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how do you define system completeness? what if you ship one really big feature vs three really small ones? I would posit that you need extra context to obtain meaning from those me…

> You can either seek understanding or seek blame, but not both at once. This is the first I've heard this statement (not necessarily the idea), but I found it incredibly beautiful…

I think it's fair to call out a dark pattern for account deletion (which, for better or worse, is common practice) - but the data training and data retention thing can both be disa…

Hey, I was CAL-i too! At least...that's what we told people in IRC :P

If I could offer another suggestion from what's been discussed so far - try Claude Code - they are doing something different than the other offerings around how they manage context…

The trick shouldn't be to try and generate a litmus test for agentic development, it's to change your workflow to game-plan solutions and decompose problems (like you would a jira …

This is the closest I've found that's akin to Claude Code: https://aider.chat/

agreed on the revised SQL! But I don't think I missed the point, the original text talks about measuring complexity as a function of operators, operands, and nested code. The true …

In fairness, if this was in a relational data store, the same code as above would probably look more like... SELECT DISTINCT authors.some_field FROM books JOIN authors ON books.aut…

You could treat it as an nullable Option . In practice, as it relates to enums, I don't usually see 'no value provided' as a frequently used case - it's more likely that 'no value …

This ended up being the preferred pattern we moved into. If, like us, you were passing the object between two applications, the owning API would serialize the enum value as a Strin…

Love this share, I just watched the 1955 vs 1957 Royal Quiet Deluxe video. Learned a couple of fascinating things: 1. 1955 model did not have the number "1" or the "!" - as I guess…

Rule 4 is divide and conquer, which is the 'splitting code in half' you reference. I'd argue that you can't effectively split something in half unless you first understand the syst…

TIL about a Cuckoo Filter. Also, never realized redis has native support for a Bloom Filter.

Laws can help, but I'm most concerned with states leveraging this to influence foreign campaigns. There will be a time when the Trump "grab them by the you know what" style scandal…

Completely random tidbit of information, in Houston (and only Houston) we call them 'feeder roads.'

thank you for sharing this! I'd seen formats similar to this but I'd never seen what the format itself is called. very helpful to see it clearly described - I think I'll try to giv…

In fairness, they aren't making that assertion, they are asking for OP to consider and pressure test that assertion

I’m not saying one way or the other, but “minuscule” varies on the scale and just because there’s a closed loop cycle doesn’t mean there’s not a local impact to removing water from…

Nothing of particularly high value, really?

Not a dumb question, but because they are so expensive to build, fabs have a high upfront cost before they can start to turn a profit. Oddly, the older a fab is, typically the more…

I really enjoyed this article, I wish I would have read this the week before I first started interviewing people. I have 100% made some of these mistakes before. Thankfully, when I…

I heard about this book from hackernews a year or two ago. I'm not a big non-fiction fan, but I absolutely devoured that book. Strong plus one about Gertner's great work here.

Surprisingly, that didn't matter for a lot of years until pretty recently.

TY for sharing. I found this to be very enlightening, especially when reading more about the board members that were part of the oust. One of the board of directors that fired him …