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Many windows programmers fail to appreciate this. If you're using a language that provides argv-style functionality, the quoting and escaping mechanism is entirely at the mercy of …

It's an interesting idea but I think the usefulness would be greatly enhanced if it could handle json arrays; most needed json structures contain array elements in my experience

I think the point made in the article is that they wanted to build gpt 5 but they renamed it to 4 turbo because the improvements over 4 weren't what they were expecting

On my feed this appeared almost next to "10 rules of Zen programming" - What a contrast. If you feel anger and frustration after reading this, I'd definitely suggest you find and r…

I have been programming for over 40 years, mostly in fairly verbose languages but nowadays mostly in JavaScript and clojure, both of which can be very concise. I find I spend most …

I'm afraid I take issue with the phrase "amazingly performant". I would struggle to come up with another way of determining whether a number near 2^32 is even that takes anything l…

It's fine if it's convenient for staff to have to take PTO at a time to suit the company For some that won't work out at well. My partner has to work shifts all over the Christmas …

My no 1 rule is simply not to let others tell you what you should enjoy. If you know what you like, the opportunities for finding that enjoyment are much expanded!

I'm surprised nobody has pointed out what seems to be a fairy obvious limitation: the children within a parent cannot be ordered (unless you want to splice them in the middle of th…

Yes I'm surprised the author didn't manage to find an artist or track with an SQL injection - surely someone must have tried

Hey Google, write me a 500 word blog entitled "Unleashing the Power of Language Models: A hacker's Manifesto" then send it straight to hacker News

As an atheist and a materialist (in the philosophical sense), I'm forced to the conclusion conclusion that all humans really are no different from LLMs. We take in information, pro…

Maybe I've been exceptionally lucky (although I've been very conscious to only work for SMEs which I think has a lot to do with it), but I always try really hard to figure out what…

I'll be the first to admit I know almost nothing about go, but it's surprises me to find we're still inventing languages with bobby traps like this, especially bobby traps that wer…

"We" don't have to do anything. People are inventing new things all the time in every possible sphere of life. If something proves to be more popular than what's already out there,…

I have to say that's not been my experience. I find most people will have a similar opinion of what's clean code and if I point out something that's messy they'll usually respond w…

I find that almost all coders can recognise clean code but many fail to produce it. I think partly it's down to the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" mentality - once it's working t…

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