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For the most part those are people who were not previously able to create because of skill atrophy or lack of programming aptitude. From their point of view being able to command (…

I care deeply about craft, but: a) I cannot effectively review more than 2000 lines of code a day. The LLMs can produce much more than that. b) Even if I accepted my reading throug…

I do not see it that way. I was born in Europe and immigrated to the US. In my mind the differences is that the US attracts more ambitious and talented people than Europe.

This is not right in finance at least. Messages updates are typically incremental just like in TCP. The reliability problem is dealt with with careful network stack tuning, core af…

They are clearly not politically neutral, unfortunately, whether by accident or design. And I say this as someone who has been a supporter for years.

The videos you see are curated to showcase police brutality. In a country with 300 million people and as many guns, its not hard to come up with a video a day depicting things goin…

Is it not feasible to simply raise the bar on what is expected in a graded essay? Or is the human/chatgpt combo no better than just chatgpt?

I have a 13 year old who just got a phone. I do not think things are as hopeless as you seem to believe. My daughter mocks social media (including my own use of it) and, so far, wa…

TCP is rarely used in HFT data centers except as required by exchanges.

People who hate Elon musk, which includes almost all of media, have no qualms about lying about Tesla in order to hurt it/him. In fact they might think is the right thing to do, fo…

That is exactly right. In terms of knowledge acquisition the disruption has occurred. Any motivated young person can get a world class education free of charge, without ever steppi…

What would you replace leetcode with? For all its faults, and I agree there are many, leetcode is at least more or less objective and (for employers) very cheap.

With eglot and lsp-mode emacs, for me, has feature parity with vscode for c++ local development. Unfortunately for remote work tramp is still a nightmare and vscode far ahead.

The problem with this idea has been the same for 40 years: unlike in other fields of engineering in Software there is no bedrock of empirical science from which we can derive objec…

That is a fantastic analogy, it captures exactly the pros and cons and the context dependency of methodologies.

Man, I have seen this everywhere, there is so much low hanging fruit for organizations that take developer productivity seriously. It is insane the amount of friction (leading to b…

Of all the arguments against RTO the ones the signatories chose were racism, agism and sexism. Because everything, absolutely everything one does not like must somehow be linked ba…

This is obvious nonsense to anyone that breeds, owns or even regularly interacts with dogs. But gas lighting has always been a preferred tactic of those proselytizing "the message"…

Are you jealous? What is wrong with being 25 year old and figuring out how to lead the company you interned at to unlock 1 billion in revenue? Seems like a pretty good start to me.…

He was not born in the US. Like Arnold, unless the law changes he won't be able to do it. Unfortunately.

Do something physically hard, hard enough for you to slightly fear it. Martial arts, in particular BJJ would be a great option. You need to let your body command your attention, ur…

Good. Nice to see blue collar jobs offer a decent living.

I think this depends on the scale of the problem. For small, algorithmic, problems, the kind you would see in a coding interview I find it far more efficient to solve on paper, or …

Comments, I believe.