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That approach sounds similar to the Idris programming language with Type Driven Development. It starts by planning out the program structure with types and function signatures. The…

It feel silly to say that AI is curing cancer. Normally a phrase like that would sinal the apex of the hype cycle but I guess it actually has some meat in this situation. Using AI …

Heya HN! I'm exploring ways to integrate GitHub Copilot more effectively into my daily development work across different domains: web, backend, and mobile app development. My idea …

Here's a fun project that you could try. Use TTS to transcribe books but make the transcriptions feel more realistic. Give each character in the book a unique voice. Leading charac…

That would depend on the culture of your team and larger workplace. Healthy teams should be checking in frequently to talk about ideas, reviewing big things, scoping upcoming work,…

Check out the Upwind section of this PG essay (and the rest of the essay). http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html What do you want to do with coding? What's going to give you the most l…

Polymer powered a few other things at Google too. Look at the DOM for YouTube, that dev team started with Polymer for Web Components and talked about how they built an internal lib…

Ah, this missed the mark since the domain is all political/state related. I saw the mental liquidity story from today and it reminded me of an old book they published about how to …

Wallaby.js is a no-brainer tool for writing frontend unit tests. I see a lot of people at work struggle with unit testing. For the productivity boost it gives, it's easily worth th…

Shows some helpful ways to reason about open problems with incomplete information.

Pair with ChatGPT 4 to set up the project design. I try to give as much context as possible. Stating goals and risks of the project. The more info you give it, the better it does a…

Hey would she want a laptop for free? I have a 2007 macbook with lubuntu that works great. I used to use it for trips and it's a total workhorse. The computer architecture is funky…

Part of it probably comes down to company culture. Working at a place full of people that are engaged and fixing/reporting/debating things is healthy. It's a good environment for p…

- getting used to designing abstractions before coding - laying out how I'm going to program before starting - using TDD for most bug fixes and refactoring efforts - learning how t…

Honestly, hire a personal trainer to help you stay on track. Keep with it for at least 6 months. I started this back in December and it has been great! Left to my own devices I wou…

This is a great idea! With everything on the internet trending towards instant gratification, it's counter intuitive for some of the most rewarding things to be slow. Building new …

Yeah, the world goes through cycles of sucking. It's not all one problem. It's just a bunch of problems piling on at the same time over the last few years. Most of it boils down to…

There are some market inefficiencies that have been documented but they seem rare. The post earnings announcement drift (PEAD)[0] is a thing that exists but shouldn't if markets we…

Some tea or fun books like "Hyperbole and a Half". Also, sharing Christmas with my family.

Since we're all speculating, I would guess that ocean acidification could be at play here. The arctic regions are carbon sinks so they experience acidification earlier than other p…

What books/talks/articles did you love having learned from before doing a big legacy migration? I'm looking for any good material on upgrading legacy systems from both an engineeri…

> The resulting idea is excellent but it's technically hard. I've put all the resources of my company and myself into getting it made. I'm with you and want you to crush it! Playin…