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by gofreddygo 14d ago
No kidding. I got a feature handed down (with links to 4 other markdown docs) for what was discussed in person as "api to record audit events". The result is <goes to AI for word count then gives up> wc .\ledger_reqs.
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by gofreddygo 22d ago
That would be true in the 80s, maybe 90s. The world changed. Tech's role in society changed. Its greedy. People in power in tech have made it clear they are here for the money and anything that supports it works. What you see (even her
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by gofreddygo 22d ago
Keep your friends close, enemies closer.
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by gofreddygo 22d ago
There's more caveats. Top down companies (which I believe all big tech companies have turned into) have a different class of problems that isn't addressed in TFA - politics, territorialism and history. TFA does not mention them or
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by gofreddygo 23d ago
Its fuzzy matching a sequence of input words to weighted patterns extracted from a humungous training set based on the sentence structure (not meaning) to generate another sequence of words, and then filtered and smoothed to make the output
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by gofreddygo 1mo ago
One thing i hate more is the tendency of people now to rely on such summaries over the code and copy-pasting 400 line summaries of something fundamentally wrong. Code is more precise than english language. If it wasn't everyone would j
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by gofreddygo 1mo ago
This a a very mature, stable perspective of the world we live in. Everyone wont agree with me all the time, I don't have to either. And thats ok.
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by gofreddygo 1mo ago
Pair programming is also a great way to foster anxiety, shill arguments and have your engineers hate each other worse than they hate the job. I like my neighbors and love to spend some time being nice to them. Pair programming is the equiva
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by gofreddygo 1mo ago
Not true. Engineers are finding a new set of challenges but nothing of the sort that managing real people requires. PMs, managers and leaders behaving like status update junkies is a side effect and not the reason why those roles exist.
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by gofreddygo 1mo ago
Every. SINGLE. Recipe website. Just search for anything like "egg omelette recipe". Click *any* link for example [1]. [1]: https://www.loveandlemons.com/omelette-recipe/
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by gofreddygo 1mo ago
Bad engineers. Like bad wine, bad pizza and bad exes are impossible to guess till you taste it. Changes you forever. Changed me. You know its bad and good lord! dont bother explain it someone else who will not taste it themselves. There&#x
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by gofreddygo 1mo ago
For you and me, using a thing regularly for longer (than people around you) and possibly for more than one purpose makes for a power user. If you're on the Pixel Watch team however... "power user" takes on a different meaning
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by gofreddygo 1mo ago
I recently had a similar experience with Subway in a touristy region of South Dakota. Small place run by two very young girls. One managing the drive-thru, and asking customers what type of bread, what type of cheese, toasted or not and at
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by gofreddygo 1mo ago
I recently found Ross Ashby's papers on cybernetics and that led me finding out that his family published his entire indexed handwritten notes archive online [1]. Genuinely mindblowing. [1]: https://ashby.info
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by gofreddygo 1mo ago
this is actually a good setup, something I would like to watch
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by gofreddygo 1mo ago
Yeah yeah. Except for me its this feeling most of the time. Everything it generates is grammatically correct, phrased tight, emdashed to death and nothing is wrong as such, and yet what i just read contributes absolute 0 to why i started th
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by gofreddygo 1mo ago
A group of specialized actors with deeper singular skills, working on a task, well coordinated outperform a single actor with wider, shallower skills. I acknowledge that the depth the group brings is at a cost higher than the single actor a
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by gofreddygo 1mo ago
I have to agree with this. Completely relying on LLM for all your learning needs is a disaster. But being absolutely against use of LLMs isn't doing you any favors. This is where you don't have a formula but rely on you judgement
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by gofreddygo 1mo ago
> Build the product once, distribute it to a million users for roughly the same cost as distributing it to one. Every incremental customer flowed largely to the bottom line. common misconception about software unit economics. With enterp
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by gofreddygo 1mo ago
I'd preface the solution and the key point before mentioning that I'd seen this problem before and then further ask if they still want me to code up the solution. This eliminates the case that I, the interviewee might be bluffing.
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by gofreddygo 2mo ago
Why are you so wedded to JSON responses? I'd assume because of the conception that json = data. Html = presentation. But if you just use barebones html, this could work very well. Just add a wrapper in the api to return json as html to
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by gofreddygo 2mo ago
I see this as psychology driven, not math. It pushes people to look at new options and tempt an upgrade at the end of the lease (pay $1000 for a 3 year old mac or just upgrade ?). This also pushes term completion with early termination char
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by gofreddygo 2mo ago
art that served the artist, served its purpose
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by gofreddygo 2mo ago
The unreasonable difficulty of predicting (actual) future effects based on past effects with no regards to their cause.
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by gofreddygo 2mo ago
in a decade, we're all going to say how developers job is so different and yet still the same as it was 10 years ago.
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by gofreddygo 2mo ago
> hobby projects I still code by hand So true. I was too blinded to not notice the joy of my hobby getting sucked away by not doing it by hand.
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by gofreddygo 2mo ago
"How can we dig a well here" and "should we dig a well here" are neither mutually exclusive nor sufficient in their own regard. Cant answer should we without having done a lot of it before. Cant learn unless you actually
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by gofreddygo 2mo ago
For the producer, a nominal (at cost) fee is worse than an exorbitant one. better to have a few high paying customers first then drop the price inviting more than the other way around of charging nothing first then going up
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by gofreddygo 2mo ago
screens distract everyone. I avoid them. in meetings, I use a piece of paper or a whiteboard. Everyone can see what is being written on it. on that note, the small whiteboard right next to my desk (at home) was a great idea too
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by gofreddygo 2mo ago
my good notes have their origins in thoughts I had while in the shower or while driving or watching a movie or a conversation with someone close to me. Ideas evade me when I'm at my desk in front of my notebook with my awesome pen. Thi

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