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I've seen lots of code that people have maintained for 20 years and its full of these duplication and worse. In fact I'm sad to say that majority of code I've seen people write and…

I think a lot of people here have either not read the article fully or are misapprehending it. Neither this author nor most other sane people I know claim that the code or architec…

Phew .... I saw the title and thought this was some horrid LinkedIn post from a "Founder" dad about teaching his kids how to pitch their startup to investors ... Luckily it's not a…

Installation of software has usually become simple and easy enough that I feel more safe if i just look it up on the official source and run some curl or package manager command to…

I and everybody else here call BS on that. People make mistakes all the time. Arguably at similar or worse rates.

Intelligent people tend to reproduce a lot less than other people. You wanna be average (or slightly above) for the best chance at successful procreation. And hyper-intelligent peo…

It's not really about the implementation of Java (might be bad, I don't know). It is the specification. - People talked about null being an issues and that is a big one. - The enti…

Especially since the US is not going to have any allies anymore soon.

I'm a big fan of high-level languages and abstractions. I'm just not a fan of bad abstractions.

I think we are just used to it. Like we are used to so many suboptimal solutions in our professional and personal lives. I mean, look something like C++ or the name "std::vector" s…

There are lots of suboptimal solutions for lots of problems out there. I don't know why it would matter if the Linux Kernel does the same mistake. And I'm sure that wasn't the only…

I'm hoping for a future in which humankind looks back with embarrassment at this silly period in its history in which people used to think a leaky and bad abstractions like garbage…

I do not know the guy, and I do not care who he is. This really is not "slop". I can attest to the validity of almost all of his points based on my own career. And even if he used …

For the most part, yes. Because people usually read docs and test it on their own. But I remember a few people long ago telling me confidently how to do this or that in e.g. "git" …

Yeah, for the most part. But I've even had a few instance in which someone was very sure about something and still wrong. Usually not about APIs but rather about stuff that is more…

Are you sure? I've been confidently wrong about stuff before. Embarrassing, but it happens.. And I've been working with many people who are sometimes wrong about stuff too. With LL…

It's the tragedy of the commons all over again. You can see it in action everywhere people or communities should cooperate for the common good but don’t. Because many either fear b…

About 7 or 8 years ago I worked at a startup which got money from Softbank / Masayoshi Son. Our founder and our CTO went to meet him in LA IIRC to pitch. They came back telling us …

I think in most of my projects, many of the C++ packages I used for work (lots of computer vision, video codecs etc) I had to compile and host myself. The latest and greatest of Op…

I think it's mostly the fact that C dependencies are much rarer and much harder to add and maintain. The average C project has at most a handful of other C dependencies. The averag…

Also pretty sure it is a feature because the general population wants to have pleasant interactions with their ChatGPT and OpenAI's user feedback research will have told them this …

I'm assuming "High Availability" is what is really meant here.

When you are commenting your schema, that's true. Anything which is generated by machines doesn't need comments either. But when it's written by people? And the values? That belong…