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by ryandvm 3y ago
We had a guy like this on our team last year. He never said he was autistic, but in my opinion he was pretty far over on the spectrum. He was a very smart guy and a prolific developer, but absolutely terrible to work with. He would argue en
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IPv6 and Python3 are case studies in how not to roll out a new version unless you're cool with multi-decade upgrade windows.
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You are absolutely right. It's a collective action problem in extremely large cohorts (regional/national populations). As such, it can probably only be realistically solved by legislation banning the practice. Individual action on
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by ryandvm 3y ago
I thought these dipshits were all going to move to floating libertarian paradise islands?
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Astute observation about agency. You're absolutely right that current AIs are capable, but without a drive to actually do anything. They are lacking what every organism on the earth has - the predilection for "not being terminated
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Mmm. Maybe. It's still not clear to me that you can have a decentralized, P2P verification network that can handle anywhere near worldwide transaction volume. It's also not obvious to me that cryptocurrencies have value beyond &qu
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Go is: * Easier/safer than C * Less dangerous than Javascript (statically typed and a good standard library) * Much faster than Python I think it's an excellent middle ground, compromise language. It's the centrist candidate
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Because when you have 500 devs, they have to build _something_. It's why every single good software product bloats to become a slow, confusing, mess of features. Software development feature entropy is the 4th law of thermodynamics.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Yeah, this is one of those products that Google has that somehow miraculously keeps getting worse. It's failings are particularly noticeable now that I can spend all day having rich conversations with ChatGPT, but Google assistant is t
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I dunno. Cloudflare gives me the creeps. I have no idea why so many folks think large swaths of the Internet should be reliant on a single company.
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Yeah, I've often reflected that it is primarily language that makes us intelligent. The majority of my thought process is just an internal dialogue. I've tried to suppress it at times to experience what it's like to think wit
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Well... it was true to the shareholders
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Mmm. I think he was saying he thought WFH was a great idea and it turned out that it had negative repercussions he hadn't anticipated. No need to strawman him. I happen to have experienced the exact same thing. Switched to 100% WFH dur
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Funny, at 46 I daydream about retiring every single day and finally escaping the pointless churn of modern software "engineering".
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Ask HN: Why doesn't Google build chat into Chrome
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Does anyone actually have reliable success with this as a single coder model? Seems like the HFT firms would have already taken all the profit opportunity for this.
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I can tell you what worked well for me - find a few other like minded devs/designers and one VERY GOOD biz dev person and you can have a lot of success as a co-op studio. We did this and we were immediately quite profitable from day on
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Props to the implementor for sure, but I dunno, if a specification is supposed to solve a problem in a very limited niche, but can actually do something like this, I feel like the spec is actually _too_ flexible. I feel the same way about &
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Buying an 8000 pound electric truck to avoid burning gasoline.
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> The truck will be a new market, particularly in the US where trucks are so prevalent. I have my doubts about how successful electric trucks are going to be in the short term. The US is in the grips of an intense culture war and eco-any
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> It seems unlikely that any significant number of developers quit using SO in favor of blindly trusting ChatGPT. Man, maybe it's just me, but I have switched almost exclusively from Google searches and Stack Overflow to just asking
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Same. I'm right-handed, but switch to left-handed mousing when my wrist started hurting. Now I switch back and forth several times per week. Nipped my nascent carpal tunnel in the bud I think. What's interesting is that it's
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Enshittification aptly describes the symptoms, but it doesn't explain the problem. The underlying issue is that enshittification is just growth induced entropy. The constant accumulation of half-baked features or user-hostile choices.
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I dunno about that but I do remember watching it blow up and thinking, "I sure as shit wouldn't want to be on the crew scheduled to fly on that later this year."
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They can just rely on technological progress. By the time the original craft arrives, we will have solved high speed interstellar travel and will have been there for a couple generations with plenty of time to build the optical catcher&#x27
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Simple solution: The humans are the ones failing the CAPTCHA
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Making another company host your speech is not.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
This. GPT-4 was the first time in decades that I have been absolutely blown away by the capability of a technology. These LLMs are right up there with the Internet or smartphones as transformational technologies. That said, I wonder whether
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Today's landfills are tomorrow's mines.
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The likelihood that life on Earth will be compatible with the digestive processes of an independently evolved life form are exceedingly small. They probably wouldn't look at us like potential food in the same way that we try to eat jus

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