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by kmoser 2y ago
The third one isn't meant to imply that you should keep adding needlessly, or that you should necessarily add more functionality (yes, this is how feature creep starts). It's meant to indicate that software is never truly finished
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by kmoser 2y ago
My beliefs in the same vein: - If you think you've found all the bugs, look again. - If you think you've just fixed a bug, test again. - If you think your program is done, you're wrong.
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by kmoser 2y ago
You can get something similar from https://www.kayak.com/explore/ except the results are shown on a map rather than as a list: you specify an origin (and optionally a departure date) and the map shows price icons at al
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by kmoser 2y ago
Multi-decade permanent contractor here (software developer). Some of it is luck. Some of it depends on the nature of your industry. Also, OP seems to enjoy learning new tech stacks, which makes them attractive to more owners of screws that
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by kmoser 2y ago
I can't take credit for it; I read it in a C Users Journal article back in the 1990s which I haven't been able to find online.
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by kmoser 2y ago
Said another way: push interface up and implementation down.
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by kmoser 2y ago
"Use succinct languages" is somewhat at odds with "Write rereadable code." There's a point beyond which making your code more succinct makes it more difficult for a human to parse. This can be somewhat mitigated by
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by kmoser 2y ago
It could just be programmed to follow up by querying itself with a prompt like "Come up with arguments that refute what you just wrote; if they seem compelling, try a different line of reasoning, otherwise continue with what you were d
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by kmoser 2y ago
Am I right that this CoT is not actual reasoning in the same way that a human would reason, but rather just a series of queries to the model that still return results based on probabilities of tokens?
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by kmoser 2y ago
Cool, but how do you create your own patterns? I was hoping for an editor that let me create my own.
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by kmoser 2y ago
> The only remaining issue with this [JS] solution is that the user doesn't get the URL preview provided by browsers when hovering over anchor elements. There is currently no workaround for this. True, there is no workaround, but yo
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by kmoser 2y ago
Also, if you're doing regular code reviews, wouldn't that include making sure the comments are up-to-date? As for the argument that it wastes time to update comments, I've never seen a codebase where the comments were so volu
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by kmoser 2y ago
You just need a "hide/show comments" extension for your IDE. (I would argue that such a feature should already be built in.)
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If the original devs wrote good documentation then pretty much anybody can maintain it easily.
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I'm sure the fact that this would be Morgan's last game was somewhere out there on the Internet, and certainly should have been part of the training data, in which case I would guess that a more nuanced prompt to the AI could ha
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by kmoser 2y ago
The big multiplier for me is keyboard shortcuts, especially arrow keys in combination with Ctrl and Shift. This saves from having to move back and forth to the mouse, and is usually more accurate as well.
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by kmoser 2y ago
For every author like that one who is more capable than ChatGPT, there are many others who are less capable and who will fall back on ChatGPT (and other LLMs) to boost the quality of their output.
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by kmoser 2y ago
I don't want a government entity, or really any entity I'm not paying directly for their services, to be the gatekeeper between me and my accounts. The social engineering attack surface of my account currently consists of a handfu
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by kmoser 2y ago
No, thank you. I don't want anybody with a fake ID of me to be able to take control of my email. I want to use my password, I want it strongly encrypted at rest, and I want to be able to reset it remotely any time of day, without waiti
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by kmoser 2y ago
Not too hard to find if you Google "website that shows random images". Examples: https://r.sine.com/index , https://picsum.photos/ (refresh to see new image)
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by kmoser 2y ago
The example for "Don't split up identifiers" is impractical when you need to construct a string on the fly. Author's example might work for the simple case of two potential values, but as soon as addressType can take on
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by kmoser 2y ago
> He would be incorrect to create a lookup. Not if the lookup simply acknowledged whether a name exists in the records, without giving other context (e.g. property tax, DMV, criminal investigation, etc.).
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by kmoser 2y ago
If you mess up in construction, you (or others) might get killed. Less likely in a kitchen.
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by kmoser 2y ago
I got all 26 questions right, yet it said I'm in the 5th grade. Sounds like it should be called "Are You As Smart As a 5th Grader?" To determine if you're actually smarter than a 5th grader, the test should include quest
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by kmoser 2y ago
My A/C unit is fairly new but there are signs the condenser unit fan is starting to go. Since it is still under warranty for parts (not labor) I thought I would be able to just get a replacement fan and install it myself. But no, the m
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by kmoser 2y ago
Think of ChatGPT (and its ilk) as just another tool, no different from a Google search in which you look for code to solve your problem. If you prioritize learning to code on your own, you'll avoid these tools. If you prioritize gettin
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by kmoser 2y ago
This is one of those rare articles which, although much of the material is over my head, I couldn't stop reading because it's written so well.
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by kmoser 2y ago
Posted recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41356528
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by kmoser 2y ago
I just finished reading Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator , which describes the Programma and many of its contemporaries. Highly recommended reading if you're interested in the history of calculating machi
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> MOST of the time I think the cover letter either gets a brief glance or doesn’t get read at all. That might very well be the case for a big company that receives a ton of applications but the numbers game works both ways: as the person

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