dpritchett

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by dpritchett 25d ago
The author and his cited examples are folks with decades of experience shipping broadly used OSS so for them it’s probably a lot less of an issue to switch languages, even if the agent is papering over a lot of the details for them in th
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by dpritchett 25d ago
I’ve also found that Claude and friends are eerily good at using classic Unix CLI tools so I build mine in the same style, not unlike the `gh` CLI from GitHub, though with an agent-first design shape. Usually I’m returning TSV as a default
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by dpritchett 1mo ago
When a whisper-based agent thinks you’ve stopped talking, it will begin its own reply. If you’re younger, you’re more likely to get interrupted by a bot that’s prematurely decided that you’re done speaking.
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by dpritchett 2mo ago
That is the usual work of high end programmers, right? Growing codebases as consistent, dependable ontologies? I feel like most mainstream programming languages do this sort of work for their standard libraries and their official docs. Go a
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by dpritchett 3mo ago
I imagine they're going for avuncular but a lot of us as adult engineers receive it as patronizing.
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by dpritchett 1y ago
Cucumber-style BDD has been trying to do this for a long time now, though I never found it to be super comfortable.
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by dpritchett 1y ago
This sounds a whole lot like Pascal's wager (or Roko's basilisk, if you prefer) for trillionaires.
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by dpritchett 1y ago
Sound words out at the smallest level. Practice. Example: “skin” has multiple sounds to help decipher the word as spelled: “sss”, “sk”, “ih”, “nnn”, “iinn”. Identifying some of those sounds in order helps a reader to sound out the word “sk
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by dpritchett 1y ago
It’s a bit of a class thing, isn’t it? Independently wealthy folks can stay in the game longer without needing to extract a lot of cash compensation in the company’s early years.
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by dpritchett 1y ago
An uncomfortable thing about skill, taste, and experience is that it’s often easier to demonstrate the superiority of one path over another than it is to explain the differences in a way the audience is prepared to absorb. I imagine this
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by dpritchett 1y ago
If ADHD-oriented media and discussions provide neurodivergent adults a means to work through decades of internalized shame and anxiety, why get in the way of that?
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by dpritchett 2y ago
There may never be a perfect taxonomy of programmer archetypes. I imagine most of us here can agree that some elevate the craft and ritual to great effect while others avoid such high-minded conceits in favor of shipping whatever hits the e
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by dpritchett 2y ago
Could be an exit strategy… maybe he’s tired of running a social network and wants to help run governments and fly to space like the other guys.
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by dpritchett 2y ago
Maybe for some the appeal of JS is in (hopefully) never having to learn Unix? I’ve heard several folks say that about Kubernetes, but in my experience the *nix core always resurfaces the second things get weird.
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by dpritchett 2y ago
Reminds me of using Ruby ten years ago and having to contend with folks who wanted to default to using the string literal style over another because it was known to be more performant at scale. That awkward stuff surfaces earlier with some
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by dpritchett 2y ago
I’d been a huge fan of his for a solid decade, but that post was probably the last one of his I’ll ever read.
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by dpritchett 2y ago
The deadpan was so good there I had to stop and double check the origins of Markdown just to make sure my mind wasn’t playing tricks on me. Hard to believe it’s been twenty years!
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by dpritchett 2y ago
I’d guess Click: https://screencrush.com/rob-schneiders-racist-stereotyped-ch...
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by dpritchett 3y ago
The more skilled I become over the decades the more I prefer either Hickey’s hammock-driven development or a simple kanban setup.
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by dpritchett 3y ago
Good ear. She is cofounder of a company that built their own “distributed column store”: https://youtu.be/tr2KcekX2kk?si=ID0qB-O2ucXF4GXC
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by dpritchett 3y ago
Likely so the phone can charge off of a nearby MacBook which has usb C ports.
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by dpritchett 3y ago
Can you describe your process? Do you just hand type import-free HTML and rsync it up to a web server? I’d make so many syntax errors without at least some sort of lint/build step.
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by dpritchett 4y ago
That’a a lot to ask of folks who are spending a third of their waking lives on a shared endeavor. May as well ask family to stop having opinions on my cooking.
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by dpritchett 4y ago
Depending on your chess engine (e.g. a physical board) a player could reasonably move many times without stopping to update the diagram. Maybe I forgot. Maybe I was in a hurry due to schedule problems. Maybe the diagram editor was offline f
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by dpritchett 4y ago
From the go.mod file: > module humungus.tedunangst.com/r/watc Implies a “go get” should pick it up. Likely a git clone of that URL would do.
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by dpritchett 5y ago
Agreed, if folks don’t finish reading the paper you can’t very well claim to have made the desired impact.
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by dpritchett 5y ago
Agreed! I like grpc for the same reason. If I need to work with REST, a schema-first approach is ideal as it means various client, server, validation, and documentation dimensions are in sync by default. I get why folks often come at it fro
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by dpritchett 5y ago
> Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience The years really do fly by. Looked her up and she’s currently a cofounder at a company that sells an iOS contacts app.
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by dpritchett 5y ago
I had to mute the word clubhouse on Twitter to keep from getting too cranky about it. Avoiding VCs and accounts in their orbit helped as well.
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by dpritchett 5y ago
Pihole frequently breaks online tv like Disney+ and Hulu when viewed on our Roku TV. Preload trackers or ads get stuck and the show will never start.

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