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As opposed to what? If you ask a non-programmer to install Claude Code, just installing it will be a challenge, then opening the shell and interacting with it. Things as simple as …

This feels like trying to rewrite history. Those of us who lived through that time know that it was real - Microsoft was extremely anti-Linux. That famous Ballmer quote wasn't take…

When has 20% projects ever been about bypassing every launch process and just posting your product publicly? Google may be a big bureaucracy now, but launch approvals and processes…

My initial thought there is that you'd have an imbalance. Many token patterns would almost never come up with the assistant tag on them, for example words with typos in them.

255 characters ought to be enough for everybody, right?

Save As works fine for simple websites with static content. Let's say you have a site that fetches content from a database. If you Save As, then at best you'll get a local copy of …

Not all JavaScript, but a lot of APIs are restricted

Sure, but it used to be only a small fraction of students, not nearly half the entering class

If only there was a national standardized test that assessed whether students are prepared for college or not. Oh, wait

Why is that better than just requiring the SAT, which while imperfect does a great job at weeding out students who have A’s in math but can’t solve 8th grade algebra problems.

I remember at Google at around 2007 - 2009, as Google was massively expanding its data centers, there was a lot of unused capacity, especially during off-hours. Any engineer could …

Do you really think this "works great"? I'm using a brand-new MacBook Pro with a high-end M5 processor, and this site is extremely unresponsive for me. Huge latency between clickin…

There are periods of time where I might spend 80% of my time "coding", meaning I have minimal meetings and other responsibilities. However, even out of that 80% of my time, what fr…

Exactly. If you want Apple-quality headphones to go with your MacBook Neo, the USB-C Earpods are $19: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/myqy3am/a/earpods-usb-c

I think mobile deposit by scanning a check with your smartphone camera is one piece of it? I've never seen a bank offer that feature via their website.

Yeah, but there are dozens of AI coding assistants to choose from, and the cost to switch is very low, unlike switching operating systems. I've tried them all and I keep coming bac…

Also it's highly multithreaded / multiprocess - you can run subagents that can communicate with each other, you can interrupt it while it's in the middle of thinking and it handles…

If you watch the climb you'll see that the skyscraper definitely wasn't quite so straightforward - there were some interesting challenges along the way. Of course, no question El C…

Yes, in WebKit, SaferCPP guidelines are enforced by a static analysis tool.

I was at Google when the Flutter team started building Fuchsia. They had amazing talent. Seriously, some of the most brilliant engineers I've worked with. They had a huge team. Hun…

Has it been good leadership, though? They invested BILLIONS of dollars on things like: * Firefox OS * Mozilla Persona * Mozilla VPN * Firefox for TV (e.g. Amazon Fire) * Lockwise *…

But if your goal is to be a musician, a music degree is basically useless. Whether you want to play in an orchestra, perform in a rock band, or compose video game soundtracks, nobo…

Consider that there is some in-between. Some college students may be genuinely interested in one particular subject, but they're required to take a bunch of other courses, and cons…

The Grammy awards for music are the same thing. Members aren't required to listen to the nominated albums, and every member gets to vote in every category. I had a friend who was a…

Ha ha, that's a great idea! I love the idea of embedding sensitive topics that ChatGPT and other LLMs will steer clear of, within the context of a coding question. Have you ever ha…