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Frankly, it sounds like you have a lot to learn about agentic coding. It’s hard to define exactly what makes some of us so good at using it, and others so poor, but agentic coding …

I completely and utterly disagree. Simon is no gifter. Intellectually lazy snobs think that any time someone has genuine delight and excitement about something that they’re “grifti…

Agreed. As a data scientist myself, I can't imagine Julia getting much "mindshare" among us with the JIT experience it has. Perhaps we're not the real target audience for Julia? Bu…

Yeah, this has been my experience as well. I really _want_ to like Julia. But so far the JIT experience has been exceptionally miserable--and unfortunately for me, my typical appro…

Julia's compiled code might be super fast, but developing (or, God forbid, doing any sort of analysis) is painful because of how brutally slow the REPL/interactive environment is. …

Ugh. MBAs? No thanks. Usually it's interactions with MBA-holding folks that gives me heartburn. They try to mechanize everything. I agree that an MBA education is probably fairly u…

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Yes, this is why it's critical to adopt an output/outcome mentality. When you can't see if or when we're working the only signal of status is whether shit is getting done. This sho…

Agreed. I would summarize modern society the same way. In some ways life is vastly improved over prior generations, but I think that masks an alarming amount of b societal decay.

Your listed Do's are great, and I'll add the following: Do: - Read my profile and make it clear in your email or message why you think the position is a good fit (referencing detai…

Oh I think it'll help you successfully quit smoking, but man, quitting vaping is another animal in itself. The problem being that vaping is cheap (especially DIY), and it doesn't s…

https://www.pluralsight.com/tech-index Java might be old, but it's still a long way from dead. And actually it could be argued that it's done a fantastic job keeping up with the de…

Swift? Um, okay... Good language, yes, but it's still very iOS-centric. I generally agree with the assessment of Python, but I'll stick with R for everything it can do. I use Pytho…

I'm unclear from the website what exactly the pitch is. I really like the idea of a grayscale medium intelligence phone which helps counter the addictive nature of smartphones and …

$0 demand? Are you kidding? If there was no demand then Bitcoin's price would be $0. It's not zero therefore demand is also not zero. This is basic economics. Come on, man. No intr…

Excel is remarkable, yes, but I'd argue that given its nature pretty much every reasonably complex workbook can be expected to have at least one bug. Having worked with them a lot …

The TLDR; is that roughly 2,000 more people in the 25-34 age group started farming, which is a roughly 2% increase. Doesn't really sound like news to me, not yet at least. I'd like…

What intrigued me most about the article was that it played the whole "adjunct professors get paid like shit because university funding has fallen dramatically." The truth is that …

Great idea. I'll keep this in my back pocket for future use. The wiley and expensive way is to alter your page

This is very true. My scraping efforts have become vastly more sophisticated after running into explicit attempts to block me. Now I've got all kinds of bells and whistles, and val…

As someone who who does a fair amount of scraping for my job, it's always vastly preferred to simply pay for the data. It's generally more efficient and cost effective then scrapin…