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I imagine that it should be clear to everyone here now, until I read threads like this comparing child development to the advances in LLM building. It’s like saying that a new M-Ap…

This part of your comment, “just show me stuff that reflects what I value,” makes me think about the political manipulation used in social networks. It’s scary to learn about primi…

They don’t develop. We should stop anthropomorphizing LLMs. AI labs are improving the ML techniques used to build better models; it’s a big difference.

A healthy life is more invigorating. You can sustain a month of 996 if your project is under fire (it may happen in a startup). But more than that is unsustainable: you have less s…

I had a similar situation. Google really needs to improve its model usage and payment UX. My solution was OpenRouter. Their dev and testing chat can generate images with Google mod…

To complement the excellent answers that I read in this thread: an eval is a test. What makes it particular for the case of AI is: - there are many situations where you can’t test …

The UNIX scene was funny and probably included because of some marketing arrangement with SGI. I haven’t seen mentions of UNIX in other movies. For context: in Jurassic Park, there…

It's funny that you mention CORBA, because my first contact with Java was through a C++ CORBA service that interfaced with Java (this was around 1999). After that, I worked for man…

This part: > What surprised me was that Java supported processing ZIP files and XML from its standard runtime. Makes me feel old. Java was developed at a time when most people conn…

But what is the alternative? Many of these systems are added to digital wallets due to legal requirements or fraudulent cases. For example, one case of fraud that I’m aware of happ…

Mainly DX. Deno has many of those things now, but my past experience wasn’t good. The first versions of Deno had a lot of friction; Bun however was more or less useful from day 1.

I'm a happy Apple ecosystem user. However, there are many more Windows and Android users worldwide. I think that the appeal of this product is that the Wintel monopoly of years ago…

An alternative take on the section: “Why teams keep building tours anyway”. Teams keep building product tours because the other option is to invest heavily in trial-and-error user …

Mainly for web browser plugin authors implementing AI assistants (Gemini/Claude/OpenAI/Copilot). Instead of parsing or screen-shooting the current page to understand the context, a…

I agree that Arcade is poor. However, I’ve been subscribed to it since its inception because it is the best way to have games that my kid can play without shady ads or engagement p…

It’s the OpenGraph description metadata (“og:description”, see https://ogp.me/ ) Many apps, like Slack and LinkedIn, use it to display a link card with a description.

There is no doubt that a product’s community culture and the maintainer’s attitude have a significant influence. However, I used Perl and stopped using it without knowing anything …

I guess we have different perspectives and information about the “rise” of VSCode. I was an Atom user. Even before the acquisition of GitHub the major feature of VSCode was its spe…

You just described Eclipse RCP. The issue with Eclipse and that approach is the complexity of mixing plugins to do everything, which kills the UX. When VSCode started, the differen…

Given their extensive expertise in browser and OS plugins, I understand this move. You can foresee a challenging future for the Grammarly product for a long time. Now that the "imp…

Both (Backbone and CoffeeScript) were created by Jeremy Ashkenas. He had a very prolific year.

Agree, but the article was about comparing React and Backbone. There are a gazillion of options that resolve the same problems: Vue, Svelte, Solid, Lit, etc. Backbone was born as b…

I worked with Backbone, Angular 1, Ember, and then React. The article overlooks the problems that made React popular: - Composition: Composing components is easier and more efficie…

Oh, the nostalgia! Looking at the project felt like taking a trip in a time machine: the blog on Blogspot, the release files on SourceForge, the use of Delphi, and the screenshots …