jwoq9118

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by jwoq9118 4mo ago
Relevant https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/nobody-gets-promoted...
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by jwoq9118 4mo ago
I'm not sure how you can believe that GitHub Copilot in VS Code is just a CLI interface when the former existed long before the CLI. It's not. For a certain amount of time, the two teams weren't even working together. The CLI
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by jwoq9118 5mo ago
It instantly made me think this was either written by AI or heavily edited, and I hadn't gotten that sense until the moment I saw load-bearing. I hate that em dashes have been killed by AI as well. Hundreds of years ago Charles Dickens
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by jwoq9118 6mo ago
The Databricks thing was a ploy. They then pushed Azure Synapse Analytics and forced all internal teams to stop using Azure Databricks. Synapse was half baked and then they are now pushing Microsoft Fabric which is even less baked.
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by jwoq9118 7mo ago
For GitHub to remain profitable they have to appease those shareholders you mentioned.
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by jwoq9118 7mo ago
It's hilarious to me how we are recreating decades of IDE advancements such that they work on the terminal, only for us to end up with what is essentially an IDE.
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by jwoq9118 7mo ago
Unrelated but your comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44736176 related to the Terminal agents coding craze have helped me feel less crazy. People using GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code, they either never rev
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by jwoq9118 8mo ago
And if software engineering has been solved by AI, why is Anthropic still hiring and employing SWE's? https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-code-founde...
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by jwoq9118 2y ago
I love this. The cognitive of understanding what this code does is super low, it solves the problem, presents no glaring performance issues, and isn’t trying to be cute.
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by jwoq9118 2y ago
I am writing this from a coffee shop where myself and others have gone well over 4 hours working. The business owners don’t care so long as you make purchases and don’t sit at a 10 person table for just yourself. I see people get a morning
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by jwoq9118 2y ago
I disagree with the silence bit. I am a frequent remote worker at coffee shops across the USA and people working have noise canceling headphones usually, I have never seen anyone demand silence in a coffee shop. Libraries are a different st
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by jwoq9118 2y ago
That plus Microsoft PoweToys (which inexplicably isn’t installed by default) are the only things that make Windows useable to me.
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by jwoq9118 2y ago
I am personally refreshed reading through the comments here and seeing a nuanced, rational response to the ad rather than the manufactured outrage you mentioned.
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by jwoq9118 2y ago
Agreed. Great article title, the article itself falls flat. This is the sort of title where I expected a quasi research paper with links to sources rather than just plain text references.
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by jwoq9118 2y ago
The level of writing isn’t up to snuff for what I think AI would generate. It’s rather…pedestrian.
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by jwoq9118 2y ago
After reading, I agree with im3w1l. The author did not do this subject justice. Its too short, makes some sweeping generalizations about the evolution of human culture, and never really dives deep into answer the “How” that it calls out in
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by jwoq9118 2y ago
About to start my read. What would you say he could’ve done better? Will revisit when Ive finished
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by jwoq9118 2y ago
> The biggest problem is that we have no idea how to value most of the work people do. I mean, we might know that what a developer should get paid for a year’s work, but how much is that work worth? The majority of the work done in moder
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by jwoq9118 2y ago
Enlighten me. Looking for some weekend reading.
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by jwoq9118 2y ago
Including X (formerly called Twitter)
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by jwoq9118 2y ago
Proud WashU grad here. Just happy to see us show up on Hacker News today.
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by jwoq9118 2y ago
Meta’s open source contributions stand on their own as great regardless of their obviously shady social media management and privacy tactics. The former are feats of software engineering, the later have a lot to do with things far beyond pr
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by jwoq9118 2y ago
The world at large seems to hate Zuck but it’s good to hear from people familiar with software engineering and who understand just how significant his contributions to open source and raising salaries have been through Facebook and now Meta
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by jwoq9118 2y ago
Recently introduced a friend to Desiring God. Changed their whole perspective on Christianity. Took things back to basics for them, here’s what Jesus actually said, here’s what the Bible actually teaches, no sensationalism, let’s calm down
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by jwoq9118 2y ago
Omnivore. Saves a copy using web archive. https://omnivore.app/
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by jwoq9118 2y ago
I am giddy seeing a link to Desiring God on HN. John Piper, good stuff.
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by jwoq9118 2y ago
Absolutely wonderful article that says things I have noticed and haven’t been able to properly explain to people. Many people weaponize science as a tool to defend their moral beliefs, arguing that anyone who disagrees with them is “literal
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by jwoq9118 2y ago
Same. Still climbing out. It’s been a decade for me, but that’s counting college where I was working to keep my family okay alongside school. Been a full time software engineer since 2020, still wading through debt and helping my family sta
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by jwoq9118 3y ago
Supabase integrates a lot of the open source tools listed here. A Postgrs backend as a service offering. Just started using it. Very impressed.
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by jwoq9118 3y ago
Agreed. If we're getting the point where you're saying "it's like writing your configuration in [insert Domain Specific Language Here]" then I'd prefer to simply use that language. I understand the point Pkl is

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