mianos

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by mianos 2y ago
From my 40 years in the field, I see much the same trend. I wouldn’t call 5% of developers “genius”—maybe 1% are true geniuses. Those folks can be an order of magnitude better at certain tasks—doing things no one else can—but only within a
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by mianos 2y ago
If everything in your tree is similar, yes. I agree that's going to be a very small Makefile. While this is true, for much larger projects, that have lived for a long time, you will have many parts, all with slight differences. For exa
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by mianos 2y ago
I’d be curious to hear your ratio. It really varies. In some small teams with talented people, there are hardly any “fake” developers. But in larger companies, they can make up a huge chunk. Where I am now, it’s easily over 50%, and most of
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by mianos 2y ago
I have an alternate theory: about 10% of developers can actually start something from scratch because they truly understand how things work (not that they always do it, but they could if needed). Another 40% can get the daily job done by co
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by mianos 2y ago
An HN article covered this topic last month. Currently, many job postings are either attempts to attract top-tier talent at minimal compensation or, in the worst cases, entirely fictitious positions.
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by mianos 2y ago
Botched by not using the manual gravity gear drop. Maybe they didn't have enough time. But losing a single engine is not necessarily fatal at that flight phase. Most professionals are still questioning why the rush to get it down. If t
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by mianos 2y ago
There were no flaps deployed. Without flaps it's going to be a lot faster than a normal landing.
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by mianos 2y ago
OK, yep I get that. Excuse my cynicism. True, most of us system programmers could describe, in detail, malloc and free from scratch and write a basic malloc from scratch and then know why the basic K&RT whipped up malloc would actually
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by mianos 2y ago
Where "turn out not to know basic C programming or systems level algorithms" is failing some leetcode puzzle they have not touched in the last 20 years while they have been full time writing C and C++? So hell of a time not findin
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by mianos 2y ago
Obviously, given the context, I am not trying to say immigrants don't pay taxes or follow the law. I am saying the the job of a government is to look after its own. If you have some better term for "its own people" go for it.
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by mianos 2y ago
Governments exist to take care of their own citizens—that’s their main job. Citizens pay taxes, follow the laws, and contribute to the country, so it makes sense for a government to prioritize their needs. That’s not racist; it’s just how c
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by mianos 2y ago
That is exactly what I mean when I said "we'll be the ones using it". I didn't want to expand it, for fear of sounding like an elitist, and you said it better anyway. The same things that make a programmer excellent will
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by mianos 2y ago
It was awesome 20 years before that, and the 10s in the middle. It's great now too.
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by mianos 2y ago
This I agree with. It is awesome when you don't know something. I have being doing some TypeScript recently and it's not something I have used professionally in anger before. But, as I learn it, GPT 4o becomes less and less useful
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by mianos 2y ago
I am 61, I have been a full time developer since I was about 19. I have lost count of the number of 'next thing to replace developers' many many times. many of them showed promise. Many of them continue to be developed. Frameworks
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by mianos 2y ago
It's not adding fluff, it's expanding it to improve the readability. If it just added word fluff, it would be useless. What I do is write an intro paragraph into the context. Sometimes if I have a few lines of code, I'll past
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by mianos 2y ago
As much as I get frustrated with GPT4's limitations when it comes to code, it's quite good at expanding detailed bullet points into solid design prose. You still have to read it back and triple check it, as you would your own work
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by mianos 2y ago
If real life is a fairytale, yes. It's like down here in Australia, the government thinks technology is a magical fairytale, where they can wave a magic wand and all kids under 16 will be unable to access social media.
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by mianos 2y ago
I was too right, they already selected a slick sounding half baked platform: https://accscheme.com/
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by mianos 2y ago
I highly doubt they have the expertise to implement anything remotely 'cryptographic.' Their level of competence seems stuck in the 1950s, stamping paper forms, while anything more complex is handed off to consultants in Australia
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by mianos 2y ago
I think you are agreeing with that. There is not some international law that says countries must deal.with countries they don't want to. It's a national thing.
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by mianos 2y ago
Luckily, I don't really find a lot of the recommendations bad. Maybe it's my bad taste in music.
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by mianos 2y ago
I get ads in my youtube premium music. The support just said "yes". I now pay for spotify so I don't get ads in music and still youtube premium for no ads in youtube documentaries. The second I start seeing regular ads I&#x27
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by mianos 2y ago
This great for others, I jumped right into Claude and it was giving me better answers for the code I was working on. But, Claude quickly said 'too overloaded' and stopped so I jumped onto Gemini. Which in google style, is kinda av
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by mianos 2y ago
Americans have been getting richer and richer according to most recent studies. At the same time, other socialist countries are getting, on average, poorer. I think you may be confusing social inequality with overall wealth.
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by mianos 2y ago
Facebook already made a statement sayings it's against their terms of use. There is not much you can do if the morally corrupt use something that is out in the public, specially if it is out in the wild west of license enforcement. Mos
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by mianos 2y ago
That is why it is just speculation. A lot of people go 'Google will leave that market if it is a hassle', as long as they can make a buck they will stay. That is a lot of fines to pay before it makes much difference.
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by mianos 2y ago
I wonder, at what point, the accounting department works out a market becomes unprofitable and Google withdraws. I guess it's good for some local company to take up the reigns. Maybe that's the long term goal of the EU regulation?
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by mianos 2y ago
I remember when Chuck Forsberg died, the author of YMODEM, nearly 10 years ago now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10593617 The XYZ Modems: https://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~rootd/catdoc/guide/T
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by mianos 2y ago
All the Casandra documentation and web site say it is a database. You can't blame anyone from getting confused. In my experience, I have never seen a project that started to use it, continue to use it after a year or so it may take a y

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