gavinflud

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by gavinflud 7mo ago
Depends on what we categorize as a coding agent. Devin was released two years ago. Cursor was about the same, and it released agent mode around 1.5 years ago. Aider has been around even longer than that I think.
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by gavinflud 1y ago
How exactly would they become "unflushable"? Also, surely if they were excellent candidates then you'd be doing your absolute best to keep them around?
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by gavinflud 2y ago
Are the companies running the various AI systems going to release all of their source code and internal research to benefit society too?
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by gavinflud 4y ago
He sits on the U.S. Supreme Court and is one of those responsible for this ruling.
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by gavinflud 5y ago
"While it is true that pigs are less compatible with humans than monkeys, they can be genetically manipulated to produce organs less likely to be rejected on transplantation. Pigs quickly grow to full size, produce larger litters and c
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by gavinflud 5y ago
Funnily enough, I recently had to help with an issue where a company's payment screen was not loading correctly and instead displaying "Invalid session". They use a third-party vendor to handle payments and display their paym
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by gavinflud 10y ago
> "You post an article about a new programming language, you'll get 10 replies." A quick search pulls up results that would contradict that statement. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7436401 https:&#
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by gavinflud 10y ago
I think their scouting team has definitely played a huge part, bringing in relative unknowns like Vardy, Mahrez and Kante. Most teams in the premier league track all sorts of statistics nowadays though, so I don't think that has set Le
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by gavinflud 11y ago
Well in a browser extension, you wouldn't necessarily have a lot of people grabbing the comment history. The program could still run as it does, calling the HN API every ten minutes for new replies. The browser extension could just cal
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by gavinflud 12y ago
I had a conversation about this exact thing while on a business trip with some colleagues recently. I'm from Ireland while my colleagues were from Finland, Italy and France. In Irish culture, we talk a lot and seeing strangers conversi
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by gavinflud 12y ago
Not entirely true though. Yes the advertisers are their customers, but their customers need a large supply of the product (the users). In order to keep a consistently large supply of the product, Facebook has the difficult task of finding t
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by gavinflud 13y ago
My first car cost me €1000. My latest car that I bought in November cost just north of €3000.
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by gavinflud 13y ago
It'll be very interesting to see if she can manage to get out of the deal. It'd also take a monumental effort in recruitment and research to make a move like this a success, in my opinion anyway.
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by gavinflud 13y ago
I agree with you on a certain level, since there are so many outside factors influencing how quickly you can become a good programmer. It's not as if you are an average programmer for 10,000 hours and then you magically become a great progr
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by gavinflud 13y ago
Yes, of course this isn't something everyone would want. However, I for one know of lots of people that this would suit down to the ground. People who solely use their phones for calling, texting and Facebook. At the end of the day, it's an
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by gavinflud 13y ago
The higher cost of living factors into that majorly though. I know where I am (Dublin) it's very expensive to live in the city and I imagine London is the same. That's why employers in those areas have to pay quite a bit more.
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by gavinflud 13y ago
"Personally, I know that my productivity takes a dip at 3pm every day. This is exactly where I place my nap, and it has been one of the most powerful ways to bring my productivity back to 100% for a good 1,5 hour session after that." I'm
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by gavinflud 13y ago
My first job in the development industry was working as a PHP developer for a nine month internship. Now that I'm graduating I received several job offers, most of them involved working with PHP again. However, I received two offers from tw
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by gavinflud 13y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. I've noticed it a lot over the last while where many people in the software industry who write blog posts or contribute to forums just have an air of negativity about them. That being said, I'm sure no matter where y
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by gavinflud 13y ago
Very well put and it hits home. I always find that once I cut the first corner, I care less and less about each future shortcut or badly coded feature I implement. However, if I truly care about the project or have a project that has been v
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by gavinflud 13y ago
I read "JavaScript: The Good Parts" after having been using JavaScript for a couple of months and still found it overwhelming. Douglas Crockford moves through the topics at a very fast pace. However, after a few more months of learning the
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by gavinflud 13y ago
This is an excellent post. I'm soon-to-be fresh out of university and the company I'm joining had a hiring process very similar to what you've described. They were in constant contact throughout the process, sold themselves very well and -
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by gavinflud 14y ago
Unfortunately for you, you can't pick and choose what you want when Google are providing you with a free email service. Generating personalized ads is how they make money from this venture. As the saying goes: "If you're not paying for it;
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by gavinflud 14y ago
Copying and pasting is fine if you're copying code you've written yourself. However, as you said, it's a lot more beneficial when you type out code because you'll make mistakes and have to figure them out. It's very hard to learn how the co
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by gavinflud 14y ago
I'm not a very experienced Node.js developer, but I have taken the time over the last couple of months to learn how to use it. I find working without CoffeeScript to be much more productive. Then again, that may change when I get a lot more
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by gavinflud 14y ago
The language barrier is definitely a problem for countries like Germany and it's startup industry (at least looking in from the outside it is). While they are one of the safer economies in Europe, and seem to be holding the whole thing toge
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by gavinflud 14y ago
A month studying JavaScript and jQuery (lots of employers place specific emphasis on this) will give you a decent knowledge of the language. Definitely enough to put it on your resume and use it competently.
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by gavinflud 14y ago
You could certainly learn how the general syntax of the language and how things like prototyping and callbacks work. Why limit it to a month though? Learn the basics, develop an understanding of how it works and then carry on learning as yo