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> you have enough interactivity to warrant a single-page-application as your frontend. however, you also want people without javascript enabled to be able to read the bits that don…

Read this over a decade ago and it’s been on my mind a lot lately. Very timely. The notion of the inner solar system being converted into computronium sounds less and less far-fetc…

Is it just me or is this a giant red flag? > My team has a sandbox where we create, deploy, and run AI-generated code without a human in the loop.

> Banks are a good example. I don't think they are losing much money with their software experience. > Corporate websites (also mentioned in the article) is another thing that just…

And, it's a great picture book as well. https://www.davidspilmanfinebooks.com/pages/books/13948/caro...

Now’s a good time to post your resume here since you’re getting this attention! Edit: doing it for ya… https://www.ryanmercer.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanmercer317 https:/…

"For the purpose of this report, Hired examined software engineering candidate interview requests (IVR) and salary data from January 2021 through December 2022 inclusive. The data …

Had to look up “motivated reasoning”… https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-97...

I will add that sites like Roll20.net solve the problem of online gaming for D&D (and many other TTRPGs), but your points still stand.

I think this company is highly optimistic, but this might fit the bill: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/space-hotel-orbital-assem...

This. I recall most predictions saying 2024 would be the tipping point, but even then I doubt regulations at the local and national level will change that fast.

Or even more extreme, perhaps, TAILS on a stick and you just yank the stick when you're done. As long as you don't connect via Tor you're all alone.

Ah memories. My first machine was a Classic ii. I think it might be in a friend's garage in Ohio, will have to check with him. Thanks for the great post!

"The goal is not to be better than someone else; the goal is to be better than you were yesterday." (to paraphrase the Dalai Lama)

I recall seeing my first PHP/FI page in the middle 90s. PHP was a godsend after you'd suffered with Apache's "server side includes" [0], which is largely what it was used to replac…

I guess you could describe it that way, but it reads more like a journal.

> I'm also curios to know if it depends on the career, maybe a ML Engineer need more note taking than an electrician who wire cables I started keeping a “log” back in 1999 just for…

A few years ago I pulled out Higher Order Perl and started playing with some of the advanced features/techniques available in the language. And it was really fun! I think Perl was …

For me it’s any kind of text processing; especially code generation for some one-off task, like churning out SQL or bash scripts/shell commands. Faster than doing it by hand. __END…

Agreed, and the cpan shell too.

CPAN was definitely the envy of other languages for many years but I feel most have caught up by now.

Perhaps OP meant Pascal programmers arguing among themselves, rather than arguing with anti-Pascal programmers? I'd expect such a smallish community of developers to find plenty of…

> I've got the voice of doubt in the back of my head always wondering what I'm missing, what if they're right, etc. It's a serious bummer. There's probably a saying somewhere along…

> Would you mind sharing some things that juniors have forced that you think are bad? Nested ternary operators... though, because of how TypeScript does constants, I saw why they u…