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Going against the grain here, but personally as I've gotten more experience and worked in larger code bases I've completely reversed my habit of breaking functions up into smaller …

I think this is a great point that most people forget. If you build something specifically for editing code you can do something cooler than vim/emacs and I've been working on that…

In theory it should work for many languages with minimal support. In practice I've done some testing with typescript, Rust and Go and it largely works.

A vscode extension that aims to be "vim for code' meaning that it has first class motions for programming concepts like functions, arguments, etc. quick demo: https://youtu.be/owuu…

I'm working on something similar (not as far along), a vscode extension that has ideas like functions, parameters, etc as first class ideas (so press f to select a function) and al…

I found Grandma's Word in 16 guesses https://grandmasword.com

The only argument I can think of against this would be that it would maybe slightly discourage adding the verbose details and would generally decrease the quality of error messages…

It's worth considering that in the networking example given you discover the skills you need via a project and then argue that the skills could be learned more effectively through …

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The unsheltered count is a thing and does include people who don't access services.

That's helpful, ty!

As an entrepreneur who builds software, it would be nice to know some high-level data like: 1) What are the different sectors of the economy ranked by GDP? 2) To what degree has so…

Seems like everyone complains about going from VC to VC with all these pitches. Why not invert the marketplace (in the same way that honeypot.io did for developers)? As startup fou…

How do you guys compare to logojoy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-page_application

That first point sounds a lot like you've conquered the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

So do you have some kinda data breakdown on the typical startup, or just other anecdotal experience?

I'm not seeing any reference or source for these claims in the article. Did I just miss it?

If your view is "conservative" == "right-wing" == "capitalism" then I can see why you would say that.

I'm sure that's true, but do you have any evidence for it?

I don't know what the meaning is, but I'm pretty sure that's not it.

I'm sure what you're talking about happens (although I personally haven't seen it). What also happens is that cultural differences lead to two people having different perceptions o…