jonathanpglick

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by jonathanpglick 6d ago
Haha, same! I wrote a huge anti-Patriot Act paper in college. No one was as worried or horrified as I was.
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by jonathanpglick 15d ago
Check out the writing of Baldur Bjarnason. There are a lot of blog posts and a book outlining the risks and tradeoffs. https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/ai-position/ https://illusion.baldurbjarnason.
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by jonathanpglick 2y ago
This is where erlang/elixir really shines! Using actor processes (aka genservers) to model business workflows and logic helps to align the programmer's and stakeholder's shared understanding and language of a feature, which l
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by jonathanpglick 2y ago
Reminds me of an awesome documentary about The Barkley Marathons called "The Barkley Marathons: The Race that Eats its Young". People are incredible!
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by jonathanpglick 3y ago
Jazz hands!
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by jonathanpglick 3y ago
Until it's 7 years later, the original developers are gone, the ticketing system has changed twice, and you have no clue why something is the way it is. When you're committing is exactly when you already have the context of "
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by jonathanpglick 3y ago
Same here! What a magical and empowering feeling to just see how a website works, edit it, and see the changes immediately. A year later I was paid to make my first website and 28 years later I'm still working as a full stack web devel
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by jonathanpglick 3y ago
Yeah, I used it quite successfully for a local nonprofit that kept most of their data in Salesforce. The eventually consistent syncing sidestepped a ton of headache for us and we could read straight from PostgreSQL. We just used API calls t
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by jonathanpglick 3y ago
It's so refreshing to hear other people understand what's really happening. How can I subscribe to these rants?
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by jonathanpglick 3y ago
Do you remember what the research was? I keep having this argument about multitasking not being a real thing but I'd love some concrete research to back it up. I get the sense that people just feel more productive when "multitaski
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by jonathanpglick 3y ago
The Product team uses a different version than the Engineering team
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by jonathanpglick 12y ago
Yeah, I was shocked at comments, people completely missing the point.