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by tjr 4y ago
So I asked it to design a programming language that combined the best elements of Scheme with the best elements of Python (leaving it to decide which elements are best). It came up with an interesting-sounding high level description of a la
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I remember reading the biography of a 20th century musician/composer, who said something to the effect of -- "Sure, I can sit down and write 4-part cantatas like Bach did, but that doesn't mean that I'm as great of a com
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Sure. Lots of books are ten pages of real content forced into a 250-page package. Likewise, lots of articles (both printed and online) are three paragraphs of real content forced into a four-page package. And plenty of blog posts are one-se
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Not necessarily wrong though! https://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-1.5.0.dos.txt Login names are often used as nicknames, pronounce[d] if possible and spelled if necessary. My wife and I met at MIT, and she still ca
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I've asked ChatGPT to write some stories, and I have found the output amusing. I could see reading some of them to children. Maybe they don't make a great deal of sense, but they're still fun. Or perhaps, because they don&#
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Lots of good options, but what in your opinion would make .net or .org a better choice than .com ? While perhaps not as pervasive as during the 1990s, I still feel like most people are more familiar with / assume / default to &quo
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And The Little MLer .
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Jobs that ChatGPT is most likely to replace(businessinsider.com)
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In my tinkering with ChatGPT, I feel like I could rely on it approximately as I would rely on Stack Overflow. It may well offer me some good help on specific blocks of code -- largely serving as supplementary documentation -- but I wouldn&#
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Well, from the perspective of a student, I think it's usually not worth doing things the way your instructor explicitly does not want them done. Sometimes you might have some overarching moral point to make, and it's worth the r
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Already mentioned, but another hearty recommendation for Planetfall . I played that game in the 1980s, and I still enjoy playing it from time to time.
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In most scenarios, I get far better pictures with my Canon DSLR than with my iPhone, yet most of my pictures for the past few years have been taken with my iPhone. But the big difference, for me, is, most of those pictures are quick picture
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The remark from Alan Perlis feels pretty accurate to me: You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program. I can read a book on a subject, and understa
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Honestly, this sounds to me like... "welcome to the real world of software development!" :-) Not saying that every job is identical in every respect, but probably few jobs will ever fit your (or my) definition of perfect. Sounds l
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One thing to consider when looking at such things is that commercial avionics software systems are full of known limitations. I do not know if this particular 51-day limitation was intentional or not, but in general: Avionics software start
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I think part of the question has to be to consider, what do you want to hack? If you're interested in hacking on your computer's operating system, then you will find more flexibility with GNU/Linux or FreeBSD than with MacOS.
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If you got into software engineering, at least in part, because you prefer to not deal with people directly, then I imagine being the only software engineer for an organization doesn't give you a lot of space to avoid dealing with peop
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Maybe something from the Sam's "Teach Yourself X in 21 Days" series?
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At one my first corporate jobs, I noticed that most people in my area had a bunch of certifications framed and on their cubicle walls. I thought, "I want one of those!" So I got one, and framed it. Fun. No big deal, though. You ca
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https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/1998/10/21
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I started with a first-generation iPhone to replace a series of Palm Treos, and have had various iPhones since then. I've tried a few Android devices, and felt like the interface was more confusing. I'm sure I could learn it with
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Just so that no one is confused, this is the old, not-completely-finished manual that is being replaced by the new one that RMS announced recently. I expect that the web page at this URL will be somehow updated to reflect this, once the new
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Yes, although, while actually working on the manual, we didn't use Git. We passed diffs back and forth over email.
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So one remark with respect to being late to the party and writing a publication like this in a single year... I was the main author on that [1] link there. Richard contacted me ten years ago (in January 2012, as I recall) about his new fort
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Generally my answer also, but I do still sometimes buy programming books, as sometimes I find the online documentation inadequate for me to understand something. One example: probably contrary to a lot of people on HN, I haven't done a
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I worked for about ten years on a suite of tools written, in large part, in Delphi. As far as I know, those tools are still being maintained in Delphi today. It was a tiny software group in a large company, and paying Embarcadero whatever t
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A most excellent book, as was Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX.
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At that time in New York City, 37-year-old real estate developer Donald Trump was finishing the construction of Trump Tower. Hughes wouldn’t be seen again until Trump was president. That seems like a kind of jarring, out-of-place paragrap
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As a hobbyist photographer (well, I do it less, now that everyone is taking pictures all the time), I do not at all like interrupting real life to pose a picture. I don't want that picture. I want a picture of actual real life. If the
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I do have a copy of the 1983 book, and this story is present. Like the online copy linked to here, it also begins with "Some years ago ..."

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