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We've also seen decades of effort, much of it successful, aimed at making it easier . Programming used to be harder. (Difficulty alone doesn't account for high salaries.) If it was…

I'm beginning to wonder if a lot of commenters have forgotten that waterfall is a failed methodology in part because you can't always just gather requirements by say introspection …

Thanks for giving me a laugh, I was just imagining https://programming-motherfucker.com/ as an absurd "Hat-wearing, motherfucker" site instead.

That patio11 post was good but you're overstating its relevance here by suggesting the thread's central topic is missing the point. The fizzbuzz part even undermines the "Code was …

> the text as they present it doesn't seem to mark vowel length at all I think most Latin text out there won't use diacritics at all. I only studied it for 3 years back in high sch…

Why are you always surprised, especially if it keeps happening?

Even discount beef has worse discounts. My grocery store changed out the 50% discount stickers for meat at its sell-by date to 30%.

Turns out that even with the limited self-curation power X gives you it's not too hard to customize an experience you'll mostly enjoy; some people enjoy being miserable though. A l…

News to me about FIFA. SA has been trying to gain "influence" in sports overall, and their video game endeavors also seem focused on "e-sports" more than gaming as a whole. I frequ…

It's more sad to me that it's usually just a second layer to the scam. People's empathy can be exploited just as easily if not more so than their intellect.

Like I ever answer my door lol. But they can leave something in the mailbox, and I'll at least see the envelope in 1-30 days. Last week I finally had an onslaught of spam voicemail…

There is a correlation, though it can be weak (see for within-the-US: low-income parts in Appalachia). But even if it was as strong as, say, the correlations with IQ and Big-5-trai…

Maybe that's truer in other industries, but the history of Silicon Valley is at great odds with such a claim.

Some people predicted it and related things (like less writing output) after his Dwarkesh interview, especially with his flirtations with moving to SF and ever-increasing frequency…

I believe that's what the first chapter is for. Kind of a hard problem in deciding what the sample should be, since if it was the first chapter those already familiar with the rule…

The limits of the team, even insisting on >1 person being able to fix any code written by the team, are probably much higher than the average of the team. Furthermore, the average …

You can use most of the popular GUI libs, there's a couple Lisp-specific ones but they're not nearly as featureful. https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/gui.html collects mos…

SICP, as beautiful and good as it is, is probably responsible for a large amount of the misconceptions and negative thoughts about Lisp. SICP isn't a Lisp book, it's a Scheme book,…

Indeed. The behavior of arenas shared by multiple threads is important as well, and the proper use of destroy-arena vs. rewind-arena. Without care it's easy to create a leak in the…

One should not read or pay much attention to anything Gould wrote or said. ( http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Debate/CEP_Gould.html ) The amount of damage Gould has done offsets any positive…

A job market specific survey: https://www.devjobsscanner.com/blog/top-8-most-demanded-prog... They combine C and C++ together and it slides in at number 6. But together they only a…

At least you are aware of the lies. I'm reminded of Feynman's refusal to lie about the nature of magnets ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1lL-hXO27Q ): "You'd soon ask me about t…

May all world-class mathematicians take a look at the AI alignment problem such that humanity can have a better chance of passing through, and may some of them decide to not focus …

There's been some new videos uploaded with her and the rest of the prize winners (and the winners of other prizes, like the Gauss Medal): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTPyjR3qmT…

Here's the Vulkan version of that: #version 450 struct Material { Despite the name, GLSL is still used all over the place in Vulkan pipelines. The site teaches you the shader appro…