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The article links out to OpenAI's advice on prompting, but it also claims: OpenAI does publish advice on prompting o1, but we find it incomplete, and in a sense you can view this a…

I'm not sure what this comment is trying to insinuate? I mean sure they might have a financial interest, but they're also writing about stuff they know well since they use it.

I'll add my two cents on top of the author's. I have both the Amazon Echo and the Amazon Tap. This article was spot on. I'm perhaps less forgiving than the author. If Alexa can't a…

I got to take Matt's compilers course. He was a really exceptional professor who had a way of presenting pretty mundane and rigorous material in an interesting way. His lectures we…

He addresses this in his post. if x.in? my_set # very ugly With that said, I personally don't agree with the post.

Thank you for this quote. I often think that this gets overlooked in our industry, and I'm no exception. A recent Hanselminutes podcast[1] touched on this. It pointed to a great re…

I'm a current CS student, finishing this year. I work with both people who are self taught and people who have degrees. I think pretty highly of those I work with who are self taug…

Heh, not so complicated. It's just used to generate boiler plate code. Kind of like data object files in C#, Java, PHP, etc. That would be really cool though :).

This was a really cool read :). I'm working on my own DSL for generating code. I'll make a Show HN soon, but it was really cool to see someone else doing something so similar.

I'm taking the class this upcoming semester from Matt. I'm excited to understand what tools like gcc, clang, and so on are doing under the hood.

I agree with the idea of motivation. An anecdote for the OP: In the past when trying to workout it would generally go something like this: * Immediate motivation, go strong for 1-3…

We should always remember to not think in black and white. My first complaint to the article is that it paints a framework as a universal hammer that tries to do many things. This …

The belief that the future will be this dark and gloomy place where one struggles to find work is understandable. Certainly there are things that can indicate this is right. Manufa…

Is there a reason why the author is referring to them as fat arrow functions instead of lambdas? I am not trying to be snarky, this is genuine curiosity if there is something diffe…

Note that this post is in context of building a web application. Learning how to build a web application from scratch is not an easy undertaking. Certainly there is the actual task…

Non techies that I know hear 64 bit and immediately think that it's better. When friends show me a new lap top or whatever else, they say it's 64 bit. When they're shopping they as…

I use it by choice. My desktop has both Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows 8, and I love both operating systems. My work computer is loaded with OS X, which I also love. Perhaps I'm a techie…

That's a great question that I don't have the answer to. I have done some development work for a Shopify site recently. As I recall Shopify's default inventory system would likely …

The one key advantage that Shopify has, as I see it, is that merchants who use Shopify already have their inventory loaded into the system. Synchronizing their online stock and phy…

I'm sure there are counter points to what I'm about to bring up, but three observations: 1. In my experience JSON is frequently output programmatically, and taken in programmatical…

I worked at eBay customer service back in the day, and this was exactly how it worked. In fact, they had automated call statistics not surprisingly. If you had calls within the ave…

I don't think most newbies can dedicate 10 hours a day, seven days a week for six months either. When I first started programming it was hard to sit still for more than an hour and…