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I had done something slightly different. I would ask LLM to prepare a design doc, not code, and iterate on that doc before I ask them to start coding. That seems to have worked a l…

I have learned to not worry about coding style anymore, not because I don’t care, but because too many people care about that. Having worked with one of the largest monorepo, I’m h…

> you just have to keep in your head all the methods that are expected to exist for a given type. Technically, you don't need to keep that in your head :-) The general approach is …

There’s no privacy agreement to sign when setting up the fridge? I had to click on the Agree button several times when I started with my LG TV!

100% click bait title and opening statement. Is journalism that bad these days? Ironically I quite like some of the points in the main content.

First, I want to say that this is a great post. You always grow stronger when you make mistakes. Writing it up solidify understanding in the learning process. This story resonates …

I agree for the most part. However, IMHO using these words (just, simply, etc) occasionally can make the doc more lively and fun to read.

I started walking for at least 30 minutes every morning before work, and it has become a habit during this pandemic. I realized that the best ideas of solving problems came from th…

Storing larger data sets in CSV format is a recipe for disaster. As tech industry we should really come together With a standard binary format for data exchange. Maybe Arrow?

Building queries in a programming language is more flexible and the data operation is explicit. You rely on good programmers to do it right. By contrast, SQL is more constrained ab…

Congrats! Thanks for sharing. I think one of the best decisions you made was the choice of the domain name. It feels authentic.

This statement is so wrong. I am using Julia for at least two mission-critical production systems by now (financial services industry). I have a complete dev ops workflow plus inte…

I love SQS but it isn't quite comparable to Kafka because it is poll-based. It's a solid queue but not suitable for streaming.

How is Kinesis crappy?

The power of multiple dispatch is an eye opener for me personally when I first learned about Julia. It's hard to get back to OOP once you're used to multiple dispatch. It's so natu…

This discourse post seems useful https://discourse.julialang.org/t/writing-a-parser-in-julia/... Not sure about what kind of parser you're thinking about. If you like to do it in J…

I have a working situation where I need to work with Python and Julia. I'd like to say that there are great interoperability between these runtimes, so you can easily call a Python…

It’s more than that though. Once the list is sorted, the next time you come back to it, the list is still more or less in the right priority. So the work for prioritization becomes…

> It’s also rather annoying to type them, but that’s also probably because I just haven’t developed a workflow for it. That's true. I remember hitting C-c and C-v a lot... XD

I don't know if there's any name about this specific refactoring change :-) In general, it is best to create small functions that takes few dependent variables for the intended fle…

>You've just introduced an exponential explosion into your testing burden. The pay-off: additional functionality that might be useful later. > edit On reflection I suppose it's not…