there's very little hardware C can't get access
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by jantypas2 4y ago
I'm both amused and saddened. I still occasionally run into Fortran, Perl, Pascal you name it. I do more work in Golang, C++ or Scala these days, but I am always reminded that at once time, Pascal and C ruled. What is sad is that t

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