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by pico303 9mo ago
As a software engineer who has developed on Macs (and Linux) for most of my career and has recently started a job that requires me to use Windows again, I can tell you from experience that Office on the Mac is far, far more stable, easy to
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by pico303 9mo ago
I remember reading that even the Start menu is now a React app.
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by pico303 9mo ago
I absolutely hate this article. So you want me to learn, understand, and write code in a format an LLM can ingest so you can more easily copy and paste my knowledge? Seems like the worst of all possible worlds: I work for you for nothing
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by pico303 9mo ago
When I started working on one of my side projects a year or so ago, I realized I didn't have time to figure out how to style each and every component, so I paid for Tailwind Plus. It was pricey, and I definitely had to think about it
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by pico303 10mo ago
Maybe I’m not smart enough to grasp all these flowery words, but is this suggesting if I spend a few years writing some code, you should get to copy it for your own interests and without compensating me as long as your sales and marketing i
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by pico303 10mo ago
I feel terrible for the author, having to work in this kind of structure. Someone should tell mytaxi that even Spotify never got “tribes and squads” to work, it sounds like for the same reasons/problems mytaxi ran into. Edit: accidenta
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by pico303 10mo ago
Right there with you. I’m working on fixing an app deployment this weekend myself and dreading picking my way through GitHub actions, ansible scripts, container configs, and deployment APIs to figure how why the thing stopped deploying. Tha
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by pico303 10mo ago
One of my coworkers (not a developer, but familiar enough with technology) asked about a new “low code” app and wondered if our engineering team used that. My response, I think, provides something of an answer to this paradox: it’s not wr
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by pico303 10mo ago
The example in the article of letting Claude deploy the app worries me. It has me thinking of that line, “AI is really good until you know what you’re talking about.” If the author was clueless of how to deploy the app, how do they know th
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by pico303 10mo ago
This somewhat reflects my sentiment to this article. It felt very condescending. This "self-limiting beliefs" and the implication that Seattle engineers are less than San Francisco engineers because they haven't bought into
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by pico303 11mo ago
I agree. This "cooldown" approach seems antithetical to some basic tenants of security in the open source world, namely that more eyeballs makes for better code. If we all stop looking at or using the thing, are these security p
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by pico303 11mo ago
On the Steam Deck you boot into desktop mode and it’s a standard Linux. Install what you want. I have Heroic Launcher on mine, running games from GOG and Epic alongside Steam games.
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by pico303 11mo ago
I slapped a nice sticker of a boat anchor on my work laptop. Seemed fitting. Slow (thanks to 4 separate malware/virus scanners), weighs a ton, lasts for an hour on battery.
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by pico303 11mo ago
Thank you for posting this. I had no idea this was out there!
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by pico303 1y ago
I don’t mean this to sound like I’m being a jerk, but why would I want my MacBook to be awake with the lid closed? If I want it to be awake doing something, I leave the lid open and let the screen sleep. Maybe I’ve been using a Mac too lon
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by pico303 1y ago
Same boat, and 100% agree. I couldn’t find a single example of Windows or Windows software where I think the experience is in any way better. Windows only saving grace, as a developer, is WSL. For a simple example, no app remembers the las
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by pico303 1y ago
What a lame excuse. “The G-Drive’s structure did not allow for backups” is a blatant lie. It’s code for, “I don’t value other employees’ time and efforts enough to figure out a reliable backup system; I have better things to do.” Whoever ma
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by pico303 1y ago
My company literally has four different apps “protecting” me now, including two different malware scanners. Neovim runs like it’s a 286. That said, before they’d installed everything it still wasn’t any faster than my Mac.
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by pico303 1y ago
My “fancy” Windows work laptop has 45 minutes of battery life, while my M3 MacBook Pro will go 14 hours compiling C++ or running JavaScript and Docker images, and do so twice as fast as my work laptop could. I’d say you get what you pay for
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by pico303 1y ago
It’s not about swapping implementations, like the original poster suggested, so that you can later come in and swap out different implementations in a local sense. Interfaces are used to decouple parts of an application; for example mocking
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by pico303 1y ago
No, you shouldn't write that. Your variable should represent the complete implementation. Where you use it should be as generic as possible, for example, the parameter in a function call.
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by pico303 1y ago
I love how the initial commit is "48 years ago."
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by pico303 1y ago
What a great piece. I’m so glad not only that his daughter will get to know her dad, but that her dad is going to appreciate every moment he has with her.
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by pico303 1y ago
At least one CEO seems to get it. Anyone touting this idea of skipping junior talent in favor of AI is dooming their company in the long run. When your senior talent leaves to start their own companies, where will that leave you? I’m not
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by pico303 1y ago
I was thinking that too. I wouldn’t even trust that the “offline” tests didn’t have the questions and answers posted online somewhere. This might really be an analysis of how extensive the dataset is for each LLM, not how much smarter one
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by pico303 1y ago
I thought the headline was implying something else. When I read the article, I thought, “Is it a monopoly to worry about if you can just do it yourself?” Feels like complaining there is a monopoly on services to pour you a glass of water f
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by pico303 1y ago
I use neovim for that.
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by pico303 1y ago
I’m a dev working with AI to build tools for others, but I don’t use them personally. Why? Because they make your writing sound like everyone else, they produce shoddy and broken code (unless you’re doing something really commonplace), and
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by pico303 1y ago
The target market for this editor seems infinitesimal. Who on Windows these days groks the terminal on Windows, wants a terminal editor instead of Notepad++ or VSCode, and finds Neovim overwhelming? And certainly no one on Ubuntu is looki
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by pico303 1y ago
And after all that, your company gets hacked through a misconfigured router.

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