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You get over it really quickly once you start actually using it. I find it basically impossible to read Clojure outside the editor in any meaningful sense.

Huge fan of the Voyager with home-row-mods.

This seems totally reasonable. It is designed to be addictive, and they definitely target folks under 18. The article specifically mentions teens.

The tools produce mediocre, usually working in the most technical sense of the word, and most developers are pretty shit at writing code that doesn't suck (myself included). I thin…

That makes sense given that it's trained on real world developers.

I've always heard this sentiment, but I've also never met one of these newly skilled job applicants who could do anything resembling the job. I've done a lot of interviews, and ine…

This is great. One of the things I say to my wife all the time, which is taken from a Kurt Vonnegut quote, is that "I don't have to be good at my hobbies".

It's my preference to a point. I think you can over-do it. I've worked in systems that didn't use it and worked just fine. I would bet most folks err on the side of too little, unl…

Here will be a list of ... things I don't like about them. I did not see a list of things not to like. Just a set of vague thoughtless complaints.

I see a lot of times people (read: me) are lazy and make a mock that does not have anywhere near the behavior of the original. It's more like a very partial stub. I will mock an ap…

This sounds great until one of your other functions calls that function. You're just describing dependency injection, but if you say that, people won't want to listen cause doing t…

I've been working on a web framework in Clojure. There are already a few others, but they're, in my opinion, too focused on the Clojure community, and are much harder to sell to pe…

I would say this does not work in any nontrivial way from what I've seen. Even basic scripts and UI components are fucked up all the time.

I've been using NoBS toothpaste tabs for a couple years which are nano-hydroxyapatite. I find them effective. No issues at my dentist. In fact, a year ago, they wanted to put in a …

I mean I hate low effort slop that's pushed from every vaguely technical source and tells me it's great. It's very clearly junk. I think what people hate is the sense of quality de…

This seems naive to me. There are plenty of things I work hard on because I like them, but there are also lots of things I have to work hard on because they need to get done. I hav…

Isn't that begging the question? If you just accept the presupposition that intelligence is tightly coupled to consciousness, then all that makes perfect sense to me. But I don't s…

But that's not an answer. Why should intelligence and not some other quality be coupled to consciousness? In my experience, consciousness (by which I'm specifically talking about q…

What makes you think consciousness is tightly coupled to intelligence?

"brain as computer" is just the latest iteration of a line of thinking that goes back forever. Whatever we kinda understand and interact with, that's what we are and what the brain…

I have found that chaining things in Smalltalk get immensely painful after just a couple elements. Unlike most other languages, I find myself reaching for silly little var names fo…

I've used zippers a couple times. Once for navigating a collection of deeply nested routes in a webapp, and once for navigating deeply nested xml to grab very particular data. Both…

If you use Emacs, there's a mode similar to magit that's under active development: https://github.com/bolivier/jj-mode.el

Isn't git the only supported backend? I always introduce jj as a better git ui.

React was such a simple and elegant solution when it started, and it's accreted so many quirks and weird behaviors that are clearly specific to the use cases of the companies leadi…