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by stiiv 6d ago
I think Martin F's team tied outcomes to factoring https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/refactori... which is crucial to code quality. Even grug brain developer agree. On the other hand, there a
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by stiiv 1mo ago
When is the best time of year to read it?
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by stiiv 1mo ago
LLM-based code generation requires disciplined operation to lead to the best outcomes. Shops who only ever had taste as a proxy for discipline were missing this before, and they're missing it now. The fact that it's missing is why
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by stiiv 3mo ago
Yes in both theme and style, I agree. While I appreciate pretty much everything by Borges, his dives into the infinite were the most memorable.
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by stiiv 4mo ago
Congratulations on the launch! Really intriguing product. How well would it work for a company that has the kinds of artifacts that you mentioned, but that lacks the quality/precision/accuracy that Hyper might need? I'm espec
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by stiiv 4mo ago
For building web applications or a system that includes logic that needs to run on the web? TypeScript is mature enough, and it's top tier for domain modeling. As long as you stay disciplined, Claude Code will write excellent TypeScrip
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by stiiv 5mo ago
Agreed -- it's a wonderful film, and deserves a special place right up there with Star Wars and Harryhausen for its practical effects. While the article mentions Moebius, I think this level of praise still merits an extra Incal callout
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by stiiv 6mo ago
Agreed! Investing lightly at this stage seems smart if your time/attention budget is tight.
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by stiiv 6mo ago
> Claude Code and its ilk can turn "maybe one day" internal projects into live features after a single hour of work. You really, honestly, and truly are missing out if you're not looking for valuable things like that! You&
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by stiiv 6mo ago
> If this tech is as amazing as you say it is, I'll be able to pick it up and become productive on a timescale of my choosing not yours. Broadly speaking, I think this is a wise assessment. There are opportunities for productivity g
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by stiiv 7mo ago
> On exception it exits dirtily and crashes, which is good enough for now Silent failures and unexplained crashes are high on my list of things to avoid, but many teams just take them for granted in spite of the practical impact. I think
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by stiiv 7mo ago
I'm wondering: why now, in early 2026? Why not last year? Why not in July? What changed? What does this teach us about Anthropic and what can we infer about their competition?
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by stiiv 7mo ago
YMMV, of course. I set up our actions pipeline four years ago and basically never have to worry or even think about it. The UI isn't perfect, but it's good enough. Our scenario: relatively simple monorepo, lots of docker, just eno
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by stiiv 10mo ago
Last I knew, Rider was pretty much the only IDE available for a large codebase when you weren't on Windows. Much love for Ionide, but it was a serious struggle. Is this any better now?
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by stiiv 10mo ago
I think I agree with you. When I was part of a growing F# team a number of years ago, everyone we hired was an enthusiast who just loved coding in F# and wanted an opportunity to do it professionally. It turned out that this love, combined
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by stiiv 1y ago
For a great sci-fi treatment of the dangers of mirror life, see Fantastic Four 5-6 (2023) by Ryan North. Yes, that Ryan North, and no, it's not your "typical" comic book.
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by stiiv 1y ago
Flatland is a classic, though it's almost a pamphlet. While you asked for a novel, I can't resist recommending the short fiction of Borges.
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by stiiv 2y ago
Perfection for Leibniz might be considered more of a logical concept than an observable state. After all, he uses the same thing to argue (somehow) for the existence of god! https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz&#x
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by stiiv 2y ago
Justifiably! Supply-chain attacks have occurred via npm, and have been widely reported. A lack of oversight and lack of standard libraries are often cited as the cause. I don't know if it's a problem for Rust (or other platforms l
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by stiiv 2y ago
Would you kindly clarify your point? A supreme court justice is not a state or local official (as I understand the terms), so the ruling won't protect him.
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by stiiv 2y ago
dotenv has zero npm dependencies. dotenvx has 21, including a few I have never heard of. Is this really more secure?
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by stiiv 2y ago
fwiw Global Specialties has been making "protoboards" like this for decades. They're pretty expensive, though.
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by stiiv 2y ago
There is still something to be said for "real world uniqueness" (GIS coordinates) or deferring to a third party to establish identity (license plate numbers). Identifiers like these aren't always available, but within many do
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by stiiv 2y ago
Big thank you for clarifying -- I missed that. This approach is far less unsavory that some other attempts that I've seen.
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by stiiv 2y ago
Verbatim from OP.
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by stiiv 2y ago
It depends on what you're trying to achieve. If there are sufficient structural differences, you're fine (`"foo" in myThing` can discrimate) but if two types in your union have the same structure, TS doesn't give yo
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by stiiv 2y ago
Sure! You need a `type` field (or something like it) in TS. You don't need that in a language like F# -- the discrimation occurs strictly in virtue of your union definition. That's what I meant by "native support."
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by stiiv 2y ago
> A runtime bug is now a compile time bug. This isn't valuable to you? How do you get this without nominal typing, especially of primatives?
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by stiiv 2y ago
As someone who values a tight domain model (a la DDD) and primarily writes TypeScript, I've considered introducing branded types many times, and always decline. Instead, we just opt for "aliases," especially of primatives (`t
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by stiiv 2y ago
> an increased willingness to defer my thought-organising process to the AI by just jotting down some random ideas and asking it to make it coherent ...and then accepting that outcoming as sufficient, and moving on, right? Is the alterna

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