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by preommr 3y ago
> For anyone designing something new today, the main prep you can do "Our new SaaS offers high security, reslience to deal with usage spikes, and compatability with doomsday scenarios where fascist governments have taken over during
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Programmers: Skip the damned meetings! Also programmers: Who and why decided that we should be doing this thing this way?! Or: Why is the other team doing things this way?!
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This has gotten so crazy that there was a segment on Conan with B.J. Novak where the entire interview was around how Novak thinks Cadbury eggs have gotten smaller. And it's weird because when he brought this up with people, they were o
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From the article: > But he added: "The judgment does not preclude a person using an AI to devise an invention – in such a scenario, it would be possible to apply for a patent provided that person is identified as the inventor."
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> 1. Software does not make money. Not ever. Sales makes money. Software only costs money. When your developer peers get confused, distracted, or lost on this matter you better hope your employer is either too big, too stupid, or too wea
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Depends: No, if the goal is job security. Yes, if the goal is to build the product.
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What a disaster for Adobe. They signal they can't build something to outcompete Figma. Their stock price falls They axe their existing competing product, and is therefore now way behind. They face problems with the acquisition, which m
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by preommr 3y ago
SDFs are pretty cool. They come up from time to time. For example, Womp3D[0] uses them. [0] https://womp.com/
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Whenever this question comes up, the usual suspects like "The Design of Everyday things" get mentioned and I can't help wonder what it would be like if someone asked for books about learning to program [websites] and kept get
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> it's enabled in switch statements by either `assertNever` in the `default` case, or by limiting your function return from within switch cases with the `strictNullChecks` option enabled. What's wrong with using if statements?
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I remember C# being great a few years back when I used it. I am surprised that it doesn't have better discriminated unions since languages like TypeScript, and F# have them. Is the interop between C# and F# not good? I've never us
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> He doesn't look like the guy into revenge. How do you know this? Idk why this is the comment that broke the camel's back for me, but all over this site people have been making character determinations about people from a mill
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Web components are a half-baked solution. It only becomes useful with another framework (even if it's very lightweight) like lit. At which point I might as well use vue/react/svelte since I am already brining in a library. Te
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Then just change it in the prettier config. 80 characters is a really good default. I have an extra wide monitor, and with 2 side panels open in my IDE, that's the perfect length.
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I want to know other people's opinion on this. Because if it was me working at OpenAI, I would've signed it just out of peer pressure even if I disliked him. As the CEO, Altman undoubtedly shaped senior management that would'
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Someone doesn't get good at programming with low quality learning sources. Also, a poor comparison because models are not people - might as well complain about how NPCs in games behave because they fail at problems real people can solv
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> Just add the following files and run npm run dev. You'll be good to go! This attitude just doesn't work for js ecosystem. I have some shell scripts, vim config files, etc. that I don't remember what they do, but I just c
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by preommr 3y ago
What the hell? So far, I underestood the chaos as a matter of principle - yes it was messy but necessary to fix the company culture that Ilya's camp envisioned. If you're going to make a move, at least stand by it. This tweet some
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Altman is the commercial streak of OpenAI. Investors are nervous because that's the part that actually makes money. If it was left up to Ilya, it's unlikely that OpenAI is going to reach it's full earning potential in favor o
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> how wrong can it be? Me, right before some really annoying bug starts to show up and the surface area is basically half the codebase, across multiple levels of abstraction, in various combinations.
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> Can you imagine any sentient being that would respond the same way every time if you asked the same question three times in a row? Flashbacks to tail-end of family trips: ("Are there we yet?", "No") x 12. Albeit, th
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> if Einstein didn’t come up with relativity, likely no one would have for 30-40 years after. This seems like a hyperbole to make a point about how smart Einstein was. From what I've seen in past discussions like this, including on
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This passive-agressive back-and-forth: a summary of what happened behind closed doors between Ilya and Sam
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Dark times ahead. Firefox is mainly funded by Google, if they've decided to be this aggressive about it, then I am guessing that they've absolved whatever restraint they had and that they're probably going to either force Fir
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> that someone is dividing and conquering the public. Yea that someone is society. Tribalism happens because the feverent supporters are the ones that actually give money, time, etc. Someone that sees the nuance, is more likely to be oka
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> Fresh air, literally. Sunlight during parts of the year. Observing the changing seasons. Seeing plants, and maybe animals You can do all of these by just opening a window. >but I also doubt that most people would have to drive 200 m
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> ATM paradox[1] It's only a paradox because people are comparing absolute numbers after a period of time ignoring things like population growth. The average number of tellers per branch went down. There's also more horses in t
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Almost like people want some functional features without all the extra baggage. I guess I would even say it's like... most people just want the banana, but got a gorilla holding the banana and the rest of the jungle as well.
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I found rust very simple to pick up because there's a lot in the language that really helps you to write the code the way rust needs it to be. The language design is really good that way, and the compiler helps a lot. What's trick
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I've come to accept that Golang, as bad as it is, is probably the best that we're going to get in the near future. It takes so long for a language to rise to prominence that newer languages like nim or zig are probably a decade aw

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