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by vendiddy 3y ago
I can't tell if I'm imagining it, but I feel like the quality of ChatGPT has dropped for software dev. I used to get very helpful responses but recently find myself correcting it a lot.
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by vendiddy 3y ago
I like to treat simplicity as an ingrained attitude. When hiring someone, I love to see if they are visibly annoyed when something is over-engineered. Or when a user interface is too complex. If they have strong emotional reaction, it'
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Do you have any links to a basic example on using CTEs and functions to keep SQL maintainable? I've used CTEs, but I had not tried breaking up an SQL query into functions. Didn't know that was possible! For whatever reason, I feel
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by vendiddy 3y ago
The thing I hate most about SQL is lack of composability. In most languages it's easy to pull out functions. In SQL you end up with a giant hard to comprehend mess. I think the underlying relational concepts in SQL are sound but I&#x27
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by vendiddy 3y ago
I lament how bloated software has become but take hope that there has been counter cultural movement for fast software. bun for the js runtime zed for text editors superhuman for email Nothing is perfect, but I hope the market starting to v
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by vendiddy 3y ago
You might have seen this already, but this was "fun" for me to go through: https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Why is Go error handling the bigger issue?
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Thanks for this. Any other tools that are useful when hacking on PDFs? I need to do a lot of programmatic PDF manipulation at work.
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by vendiddy 3y ago
I agree with you. The thought of licensing won't cross the mind of the vast majority of people. But yeah better licensing would still be nice.
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Sometimes I'd have GPT tell me to how to do something when it could have done it for me. For example it might tell me to read some documentation and find the answer myself. So I'm thinking "Yes well, what do I need you for th
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Thanks for the write-up. Was interesting to read!
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Some of the PDFs I've seen weigh in at 50mb! I want a mobile friendly page that loads in a second.
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Not sure why this post is anonymous. I wish most folks would treat code quality this way! How hard is it for a developer make this particular change? And I mean literally observe this up close: navigating the directory structure, reading th
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by vendiddy 3y ago
I believe Erlang/Elixir are closer to what he had in mind. (Processes with encapsulated state passing messages to each other.)
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by vendiddy 3y ago
This has been my favorite book in over a decade. To me it felt like reading newton's laws for software development. Had a major impact on how I build software
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by vendiddy 3y ago
What alternative would you suggest as a path to clean energy?
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Which company could that have been and how would that have turned out any differently? It seems like OpenAI needed deep pockets and access to computing power to survive. That limits the potential companies they could have cut deals with.
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by vendiddy 3y ago
I had to deal with binary data in a project recently and all the options made my head spin. File, Blob, Buffer, ArrayBuffer, Uint8Array, and so on. Was very confused on what to use!
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Can anyone explain how this works? - I ask ChatGPT a question - It gives me an incorrect answer - I literally say "you're wrong" - It corrects itself Why didn't it give me the right answer the first time? How was it able
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Very interesting. I'm dealing with a lot of PDF generation at work using pdf-lib so this could come in handy. Thanks for the share!
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by vendiddy 3y ago
I feel like there's this great divide between no-code and-only code. The sweet spot would be: - Easily build primitives using code - Compose those primitives using no-code
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Framer ( https://www.framer.com/ ) website builder may be good inspiration here. They have a decent model for visual editing and letting you drop down to React.
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Does reducing duplication make your code easier to maintain? Or does it not? Make your decision accordingly. Start treating duplication as a means to means to an end. It's not an end in itself.
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by vendiddy 3y ago
AI layperson here. Is there something like an MRI scan for a neural network? Imagining I could take a foundation model, run it on my specialized task, and measure which regions of the neural network light up. Then I could carve out unused r
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Forgetting about insight, I'd even love an AI powered search engine on my personal notes. "Hey what notes did I take this week related for my job? What are the actionable things I owe others?"
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by vendiddy 3y ago
I usually find it faster to define a good interface, hack together and implementation, then rewrite it. A good interface limits the blast radius of my refactor.
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Rewriting does not need to be an all-or-nothing endeavor. If you design your app as a collection of subsystems, it's sometimes faster to destroy and rebuild one of them than it is to refactor.
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by vendiddy 3y ago
I like that Bun is going in the direction of a monolithic, self-contained binary. I'm sick of fiddling with tsc, ts-node, and stringing together 5 different build tools. I'd rather install Bun, then get on with building our app.
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by vendiddy 3y ago
I don't think the added complexity is even remotely justified. Let's face it: things that used to be easy have become unnecessarily complex. PS - This project looks very cool!
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by vendiddy 3y ago
There are libs like ts-rest which I found to be less magical and easier to test.

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