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Anthropic Model Scare Sparks Urgent Bessent, Powell Warning to Bank CEOs(bloomberg.com)
5 points by jmcdonald-ut 6mo ago|0 comments
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Trump Moves to Make Tech Giants Pay for Surging Power Costs(bloomberg.com)
7 points by jmcdonald-ut 9mo ago|2 comments
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by jmcdonald-ut 2y ago
The article links out to OpenAI's advice on prompting, but it also claims: OpenAI does publish advice on prompting o1, but we find it incomplete, and in a sense you can view this article as a “Missing Manual” to lived
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by jmcdonald-ut 10y ago
I'm not sure what this comment is trying to insinuate? I mean sure they might have a financial interest, but they're also writing about stuff they know well since they use it.
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by jmcdonald-ut 10y ago
I'll add my two cents on top of the author's. I have both the Amazon Echo and the Amazon Tap. This article was spot on. I'm perhaps less forgiving than the author. If Alexa can't answer a question on the first try I&#x27
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by jmcdonald-ut 11y ago
I got to take Matt's compilers course. He was a really exceptional professor who had a way of presenting pretty mundane and rigorous material in an interesting way. His lectures were always engaging. If your interested in understand
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by jmcdonald-ut 11y ago
He addresses this in his post. if x.in? my_set # very ugly With that said, I personally don't agree with the post.
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Three indicted in U.S. over big JPMorgan hacking(reuters.com)
3 points by jmcdonald-ut 11y ago|0 comments
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by jmcdonald-ut 11y ago
Thank you for this quote. I often think that this gets overlooked in our industry, and I'm no exception. A recent Hanselminutes podcast[1] touched on this. It pointed to a great resource[2]. 1. http://hanselminutes.com&#x
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by jmcdonald-ut 12y ago
I'm a current CS student, finishing this year. I work with both people who are self taught and people who have degrees. I think pretty highly of those I work with who are self taught. All in all the differences are minimal when gett
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by jmcdonald-ut 12y ago
Heh, not so complicated. It's just used to generate boiler plate code. Kind of like data object files in C#, Java, PHP, etc. That would be really cool though :).
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by jmcdonald-ut 12y ago
This was a really cool read :). I'm working on my own DSL for generating code. I'll make a Show HN soon, but it was really cool to see someone else doing something so similar.
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by jmcdonald-ut 12y ago
I'm taking the class this upcoming semester from Matt. I'm excited to understand what tools like gcc, clang, and so on are doing under the hood.
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by jmcdonald-ut 12y ago
I agree with the idea of motivation. An anecdote for the OP: In the past when trying to workout it would generally go something like this: * Immediate motivation, go strong for 1-3 weeks. * Work or lack of interest interferes with workout
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by jmcdonald-ut 13y ago
We should always remember to not think in black and white. My first complaint to the article is that it paints a framework as a universal hammer that tries to do many things. This simply isn't a fair comparison. I am not a builder, s
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by jmcdonald-ut 13y ago
The belief that the future will be this dark and gloomy place where one struggles to find work is understandable. Certainly there are things that can indicate this is right. Manufacturing is becoming more heavily automated for example. I
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by jmcdonald-ut 13y ago
Is there a reason why the author is referring to them as fat arrow functions instead of lambdas? I am not trying to be snarky, this is genuine curiosity if there is something differentiating.
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by jmcdonald-ut 13y ago
Note that this post is in context of building a web application. Learning how to build a web application from scratch is not an easy undertaking. Certainly there is the actual task of learning how to program from the ground up that is chal
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by jmcdonald-ut 13y ago
Non techies that I know hear 64 bit and immediately think that it's better. When friends show me a new lap top or whatever else, they say it's 64 bit. When they're shopping they ask if something is 64 bit. They don't
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by jmcdonald-ut 13y ago
I use it by choice. My desktop has both Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows 8, and I love both operating systems. My work computer is loaded with OS X, which I also love. Perhaps I'm a techie, but I think that a lot of the hate we see with Wind
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by jmcdonald-ut 13y ago
That's a great question that I don't have the answer to. I have done some development work for a Shopify site recently. As I recall Shopify's default inventory system would likely be limited for a company with multiple loca
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by jmcdonald-ut 13y ago
The one key advantage that Shopify has, as I see it, is that merchants who use Shopify already have their inventory loaded into the system. Synchronizing their online stock and physical stock now has little barrier to entry beyond the cost
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by jmcdonald-ut 13y ago
I'm sure there are counter points to what I'm about to bring up, but three observations: 1. In my experience JSON is frequently output programmatically, and taken in programmatically. Comments are not useful in these cases. 2.
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by jmcdonald-ut 13y ago
I worked at eBay customer service back in the day, and this was exactly how it worked. In fact, they had automated call statistics not surprisingly. If you had calls within the average handle time (AHT), and high satisfaction and resoluti
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by jmcdonald-ut 13y ago
I don't think most newbies can dedicate 10 hours a day, seven days a week for six months either. When I first started programming it was hard to sit still for more than an hour and remain focused. Really in the end her time elapsed o
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by jmcdonald-ut 13y ago
I don't know the specifics, but perhaps the company's target market isn't hackers in the true sense of the word. Example: many people are "techies" but when you push their knowledge a bit further most of what they
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by jmcdonald-ut 13y ago
I read through the article pretty quickly, so forgive me if I missed something, but what qualifies as a click? Do "Likes" count as a click (for example)?
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by jmcdonald-ut 13y ago
How did Java fail? Java servlets are still very much so in use. This is for back end code, and I can certainly see this being useful. Edited to add that they mention that this won't satisfy every use case, and also what use cases the
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by jmcdonald-ut 13y ago
As a student almost done with school something that I've noticed or watched is that a lot of CS students tend to get egos at a certain point about their work, myself included. I recall from my experience that I did group work with a g
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by jmcdonald-ut 13y ago
This isn't true. Once you have tens of thousands of records, a poorly written algorithm or data structure is going to lead to O(n^2) behavior. That hurts. Even small sites can hit this amount of database records with ease.

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