pmelendez

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by pmelendez 3mo ago
Sure, ensuring maintainability is one of the benefits of code reviews, but I think it is a bold claim to say that's the solo purpose. For example, code reviews is also a tool that allows teams to get inform of the changes in the code a
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by pmelendez 7mo ago
>I just don't see a world where every corporation is building their own accounts, crm, hr software. I do see a world where every corporation would use agents-friendly platform to create their own accounts, crm, hr software. The insu
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by pmelendez 1y ago
AI? This article is about memory allocation strategies... Did I miss something?
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by pmelendez 1y ago
I have had so much fun lately just with vanilla VS Code and Claude Code. Aider is a close second.
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by pmelendez 1y ago
Not really. This is an example of something that Claude Code handles very easily and for Github Copilot, is not even an starter (because can't read SQLite files) >Read the Sqlite file in this directory and create an UX that would vi
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by pmelendez 2y ago
Quoting OP's: |> it inspired me to create this small game. It was inspiration, not a simulation nor it claimed to be realistic. This is the type of artistic license that game designers have always had at their disposal.
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by pmelendez 2y ago
> Again, I still feel like code is the ideal solution to "ad-hoc reproducible calculations" I am a developer and I do my personal budgeting on a spreadsheet. It was easier to setup and maintain, and follows my process better th
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by pmelendez 2y ago
>The argument that this is 90% of what matters in ML seems a bit bold. AFAICT it is completely missing reinforcement learning, Wouldn't that account for the other 10%? To me it sounds like the quote is not too far off when you consi
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by pmelendez 2y ago
> Ignore the critics. Watch the demos. Play with it With so many smoke and mirrors demos out there, I am not super excited at those videos. I would play with it, but it seems like it is not available in a free tier (I stopped paying Open
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by pmelendez 3y ago
I think the context of iOS is safely implied here. To say you have the option of going Android is as relevant as giving the option of doing a mobile app; Sure it is an option but out of the context of the discussion.
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by pmelendez 3y ago
>do something serious I guess it depends on what you mean by serious. Pre-training a competitive LLM with current methods and consumer hardware is prohibitive for sure. Solving a classification problem could be totally doable depending o
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by pmelendez 3y ago
Fair, I think what makes this case interesting is that he wasn't an athletic outlier for most of his life, so the question on how many dormant athletes are out there remains. Maybe the distribution is not as skew as one might initially
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by pmelendez 3y ago
>Why can't you click & drag the words to reorder them? That level of difficulty is part of the game. There is a shuffle button to ease the ideas generation but most likely is was done like that by design.
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by pmelendez 3y ago
I am definitely not the target audience for this. I am that person that keeps typing while people send voice notes, and now the only way to interact with this device is via voice? :(
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by pmelendez 3y ago
There are a few things on this comments that is causing noise in my mind. >might make you a better programmer, it won't make you a better software engineer I think it is a short-sighted definition of SE but in any case, there are no
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by pmelendez 3y ago
>Honestly, what do you expect Spotify to do? Not try to stay competitive That's a reductionist way of looking at it, but an alternative way would have been what Daniel said on that letter; They were "more productive and less ef
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by pmelendez 3y ago
This! I recommend the book[1] as a slighty less addictive version. [1] https://www.amazon.ca/Revolution-Valley-Paperback-Insanely-G...
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by pmelendez 3y ago
I would be curious to see references that claims that dynamic and static typing are orthogonal with strongly typed systems, as “strongly type” is rather ambiguous and the only reason I used the term was because that was how Pascal was promo
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by pmelendez 3y ago
> but Pascal’s type system was pretty solid To be honest, this is a matter of styles, coming from a dynamic type background I don’t appreciate strongly typed systems as an advantage.
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by pmelendez 3y ago
>This is getting pretty old. Well the singular use of "They" is actually pretty old [1]. I don't think it is confusing readers as they did mention a name. > I just can't help rolling my eyes at this nonsense. I get
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by pmelendez 3y ago
The tone of the website has a very tongue-in-cheek tone to me. Taking it seriously is like doing journalism research using The Onion.
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by pmelendez 4y ago
Those are great, thanks for sharing. Also, great website!
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by pmelendez 4y ago
Sounds like what startups do these days :)
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by pmelendez 4y ago
There are several. If I remember correctly the story is featured in Woz’s book iWoz, but also in Job’s official biography. There is also a mention in the Wikipedia article of breakout: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br
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by pmelendez 4y ago
> You know what is fun when it comes to work? Things that work, are named appropriately, are understandable, and people not needing trivialities I don’t know I agree with this. Microsoft has taken the descriptive naming style all the way
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by pmelendez 4y ago
I agree, and it is one of those things where buying the printed version makes so much sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_in_the_Valley
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by pmelendez 4y ago
>The benefits of 0 indexing are well known and mostly revolve around the fact you tend to have far less fiddling with -1 and +1 as you write code. Depends on what you are doing. I seldom have to do a flat 2D array these days, but array[t
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by pmelendez 4y ago
>Confession: something about ORMs has never clicked with me.. none of them ever seem simpler than SQL. You are not alone on that sentiment. The opaque nature of the translation often result in poor performance, and to me the apparent erg
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by pmelendez 4y ago
> Until about... 5-6 years ago That kinda correlates to when they moved away from the personals business
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by pmelendez 4y ago
It depends what is understood as code quality. After a while, writing code that is not verbose, fairly maintainable, and readable, is a given. There is a minimum bar that each team set and it is gated by code reviews. The tradeoff start to

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