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Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow

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Post by deterministic »

pragmatic wrote: post #163
mrtksn wrote: post #132

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Why do you think that actions of these huge institutions are not impactful to the life quality of the Americans? Also, why do you think that the European live longer thanks to the medicine developed in the USA? Maybe the USA develops medicine thanks to the free and equal opportunity education culture in the Europe? If you look closely to the researchers, you will see that lot's of the people who develop these things…

I would love for this to be true. Europeans do seem to enjoy a higher quality of life among several axis. However the US subsidizes European defense (refer to current events) allowing European countries to spend less GDP on their military. Talent comes to the US from all over the world. That's how it works and has since almost the beginning of the country. Easier access to capital (and easy bankruptcy, etc), entrepre…

Subsidizes????? You mean selling weapons at highly inflated prices benefitting the US economy while eroding Europes industrial base? Not to forget that Europe and Taiwan supplies many of the sub-systems used in US weapons. The Abraham main battle tank gun is German for example.

And by the way Europe has nukes.

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Post by deterministic »

mrtksn wrote: post #55
mrweasel wrote: post #6

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> Not everything needs to be a damn unicorn. More people needs to understand this. It's fine being a small(ish) business that turns a profit and provides a service that's beneficial to society. You don't need to be a billion dollar company to be important or do great work. DHH talked about this 15 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY

But the whole "Tech" economy is based on the premise that everything must grow indefinitely and indefinitely means that at some point will be a unicorn. Europe is considered economical failure because there are not enough unicorns, there are lists on Twitter with list of unicorns per country that are supposed to show the decline of Europe. No matter if Europe has some of the best living condition for large group of p…

“Europe is considered economical failure”

Hahahaha that’s funny. Europe has one of the richest and strongest economies in the world. Thousands of European companies are world leading in high tech areas, exporting high tech to U.S. and other companies around the world.

The worlds most advanced microchips can’t be built without machines made in Europe. European Airbus came from nowhere overtaking Boeing in a short number of years. The European invented ARM is now the leading CPU instruction set used worldwide etc. etc. etc. There are many more examples.

And focusing just on software: C++, C#, Linux etc. were invented by Europeans.

You might as well argue that the US economy is a failure because European and Japanese companies overtook US car manufacturers or that the US is a failure because Americans needs to take illegal drugs to handle the misery of living in the US. All equally silly arguments.

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Post by endofreach »

paulmd wrote: post #247
endofreach wrote: post #196

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Now that you write about the median user being a junior with trivial needs, i realize, i barely visit SO anymore. Not sure when that happened. I used to be a power-consumer on SO. I don‘t think i have even visited SO this year at all. I did use GPT4 for a lot of the minor things that i am too lazy to remember and would have „relearned“ on SO every time… maybe others have a similar experience and management just sees…

> Now that you write about the median user being a junior with trivial needs, i realize, i barely visit SO anymore. Not sure when that happened. I used to be a power-consumer on SO. I don‘t think i have even visited SO this year at all. Google algorithm changes have absolutely curbstomped SO visibility, probably due to third-party sites mirroring their content and making it appear to be a linkfarm to google. It's fun…

> It's funny how even as tech users, google is "the internet" and if something disappears off google, it's gone

Good point!

Your response just made me remember why Copilot & later ChatGPT came in so handy. It was a weirdly perfect timing . It was after i have been so annoyed with all these trashy low quality code snippet sites just copying SO content appearing multiple times on the first page for almost any code related query. After months I even made a Ask HN because i wondered, if only I was so incredibly annoyed by these sites popping up.

I just stopped googling for much programming related questions because of this.

OT: A silly thought crossing my mind: I never really understood the value of these sites. In hindsight now, does it seem plausible that microsoft or openAI were behind these or had something to do with these sites?

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Post by Dah00n »

danparsonson wrote: post #131
Dah00n wrote: post #33

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Lots of similar ideas exist in politics. Look for Socialist or Communist in the party name.

I guess that's intended to be snark but contrary to what a surprising number of people seem to think, socialist ideas make many countries nice places to live. Communism of course is a different matter, but you know that.

It did come out snarky but that wasn't my intention. I'm one of those who vote for "socialist ideas" and I'm also one of those who disagree that "communism is a different matter".

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Post by nottheengineer »

diegoperini wrote: post #168
nottheengineer wrote: post #10

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Agreed, stack overflow is the place where we stop to find an answer to a question. They should stay focused on that instead of adding useless features. But I don't entirely agree on LLMs being useless. An LLM could help with avoiding duplicate questions. It could analyze the content of the question and point out stuff like missing logs before the question is submitted to guide beginners through the basics. If someone…

Try phind.com, it's pretty much what you described. It's an AI search engine for programmers which is able to annotate its results with SO links for every paragraph it generates in case you don't trust the generated text.

Thanks, I'm currently trying to guide two students through the hell of setting up ML on CUDA without doing everything from scratch and they use chatGPT a lot.

This will probably come in handy for all the weird cryptic errors that they get along the way.

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Post by charlieyu1 »

mrguyorama wrote: post #235
charlieyu1 wrote: post #200

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Sources of high life expectancy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe... Source of 12 minute arrival policy of ambulance: https://www.hkfsd.gov.hk/eng/aboutus/performance.html

Where is the source that says one is caused by the other

My opinion. Basic logical deduction anyway. Are we not allowed to express personal thoughts without quoting someone now?

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Post by theironhammer »

jncfhnb wrote: post #256
camillomiller wrote: post #243

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It has not. Germany is in technical recession, but people are not dying in the streets, have jobs, and can take care of their families. In the US the economy is stellar, yet homelessness is peaking, with people unable to afford housing even if they have a job. Stop calling it “the economy” as if it was a direct translation of the reality of a society. It’s not. Signed: a business journalist.

The parent there is spouting utter nonsense. But I think your analysis is poor. The homeless rate is higher in Germany than the US for example. Germany isn’t on fire, but I think it’s awkward to color it in a way that implies people are doing better there than the US. It will be a painful economic transition.

Then why were successive American President so adamantly opposed to Russia selling gas to Germany? Why would they care?

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Post by theironhammer »

jncfhnb wrote: post #256
camillomiller wrote: post #243

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It has not. Germany is in technical recession, but people are not dying in the streets, have jobs, and can take care of their families. In the US the economy is stellar, yet homelessness is peaking, with people unable to afford housing even if they have a job. Stop calling it “the economy” as if it was a direct translation of the reality of a society. It’s not. Signed: a business journalist.

The parent there is spouting utter nonsense. But I think your analysis is poor. The homeless rate is higher in Germany than the US for example. Germany isn’t on fire, but I think it’s awkward to color it in a way that implies people are doing better there than the US. It will be a painful economic transition.

"JB: Since the Second World War, it has always been U.S. policy to prevent Germany and Russia or the USSR from working more closely together."

JB = Jacques Baud, who worked for NATO.

https://mronline.org/2022/03/31/the-policy-of-the-usa-has-al...

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