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Some thoughts on LLMs and software development(martinfowler.com)
420 points by floverfelt 1y ago|405 comments
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by floverfelt 3y ago
That is not what I’m saying at all though? The article is literally a defense of the existing system which allows those that own valuable assets to keep them and price them accordingly. The closing paragraph was more to point out that if yo
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by floverfelt 3y ago
Yeah fair point.
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by floverfelt 3y ago
What's the alternative if not based on commercial activity? Lottery?
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A Hand Wavy Defense of Domaining(floverfelt.org)
11 points by floverfelt 3y ago|17 comments
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It is your responsibility to respond(floverfelt.org)
3 points by floverfelt 4y ago|1 comments
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by floverfelt 4y ago
This post crops up enough and annoys me enough that I wrote a full response to it: https://floverfelt.org/posts/it-is-your-responsibility-to-re... It's pretty sad that we've reached the point of spamming clos
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by floverfelt 4y ago
Shameless plug, but I used mermaid.js to create a pom visualizer maven plugin [0] and it was honestly pretty great. Like some of the other comments say (and after working with it quite a bit) it definitely has its warts. It's not super
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Show HN: Maven POM Visualizer(github.com)
3 points by floverfelt 4y ago|0 comments
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by floverfelt 5y ago
Yeah that's a good point. The randomness is introduced by the opposing player and is not intrinsic to the game itself. As opposed to Sudoku or something where there's only a single player and thus no room for randomness to be intr
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Against Chess(floverfelt.org)
1 points by floverfelt 5y ago|2 comments
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by floverfelt 5y ago
> cognitive science, linguistics, and anthropology. Would love to hear your thoughts on this, esp. the linguistics and anthropology piece.
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by floverfelt 5y ago
Yeah, I'm actually a pretty big fan of Java programming. It gets a lot of hate on HN for things that have been mostly solved or can be solved if you implement it a certain way.
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by floverfelt 5y ago
Exactly, it would've made total sense to pull it out into an interface in other situations, but simply felt like a preference here.
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by floverfelt 5y ago
I feel like the responses to this comment are somewhat proving the point around most things being preference. ;)
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by floverfelt 5y ago
Yep exactly! I think if you broaden the concept of "authority" beyond literal authoritative sources it gets even more murky. Are you appealing to the authority of speed? Compilation time? Readability? Functionality? I dunno, and i
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by floverfelt 5y ago
Yeah it does. Software is basically a mental model and different people have different mental models of the world so we make up languages/practices/etc. that fit those models. The point of the examples I gave (and a lot of browsin
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by floverfelt 5y ago
I did say that to be fair, I just omitted it from the post. The question was more of a jumping off point for my thoughts on the practices vs. preferences question.
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by floverfelt 5y ago
Yeah, I told him that, but by and large most developers don't work on those problems.
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by floverfelt 5y ago
Right, but your definition of discernment is itself a preference for readability over conciseness. Another developer could say "if it works a month or a year later, then you're practicing a best practice."
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by floverfelt 5y ago
Yup, I 100% agree. The point of the post wasn't to bemoan practices, more just that it's frustrating to be told repeatedly that a certain thing is a "best practice" when really it's just what the developer who wrote
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by floverfelt 5y ago
100% that's true! I'm not saying developers having preferences and everybody abiding by them is a bad thing, more just that a lot of what constitutes "best practices" are often preferences and we should call them that.
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Are software engineering “best practices” just developer preferences?(floverfelt.org)
311 points by floverfelt 5y ago|350 comments
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by floverfelt 5y ago
Agreed! I finished it recently and it did a good job explaining how to make the memory palace really work instead of just explaining the technique.
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Some Thoughts on Tech Interviews(floverfelt.org)
3 points by floverfelt 5y ago|0 comments
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by floverfelt 5y ago
That's a good idea! I think the biggest issue right now is the regex. It's super naive and just matches against anything containing the word "secret" or "password" which like you said results in a lot of false
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by floverfelt 5y ago
Hey all, I created Gistsecrets.io and use it pretty regularly to alert people when they've checked in plaintext passwords on Gists. All the app does is scrape the public Gists feed every few seconds and looks for the word "secret&
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Show HN: View plaintext passwords on GitHub Gists(gistsecrets.io)
4 points by floverfelt 5y ago|3 comments
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by floverfelt 5y ago
Since this is picking up some traction, I'm the author of this. Inspired by @pieterhg, this job board runs purely on PHP & Apache. I built job board job board while job bored. Let me know if you have any questions.
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by floverfelt 5y ago
Agreed. It seems silly to post jobs at my job board on jobboardjobboard.com when jobboardjobboardjobboard would suffice much better.

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