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by oxag3n 7mo ago
> Rule 5. Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming. I'm a big fan of D
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by oxag3n 7mo ago
[] /s
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by oxag3n 7mo ago
> To be fair, I should point out that the “small” web was never defined by the number of sites, but by the lack of commercial influence. That was my understanding before it grew - it's a web of small indie sites.
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by oxag3n 7mo ago
> So only FAANG does engineering now? No, my opinion is that most engineering is done in startups. Few people I know went to startups and had to engineer real systems end-to-end. These weren't usually FAANG-scale monsters and single
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by oxag3n 7mo ago
Open sourcing old games is OSS corner case. Being on the top of the Maslow's Pyramid and knowing there's a very little chance you'll slide down is another reason that change people's attitude to things. The side effect i
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by oxag3n 7mo ago
> Before AI, both camps were doing the same thing every day. Writing code by hand. Using the same editors, the same languages, the same pull request workflows. The craft-lovers and the make-it-go people sat next to each other, shipped th
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by oxag3n 7mo ago
This is Java EE all over again. When I graduated in 2012 it was pushed everywhere, including my uni so my undergrad thesis was done in Java. Everyone was learning it, certifying, building things on top of other things. EJB, JPA, JTA, JNDI,
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by oxag3n 7mo ago
> Which raises the question: why is it such a successful company commercially? Tons of mediocre enterprise software is built on Oracle DB. Why enterprises are vendor locked-in? There are very few large enterprise players in every industr
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by oxag3n 7mo ago
A lot of comments from more grown up engineers who feel nostalgia like it's COM/CORBA/MFC again and they are excited how they can be productive again. I'm really sorry (and accept down-vote storm) to disappoint you but y
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by oxag3n 7mo ago
The problem it's not intended for plebs. It just becomes a source of truth for media and corporate decision machines.
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by oxag3n 7mo ago
Wait a second, did they measure exposure from Claude logs and just assumed impact? Let's say I sell snake oil and I survey every buyer, trying to convince everyone doctors won't be needed in the future. First conclusion is that re
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by oxag3n 7mo ago
AI "translation" kills any incentive to open source code. What's worse - disassembler+AI is good enough to "translate" the binary into working source code, probably in a different programming language than then orig
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by oxag3n 7mo ago
Software engineers are anything but Luddites. This labeling tactic became pretty common and tries to build a narrative that software engineers are going away. Artisan coders, craftsmen, First and foremost, wool craftsmen are not engineers (
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Nvidia CEO $30B OpenAI investment 'might be the last'(cnbc.com)
9 points by oxag3n 7mo ago|2 comments
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by oxag3n 7mo ago
“The reason for that is because they’re going to go public,” Huang said during the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference on Wednesday.
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by oxag3n 7mo ago
It's a giant long term project with a fascinating history and engineering. One notable event which is interesting from engineering perspective was a catastrophic failure of roughly half tubes in 2001. It took them five years to fully r
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by oxag3n 8mo ago
Thank you Microsoft for the The Streisand effect - I've added the "Microslop" to my vocabulary.
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by oxag3n 8mo ago
"Can’t you just draw an exponential line on the curve?" - Dario Amodei, February 13th 2026. But this time draw it for spending expectations.
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by oxag3n 8mo ago
We are at the end of the exponential! 90% chance in 6-12 months spending expectations drop to $0.
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by oxag3n 8mo ago
Reminded me an old joke about Bill Gates from late 90s: "One coder got an insight that Bill Gates builds his products by typing with his butt, compiling and delivering it. The coder typed for 20 minutes like that, compiled, ran, and go
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by oxag3n 8mo ago
Similarly for photos. If there's a place that rarely appears in pictures, some AIs reproduce it nearly identical to the original.
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by oxag3n 8mo ago
+1 I'm tired of these seahorse emoji deniers
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by oxag3n 8mo ago
All these predictions already started aging like milk, for example "Former Google CEO predicts AI will replace most programmers in a year" in April 2025. The hall of fame will explode with failed predictions this year.
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by oxag3n 8mo ago
Owners intent is more like electric chair (for SWEs), but some people are trying to use it as office chair.
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by oxag3n 8mo ago
Ah, don't take me wrong - I don't believe it's possible for LLMs to replace 90% or any number of SWEs with existing technology. All I'm saying is - why to think what AI is (exoskeleton, co-worker, new life form), when it
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by oxag3n 8mo ago
Or they get FY money and fatFIRE.
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by oxag3n 8mo ago
> We're thinking about AI wrong. And this write up is not an exception. Why even bother thinking about AI, when Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs openly tell us what they want (quote from recent Dwarkesh interview) - "Then further down
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by oxag3n 8mo ago
The only remaining risk? Considering wide range of bad actors and their intent, stealing your API keys is the last thing I'd worry about. People ended up in prison for things done on their computers, usually by them.
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by oxag3n 8mo ago
To continue the false equivalence - alchemists believed Magnum Opus will lead one day to Philosopher's Stone.
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by oxag3n 8mo ago
It's not clear if they are going to redistribute production lines in favor of hyper-scalers - are we going to see fewer SATA drives on the market?

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