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"GRID" (Gaps, Risks, Inconsistencies, Discrepancies) is a small framework that I developed over time for my spec-driven development using coding agents.

The GP probably meant "unclear".

I strongly second this. In my own experience of about 30 years, I have seen this method to work almost always.

Did you mean to say "in addition to" rather than "instead of"? If yes, then the answer is: sometimes, depending on the other factors.

You parsed it incorrectly. It is the other way, in fact. Several times, people do very interesting personal projects, but fail to perform at the same level at work. That gives a cl…

When I interview people, I ask them to describe one of their difficult work projects. I also ask them if they ever developed anything just for fun. I take their responses to both t…

> We have no way of telling a dynamic universe apart from a static one where we're all just suspended in a single unchanging moment. I am curious to know why you think so. What wou…

> Tangentially, this induces an obvious concern about cheat and cheat-detection arms races. This exists in every domain, and is - perhaps - inevitable. Look at what SEO has done to…

Here is my quick list. - Linux + GNU: My servers would never have been the same without them. - Emacs: So many varied use cases over the years. I can type in Telugu (my mother tong…

A quick question. Have you also included: - storage costs (equivalent of EBS, S3 and Glacier) and - cost of analytics pipelines (equivalent of EMR, Athena, SageMaker, ...) in the a…

Firstly, not many kids and young adults are capable of assessing and understanding what they "truly want". Secondly, someone "truly wanting" something does not always make that "so…

1. This kind of pagination can be done for any key as long as its data type admits total ordering. 2. The WHERE condition typically uses `>` or `<`, so it doesn't fail even when th…

You appear to be referring to a database cursor. It is quite simple to implement pagination in the application layer using a unique record identifier (primary key or ULID or ...) a…

I made a crude proposal for generics in 2011[1], in which I proposed a pair of concepts ("storage class" and "type class") that are somewhat similar to the concept of this "gcshape…

Fascinating! Thanks for the visualisation!

This view is probably too US-centric. There is a lot of the world (including developed world), where people get around everyday without relying on cars for everything. I do not neg…

Highly expressive type systems can lead people to as much design hell as does deep OOP. I have seen and experienced this in at least a couple of projects. The only difference is: i…

Yes, they do. I frequently research historical topics on India, and I get no results or single digit number of results.

That applies to our society at large, as well. As for Wikipedia itself, I stopped contributing a few years ago, since I did not have the energy and the time needed to fight the sys…

Hey Steve! Io is a beautiful language that I got interested in about the time I was learning Ruby (2004 perhaps). Also, for a few years, your pages were the top sources of informat…

My submission did violate the conditions. I was just recollecting what happened; it is not a complaint. I am at variance with those conditions, though. I refer to the benchmarks su…

Several (about 10) years ago, I submitted essentially the same program. It was one of the fastest of all the implementations across all the languages. However, Isaac rejected it, s…