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Sure, ensuring maintainability is one of the benefits of code reviews, but I think it is a bold claim to say that's the solo purpose. For example, code reviews is also a tool that …

>I just don't see a world where every corporation is building their own accounts, crm, hr software. I do see a world where every corporation would use agents-friendly platform to c…

AI? This article is about memory allocation strategies... Did I miss something?

I have had so much fun lately just with vanilla VS Code and Claude Code. Aider is a close second.

Not really. This is an example of something that Claude Code handles very easily and for Github Copilot, is not even an starter (because can't read SQLite files) >Read the Sqlite f…

Quoting OP's: |> it inspired me to create this small game. It was inspiration, not a simulation nor it claimed to be realistic. This is the type of artistic license that game desig…

> Again, I still feel like code is the ideal solution to "ad-hoc reproducible calculations" I am a developer and I do my personal budgeting on a spreadsheet. It was easier to setup…

>The argument that this is 90% of what matters in ML seems a bit bold. AFAICT it is completely missing reinforcement learning, Wouldn't that account for the other 10%? To me it sou…

> Ignore the critics. Watch the demos. Play with it With so many smoke and mirrors demos out there, I am not super excited at those videos. I would play with it, but it seems like …

I think the context of iOS is safely implied here. To say you have the option of going Android is as relevant as giving the option of doing a mobile app; Sure it is an option but o…

>do something serious I guess it depends on what you mean by serious. Pre-training a competitive LLM with current methods and consumer hardware is prohibitive for sure. Solving a c…

Fair, I think what makes this case interesting is that he wasn't an athletic outlier for most of his life, so the question on how many dormant athletes are out there remains. Maybe…

>Why can't you click & drag the words to reorder them? That level of difficulty is part of the game. There is a shuffle button to ease the ideas generation but most likely is was d…

I am definitely not the target audience for this. I am that person that keeps typing while people send voice notes, and now the only way to interact with this device is via voice? …

There are a few things on this comments that is causing noise in my mind. >might make you a better programmer, it won't make you a better software engineer I think it is a short-si…

>Honestly, what do you expect Spotify to do? Not try to stay competitive That's a reductionist way of looking at it, but an alternative way would have been what Daniel said on that…

This! I recommend the book[1] as a slighty less addictive version. [1] https://www.amazon.ca/Revolution-Valley-Paperback-Insanely-G...

I would be curious to see references that claims that dynamic and static typing are orthogonal with strongly typed systems, as “strongly type” is rather ambiguous and the only reas…

> but Pascal’s type system was pretty solid To be honest, this is a matter of styles, coming from a dynamic type background I don’t appreciate strongly typed systems as an advantag…

>This is getting pretty old. Well the singular use of "They" is actually pretty old [1]. I don't think it is confusing readers as they did mention a name. > I just can't help rolli…

The tone of the website has a very tongue-in-cheek tone to me. Taking it seriously is like doing journalism research using The Onion.

Those are great, thanks for sharing. Also, great website!

Sounds like what startups do these days :)

There are several. If I remember correctly the story is featured in Woz’s book iWoz, but also in Job’s official biography. There is also a mention in the Wikipedia article of break…

> You know what is fun when it comes to work? Things that work, are named appropriately, are understandable, and people not needing trivialities I don’t know I agree with this. Mic…