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by kamaal 9mo ago
>>I expect to see many stories from parents, non-technical colleagues, and students who irreparably ruined their computer. I do believe the approach Apple is taking is the right way when it comes to user facing AI. You need to reduce
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Around a decade back, I and a bunch of colleagues explored these theories and despite knowing they were all bunkum, the sheer entertainment value they served was gold. Think of it like Marvel universe stuff. We'd go on long walks and l
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by kamaal 9mo ago
It works because if you want some information on React or say Python, or say Prolog. Whatever information ChatGPT generates is quickly verifiable, as you have to write code to test it. Even better many times, it shows me new insights into d
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by kamaal 9mo ago
Its almost like he is asking users to take a stand between using LLMs and using Tailwind. LLMs, or Tailwind. Pick one!
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by kamaal 9mo ago
>>Adam released an amazing book about UI/UX called Refactoring UI[0] and it really helped me become better and understand subtleties of design. In the age of AI, if you have Table of Contents. ChatGPT can write the book for you.
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>>Which is why much better advice is to try to get promoted by switching companies and jumping a level in the process. This is why most companies don't offer a promotion as a part of hiring process, and are mostly hiring at curre
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by kamaal 9mo ago
>>Taking on extra responsibility is all well and good until someone figures out that they can just get you to do more work for the same amount of money. Wait a minute. Why are you accepting more work, responsibility without increase i
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by kamaal 10mo ago
That's not the definition of stagnant I would use. Its mostly on the lines of people learning the language, starting new projects, discussions etc. There are more discussions on Perl being dead, than Ruby being alive.
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by kamaal 10mo ago
>>Python is more likely to make the average programmer happy. Its a weird place to be. I was making ChatGPT write lots of Python code to do some analysis on the Stock market, and it was crazy how much code I was able to write in a day
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by kamaal 10mo ago
>>WHERE ARE THE NEW RUBY USERS! Ruby adoption has been low to non existent for as long as I remember. Lets say, 15+ years now. Python kind of took over scripting space. That also means Perl ceded its space to Python as well. But man P
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by kamaal 10mo ago
Index doesn't go up. Individual stocks do. I mean a small section of the stocks within the index contribute to most returns. This is of course different in a bull market where lots of them go up at once. But even in choppy and bear mar
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I think people who are looking at long term wealth building are better off looking at John Bogle's work. The key is this, you absolutely must stick to investing in the index as a whole, but the issue there is fees you pay is a percenta
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>>none of your logic makes any sense to me. Compounding is a function of time. More time you are alive, more you see in that time. This follows from definition of compounding itself.
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Whole point of being rich is to have freedom to do whatever you want. Including fancy dress like poor and eat like them for personal marketing at times. Pretty sure Mr Buffet mostly eats salads.
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>>Here are some things Buffet has done that I admire (notice that phrasing): Perhaps the best thing Buffet has managed to do is to live long. Most of compounding magic begins at ages 60-65, a time where most investors start to die out
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by kamaal 10mo ago
>>there is less overhead. There have been methods to reduce overhead available over the history of our industry. Unfortunately almost all the times it involves using productive tools that would in some way reduce the head counts requi
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>>Feynman was a uniquely gifted teacher that made things intuitive and simple. I think explainers like Neil deGrasse Tyson have a job harder than people imagine. Historically the problem with science education has been, that, as the c
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by kamaal 10mo ago
>>As others have joked it's a "write only"language. The pet project you write to replace that Perl one liner is also write only once project. The only difference is you waste years of your life doing what we do in minut
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by kamaal 10mo ago
>>Not sure your time-saving thing really works, especially if 99% of problems you have are not solved by a perl oneliner. That's because if you don't have a paradigm of thought, you are not likely to reach for a tool that wo
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>>I think the reason python won was that it was easy to learn and read and was batteries included. This is also a big reason why AI assisted programming will wholesale replace Python programmers. If your are optimising for people who
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Every programmer worth their salt must learn to use power tools, and also train to work beyond the beginner-intermediate levels, that has now become the permanent situation in our line of work. Nobody should be spending a day writing Python
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by kamaal 10mo ago
Given the install base of Linux, yes. It did win the OS wars. >>So was 2010 or 2011 the Year of the Linux Desktop? Desktops are the of the game of the past. Mobile devices is what you need to look at. Windows doesn't even have a
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by kamaal 10mo ago
This is a correct view point to have. As you get to the downswing of your career, you should have already worked and made enough mistakes to have most of your experience. You must cruise on that experience when you are older. When you are o
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>>Being focused on the goal you defined 30 years ago is almost certainly wrong for most people. I think there are certain things that are not likely to change, and must be aimed for. For starters, being healthy, proactively working to
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>>I've noticed that car alarms that go off for no good reason seem to be back. So in the 2000s, this was fairly common in India. Then one day a installation mechanic told me the sensor had various calibration settings. You could
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I haven't used Microsoft office products in more than a decade. And Windows in more than 15 yrs. Google offers so many things free out of the box. And for serious spreadsheet sort of work, I use numpy. Google pretty much won the Office
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>>That is to reduce their populations through sanctions, blockades, starvation and outright war. Speaking as Indian, Our population growth happened when we were poor, and masses were uneducated/illiterate. I have one more theory
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>>If top is bunch of sloppy clowns, whole company is going to be the same. This happens so often at big companies as well. Management is always assumed to be correct, and the pay grade argument always kicks in(They are paid more becau
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I was casually chatting with my uncle who is a doctor, he says something along the lines that if a chemical can kill a rat or a mosquito, to assume it won't do any damage to humans is kind of hilarious. Of course humans who inhale this
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>>lots of quality (to me) content that I find educational (history, science) and entertaining. This seems to be a tug of war- that is- information vs distraction I remember in the 1990s India it was quite common to view kids from home

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