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by ljm 2y ago
It's literally the same problem with closures and scope that JS has. You think you're working with a value but you're actually working with a reference to a value under the hood.
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by ljm 2y ago
I think #633 must be a typo, or just a fumbled explanation. "We might expect this code to print 123 in no particular order" should really say "exactly" or "in order", since it's proved in the next paragrap
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by ljm 2y ago
> Or sport your best conversation-starter graphic tee. I recommend a t-shirt with a tuxedo design printed on the front. The very definition of smart casual.
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by ljm 2y ago
I wouldn't say uncharitable, just that the best-intentioned version is pretty naïve, especially in the current political climate where every effort to bring that kind of inclusivity and open-mindedness to the table is being actively re
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by ljm 2y ago
Rather than thinking about the suit itself, I’d consider the dress code or culture of the company you’re interviewing for. Turning up in formal business wear isn’t going to be a positive social cue if everybody you interact with is dressed
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by ljm 2y ago
I see it the same as serverless, which is almost-but-not-quite a backend in the same way that D1 is almost-but-not-quite a database. Your persistent servers may have a larger fixed cost up-front, but you can save on engineering hours otherw
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by ljm 2y ago
This pre-supposes that said VPs have the self-awareness to realise their ideas are shit.
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by ljm 2y ago
I’ve spotted a few more subtle issues that would be unlikely to slip through code review, but can easily see a resurgence from vibe-coding and from a shift in early-stage hiring priorities towards career founding/‘product’ engineers. I
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by ljm 2y ago
One of the pet projects I have going is to try and store the interactions as a roam-style knowledge base of connected thought, with the idea that you could browse through this second brain you’ve been talking to afterwards. Almost every tim
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by ljm 2y ago
It would also help to have a population without a deep-seated beef going back to the civil war. You arguably have two separate 'America's split down that historical line that might not ever see eye-to-eye and, just like the US its
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by ljm 2y ago
Similar with Kingdom Come: Deliverance, especially with the combat that requires you to try and point at a certain limb. Although I blame the lock picking mini games and the combat for that, since using a controller doesn't make them a
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by ljm 2y ago
Put 1000 vibe coders with 1000 Cursor editors in a room and, given infinite time, they’ll produce an almost complete version of fizzbuzz.
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by ljm 2y ago
They need a 'vibe coder' for that because no software engineer worth their salt is going to onboard as muscle for debt collection agencies. Not the first job post I've seen lately that has reverted to an aggressive tech-bro t
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by ljm 2y ago
AI Slop. s/The Guardian/The Telegraph/ and the result is the same.
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by ljm 2y ago
You're not really writing 'Go' anymore when you're optimising it, it's defeating the point of the language as a simple but powerful interface over networked services.
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by ljm 2y ago
Real version: taxpayers fund new model towards AGI at the expense of their entire lives OpenAI had billions. Now it is asking for trillions. It's taking over.
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by ljm 2y ago
I wonder how many of those investors have skin in the game and are sycophantically trying to avoid Musk leaving them holding the bag.
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by ljm 2y ago
NextJS however is likely constrained by its architecture and the decision to use serverless and edge compute for the backend. Relying on obscure headers for conditional logic this way is certainly one way to avoid bringing in an extra depen
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by ljm 2y ago
I don’t know how to put this any other way but my experience with NextJS or just JS-first full stack is that they are still first and foremost a tech stack for frontend devs and the backend piece in that context is an afterthought. I’ve wor
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by ljm 2y ago
Yes, I do, I expect leadership and management to be better. It doesn't happen very often, but when it does... It's never an execution problem, it's a management.
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by ljm 2y ago
Fuck this constant dehumanisation and categorisation of the working class. The key to a great team is great leadership. Most people are terrible leaders, and they think that what they are worth is what makes them leadership material, even t
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by ljm 2y ago
Given how much of a premium Apple charges for storage, it's still a limitation even if not a technical one.
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by ljm 2y ago
Learning isn't just about rote memorisation of information but the continuous process of building your inquisitive skills. An LLM isn't a mind reader so if you never learn how to seek the answers you're looking for, never cur
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by ljm 2y ago
Similar to the pre-COVID coding bootcamps and crash-courses we’ll likely just end up with an even larger cohort of junior engineers who have a hard time growing their career because of the expectations they were given. This is a shame but s
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by ljm 2y ago
Just your run-of-the-mill hallucinations, e.g. mocking something in pytest but only realising afterwards that the mock was hallucinated, the test was based on the mock, and so the real behaviour was never covered. I mean, I generally avoid
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by ljm 2y ago
Same result - I tried it for a while out of curiosity but the improvements were a false economy: time saved in one PR is time lost to unplanned work afterwards. And it is hard to spot the mistakes because they can be quite subtle, especial
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by ljm 2y ago
But you don't submit that rough draft with the 110% conviction that it's correct, which is what an LLM will do when it hallucinates. It won't say "I think it should look something like this but I might be wrong," it
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by ljm 2y ago
Ultimately, you’re going to end up with a framework anyway as your internal hand-rolled solutions congeal into some sort of standard. Only it’ll be all novel and unique, maybe lacking effective documentation, and it’ll take even the most se
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by ljm 2y ago
I mean, if any other country spent 700+ billion a year on corporate welfare to defence contractors they’d have some impressive tech too. If nobody wants to buy any of that shit because of the knock-on effects of Trump’s self-sabotage and th
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by ljm 2y ago
Not speaking for OP’s experience but I suppose that you might default to all this fancy serverless edge worker stuff if you learned how to code on their (usually generous) free-tier plans, or they were the only things you dealt with at work

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