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Do any of the books you read on the topic stand out as something you'd recommend?

Not sure if I read this the same way you did. At least, this didn't read at all to me as "talking shit," but rather sharing their professional opinion on the (un)likely success of …

I think that misses the point though. C trusts you to design your own linked list. It also trusts your neighbor, your kid, your LLM, you, your dog, another linked list...

Zero technical debt certainly is... ambitious. Sure, if we knew _what_ to build the first time around this would be possible. From my experience, the majority of technical debt is …

I think the difference here is that Penn and Teller are just as much historians of magic as they are magicians themselves. Accepting the honor is also accepting that the history is…

More like that it's politically defined when the numbers become inconvenient.

My rule with Cursor is that unless I know exactly what I want it to do, I have it stay out of my way. If I have a general idea, I may turn on auto-complete. I reserve the agent for…

I played the second game, and your dictionary might need to be adjusted. Asse is certainly not a word. Pretty fun game you got here though. I would like a retry capability so I can…

It's rather telling that you group substance abuse together with rather common and generally benign human conditions such as anxiety and neuroticism, and I find that your rather he…

> Either way you are going to throw it all away once you have settled on what should be the final iteration anyhow. I think this needs to be highlighted, because while I completely…

I find myself agreeing with much of your point, but I feel the need to nitpick a bit of your comment myself :) I don't think your code base needs to be very large, or very legacy i…

My take is that maybe we shouldn't paint all of SV with the same brush. Not every SV company is Philip Morris.

One of the things that's often not considered with these kind of interfaces, is whether or not they're actually possible. For instance, arg3 might only be true if arg1 is also true…

"The pencil is really coming through." I really wish chili mongers would optimize for flavor in addition to heat.

> Is it bad for [...] people to have too much money or not? Yes, by definition. The question is, how much is too much money? And in what context? Put another way, in a given econom…

I'm quite happy it didn't keep going, though not for lack of trying.

I'm excited about the title, but I have to say that my initial impression has left me frustrated. The main README on GitHub[1] smells of corporate-speak. So far I've learned that: …

Also note that the prior large spikes were due in large part to multiple banks failing as well [1]. It's also notable in that this is the second largest bank to fail in the data I'…

It depends on the state of the market. During the banking crisis, 157 banks were closed in one year[1]. [1] https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/bank/

I think that these kind of reviews can potentially be squashed by building consensus around what kind of feedback is right for PRs, what conventions you agree upon using, etc. Far …

I would argue that this too is part of software development. You ought to have a robust process that can accommodate hotfixes while minimally impacting ongoing work. That fix requi…

> But breaking down tasks provides (1) some certainty that you know a thing is achievable, (2) gives you a strong idea of what can be started immediately, and what can be run in pa…

I've been using act[1] as a tool to develop/test actions locally, which has helped a lot for creating new actions and debugging existing ones without incurring additional build cos…

Github Actions supports heavy parallelization and fan-in/fan-out jobs just like CircleCI does, so I'm curious if there's some limitations that I haven't ran into yet. I'd go farthe…

From a development perspective, Stripe is by far the fastest/easiest to integrate with, the most featureful, and has the best documentation. As I understand it, other payment provi…