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by jolt42 1y ago
What is an example of artisanal software? ALL software can be copied.
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by jolt42 1y ago
It's just an emotional reaction. I don't hear anyone bemoaning the cotton gin.
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by jolt42 1y ago
ALL technology can be used for good or bad. It's the usage, not the invention.
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by jolt42 1y ago
That is odd, cursory looks at C# sure the hell looks like Java, certainly largely a blatant rip-off. Methinks you have feeling for Microsoft.
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by jolt42 1y ago
I'll go farther and say it's not even possibly. Our brain wants to categorize things to make things simple but unfortunately nothing is simple. I think of the Whalphin and it took Sea World era to discover. Who would see that comi
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by jolt42 1y ago
Programmers are notoriously bad about making estimates. Sure it sped something up 10x, but did you consider those 10 tries using AI that didn't pan out? You're not even breaking even, you are losing time.
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by jolt42 1y ago
I remember the first time seeing one unfold, I was like "wait, what?". Do that again. Big fan of the nub, would still use one if it was on my Macbook.
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by jolt42 1y ago
Both are clickbait both false, "man swims 6k to shore" versus "I solved the mystery".
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by jolt42 1y ago
I prefer the almost comical sounding word, logorrhea.
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by jolt42 1y ago
I wondered about this suction. Is he talking about the ship sinking as suction. Mythbusters demonstrated IIRC that this "suction" doesn't happen.
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by jolt42 1y ago
I understand 30,000 have died on the Great Lakes as a result of shipwrecks.
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by jolt42 1y ago
It's as inevitable as the cotton gin, which ironically I just saw some news on how the Chinese continue to improve it, which will be the same for AI.
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by jolt42 1y ago
Actually the birth of Human Factors was related to this... Alphonse Chapanis, a psychologist working at the Army Air Force Aero Medical Lab in 1942, investigated the issue and discovered a design flaw. He observed that the controls for the
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by jolt42 1y ago
100%. The needs of the client rule, and REST rarely meets the challenge. When I read the title, I was like "pfff", REST is crap to start with, why do I care?
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by jolt42 1y ago
Would you roughly say 100x more portable?
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by jolt42 1y ago
The only way to verify is open that sucker up and count.
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by jolt42 1y ago
Just another tool that can be used for good or bad.
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by jolt42 1y ago
why? if nuclear weapons got the green light, do you expect a different outcome?
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by jolt42 1y ago
Coupling and Cohesion likely has nothing to do with the language.
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by jolt42 1y ago
Lisps don't support OO, concurrency like Go, or type checking but you can write a DSLs for them. Not useful? How about a rules engine?
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by jolt42 1y ago
The limitation with regex is that's it's context free, whereas a regular grammar is simpler and more powerful IMO.
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by jolt42 1y ago
Because they are really really difficult to get right almost as difficult as building a new language. But when they work well they can be a real boost.
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by jolt42 1y ago
The discouragement of macros I think is a knee-jerk reaction. Build around data structures and functions first, and then use the thinnest macros around that can be quite maintainable.
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by jolt42 1y ago
"poor insulator", seems like an odd statement, but it's all relative I suppose. It's certainly better than the masonry or steel that this will replace. But if you take the air pockets out of it, then it's not going
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by jolt42 1y ago
IIRC, Microsoft was also charging Dell for a copy of Windows even if they didn't install it on the PC! And yeah OS/2 was ahead by miles.
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by jolt42 1y ago
> that kind of code is just too formulaic, transactional and often boring to do No offense, but that sounds like every programmer that hasn't done front-end development to me. Maybe for some class of front-ends (the same stuff that
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by jolt42 1y ago
As well as some-> (exit on null) and cond-> (with predicates) that are often handy.
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by jolt42 1y ago
Wish I hadn't been funding Intuit after using FreeTaxUSA this year. Maybe the import isn't as great, but I found it overall a bit more intuitive than TurboTax
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by jolt42 2y ago
Didn't Kurt Godel prove there will always be gaps?
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by jolt42 2y ago
I don't see it as a bigger leap than the internet itself. I recall needing books on my desk or a road trip to the local bookshop to find out coding answers. Stack Overflow beats AI most days, but the LLMs are another nice tool.

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