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eBay Modernized the Most Important Page on Our Platform(tech.ebayinc.com)
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How Saudi money returned to Silicon Valley(vox.com)
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I've been working on django-simple-deploy, a platform-agnostic tool for automating initial Django deployments. It has preliminary support for three platforms: Platform.sh, Fly.io, and Heroku. I sprinted on it at PyCon, and it was good
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The Value of “Small” Contributions(mostlypython.substack.com)
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by japhyr 4y ago
I think you have to update the app today to get access to Notes.
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I'm looking forward to trying this, but the app crashed after posting my first reply to someone. Busy day for Substack engineers, I imagine!
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If you read through some of the other parts of the thread, there are stories where they fired competent people as soon as they called attention to these kinds of issues.
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Turing Tumble is fantastic: https://upperstory.com/turingtumble/ Also echo another comment that some electronics are more dangerous to disassemble than others. For example cameras with flashes can have capacitors that
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What language are you using? Maybe we can point you to some example projects. Do you have a decent test suite set up? With a reasonable test suite and version control, you're free to start restructuring your project.
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I would guess that a higher proportion of HNers have had a chance to work with GPT-4 than the general population has. Most people are still basing their takes about AI either on something like GPT-3, or just what they're hearing in the
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I was just working on a small exploratory project in Python. I used sys.argv because it's so quick to prototype with. When I started refining the project for longer term development, I wanted to convert the CLI to use argparse, so I co
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Grounding yourself as a programmer in the AI era(mostlypython.substack.com)
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Yes, I went into all of this thinking the tools need to handle complex code in order to really be useful. But that's the code I want to be most careful about, so it's the code I really want to architect myself, and understand thor
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One thing OpenAI has said publicly is that AI should be rolled out incrementally, to give people time to make sense of it, and see what we all do with it. It's tempted to cynically look at that as thinly veiled marketing, but even if i
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As a math teacher, this is such a funny comparison to keep reading. Yes, there's a difference between a deterministic outcome and a non-deterministic one. But throw humans into the loop, and it becomes more interesting. I can't co
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No need to hate on you for a valid response. I think we're in a new enough situation that we can look beyond what's legal in a license. When many of us started working on open source projects, AI was a far-off concept. Speaking fo
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That's certainly an interesting question, that I don't have a direct answer to. But I'm curious about your thoughts on this: > Do APIs need a more restrictive permissions model? How would you make a distinction between my
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I first learned programming in the early 80s, but never took it too seriously until the mid 2000s. I first learned Python at a time when I thought I'd do most of my serious work in Java. That was a time when Python was rarely someone&#
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I'm writing on Substack now, because I really like the ecosystem at this point. But I'm also well aware that they could tank it like Medium did, or close up shop at any point. So I have a recurring task in my issue tracker to make
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Ask HN: How chatty are you with GPT? (when working)
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Unix: A History and a Memoir by Kernighan is really good. There's a lot of fun historical information and anecdotes. But, since our modern systems still have a lot of Unix ideas at their roots, I also came away with a better understa
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If you're just getting started with documentation, this is a great resource: https://diataxis.fr The structure described there helps people avoid creating docs that mix the different use cases we all have for seeking out do
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That doesn't require a repeal of the second amendment. That just requires a willingness to interpret the full text of the amendment, instead of focusing only on the last four words. School shootings are far down the list as far as fata
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I think they meant that Twitter developers can make sure their most recent changes won't get them fired by lowering his visibility.
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> and any website serving as a wrapper over it I agree this would be a good move, but it's going to be harder and harder to do that definitively.
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I have a few different ways of marking up a text. In one approach, I make a small vertical line in the margin next to a line I find significant. Sometimes that vertical line extends down a few lines to mark a longer passage. If it's re
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Ask HN: How will AI tools affect your participation in open source?
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How did it work out for him?
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I think the people who can code well and write good technical documentation are going to transition well into the fully AI-assisted world. So much of what I'm seeing involves not so much the ability to code well, but the ability to wri
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Improving code blocks in Substack newsletters(mostlypython.substack.com)
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