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I agree with most of the points on the article although it doesn't really have much to do with vim (which the author acknowledges). I too have often compared AI usage to vim in the…

True. I used to really enjoy playing casual chess as a kid. Analyzing the positions and try to come up with strategies on the fly was a lot of fun. When I realized that "proper" ch…

I agree. The further I have progressed into my career the more I have been focused on the stability, maintainability and "supportability" of the products I work on. Going slower in…

The current models had lots and lots of hand written code to train on. Now stackoverflow is dead and github is getting filled with AI generated slop so one begins to wonder whether…

The internet used to be controlled in large by Microsoft. Then it wasn't. It does not have to continue to be controlled by Google in the future. Not using Chromium based browsers i…

In my opinion, if you care about the open web, then you should not be using a Blink (Chromium) based browser like Brave. The less control Google has, the better for the web.

Only slightly related but on the topic of barcodes and security I'd like to recommend this excellent talk by Felix Lindner, it is quite a few years old but I'd guess stuff like bar…

I think part of the problem is that there seems to be a widespread sentiment among software developers to prioritize our time above the user's. Ease of development trumps ease of u…

The only insight IQ tests can give you is that anyone who gives them any merit is either a moron or uninformed.

I got 10/10 without having any idea who any of the people (except pg) were. The comments always made it possible to link to the companies of the posters somehow. Interesting experi…

I think you are sort of abusing the github logo above the "Closed Source - for a sustainable business model" text. Most people associate it with open source, it doesn't even make a…

Although probably intended as a joke, this is perhaps the saddest comment I have read on HN.

Like GP I was also confused and tried looking for a pricing page but failed. Seems like there isn't a link to it from https://app.codecrafters.io/catalog which is the site you go t…

"Give me a printout of Oyster smiling" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maAFcEU6atk Life imitating art imitating life. Exciting times indeed.

Agreed. And another large part of "media", which didn't exist in the 80s: social media. I think that much of social media has become more blatantly sexual. In the earlier days of I…

Where I work we have two code bases. The older of the two in TFS and the newer in git. In TFS we use trunk-based development and in git we do pull requests. I must say that I very …

I miss the earlier days of the internet where the spirit was more about sharing and less about selling, advertising and competing for "likes".

They can still follow you, comment, like and retweet your posts. You can block them but if you are popular enough it might be a problem. They also make search a lot worse and the h…

I think that adding a (permissive) license is the missing step from this "tutorial". If you want people to use your project you are going to need to give them permission to do so.

Search is such an integral part of how we use the internet today and a vast improvement of the link sites and books from 20 years ago. Competition in this space has never been more…

Is my math failing me or wouldn't 8 digits result in 10^8 possibilities rather than 8^10?

Making methods that you want to be able to mock virtual prevents the compiler from inlining them which can impact performance. I'm sure if that's advisable.

Anyone who has played Pandemic 2, or similar games where you control a virus intent on killing all humans, knows that the most effective strategy is to spread as far as possible wi…

So now Amazon (or whoever is in control of the device) not only has access to voice recordings of everything that goes on in peoples homes, but also video. What could possibly go w…

Slightly OT, but not too long ago I read that it is not uncommon for viruses to remove other known, competing, malware. Does anyone know if anyone has ever made a virus who's only …