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by jimbokun 7mo ago
Eliminating capitalism will not eliminate people trying to scam you or take advantage of you.
842.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
I’m pretty sure the writer included this and other details precisely so that readers would understand the ethics of this company.
843.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
You just made me wonder if REPL driven development and LLMs can be better combined somehow.
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
Most of those seem very subjective with many people having the exact opposite opinion.
845.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
I mean how else are you going to get people to drive long distances and buy more tires without giving them yummy destinations to eat at?
846.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
The data scientist is like in house lawyers in that respect.
847.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
Bugs and vulnerabilities are roughly linear to lines of code in a project.
848.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
I missed that, source?
849.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
Seems fair to me, responding to someone mocking people for caring about their craft.
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
Have you read the source for those products?
851.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
A company where it takes weeks and months to deploy a code change is not a company with a long term success horizon.
852.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
I believe a lot if large software companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Microsoft have very high quality code. Past a certain level of complexity, bad code will just collapse under the weight of its low quality.
853.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
The single line single character program, after a certain level of complexity, will no longer have the same behavior because it cannot be maintained. If it’s software that will never be modified, sure it doesn’t matter.
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
Funny how the biggest, most profitable software companies emphasize code quality.
855.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
Now imagine how much they would make if their software was good. Google, Facebook, Apple clearly care deeply about the quality of their code. They have to because bugs, bad performance, outages, vulnerabilities have very direct and immedia
856.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
With bad code it’s often almost impossible to improve the functionality or correctness or performance of the code, without first rewriting parts of it.
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
I would add to that for software that has scaled to the point that it needs to run in a distributed fashion, code quality will show up very quickly in dollars and sense. High latencies, outages, memory leaks, security vulnerabilities, will
858.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
Welp, nothing I can say is going to make a stronger argument than that.
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
Have you seen this? https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/
860.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
Yes, huge selling point in favor of Clojure!
861.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
So they are returning to 2015 headcount. (EDIT: or 2021)
862.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
I hadn’t realized their stock price has been cut in half over the past year.
863.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
Adding Smalltalk message passing as an extension to C was very clever and allowed writing very efficient code and dynamic high level UI code in a single language. The semantics were kept clear by the distinctive syntax of message passing.
864.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
About the same number as would fork an open source project. So not very many. But the possibility of doing so is invaluable.
865.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
Well yeah how can you compete with a programming language created by the 4th Doctor?
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
That can be very valuable.
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
Do you use search engines or do you just memorize all the world’s information?
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
No, this is the kind of thing LLMs are very good at. Knowing the specifics and details and minutiae about technologies, programming languages, etc.
869.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
Because it’s not totally clear from your comment: what part are you contributing in this process?
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by jimbokun 7mo ago
Or you could Ctrl-F.

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