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Definitely the hallmark of junior. Obsession with code deduplication as the highest pri when it’s quite low among others.

> that can't hold invariants in their head across thousands or millions of lines of code and possibly an exponential number of interactions. There’s your problem. And static typing…

“Until you get better” at pedaling, training wheels can help. It’s not an arrogant take; it’s arrogant to think you know static typing is a requirement for developing software well…

Simply put, even solipsism is unfalsifiable.

Not even to optimize for, but to write correct programs you really need to understand the runtime which is usually broader than the syntax. All Clojure (lisps) do is remove the stu…

Clojure was explicitly designed to be dynamic. It’s a feature, not a bug. https://clojure.org/about/dynamic Until you get better at not making mistakes that the training wheels of …

I’m willing to be wrong but this industry-wide emphasis on AI creative/coding workflows seems way over-engineered. Ime successful creative execution looks like micro-iterations whe…

> When I think about a programming problem, I think in terms of the sequence of instructions I need the computer to do, and the memory locations that can hold the information the c…

In Austin we have most notably Terra Toys and Toy Joy. Terra Toys is 50 years old, its space shows it. Hand-written recommendations and prices. The employees demonstrate and play w…

> HTML is marking up the meaning of the document. Is this true at all anymore, except for SEO optimized sites/content? For apps, it’s all layout, isn’t it — and HTML, JS, CSS have …

One way to potentially discourage or curb AI-edited/written is integrate AI into HN so that your submissions get recommendations based on HN post guidelines such as “consider tone”…

Being able to solve problems with true simplicity is a master’s skill. The skill to recognize simplicity and its value is a skill as well. You can try to explain this OP’s concept …

$100 says AI got at least some notes effecting the copy of this post

This seems very much a stunt. OpenClaw marketing and PR behind it?

I coded up a crossword puzzle game using agentic dev this weekend. Claude and Codex/GPT. Had to seriously babysit and rewrite much of it, though, sure, I found it “cool” what it co…

Had the same thought but feels too overly optimistic. I don’t think people “internet” for trust, but for dopamine.

> but the truth is that behind the volatility and public speculation, there has been a smooth, unyielding increase in AI’s cognitive capabilities. > We are now at the point where A…

This is one of those discourses that disappoints me about our industry. Estimation can be done. It's a skillset issue. Yet the broad consensus seems to be that it can't be done, th…

Someone might run: curl -s https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/resources/bad-words.txt | tr -d '\r' | while read -r w; do curl -s -X POST https://subth.ink/api/thoughts -H 'Content-Type…

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Love this. Is there a scrape-able list of these?

Just d/l’d. Thx. Exploring… Looks interesting!

https://xelly.games/ Vine but for user-submitted microgames Docs: https://xelly-games.github.io/docs/intro

Docs for game developers: https://xelly-games.github.io/docs/intro