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LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development(honeycomb.io)
2 points by japhyr 3y ago|0 comments
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The Intern and the Coach(ignorance.ai)
1 points by japhyr 3y ago|0 comments
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by japhyr 3y ago
Many beginners do start at python.org. However, if you don't know anything about programming, and you don't know someone who can answer all the little questions that come up, it's really hard to learn from documentation alo
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by japhyr 3y ago
I'm the author of Python Crash Course , the best selling introductory Python book for some time now. Years ago, someone put out a book listing two authors: Mark Matthes and Eric Lutz. That's just a simple juxtaposition of my name
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by japhyr 3y ago
It'll be interesting to see where this goes. Amazon has had ML-generated garbage books for years now, and I assume they haven't taken them down because they make money even when they sell garbage. Maybe there's so much garb
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Transitioning Out of the “Beginner” Mindset(mostlypython.substack.com)
1 points by japhyr 3y ago|0 comments
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by japhyr 3y ago
> Price should be the maximum the market can afford while still beating ones competition. This is such a frustrating perspective. I have so much respect for people who build projects and companies with a profit margin that lets them earn
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by japhyr 3y ago
Climate change is an unintended effect of roughly two centuries of growth and development. It seems much easier to have unintended effects, than to get exactly the effects you want with from a global geoengineering campaign on the first try
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by japhyr 3y ago
Clickable links: Original photo: https://imgur.com/a/hRbScMw Google groups discussion: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.vms/c/Od9TG7fnyQc
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Ask HN: Did anyone work at DEC in Nashua in the 80s?
6 points by japhyr 3y ago|3 comments
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by japhyr 3y ago
Thank you for not considering ad spam. I know some people whose work I respect, who have the worst ads on their sites. I'm going to make time to ask them if they're getting paid well for those terrible ads, and if they're awa
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Don't Start with Unit Tests(mostlypython.substack.com)
3 points by japhyr 3y ago|1 comments
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Go Face Bears(mostlypython.substack.com)
1 points by japhyr 3y ago|0 comments
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by japhyr 3y ago
Read-only is definitely an interesting and compelling idea.
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by japhyr 3y ago
How much do you need a laptop? I had a similar setup for a long time, and when I finally upgraded I went with a studio and two monitors. I kept my old laptop for travel, and it keeps up reasonably because I don’t tend to have as many projec
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Reading Code(mostlypython.substack.com)
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by japhyr 3y ago
Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Kernighan was a good quick read. It's probably more history than technical information, however the material that's presented is still in use across many unix-based systems. I came away from this b
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by japhyr 3y ago
They wrote about "places where the ecosystem is not quite as mature", and then referenced interacting with cloud services. I read that as alluding to the rapid development and instability of some cloud services. I've written
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by japhyr 3y ago
> Places where the ecosystem is not quite as mature. If you're building a server and have to interact with Cloud services in Haskell, you'll have a bad time. Why does a server that interacts with cloud services not fit well wit
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by japhyr 3y ago
I would love to know how other HN parents are thinking about postsecondary education for your kids. I started undergrad in 1990, and I have a 12yo now. I understand financial planning, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around
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by japhyr 3y ago
Did the order of actions in the row of links change as well? Right now `flag` is between the timestamp and `hide`, neither of which I ever click on for a story. I wonder if it used to be next to something I (and many others) clicked more of
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by japhyr 3y ago
The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans always comes up in these threads. I've read through it a couple times over the years, and probably will again at some point. https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-resc
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by japhyr 3y ago
> Why is it more likely that it immediately imploded rather than after a few days? Weren't there a lot of boats and other resources listening once it was reported missing? It's one thing for the tender to not hear an implosion
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by japhyr 3y ago
Charlie Guo - Artificial Ignorance. I don't have time to keep up with everything going on in the AI world, and Charlie's writeups each week keep me up to date enough to not feel lost. Shameless plug, I write Mostly Python, so I re
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by japhyr 3y ago
I would love to know the conversion rate that resulted from that test, it must have been absolutely abysmal.
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In a geologic triumph, scientists drill a window into Earth’s mantle(washingtonpost.com)
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by japhyr 3y ago
I've been a casual birder for a couple years now. I've been hearing about the Merlin app for a while, but never installed it until this past week. It has profoundly changed my experience of looking for birds. If you're unfami
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You don't need to remember everything(mostlypython.substack.com)
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by japhyr 3y ago
Hi Cory, this was a fantastic writeup! Your explanation of the value of generating a codebase for people instead of having them use a project template is compelling; it articulates that aversion I've always felt towards large templated
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Can Your Site Handle Going Viral?(lincolnloop.com)
4 points by japhyr 3y ago|2 comments

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