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by li4ick 4mo ago
Not the point of this article, but that schema design is quite bad.
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Microsoft's Bing uses Google search results–and denies it (2011)(googleblog.blogspot.com)
3 points by li4ick 2y ago|1 comments
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by li4ick 2y ago
- Managing Gigabytes - Hacker's Delight
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by li4ick 2y ago
His book, "Understanding Software Dynamics", is one of the best technical books I've ever read. Top 3 for me.
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John Carmack – Static Code Analysis (2011)(gamedeveloper.com)
2 points by li4ick 3y ago|0 comments
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John Carmack – Parallel Implementations (2011)(gamedeveloper.com)
4 points by li4ick 3y ago|0 comments
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by li4ick 3y ago
Yeah, this reads like cope. So, all software engineering? Then you must have a pretty narrow view of the problem space. Quite a lot of problems have a pretty well defined set of requirements that can fit on one page. It's the technical
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by li4ick 3y ago
I have no idea how you would take what I wrote as an insult. It's insulting to me that people are paid 400k a year and still think that what I wrote is somehow NOT the baseline. It's not even a debate. I'm gonna take my own a
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by li4ick 3y ago
This makes absolutely 0 sense.
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by li4ick 3y ago
I mean, sure, this comment sounds nice on a web forum, but some of us have 0 hesitance bucketing others on a scale of competence. Looking at the state of software I interact with on a daily basis, I really don't care about being nice a
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by li4ick 3y ago
You know, reading these comments is absolutely hilarious. It's because of this and that, hundreds of excuses that dance around the simple truth: you're an incompetent programmer. That's it. No, you're not capable of maki
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by li4ick 3y ago
I'm also more on the negative side because I'm really not convinced by the whole "AI will just automate/remove the boring aspects of life". Every single prototype capability of current AI points in the direction of
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by li4ick 3y ago
Didn't they partner with SourceGraph to make Cody? Here's them talking a bit about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYuh-BdcOfw . Maybe that's why?
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by li4ick 3y ago
No offense to the Atlassian guys, but how do they justify their horrid overall performance with BitBucket?
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Peter Norvig's review of Managing Gigabytes (2001)(amazon.com)
2 points by li4ick 4y ago|1 comments
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by li4ick 4y ago
Yes, I've seen this behaviour on quite a few sites recently, like they're running a bitcoin miner or something. Here's another example: https://zed.dev/ I have no idea what they're doing to slow my machi
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by li4ick 4y ago
Ok, I'll be the bad guy and say that the linked demo on loom is just not impressive at all. It's just 10x slower than what a simple regex query would've answered. Again, I'll be the bad guy in this comment section, but M
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John Carmack interview with Dallas Innovates magazine (starts on page 56)(dallasinnovates.com)
2 points by li4ick 4y ago|0 comments
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by li4ick 4y ago
Yes, I had to press "Try Again" a few times but, in general, the amount of stuff you can generate is staggering. It's also quite fun to ask it to "invent a programming language in the style of Rust and APL" for exam
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by li4ick 4y ago
ChatGPT is an absolute game changer. And I was very conservative with systems like GPT and DALLE-2. For example, I've been very lazy with automating some things on my work laptop, using Powershell. Now, I just had to ask ChatGPT for &q
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by li4ick 4y ago
Their business is whatever their metrics say it is. In this case, TikTok is eating their lunch, so their business is to replicate TikTok.
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by li4ick 4y ago
Like Knuth? He even has a book about it: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/484459.Things_a_Computer...
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by li4ick 4y ago
Sometimes I wonder if all these people that talk on conference stages are nothing more than self-help gurus. All of these words like "productivity", "cleaner code", "maintainable" etc. etc. are like highly opti
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by li4ick 4y ago
Yeah, that first paragraph is completely wrong if you think about the universe in terms of computation...
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MapReduce: A major step backwards (2008)(homes.cs.washington.edu)
4 points by li4ick 4y ago|1 comments
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by li4ick 6y ago
Newton's notebook was published here a while ago. http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-04000/40 There's a ton of work behind the genius. There's no "apple on the head" story, almost neve
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by li4ick 6y ago
I don't like how every slide bloats the browser history. Google Slides doesn't do that.
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by li4ick 6y ago
Yeah, I guess you're right. You can sense much faster progress when the product is made by a single company, rather than by a team within a major company.
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by li4ick 6y ago
It's funny how Microsoft has an absolute beast on their hand with Powerpoint, which has so many obscure and powerful features that their employees must be fuming at how it's all just there, and nobody uses them. Fractals, high-res
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by li4ick 6y ago
Yeah, imagine if a bridge engineer said the same thing: "You aren't an engineer until your bridge collapses. Congrats!" I am starting to hate tech culture. Nobody cares about correctness and discipline. Mention "math&quo

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