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by johnfn 1y ago
Literally no one reads your code. No one! Not other engineers, not annoyed people on HN, not even people for whom it would probably be a pretty good idea. There is a common misconception that published code can build your portfolio; this is
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by johnfn 1y ago
I've seen this article every now and then, and it's always fun to read. Something jumped out at me this time, though: > As computer security expert Ben Laurie has stated, Sudoku is "a denial of service attack on human inte
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by johnfn 1y ago
Why are you repeatedly stating that the post is an ad as if it is some sort of dunk? Companies have blogs. Tech blogs often produce useful content. It is possible that an ad can both successfully promote the company and be useful to engin
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by johnfn 1y ago
The post is just about playing around with the tech for fun. Why does monetization come into it? It feels like saying you don't want to use Python because Astral, the company that makes uv, is operating at a loss. What?
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by johnfn 1y ago
This doesn’t seem obviously true. There’s a bell curve of how knowledgeable people are with tech and somehow people I spend time with end up in the tail end. There’s a bell curve of how much they like board games and I end up spending a lot
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by johnfn 1y ago
> if you have powder crumbs under your sink you might need to improve your technique. With a pod there is no technique to be improved. They just work, every single time.
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by johnfn 1y ago
This will be huge at the place I work! I’m unfamiliar with the PEP process. How long until this makes it into a Python version?
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by johnfn 1y ago
Does anyone else struggle with getting Claude to follow even the simplest commands in CLAUDE.md? I’ve completely give up on maintaining it because there’s a coin flip chance it disregards even the simplest instructions. For instance, (after
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by johnfn 1y ago
Controversial take, but have we considered that possibly dating apps dont suck, and that this perception is driven by a vocal minority of the people who have the worst experience on them? (A sad fact is that dating will just suck for some
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by johnfn 1y ago
Tangential from your point, but I don’t think this is a submarine article. This is just a single blogger. “Submarine article” typically refers to articles written by large news corporations (NYTimes eg) and incentivized by PR firms - none o
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by johnfn 1y ago
No? But there's a difference between knowing that (which is an obvious fact that anyone would agree with) and walking into your job one day and reminding them you're only there to get paid.
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by johnfn 1y ago
In your OP, your primary argument, as I read it, was that business is fundamentally a business transaction. When I pointed this out, you changed your argument to how there are other benefits to a job. My point is that if you go around and t
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by johnfn 1y ago
Let's not pretend that HN is full of blue collar workers. Most of us here are in software development and have options.
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by johnfn 1y ago
I mean, if I heard you say that, I would probably think you had a "bad attitude" as well. Yes, getting paid is an important part of your job, but presumably you could get paid at many different places, and you choose the one you w
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by johnfn 1y ago
Yes, or you do it on your drive back from work, and it takes 3 minutes.
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by johnfn 1y ago
As mostly a Python outsider, in the infrequent times that I do use python package management, uv just works. When I use pip I’d get all sorts of obscure error messages that I’d have to go track down, probably because I got some obscure envi
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by johnfn 1y ago
Ah yes, time for the daily article of the form "If you don't do <thing I frequently do>, you aren't <a good person>"
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by johnfn 1y ago
> Posting a question on SO and having it answered is interacting with people. I'm unsure how you could interpret that any other way. Yes, but a large percentage of people use SO without posting a question - e.g. an answer pops up in
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by johnfn 1y ago
I’m not sure if you can draw that conclusion. The clojure survey asks where users went to interact with other people who use Clojure. Who interacts with people on SO? I’m sure a vast majority just read the answer and move on. It makes sense
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by johnfn 1y ago
> Clojure is clearly a niche language, but Stack Overflow is also not a place that Clojure developers typically go, so Clojure usage there is going to be under reported. It seems unclear to me why Clojure developers would not go to Stack
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by johnfn 1y ago
Do you think ++foo + 1 parses as ++(foo + 1)? Despite what you say, this seems obvious to me.
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by johnfn 1y ago
Is this really a difficult precedence issue? It seems quite obvious to me that *foo + 1 parses as (*foo) + 1. One that has gotten me more than once in Python (I really don’t code Python that much) is “1 + 2 if True else 3”. I keep thinking
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by johnfn 1y ago
How was the task of building this project easier for them than it would now be for you or me? I feel like you are using the phrase “pulling up the ladder” in a way that doesn’t track with common usage.
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by johnfn 1y ago
That's not really a meaningful comparison, either. If you assume every engineer makes ~300K at Apple, perhaps a more meaningful comparison is "Apple loses ~7K engineers for 1 year", which seems a bit more than a slap on the w
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by johnfn 1y ago
Not only that, it provides all 3 components of CAP!
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by johnfn 1y ago
What ladder are they pulling up? Feel free to fork the last valid commit and make a competitor.
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by johnfn 1y ago
You’re getting downvoted because the amount of weight I place on your original comment is contingent on whether or not you’re actually using AI to do meaningful work ot not. Without clarifying what you’re doing, it’s impossible to distingui
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by johnfn 1y ago
Cursor?
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by johnfn 1y ago
I’d like to know any IDE that rivals Pycharm for Python autocomplete quality. (I am genuinely curious, because I would prefer not to use Pycharm.) My understanding is that Jetbrains rolled their own LSP and no one else has yet matched it in
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by johnfn 1y ago
Yes, why just hit tab for everything when you can memorize 50 context dependent keyboard shortcuts?

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