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by diegof79 6d ago
It’s interesting how things have changed in 25 years. Around 2001, Microsoft was crusading against open source and facing an antitrust lawsuit with Netscape. Now 25 years later, MS runs its cloud businesses with Linux, and their development
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by diegof79 12d ago
This (points up)! I've read many comments about how good CLIs are, and they are right. But for developers. For non-tech people, installing the CLI is a hurdle: it involves having the right dependencies installed, controlling how you ha
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by diegof79 1mo ago
What we lost is simplicity across the stack. I learned to program with BASIC. It was awful. I didn’t know how awful it was until many years later. So I don’t miss the language. But something I miss is how easy it was to learn what your mach
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by diegof79 2mo ago
I imagine that it should be clear to everyone here now, until I read threads like this comparing child development to the advances in LLM building. It’s like saying that a new M-Apple chip developed like a child. There is a clear tendency t
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by diegof79 2mo ago
This part of your comment, “just show me stuff that reflects what I value,” makes me think about the political manipulation used in social networks. It’s scary to learn about priming and how it affects our judgment; now imagine a politicall
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by diegof79 2mo ago
They don’t develop. We should stop anthropomorphizing LLMs. AI labs are improving the ML techniques used to build better models; it’s a big difference.
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by diegof79 2mo ago
A healthy life is more invigorating. You can sustain a month of 996 if your project is under fire (it may happen in a startup). But more than that is unsustainable: you have less social life and get more tired. Which means that you get more
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by diegof79 3mo ago
I had a similar situation. Google really needs to improve its model usage and payment UX. My solution was OpenRouter. Their dev and testing chat can generate images with Google models, and you can also run the same prompt side by side with
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by diegof79 3mo ago
To complement the excellent answers that I read in this thread: an eval is a test. What makes it particular for the case of AI is: - there are many situations where you can’t test using pattern matching - you don’t only like to test correct
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A Manifesto Against AI Slop(diegoux.com)
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by diegof79 4mo ago
The UNIX scene was funny and probably included because of some marketing arrangement with SGI. I haven’t seen mentions of UNIX in other movies. For context: in Jurassic Park, there is a scene where a 12-year-old girl sits in front of an SGI
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by diegof79 4mo ago
It's funny that you mention CORBA, because my first contact with Java was through a C++ CORBA service that interfaced with Java (this was around 1999). After that, I worked for many years using Java. While many things changed, the worl
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by diegof79 4mo ago
This part: > What surprised me was that Java supported processing ZIP files and XML from its standard runtime. Makes me feel old. Java was developed at a time when most people connected to the Internet via dial-up. That meant two things:
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by diegof79 4mo ago
But what is the alternative? Many of these systems are added to digital wallets due to legal requirements or fraudulent cases. For example, one case of fraud that I’m aware of happened in Chile, where citizens were able to open bank account
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by diegof79 4mo ago
Mainly DX. Deno has many of those things now, but my past experience wasn’t good. The first versions of Deno had a lot of friction; Bun however was more or less useful from day 1.
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by diegof79 4mo ago
I'm a happy Apple ecosystem user. However, there are many more Windows and Android users worldwide. I think that the appeal of this product is that the Wintel monopoly of years ago is dying. If the Googlebook is well executed (as the A
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by diegof79 4mo ago
An alternative take on the section: “Why teams keep building tours anyway”. Teams keep building product tours because the other option is to invest heavily in trial-and-error user research to optimize the onboarding experience. That is not
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by diegof79 7mo ago
Mainly for web browser plugin authors implementing AI assistants (Gemini/Claude/OpenAI/Copilot). Instead of parsing or screen-shooting the current page to understand the context, an AI agent running in the browser can query t
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by diegof79 7mo ago
I agree that Arcade is poor. However, I’ve been subscribed to it since its inception because it is the best way to have games that my kid can play without shady ads or engagement practices. I know that is not going to last, as my kid is now
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by diegof79 9mo ago
It’s the OpenGraph description metadata (“og:description”, see https://ogp.me/ ) Many apps, like Slack and LinkedIn, use it to display a link card with a description.
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by diegof79 9mo ago
There is no doubt that a product’s community culture and the maintainer’s attitude have a significant influence. However, I used Perl and stopped using it without knowing anything about its internal politics or community. PHP, ASP, Java JSP
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by diegof79 10mo ago
I guess we have different perspectives and information about the “rise” of VSCode. I was an Atom user. Even before the acquisition of GitHub the major feature of VSCode was its speed and TS integration. AFAIK, the only common part between A
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by diegof79 10mo ago
You just described Eclipse RCP. The issue with Eclipse and that approach is the complexity of mixing plugins to do everything, which kills the UX. When VSCode started, the differentiator from Atom and Eclipse was that the extension points w
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by diegof79 11mo ago
Given their extensive expertise in browser and OS plugins, I understand this move. You can foresee a challenging future for the Grammarly product for a long time. Now that the "improve writing with AI" feature is everywhere, there
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by diegof79 11mo ago
Both (Backbone and CoffeeScript) were created by Jeremy Ashkenas. He had a very prolific year.
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by diegof79 11mo ago
Agree, but the article was about comparing React and Backbone. There are a gazillion of options that resolve the same problems: Vue, Svelte, Solid, Lit, etc. Backbone was born as better code organization on top of jQuery and CoffeeScript. I
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by diegof79 11mo ago
I worked with Backbone, Angular 1, Ember, and then React. The article overlooks the problems that made React popular: - Composition: Composing components is easier and more efficient in React. Backbone’s render function assumes "this.$
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by diegof79 11mo ago
Oh, the nostalgia! Looking at the project felt like taking a trip in a time machine: the blog on Blogspot, the release files on SourceForge, the use of Delphi, and the screenshots reminiscent of typical 2000s IDEs. It is not a criticism. Th
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by diegof79 11mo ago
Preview is probably the best thing that has happened since I switched to Mac almost two decades ago.
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by diegof79 11mo ago
I know that political topics are not suitable for HN. But, as an Argentinian, I’d like to clarify that this financial rescue is intended for Milei. We will have midterm elections soon, and the government is doing whatever it can to keep the

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