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SoylentOrange

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About SoylentOrange

University of Toronto alum ex-IBM, Yelp, Symantec

Current startup founder / CTO

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    Comment #48158175

    Great article, well written, and good analogy to chess. I’ve been playing competitive chess most of my adult life and I think that the solution lies in how chess dealt with this pr…

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    Comment #45804790

    Reffie | Multiple Roles | Toronto, Canada & Austin, Texas (ONSITE/HYBRID) | Full-time Reffie is the next-generation workflow and data analytics platform for residential real estate…

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    Comment #45199542

    This looks very useful for Mac setup! I just wish there were a Linux option. Like in the example config doc, I have a dotfiles repo in Github. It includes some basic settings for v…

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    Comment #45067782

    Please forgive the clickbait title. My team and I have been using every AI tool under the sun but have found them making the same mistakes on our codebase and I thought I would sit…

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    Comment #44689299

    I’d like to add to the reasons for why you want an SPA over something with SSR: * You have a large number of users compared to your resources and you can’t afford for your user bas…

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    Comment #44001369

    Just a small note about mypy and python - annotations are first-class citizens in Python3 and are not tied to any particular type checking system such as mypy, but are instead a co…

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    Comment #42526381

    This comment reads like a culture problem not an LLM problem. Imagine for a moment that you work as a developer, encounter a weird bug, and post your problem into your company’s Sl…

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    Comment #41653042

    I don’t understand this point. The project under scrutiny is Android and people are detecting vulnerabilities both manually and automatically based on source code/binary, not over …

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    Comment #40465315

    I was really excited for this - I’ve been saying to all my friends that I wish I could use my kindle for more. Obviously the kindle is quite slow so it’s not a good fit for reading…

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    Comment #40203034

    The Americans is a highly sensationalized and fictionalized retelling of the life stories of Elena Vavilova and Andrey Bezrukov. From a historical/accuracy perspective, there’s bas…

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    Comment #39808765

    You mean like the C++ auto keyword but everywhere?

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    Comment #39804851

    Likely due to better treatments available over the past 30 years.

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    Comment #39160635

    The reasoning is totally wrong and while “no” is likely correct it’s more of a stopped clock sort of situation

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    Comment #39160496

    Unfortunately in this case the answer as written is completely wrong. See the top reply. > If you do not have a fiduciary relationship with Boeing and you have no confidentiality o…

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    Comment #38365031

    Negotiation is always a two way street. I’m a startup founder. Your investors, when they invest, will send you some documents on key provisions (e.g. pro rata rights) and you and t…

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    Comment #37761005

    Why do you dislike him personally?

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    Comment #36764069

    Q: if this is the equivalent of a password, what’s the mechanism for resetting the password? For example, you are selling a used car. Or you have many cars each of which you don’t …

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    Comment #36394744

    Because it takes a lot of time and because the comments can get outdated. I also want this for all my code bases. But do I always do this myself? No, especially on green field proj…

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    Comment #35357575

    In the computer science academic sphere, the conferences at which one is a reviewer is among the top items on a CV. It implies that you are such a pillar and expert in that communi…

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    Comment #35354082

    This seems much more like a problem for the journal and reviewer than it does about ChatGPT. I am a reviewer at several computer science publications. This behaviour is likely agai…

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    Comment #34958565

    There are many well known problems with C++, not least of which are the long compile times, exception handling, and dependency handling. Anyone who has worked with a sufficiently l…

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    Comment #34479015

    This was when I taught in Japan

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    Comment #34478442

    I can’t speak to this, but I can say that many of the Japanese-born students I taught expressed many of these same concerns to me. My female students felt discouraged that they wou…