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I understood and appreciated it, and I’m not special

Claude Code is pretty sick. I love the terminal integration, I like being able to stay on the keyboard and not have to switch UIs. It did a nice job learning my small Django codeba…

It's just the default argument someone uses when they have nothing of substance to offer to the conversation

Why is sitting in meetings all day considered the top of the IC developer ladder? I don’t want my career to end up like that

Learning to never listen to PMs sounds like the opposite of being humble

How is PTO an “indirect cost”, when salary is a direct cost? The company pays a salary to an employee, which includes time off. Is there a separate accounting rule for PTO that mov…

Microsoft Excel Championship

Sheesh people here are so negative. This is really fucking cool in my opinion. Sports leagues are suffering from declining viewership; it’s great to see them take risks and actuall…

Is number of YouTube views the new metric for gauging how much “people care about learning to program”?

I'm working on a Python-based web application, and would like (near) real-time data for things like ticker prices (current and historic) and options data (prices, greeks). For the …

Consider reading the original notice and decide if you should revise your opinion. https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-0...

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-0... The original grant notice is a good thing to read. They properly justify the cuts, and I think it's something that a…

This is such a wasteful way to think...do economies of scale not apply to universities at all? They're allowed to just bill as if there is 0 savings to be found in bulk constructio…

23 and Me was working on a leaderboard of the most isolated people in the world before they went bust

Is that really the message?

At minimum, to just develop a sense of how the computer loads and de-loads as various services or programs are called

A+ trolling

It’s false except for every time that it has been true

Recently started using replit and I'm pretty impressed. I'm using it to generate a static marketing website for a side project I'm working on and have been pretty happy with the re…

I'm kinda tired of seeing the first comment to a totally unrelated topic be, "you know, LLMs these days can actually..." Where is the creativity? Are we doomed to solve every probl…

I have this pet theory that a well-written dynamically-typed program will have fewer bugs than the typical statically-typed program. Static typing doesn't reduce bugs. It just chan…

Why are you so conditioned to think that fancier titles and more and more money is the end goal of it all?

This guys’ posts read like someone put Paul Graham in a tumble dryer and interviewed him immediately afterwards on a topic pulled from a hat If you ship a project and your manageme…

Wow!