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Good points, but implicitly equating good design with functional design irks me. You can define your terms as you wish, but at least be upfront about it. > Branding is centrifugal;…

It is.

I agreed with almost all of it until: >My stance on this has probably shifted in a negative direction over time, primarily because of my growing awareness of how often technology i…

If you were comparing what the other company was charging your company for their developers: Labor and software services have different markets. Because, among other things, tax/in…

Yes, fast-growing companies can grow out of my preference zone and as other commenters said, jumping ship when that happens may be the correct way to go. There are other issues wit…

Most of the people I know who pursue creative/crafting hobbies alongside a software development job have chosen to work for well-known big companies, for prestige and safety, and e…

Reminds me of Dangerous Waters, a submarine/sonar simulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNFcTKo-eVY&t=447s

This reminded me of the story of the VC who tried to avoid meeting Larry & Sergey when they were looking for investment: > David Cowan’s college friend rented her garage to Sergey …

The discontinuities at the used care sale prices graph seems like an arbitrage opportunity on depreciation. Buy right after a round number, sell right before another, pay less on d…

They're probably referring to cloc the counting tool. https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc

I hate to be "that guy" but I find it a little bit sexist that the noob is called "Rachel". OK OK I'm gone.

Sure, but most Maths papers are read by like 3 people in total globally, so there's that.

> the same people prefering stackoverflow over rtfm will gravitate towards this way, and more power to them. Oh! I'd forgotten how big a productivity boost over manpages/offical do…

My 2019 MBP does not support Windows 11 in Boot Camp.

"Fintech" only exists because the banks can't develop software. Change my mind.

> you know you're "enterprisey" if ... you don't know that you're a software company That hit hard. I've seen so many companies that defined themselves as something else, despite e…

> But don't overoptimize what you're learning. Don't limit yourself to learning things that are already known to be valuable. You're learning; you don't know for sure yet what's go…

FWIW ChatGPT is pretty good in generating the specific Bash incantations you need to perform if you describe what you want to do in plain English and don't forget to add the specif…

But that scenario also creates winners and losers, because a loan with an interest rate lower than inflation is wealth transfer from the creditor to the debtor. The privileged, who…

For what it's worth telling GPT-4 you want it to simulate a text adventure game that lets the user enter their actions and dialogue, and pasting the setting and some characters wor…

OK, now integrate another model that creates a textual description of the scene from the camera, put it together with ChatGPT and the physical robot arm in a game loop and prompt i…