jmchuster

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by jmchuster 23d ago
They don't need to because that's usually not what the job calls for, but I would think most people who call themselves software engineers believe they would be able to work at a job where they wrote FORTRAN instead of Python. It
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by jmchuster 27d ago
My criteria is very simple, could you handwrite the code if you needed to. Could you write this code without the LLM writing it for you. Could you write this code without the IDE auto-completing it for you. You could take it all the way
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by jmchuster 1mo ago
That first sentence already uses a ton of jargon that non-developers don't use, "web development", "new webpage", "good design", "best practices", "big block",
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by jmchuster 3mo ago
I only just now realized pg cat pg dog What's he going to name the next version? pg emu ?
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by jmchuster 4mo ago
I guess that tokenmaxxing phase has served its purpose, of forcing people's brains to go from "i will never use AI, it's scary and new and useless" to "i must learn to use it, this is the new normal, otherwise i&#x2
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by jmchuster 7mo ago
> Famously, the first iPhone was actually expensive trash: no apps, no 3G, couldn't even cut and paste text. Also famously, while the tech elitists complained about all of its shortcomings, the broader consumer market fully embraced
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by jmchuster 7mo ago
What's the fastest way to get promoted to a manager at a fast food chain -- show up on time and do your job. If anything, the managers are workers who cared enough to do a decent job.
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by jmchuster 7mo ago
> I understand what the author means, but I think that in any human-2-human interaction, we are all entitled to at least basic courtesy. This only holds up for the "small" number of human interactions the average person gets.
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by jmchuster 10mo ago
The term is 漢字. It's written the same in both Japanese and Chinese, with the Japanese pronunciation being "kanji" and the Chinese pronunciation being "hànzì".
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by jmchuster 1y ago
> 7.css is a CSS framework for building interface components that look like Windows 7. It is built on top of the GUI backbone of XP.css, which is an extension of 98.css. Just an absolutely lovely line of text.
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by jmchuster 1y ago
Other countries have just been doing this by hand. For example, in Japan, they will open up bags of trash from the dumpster, find your address from a discarded envelope, sort out what you should have recycled, then bag it and leave it at yo
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by jmchuster 1y ago
The interview he does on the Odd Lots podcast is a lot more in-depth, and I found it a great listen: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5gJazFZZaZ0OGKf516XpeO
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by jmchuster 1y ago
And light truths are visibly open in modern dna
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by jmchuster 1y ago
Where does your intuition for how long actions take in a cockpit come from? I'm not a pilot, so i have no idea. But from watching vasaviation on youtube, it always seems to take like 5-10 minutes between when they first radio the cont
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by jmchuster 1y ago
Even if docker is the most popular build tool used across all professionals [1], that usage number is still only 59% of professional developers. [1] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#most-popular...
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by jmchuster 2y ago
I see it analogous to asking, "How much is access to the internet boosting real-world programmer productivity?" Are you really 5-10x more productive being able to google something? Couldn't you have just looked it up in the
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by jmchuster 2y ago
There are lot of points in time that don't have a location, such as a historical event. Then it's most accurate to store in UTC, then convert to the timezone you want only at display time. The author actually made the point in th
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by jmchuster 2y ago
The 2008 mortgage crisis is now 16 years old, and the stock market had recovered by 2011. So presumably anyone who entered the work force afterwards might have little sense of it, which would be anyone under the age of 31 (or 35 if you cou
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by jmchuster 3y ago
On climate change, it already did work once with the hole in the ozone layer. People ask why they don't hear about it anymore -- oh, it's because we listened and banned CFCs and fixed the hole.
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by jmchuster 3y ago
> What does Altman bring to the table exactly. What is going to be lost if he leaves. If Altman did literally nothing else for Microsoft, except instantly bring over 700 of the top AI researchers in the world, he would still be one of th
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by jmchuster 3y ago
It's probably helpful to first get a sense of how much work it is to gather customer feedback. As an example, Qualtrics was getting single digit percent response rates, on a simple NPS survey ( https://delighted.com/blo
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by jmchuster 3y ago
New grad talent is a huge pipeline for Google or any other FAANG, and they'll recruit at every well-rated and large engineering program they can find, the large majority of which aren't just MIT. And tons of engineering programs t
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by jmchuster 3y ago
From the provided wiki link, it doesn't mean to refuel the car, it means to "step on the gas."
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by jmchuster 3y ago
Supporting ie6, ie7, and ie8 separately while developing on firefox just so we could use firebug.
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by jmchuster 3y ago
It's the scale of it. "Here is a vaguely understood problem, that might take 2 hours to solve." "Here is a vaguely understood problem, that might take 2 years to solve." Though if you're used to the latter time
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by jmchuster 4y ago
I would never claim that our setup uses microservices. Probably just more plainly named "services". And yes, that is correct, we agree that once we expose a view, we won't remove columns or change types of columns. Theoretica
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by jmchuster 4y ago
if service B needs some new data from the view that isn't being provided, then you first run the migration on service A to update that view and add a column. Then you are able to update service B to utilize that column. If you don&#x2
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by jmchuster 4y ago
For us, we started off with a world where each service communicates to each other only via RabbitMQ, so all fully async. So theoretically each service should be able to be down for however it likes with no impact to anyone else, then it co
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by jmchuster 4y ago
"Yes, of course i am. What are you, a f--ing idiot?"
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by jmchuster 4y ago
This isn't just a Godfather reference?

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