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Location: Toronto (EST) Relocate: Maybe (depends on job/location) Technologies: python, ts/js, elixir, SQL, react, Django, nodejs, postgres, AWS, GCP, Terraform CV: https://www.lin…

I have seen code bases that are amazing. I have seen ones that look bad, but work. About a year and half ago I saw my first fairly large scale fully AI generated project and it fil…

I heard on some podcast that there is such a thing as: "Microsoft Excel World Championship" and someone named Diarmuid Early won it last year. I would pay $2.56 to watch an Excel b…

Location: Canada (EST) Remote: yes relocate: probably not Technologies: python, JS, TS, Elixir, golang, Postgres, CouchDB, Terraform, k8s, React, django (a bunch more, want to be b…

I am not worried about personal atrophy. I am worried about young people who never learn the fundamentals and blindly believe everything the llm say.

I am a Luddite holding on. 1) solving the problem myself is the fun part of the job 2) writing emails or whatever, I want it to be my voice, not some bland average of everything sl…

I did CS and have been writing code for 20+ years. For the past two years, helping clients adopt LLMs into their business logic. It has lots of good use cases. But, I can recognize…

Is it still Paul Graham/Robert Morris working on it? Skimmed the article but did not see a ref. need to check out what it adds to CL: http://arclanguage.org/

its a one liner with: https://imagemagick.org/script/command-line-tools.php The "solution" stated is hilarious.

Might spawn a new occupation: sniff sommelier!

This might be fun: Train on java compiled to class files. Then go from class back to java. Or even: Train java compiled to class files, and have separate models that train from Clo…

I am in Toronto, Canada. I don't have the open to work flag on in LinkedIn. Two years an ago, even with the flag off, would get recruiters reaching out daily (> 20 years experience…

There is a nice book that goes into detail of his life called: "The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution"

Peter Schweizer's great book Blood Money goes into the current state of the art with TikTok (and a bunch of other stuff).

People should check out Google's JAX. Work in a high level language and run anywhere. Nvidia should just be commodity hardware if people avoid vendor lock in.

It will happen someday. Still decades away. No true learning in the current LLMs just plagiarism so far to get better. I work at a place that is trying to use LLM to do a thing. ju…

I have tried to use VSCode more, but, the original emacs keyboard movement is burned into muscle memory. VSCode has a keyboard mapping for emacs, but, its does not feel right. At t…

I worked at a place that had a half built distributed system that we still needed to use (many bidders buying Ad space from a API based market). one great thing with tramp is that …

search for "shane macgowan teeth" for a laugh.

Famous Irish band's singer that was big in the 80-90s. If you have ever been in an Irish themed pub that plays music, you have probably heard one of their songs: https://www.youtub…

a lot has changed and 15 years and also python's traditional slow pace of change is less true (Guido van Rossum liked it that way and the BDFL has moved on). to just get a refresh …

as a 20+ year developer, this is excellent. One of the bigger leaps for me (which the author mentions) was going from toy CS assignment projects where I wrote all the code and knew…

I worked in it for 13 years (worked on one of the biggest non shooter games in the world). (this was ten years ago). I moved to new city to work and did so much overtime that when …

Dated!? Dated!? You think that is dated looking? Ha! If you want to see dated do an image search for: "Oscar EMR Canada" and you can feast on dated UI. Socialist software forever! …

The control key is in the right spot for emacs! Bravo on the project. I wish I new hardware better.