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by bgar 7mo ago
It’s one of those tools that’s well designed and you don’t need a thousand line configuration file to be productive. The modal editing style is also an improvement over vim/neovim because you do selection -> action rather than actio
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by bgar 7mo ago
Pretty much every engineer needs to use Vim/vi when logged into any server, so from that point of view, this shouldn’t even be a question. I don’t think knowing how to use a modal editor in 2026 is a flex anymore, it’s just standard. B
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by bgar 7mo ago
Why quantitative? I have friends at most major tech companies and I work at a startup now. You shouldn’t write by hand what can be prompted. Doesn’t mean the hard parts shouldn’t be done with the same care as when everything was handwritten
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by bgar 7mo ago
Well, on the surface it may seem like there’s nothing being created of value, but I can assure you every company from seed stage to unicorns are heavily using claude code, cursor, and the like to produce software. At this point, most softwa
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by bgar 9mo ago
I empathize with this cause circumstances often force us to move to a less than ideal location, but with everyone doing RTO again since 2 or 3 years ago, you slashed a huge percentage of the job opportunities out there.
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by bgar 9mo ago
I would say you can take opposite route as well. Become even more of a T-shaped engineer than you were before. For me that meant transitioning to vertical roles (i.e., performance engineering) rather than backend engineering. Sure, an AI ca
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by bgar 9mo ago
>http-request-validator is infinitely superior to “zephyr” Is it though? How are you going to differentiate between 10 different variations of http-request-validator repos on GitHub? I think both have their downsides, but making the name
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by bgar 2y ago
>there’s a serious push to on-device inference What push are you referring to? By whom?
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by bgar 2y ago
IMO you should just transfer internally to a Deep Learning related team. That’s the path I’m taking, and while I wait for my new start date, I’m reading the important research papers etc. It shouldn’t take you as long as you think.
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Ask HN: What's the state of Clojure's ecosystem and community these days?
12 points by bgar 3y ago|4 comments
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by bgar 4y ago
>Any software developer can access GitHub and StackOverflow - can they do it in a single shot as quickly as GPT? I think the answer to this question is yes? If the developer can find a working example that they can copy paste (which is w
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by bgar 4y ago
>It seems like Asian cultures are much less likely to treat housing as an investment Isn’t China one of the most prominent examples of using real estate as investment? There’s even whole ghost towns of apartment buildings that are constr
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by bgar 4y ago
Check out https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047760/essentials-of-compila... Author has made complete draft PDFs for both the Racket and Python versions available here. https://wphomes.soic.indiana.edu/jsi
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These Magic Code Sequences Will Rot Your Brain(bryangarza.com)
2 points by bgar 4y ago|0 comments
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by bgar 4y ago
I would advise not looking at libraries as a beginner; because they’re meant to be as generic as possible, they tend to abuse the type system and are overall a lot harder to parse for a beginner. Stick to reading the Rust code for standalon
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Diderot Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by bgar 4y ago|0 comments
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by bgar 4y ago
Yeah, gRPC is mainstream at this point -- much better to generate API clients when you can, instead of hand-rolling your own, especially as the number of engineers and teams in an organization grow.
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by bgar 4y ago
I think most people just use the AWS Console. By the way, compared to regular CloudWatch, CloudWatch Insights has faster searches and a SQL-like query language, so it's better to use that if you can.
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by bgar 5y ago
The bay area doesn’t even have homes for 450k. In the bay area it’s more like 450k for each of the 4 friends :p
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Eye-Scanning Silver Orb Cryptocurrency Launches with $1B Valuation(vice.com)
1 points by bgar 5y ago|0 comments
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by bgar 6y ago
Correct, it means General Availability. It’s pretty common to abbreviate it (actually, I don’t think I ever see it written out).
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by bgar 6y ago
Right. Then it might be worth applying to cloud software engineer roles in general, and be sure to ask your interviewers about what sort of architecture they work on. In your case, seems like you’ll be more keen to work on those teams that
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by bgar 6y ago
Kind of? I mean, if you’re working on an infrastructure or platform team, and building some distributed database or data pipeline, that would be more “distributed systems”, in the strict definition of the term. However, I doubt there are ve
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by bgar 6y ago
Are you sure you’re specifically interested in Raft/Paxos/consensus algorithms? Distributed systems is more general than that. A lot of software engineers working on cloud services are basically doing distributed systems, if they
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by bgar 8y ago
Over the years I’ve remade my blog several times but these days I try to keep it as simple as possible to maintain. I’ve come to realize the biggest obstacle when it comes to putting my writing on the web is the tendency to get sidetracked
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by bgar 9y ago
The first papers in the list explain the "why" of functional programming, and later on more concrete Haskell topics are covered. Papers shouldn't be the only resource but you can supplement them with tutorials and skimming Re
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by bgar 9y ago
Learning Haskell by reading the most influential papers is also a good approach. https://hackwithlambda.github.io/reading-group/
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Ask HN: Good books on managing finances?
15 points by bgar 10y ago|10 comments
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by bgar 10y ago
I'm also a Haskeller, and have been writing OCaml for a few months. Some things I liked include (1) really straightforward imperative programming (2) really straightforward mutable data structures like hash tables (3) module system (so
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by bgar 11y ago
I've toyed with the idea of vanishing completely, but nowadays employers often want to see a web presence.... if it weren't for that, and the convenience of Facebook Messenger, I might have disappeared already. I was just thinking

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