oldenlessons

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by oldenlessons 1y ago
Being self taught also selects for the ability to learn autonomously. Which is very important in software.
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by oldenlessons 1y ago
someone was bribed != people are motivated by financial gain
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by oldenlessons 1y ago
I don't know. People working in web frameworks might be more visible, and more numerous than people working more low level stuff. But I don't think the latter is rarefied atmosphere at all. There are today several times more peopl
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by oldenlessons 1y ago
"This system has severe limitations. But we should rely more on it because this other system is also limited." For several decades we've developed and use computers because they can be very precise and deterministic.
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by oldenlessons 1y ago
Cost of revenue should include R&D and amortization. Pointing to EBTIDA is a very old trick.
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by oldenlessons 1y ago
Yup. Code is liability. Understanding it is the corresponding asset. Generating more code that is less well understood is akin to increasing leverage. Or: buying a super car might make your commute feel faster. But if everyone did it, we&#x
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by oldenlessons 1y ago
I like to read books on computers from the 70s and 80s. No trite analogies, just hard facts and diagrams. And explanations that start from scratch, requiring no previous knowledge - because there was none. The thing about these layers of ab
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by oldenlessons 1y ago
Nothing has served me better over the past few decades than accumulating ever more detailed and accurate knowledge of what it is exactly that computers do under the hood. All the layers of abstraction are well intended and often useful. But
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by oldenlessons 1y ago
What you are talking about here is accidental vs essential complexity as described by Brooks in the 80s. Your claim that LLMs do away entirely with accidental complexity and manage essential complexity for you is not supported by reality. A