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by wvenable 10mo ago
> Are you sure claude didn't do exactly the same thing but the harness, claude code, just hid it from you? What do you mean? Are you under the impression I'm not even reading the code? The code is actually the most important
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by wvenable 10mo ago
The OP said the LLM didn't build anything, said it was great, and didn't even compile it. My experience has been far the opposite: not only compiling it and fixing compile time errors but also running it and fixing runtime issues
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by wvenable 10mo ago
I'm not sure what you're using. I've used Claude in agent mode to port a very complex and spaghetti coded C application to nicely structured C++. The original code was so intertwined that I didn't want to figure out so
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by wvenable 10mo ago
Some of my favorite open source software is random stuff that the author just completely abandoned but had the forethought to make open source so that others could still use it, fix bugs, add features, and even fork it. RMS just wanted to b
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by wvenable 10mo ago
If you have a problem with that then don't make it open source. And if you don't make it open source, don't call it open source. My own personal position is that my commercial software is commercial for me and my open source
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by wvenable 10mo ago
> DHH's choice of license reacts to a real pressure in open source: many companies make real money from open source software while leaving the hard work of building and maintaining it to others. If you don't want start a busine
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by wvenable 10mo ago
> This is clear because there are lots of very successful competing products to Microsoft’s buffet. Is there? Maybe Google docs. It's amazing that Microsoft has, for the most part, not really changed their fundamental office soft
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by wvenable 10mo ago
As much as everyone complains about Microsoft Office the historic alternatives were all much worse and eventually all collapsed under their own weight. Companies that had a successful niche, like Lotus, failed to keep up.
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by wvenable 10mo ago
I just did a major refactor of a project to move it many versions up on a framework and whole process was effectively vibe coded. I'd estimate I did in a couple of days what would have taken a couple of weeks. That's good and exp
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by wvenable 10mo ago
I wrote a blog post about this. There is literally no end to the amount of software that could be produced for businesses. My job right is to write software for particular niche; we purchase all the major software and yet I will still nev
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by wvenable 10mo ago
> power-users take it way too far and should be using more robust data analysis tools (Python, DBs) But they they wouldn't be power-users anymore, they'd be developers. It's just an entirely different world.
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by wvenable 10mo ago
Maybe not '98 but I'm still rocking Office 2013. It still seems fully compatible with all current office offerings and runs fine on Windows 11. I've certainly gotten my monies worth off of that license.
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by wvenable 10mo ago
> The cost and complexity and the effort required to switch away from M365 is massive. I'd say further to that is there literally isn't a similar product that exists to switch to. Nobody has developed a real alternative. It s
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by wvenable 10mo ago
Perfection is the enemy of good.
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by wvenable 10mo ago
Perl is a very difficult language. PHP was a comparatively simple language. PHP was just a scripting language for C and incorporated as many open source C libraries as possible back when open source libraries were a bit of disjointed mess
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by wvenable 10mo ago
But if your job is mitigate attacks/issues then things can very broken while you're being slow to mitigate it.
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by wvenable 11mo ago
Developing skills to learn is great but when one is struggling to pay for housing, food, and other essentials then that becomes a luxury that fewer and fewer can afford.
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by wvenable 11mo ago
"interactions with Core have gone so poorly that they were adversely impacting my mental health" That seems a little more serious than "could be proactive about comms" especially when this is one of the key people respon
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by wvenable 11mo ago
My impression is that there is a lot more going on than just the facts provided by both sides. Core technologies managed to get Katie Berry to step away from the project[1] and that's extremely significant to me. Her tireless dedicat
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by wvenable 11mo ago
To be fair, Windows runs on an infinite combination of devices and Airpods only work fully on Apple devices.
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by wvenable 11mo ago
Computers are too complicated for the average user. So many people have me on speed-dial to fix issues or walk them through stuff. And AI is surprisingly good at this stuff. If someone can simply say "Connect my bluetooth headphones
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by wvenable 11mo ago
The culture around Java and C# are very different. I'm not sure I can explain it. I could continue to point hundreds of technical differences but that's the trees and not the forest.
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by wvenable 11mo ago
> Homebrew is not really pro in any way: they force updates, deprecate old software that is still widely in use, the maintainers are always very combative and dont allow any discussions or other opinions. No different than Apple themselv
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by wvenable 11mo ago
There's more to developer experience than that. Your comment even demonstrates one of the differences: The .NET library compared to a bunch of different Java frameworks.
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by wvenable 11mo ago
Honestly, I was wishing that Blazor was in the same space as web forms. There is a market for front-end development that isn't steeped in the hell of actual front-end development. Blazor is almost the right idea but I think this incar
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by wvenable 11mo ago
I love this feature. I have avoided doing some stuff in properties because I don't want the noise of a private backing field.
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by wvenable 11mo ago
EF Core is amazing -- in it's default setup it works for 99% of situation. For the 1%, you can basically turn off everything you don't want.
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by wvenable 11mo ago
I had high hopes for Blazor but it didn't really materialize. Instead I'm just sticking with Angular. I don't think Microsoft doesn't know what to do with .NET. I think it continues on a very logical and direct path.
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by wvenable 11mo ago
C# and Java might be similar technologies at some level but they not similar developer experiences at all .
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by wvenable 11mo ago
I will pile on that I don't use any commercial libraries in .NET at all. Ironically, I do purchase a commercial library for front-end JavaScript. I agree that the commercial library offerings seem much more "in your face" wi

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