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Obviously he has to talk his book but is there anything concrete to this?

Over the past 12 months I've seen lots of comments all over the place (here, X, legacy media, blogs etc.) making the case for "AI" performance on the IMO (Math Olympiad) being evid…

some info in here https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/john-carmack-s-slides-f...

came here to say similar. GGP is another great example of hn people jumping in to make comments without having even a basic understanding of what they're talking about. Frustrating…

> How hard would it be to automate these iterations? The fact that we're no closer to doing this than we were when chatgpt launched suggests that it's really hard. If anything I th…

I'm a committed Kotlin shill and a very experienced Gradle user but I'm the first to admit that it is absolutely arcane for those new to it. Once you know all the incantations it's…

Very interesting. Bulk of my career has been writing Kotlin/Java and after a year of Go I am _still_ really struggling. Nice to know I'm not alone! I see the benefits (I've have se…

Nice to see someone else banging this drum!

Strong, strong agree on this. That plus the verbosity really adds to the activation energy of getting things done. I reckon I end up writing (and having to read) 5x the lines of co…

As a Java/Kotlin dev now writing Go for a living I agree with quite a bit in here and actually think both languages have things they could learn from the other. Having said that I …

Good afternoon everyone. The UK property market holds a mythic place in British culture (tl;dr since the early 90s it's been the primary driver of wealth creation for the median Br…

Just posting an update to my original article. Should be useful for anyone who needs to get going fast with AWS on Terraform. Leave a comment/issue on the repo if anything's wrong …

Appreciate it, thanks!

Hi everyone, I'm the CTO of an early-stage saas company in the UK and we're starting operations in Nigeria. We are totally focused on building out the team there with a dedicated h…

Aimed at people looking to get started fast, I've written up my barebones multi-env AWS Terraform setup (with a working repo). It might not be the best way to do it but it's pretty…

This has passed me by, what's happening?

comedically broke take isn't it

it's a nightmare isn't it. Are you using the 1.4 compiler?

Over the years I've worked on a few systems that need to consume one-shot webhooks. For whatever reason, retries aren't available/practical and even then I've seen (and er, also wr…