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by difflens 2y ago
It's interesting that this piece mentions "to get really rich" as one of the primary motivators. Especially to high school students. I wonder if that's good advice or if society is better served by motivating students to
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by difflens 3y ago
Hmm maybe I don't understand fully, but can't you do this in VSCode by doing a `Find And Replace All`? (Cmd + Shift + F on Mac)
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by difflens 3y ago
Congratulations! I identify with this post a lot. Good luck! Your actions are certainly an inspiration
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by difflens 3y ago
I built DiffLens ( https://www.difflens.com/ ) initially just for myself. It's a diff tool that uses abstract syntax trees to make the diff more review-able. It's free for anyone to use too. I use it every day to re
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by difflens 3y ago
I'm the author of DiffLens ( https://www.difflens.com/ ). I initially built it for myself too (and use it everyday) and it's currently free for anyone to try. It's an attempt to use abstract syntax trees to mak
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by difflens 4y ago
The worry is understandable. As someone who's been in a similar situation before, the worry with a work visa and housing tends to go away one way or another. Either you get out of a work visa at some point, or you accept that you will
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by difflens 4y ago
Either you're being reductionist on purpose, or the reply above just flew over your head.
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by difflens 4y ago
Just wanted to chime in and say that this was a good read. Reminded me of reading editorials when I was younger. I agree with most of these points, and especially appreciate the fact that you present a nuanced view. Too often, western views
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by difflens 4y ago
I wonder if you can pick your favorite language/framework and write a daemon that serves as the "backend". Then, write a UI in whatever you like, and send calls to the backend to modify state. It's the same concept as MV
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by difflens 4y ago
My recommendation would be to apply to as many positions as you can, but steel yourself to the fact that you may not hear back from any of them. I'd also recommend exploring if you can push graduation back by a year (assuming funding w
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by difflens 4y ago
> as I see it is that it provides a uniform api for traversing a parse tree, which makes it relatively straightforward to onboard a new language to a tool with tree-sitter support. The problem though is that the tree-sitter grammar is ne
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Show HN: We built a tool for syntax aware JSON diffs(marketplace.visualstudio.com)
1 points by difflens 4y ago|0 comments
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by difflens 4y ago
Haha, I found this quite funny :) I'm sure there's an element of truth to it considering how complicated the code base must be for the various services
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by difflens 4y ago
This is a great post! I have very similar thoughts! I haven't escaped the corporate job yet, but the pandemic and subsequent layoff scares have convinced me that bootstrapping a business is a good way to take back some economic control
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by difflens 4y ago
Interesting execution. I'm not totally sold that Sapling is somehow forcing smaller/(more understandable) commits. Running Sapling restack with the manual step of an `amend` doesn't sound too different than running `git rebas
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by difflens 4y ago
Nice article! I agree with all your points, they closely mirror my experience too!
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Show HN: Group by for Jira Backlog Pages(chrome.google.com)
1 points by difflens 4y ago|0 comments
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by difflens 4y ago
JIRA GroupBy is free and was made to solve personal pain points with backlog pages. We're around if anyone has questions!
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Show HN: Group by for Jira Backlog Pages(chrome.google.com)
1 points by difflens 4y ago|1 comments
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by difflens 4y ago
Not related to this article per se, but I wonder if there is a tool (or a market) for "validating" pdfs. Specifically I'm thinking of a tool that validates that different fields in a pdf have been filled. Sort of like "r
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by difflens 4y ago
Great write up! I don't have much practical experience with Paxos/Raft other than coursework. I'm curious, if I wanted to insert a row into a table, what is the overhead of all these extra nodes in the insert operation now co
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by difflens 4y ago
I've been wondering over the past few months if we can build a "public" cloud. I have some old machines gathering dust, I'm sure others do too. Is it feasible to build an ad-hoc network of such computers where the comput
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by difflens 4y ago
Maybe I'm just being cynical here, but did leaving Meta facilitate the creation of Starburst enterprise based on open source Trino?
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by difflens 4y ago
Interesting, will give sqlglot a look when we get to adding SQL support in DiffLens [ https://github.com/marketplace/difflens ]. Or perhaps DiffLens can just use sqlglot :) Either way we're very happy to see another
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by difflens 4y ago
Well if those were the only days that that person dressed nicely, surely the boss would notice :) I jest though, your point got a chuckle out of me!
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by difflens 4y ago
Great idea! I did something similar for a weekend project that folks can checkout at (PauseTheVideo)[ https://pausethevideo.vercel.app ] if they're interested. We're big fans of Agadmator at DiffLens and made that site a
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by difflens 4y ago
In my experience, code reviews are currently viewed as time sinks because of the cognitive load they put on the reviewer. I agree with the other comments here about a team culture that values code reviews as an important process. IMO, the t
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by difflens 4y ago
> However, we can create serious bottlenecks when it comes to moving memory back and forth between the CPU and GPU. We’d have to learn what kinds of models would take advantage of this, we have little experience with GPUs as a team—but w
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by difflens 4y ago
> What case law, if any, did you rely on in Microsoft & GitHub's public claim, stated by GitHub's (then) CEO, that: “(1) training ML systems on public data is fair use, (2) the output belongs to the operator, just like with
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by difflens 4y ago
Across the different teams and orgs I have worked at, there's always been 1 constant during code reviews: Each comment provided an explanation of why some change was being debated. Every engineer knew the review is not a judgement of t

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