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Not the point of this article, but that schema design is quite bad.

- Managing Gigabytes - Hacker's Delight

His book, "Understanding Software Dynamics", is one of the best technical books I've ever read. Top 3 for me.

Yeah, this reads like cope. So, all software engineering? Then you must have a pretty narrow view of the problem space. Quite a lot of problems have a pretty well defined set of re…

I have no idea how you would take what I wrote as an insult. It's insulting to me that people are paid 400k a year and still think that what I wrote is somehow NOT the baseline. It…

This makes absolutely 0 sense.

I mean, sure, this comment sounds nice on a web forum, but some of us have 0 hesitance bucketing others on a scale of competence. Looking at the state of software I interact with o…

You know, reading these comments is absolutely hilarious. It's because of this and that, hundreds of excuses that dance around the simple truth: you're an incompetent programmer. T…

I'm also more on the negative side because I'm really not convinced by the whole "AI will just automate/remove the boring aspects of life". Every single prototype capability of cur…

Didn't they partner with SourceGraph to make Cody? Here's them talking a bit about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYuh-BdcOfw . Maybe that's why?

No offense to the Atlassian guys, but how do they justify their horrid overall performance with BitBucket?

Yes, I've seen this behaviour on quite a few sites recently, like they're running a bitcoin miner or something. Here's another example: https://zed.dev/ I have no idea what they're…

Ok, I'll be the bad guy and say that the linked demo on loom is just not impressive at all. It's just 10x slower than what a simple regex query would've answered. Again, I'll be th…

Yes, I had to press "Try Again" a few times but, in general, the amount of stuff you can generate is staggering. It's also quite fun to ask it to "invent a programming language in …

ChatGPT is an absolute game changer. And I was very conservative with systems like GPT and DALLE-2. For example, I've been very lazy with automating some things on my work laptop, …

Their business is whatever their metrics say it is. In this case, TikTok is eating their lunch, so their business is to replicate TikTok.

Like Knuth? He even has a book about it: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/484459.Things_a_Computer...