hcabral

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by hcabral 3y ago
Yes and no. Building is great. I actually think that code is disposable, but products are not, at least within a healthy delta T. Code review, refactoring and the eventual full re-write is one of the most satisfying activities IMHO. However
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Ask HN: Book Ideas for Math, Physics, AI, Economics
11 points by hcabral 3y ago|6 comments
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by hcabral 3y ago
Ever-changing requirements, client influence in software development that ultimately leads to unnecessary and often disposable code.
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by hcabral 4y ago
I think you can always teach it a little bit, since for the chat session it holds "memory". So maybe adding/saying some basic algebra inputs it would output better or accurate results.
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by hcabral 5y ago
Not pump and dump, didn't mean to be pejorative. Promoting, or "celebrating" could be suitable to my original question. =)
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by hcabral 5y ago
Because I use this as a technical source for many things on a daily basis. Other sites or communities still "balance" the conversation between all kinds of stuff, Python, Java, Node, C/C++, etc. Maybe startups have a stronger
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by hcabral 5y ago
This is indeed an interesting point. I've worked with C/C++ and every single project or experience had some peculiarity: the platform, the compiler, some version limitation, etc.
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by hcabral 5y ago
Without compare language/platform abilities, it looks like a major hype cycle like Node or even Java back in the 90s and early 2000s. I read HN and see a lot of stuff around Rust that I don't see elsewhere, so this is also kind of
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Ask HN: What's the Deal with HN and Rust?
45 points by hcabral 5y ago|107 comments