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Language choice had less impact than people first assume even before LLMs in most software. A good engineering team produces good code in whatever language they happen to be using.…

IME Python has been very pleasant to use with types, even though they are not nearly as expressive as Haskell. I've noticed a shift in my own work where I spend more time playing w…

Are you one of the folks thinking of upgrading? If so, from what generation? What makes you excited? Isn't this a more interesting way to have the conversation?

Are you familiar with ACP[0]? Through that protocol you can run claude code within zed[1]. Or perhaps I'm not understanding what you mean by using CC integration. [0]: https://agen…

I let Gemini add events to my calendar, but that's about it. All the actions in the app require explicit approval. [ insert butter bot meme here ]

Deel and Rippling: https://www.reuters.com/technology/former-rippling-employee-...

You can see an example of the Chain of Thought in the post, it's quite extensive. Presumably they don't want to release this so that it is raw and unfiltered and can better monitor…

Agreed. It's mainlined a lot of plugins that I used to use in Chrome and default keyboard shortcuts that I would have chosen myself. Window management, spaces, and automated tab li…

When does the møøse arc begin in Twitter's storyline?

"Yet" is the operative word. Many banks were insolvent in 2008, or have we so quickly forgotten the lessons from the housing crisis.

I do this regularly, and to the extent that I'm able I put the task in the description so that my team knows more or less what I'm prioritizing. You can also create recurring OOO a…

> I saw a crow (or a raven, never quite sure) Assuming you mean it's difficult to tell the difference, as opposed to just in this case: Telling them apart is fairly straightforward…

Agreed, this made my day! Such a fun idea and well executed.

I find that Linux devotees often leave out the compromises they've made in their computing choices. Thank you for stating yours, it helps contextualize the reasons for choosing Ubu…

This is a curious position to take given that it's mostly a personal choice. People will like what they like, and that's perfectly fine! No need to denigrate frontend devs, or anyo…

I wouldn't consider them rules inasmuch as they're things to keep in mind when working in a Haskell codebase, in much the same way GoF has been useful for OO programmers for decade…

Indeed, and the meta at the time was Vagrant on top of Virtualbox!

What makes this formalization fake?

And by book you are referring to "The Rise of Meritocracy"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Etymology

Simon Peyton Jones' seminal work "Implementation of Functional Programming Languages" is available free of charge now that it's out of print[0]. If you haven't read it yet I'd high…

I've seen a fair number of folks in the mechanical keyboard community (admittedly rather small already) that customize their switches. For example, a common mod for mechanical swit…

Your response coupled with your username gave me a shiver, heh. That said, why would the Fed tighten money in the fall when we're so close to an election year? I know they hold lon…

I believe the argument for open source is that the community can continue to maintain the software long past when the creator stops (for whatever reason). Responsible maintainers w…

Clojure is often billed as "just another JAR" and in my experience I've never felt the need to install via any package manager. My workflow often consists of a new leiningen projec…

It seems to me like this gives the company free ideas and feedback they can then turn around and implement in their core business. Is this too simplistic, or is this simply not pra…