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"Byte-for-byte"

What are some traditional automated refactoring tools that can do stuff like those tasks from the example?

For one made by a real band check out Sturgill Simpson's cover

A lot of software engineers do still care how software is produced. That's a good thing!

That's how JWT is designed to work

Code cannot and should not be self documenting at scale. You cannot document "the why" with code. In my experience, that is only ever used as an excuse not to write actual document…

Test automation is kind of like a religion. It is comforting to believe that the solution to code is more code.

I find it to be more difficult. Especially if I can't pane the files in view comfortably (ie. beyond 2 or 3 it gets significantly harder to work across them). Some frameworks or co…

That settles it

It's hard to tell with these releases if Anthropic's astroturfing campaign has come to HN or not but I feel like it probably has

Estimation is an art, not a science. It's always going to be a judgement call by the engineers tasked with giving them to management. Taking all of the factors from this article an…

Trade Joe's maybe I could see but how did Whole Foods make this list?

I see them as conflicting viewpoints because as a general rule companies do not focus on > Long term financial interests, mostly. It's great that you as an individual feel otherwis…

> Not a great regulatory move, in my opinion. > But I really wish ad companies would implement this rule across the board. You don't see how these are conflicting viewpoints? What …

Account created 16 hours ago posting highly dubious AI hype? This user is almost certainly part of the intense astroturfing campaign likely financed by Anthropic that has been ongo…

Their rationale is written here, May 21 2021 final comment on the closed issue from the creator themself. Even in 2021 this was a dubious argument to make given the browser landsca…

Absolute madness and no thank you. Have others not noticed the extremely obvious astroturfing campaign specifically promoting Claude code that is mostly happening on X in recent da…

I think that's true and it's also a convenient way to "smuggle" in Google's most important doodads: their tracking apparatus which includes all of the single sign on and MFA stuff …

The AirBNB JS style guide is kind of like a relic in time from the transition to ES6 etc. Leave it in the past. Their only argument for not supporting eg. "for-of" is because of "l…

I'm not talking about unnecessary (nor incidental) complexity. That is a whole other can of worms. I am talking about the complexity required given what you need to a system to spe…

Nothing can remove complexity other than simplifying requirements. It can only be shuffled around and distributed to other areas of the system (or library, or vendor functionality …

I hear this argument as an excuse not to write comments (sometimes at all). Maybe I am just lucky but I have never had this issue as you've described in codebases, and if I did, ce…

Explain "why not what" is good general advice. My further advice for comments is: even bad comments can be useful (unless they're from LLM output maybe...) therefore when in doubt,…

The soap opera effect (caused by motion smoothing and similar settings) is the one that bugs me most. It's good for sports where the ball is in motion and that's it. Makes everythi…