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I think on-device AI will show up more front and center but in a few more years. A big issue to solve is battery life. Right now there's already a lot that goes on at night while t…

> But I’ve seen enough repos that I know what good practices look like. This is the danger - I get why you think it's true, but it's not true. I've mentored many many bootcamp grad…

> committed parenthood. I like this phrasing because that really feels like how the employer looks at it ultimately. "Why, it's as irresponsible as calling in sick!"

Made me think of A City Is Not A Tree - https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/cityisnotatree.html

Oh, oh okay, okay, wow, well, that's an important clarification then.

> rational geeks Geeks are as emotional and irrational as everybody else. They are even worse in fact because they can rationalize their behavior even harder.

> now you have to be careful how and when you use the term "refactor" because the people who ought to be supportive hear "wasting time". Programmers had a hand in this, sadly: http…

It is not a meaningless question? It is a very profound question.

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all my routers run TOMATO

This article is attempting to make some kind of statement about 996 and "look, now it's here!" But this is plainly ridiculous. The Bay Area has been full of high achievers the enti…

Why build understanding when you could be pedantic?

> I think this is just a natural consequence of structuring everything around engagement. Agree - for me this leads to the conclusion that some services should not be run for-profi…

What is really missing is good sex education in schools, especially public schools - and in particular in the United States. The state of sex education in America actually deserves…

Brazil is the end state

Yes, it's a very ancient idea. "As we think, so we become." - Buddha

I'm surprised more folks aren't live to this -- AI is just the scapegoat. The jobs are moving to where labor is cheaper.

Some of the companies in the Fortune 500 have been around for over a century, they understand everything moves in cycles.

It's not that Claude can't but iOS / Apple development is such a bear and beast. You could really build a whole model just to solve for that ecosystem. There are huge issues in the…

> Still thinking about the endgame. It is said by some that the endgame is agents, like Devin. The IDEs are just the start of AI coding.

Maybe we can petition Paul Lockhart to do a book on Linear Algebra, I would definitely buy it.

Fun piece, I'm still curious about a real COLEMAK keyboard.

Of course we are still hiring juniors. We have an intern program as well. I work at a Fortune 500. Nobody in our leadership has been stupid enough to suggest that we could stop hir…