Tistel

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by Tistel 8mo ago
Location: Toronto (EST) Relocate: Maybe (depends on job/location) Technologies: python, ts/js, elixir, SQL, react, Django, nodejs, postgres, AWS, GCP, Terraform CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-
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by Tistel 8mo ago
I have seen code bases that are amazing. I have seen ones that look bad, but work. About a year and half ago I saw my first fairly large scale fully AI generated project and it filled me with dread. It looked like the figma, which is very i
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by Tistel 9mo ago
I heard on some podcast that there is such a thing as: "Microsoft Excel World Championship" and someone named Diarmuid Early won it last year. I would pay $2.56 to watch an Excel battle between a slop skipper and him. Money is on
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by Tistel 11mo ago
Location: Canada (EST) Remote: yes relocate: probably not Technologies: python, JS, TS, Elixir, golang, Postgres, CouchDB, Terraform, k8s, React, django (a bunch more, want to be brief) Resume: available on request email: con
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by Tistel 1y ago
I am not worried about personal atrophy. I am worried about young people who never learn the fundamentals and blindly believe everything the llm say.
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by Tistel 1y ago
I am a Luddite holding on. 1) solving the problem myself is the fun part of the job 2) writing emails or whatever, I want it to be my voice, not some bland average of everything slop 3) I can't sppeell big word because auto-correct doe
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by Tistel 1y ago
I did CS and have been writing code for 20+ years. For the past two years, helping clients adopt LLMs into their business logic. It has lots of good use cases. But, I can recognize when it makes mistakes due to my years of manual learning a
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by Tistel 1y ago
Is it still Paul Graham/Robert Morris working on it? Skimmed the article but did not see a ref. need to check out what it adds to CL: http://arclanguage.org/
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by Tistel 1y ago
its a one liner with: https://imagemagick.org/script/command-line-tools.php The "solution" stated is hilarious.
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by Tistel 2y ago
Might spawn a new occupation: sniff sommelier!
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by Tistel 2y ago
This might be fun: Train on java compiled to class files. Then go from class back to java. Or even: Train java compiled to class files, and have separate models that train from Clojure to class and Scala to class files. Then see if you can
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by Tistel 2y ago
I am in Toronto, Canada. I don't have the open to work flag on in LinkedIn. Two years an ago, even with the flag off, would get recruiters reaching out daily (> 20 years experience). Now it's 1 per week. I do get lots of job op
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by Tistel 2y ago
There is a nice book that goes into detail of his life called: "The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution"
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by Tistel 2y ago
Peter Schweizer's great book Blood Money goes into the current state of the art with TikTok (and a bunch of other stuff).
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by Tistel 3y ago
People should check out Google's JAX. Work in a high level language and run anywhere. Nvidia should just be commodity hardware if people avoid vendor lock in.
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by Tistel 3y ago
It will happen someday. Still decades away. No true learning in the current LLMs just plagiarism so far to get better. I work at a place that is trying to use LLM to do a thing. just hired two humans to double check the work. They now do a
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by Tistel 3y ago
I have tried to use VSCode more, but, the original emacs keyboard movement is burned into muscle memory. VSCode has a keyboard mapping for emacs, but, its does not feel right. At the end of the day, who cares? Its just a tool, whatever work
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by Tistel 3y ago
I worked at a place that had a half built distributed system that we still needed to use (many bidders buying Ad space from a API based market). one great thing with tramp is that you can tramp into multiple systems simultaneously. So you a
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by Tistel 3y ago
search for "shane macgowan teeth" for a laugh.
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by Tistel 3y ago
Famous Irish band's singer that was big in the 80-90s. If you have ever been in an Irish themed pub that plays music, you have probably heard one of their songs: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvfcW8XVa2Kj802P4l
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by Tistel 3y ago
a lot has changed and 15 years and also python's traditional slow pace of change is less true (Guido van Rossum liked it that way and the BDFL has moved on). to just get a refresh of the basics (then search for the rest) the tutorial i
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by Tistel 3y ago
as a 20+ year developer, this is excellent. One of the bigger leaps for me (which the author mentions) was going from toy CS assignment projects where I wrote all the code and knew it inside and out to huge multi year projects with hundreds
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by Tistel 3y ago
I worked in it for 13 years (worked on one of the biggest non shooter games in the world). (this was ten years ago). I moved to new city to work and did so much overtime that when I go back to the same city now it feels strange to me. no
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by Tistel 3y ago
Dated!? Dated!? You think that is dated looking? Ha! If you want to see dated do an image search for: "Oscar EMR Canada" and you can feast on dated UI. Socialist software forever! Kidding aside, that EMR is used by hundreds of d
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by Tistel 4y ago
The control key is in the right spot for emacs! Bravo on the project. I wish I new hardware better.
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by Tistel 4y ago
Agree. The beauty of lisp dev is that it’s a REPL that maintains state. You can edit the editor while editing. without restarting Write a defun and evaluate and it’s there. All the state persists. Most JS involves restarting the whole a
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by Tistel 4y ago
Looking forward to Michael Lewis’ book about it. Hopefully he can stay objective. Given the heavy hitters he allegedly screwed over (Sequoia VCs etc) I am surprised there is not more legal action. Maybe they would rather not underline how
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by Tistel 5y ago
There is a guy on YouTube, who is a PhD physicist, called Thunderf00t (sp?). He thinks it might be a duck in the Cmd. Frasier (sp?) video. Some species of duck do crazy kamikaze dives into the water. Flapping wings might not show up due
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by Tistel 6y ago
It’s fun to combine jupyter notebooks and py scraping. If you are working 15 pages/screens deep, you can “stay at the coal face” and not have to rerun the whole script after making a change to the latest step.
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by Tistel 6y ago
I have been using Linux for a little over 20 years. I remarked a the start it did not sleep when it closed. My current laptop is also Linux and it still does not always sleep when I close it. I need to get up to speed on BSD or somethi

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