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How would an LLM do prompt engineering for you? At some level, as others have stated, prompt engineering is about specifying the important details so the LLM can do the job. If you…

Self was definitely an influence. It's where the prototype inheritance came from. Not sure that's a good thing. Smalltalk was more traditional in its inheritance model even if it w…

That was my frustration. I made a game in SmallTalk at one point but there was no way to distribute it to people without giving them my whole image. I just wanted a simple .exe to …

Boyd's ideas are laid out really well by his acolyte Chet Richards in his book Certain to Win which applies the military theories to business. If interested at all in this space, c…

As a teenager in the early 90s, this show was gold. Before the internet, getting information like this was hard and the show did a good job keeping things interesting.

That doesn't help if (as stated above) there are a lot of duplicate issues. You still have to figure out which test case applies to each report.

Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan.

What this means is that kids' tastes change and as they grow up, so will their tastes. Being popular with kids does not the next Facebook make. Instead, you are more likely to be C…

They had two CEOs. Let each take one platform.

Blackberry went with the "future OS" and now has cratering market share (under 3%). HTC went with Android, and had a head start over Nokia, and it too has less than 3% market share…

What's the old saying? You can please some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time?

How, after 2 summers as an intern, do you know how many times people were promoted? Microsoft doesn't let people sit around for 12-18 years.

This is what I did. I have a BS in Politics and a MS in CS. Before taking the MS degree, I read a lot of the books one would read for a BS in CS and did a lot of programming. This …

What do you think is the moat that will keep Intel from doing to Arm what they did to the RISC chips? Intel has better process and very capable designers. They are quickly moving d…

Why couldn't loans be made which devalue at a rate pegged to a basket of goods? We track the rate of inflation today, we could just as easily track deflation and loans could be peg…

That is only true if the loss is actually permanent. If the system comes to assume that there are only 10,000,000 coins in circulation, what happens if a substantial portion of the…

The analogy to gold isn't gold that was once possessed that has been lost, it is gold that is newly discovered. A new find of a big gold vein, gold on an asteroid, etc. would be a …

Site seems down now.

That's the 16 GB model. The surface has 32 GB. The version of the iPad with 32GB and 3G is $729.

The Office apps that come with the Surface are the real deal. It's the Home and Student version according to the web site.

You actually do have a choice. If you buy an OEM copy from, say, Newegg, there is no support included. That's part of the reason it is so much cheaper than the retail version.

This question demonstrates what I think has gone wrong with StackOverflow. They have such a narrow view of what constitutes their code mission that they are killing off useful post…

They were replacing things like Symbian, Palm, and Windows Mobile. They required a very different way of thinking than the previous generation of Phone OS's.

A company like Apple does not start using a large set of data without management and legal asking where it came from. It may be that no one completed the circle and added the attri…