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by vivin 5mo ago
This is interesting to me, because Claude has been a net-positive for me. I haven't faced token issues or declining quality. I generally work with Claude as an assistant -- I may have it do planning and have it "one shot" a t
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by vivin 9mo ago
I've used agent mode, but I tell it not to go hog wild and to not do anything other than what I have instructed it to do. Also, sometimes I will tell it not to change the code, and to go over its changes with me first, before I tell it
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by vivin 9mo ago
You can't get away from the engineering part of software engineering even if you are using LLMs. I have been using Claude Opus 4.5, and it's the best out of the models I have tried. I find that I can get Claude to work well if I a
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by vivin 7y ago
That is awesome -- I was looking to roll my own. This will make it much easier.
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by vivin 7y ago
Has the JSON file structure changed in v3? I am trying to migrate from WordPress to Ghost and I was going to use v2, but now that v3 is out, I would like to migrate to v3. ( https://ghost.org/docs/api/v2/migrat
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by vivin 8y ago
One point. Type erasure in Java is actually a bad thing -- this is because generics were added after the fact, and in order to provide compatibility with older code, Java only performs those checks at compile time. In some cases, even with
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by vivin 9y ago
> The model's decision function is represented by the blue/pink background, and is clearly nonlinear. The bright red cross is the instance being explained (let's call it X). We sample instances around X, and weight them a
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by vivin 9y ago
I wasn't talking about the language, but the runtime I guess.
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by vivin 9y ago
> For now, WebAssembly does not support garbage collection at all. Memory is managed manually (as it is in languages like C and C++). While this can make programming more difficult for the developer, it does also make performance more co
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by vivin 10y ago
If you want something similar to Ubuntu, but something that is much more stable, I highly recommend Linux Mint. I've been using it for about 4 years now and it's a delight. Very stable and doesn't give me a lot of issues afte
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by vivin 10y ago
It's crazy how much motivation and passion you can get when information is so scarce, and you just want to play games :D I don't regret what I had to go through either.
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by vivin 10y ago
Oh, wow! I did the exact same thing! I remember thinking why some files would just "run" from the command-line and why others wouldn't! I remember renaming a .TXT file to .COM or .EXE and also wondering why it wouldn't r
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by vivin 10y ago
Just saw your line about ISM - I was in ISM until 8th and I still remember they had those classes in the computer lab by the canteen :) I moved to ISG after 8th because my dad got a job in Ghala.
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by vivin 10y ago
Hello! Haha, yes I remember the computer store in Al-Harthy complex where you could get games; all pirated of course. I remember I used to go there with friends in high school! Definitely good times...
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by vivin 10y ago
It was more or a relative assessment of difficulty than absolute; I was comparing it to what it takes to play a game these days. Back then you had to do more legwork. It wasn't objectively that difficult though.
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Learning how to program in Oman in the 90’s(vivin.net)
65 points by vivin 10y ago|25 comments
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by vivin 10y ago
Not my experience. I recently submitted a bug fix to Qt WebKit and feature to swagger. Neither of them broke anything and both were accepted. The submission processes for both projects were diligent enough to ensure quality contributions ye
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by vivin 10y ago
That's a very good point. The standard library for JavaScript is embarrassing to say the least. But you can't really fault it given the environment for which it was created. Node went some way towards making it a little better at
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by vivin 10y ago
That's a different issue entirely. The article is talking about the quality of frameworks and libraries in JS.
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by vivin 10y ago
This is not about pushing code to production. I don't deny that problem exists in Java. This is about the quality of libraries and frameworks.
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by vivin 10y ago
> What this article is about? Snippets from SO answers are not as good as battle-tested code? It's obvious and it's same in all languages. It's much harder to ship SO copypasta in say, Java or C#, than in Node. JavaScript
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by vivin 10y ago
I guess my experience with CPAN has been different. Probably the most frustrating thing is the paucity of documentation from certain perl modules. But the modules I've found and used have been pretty good quality and pretty stable. The
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by vivin 10y ago
Realized this sometime ago, when I was wondering why the Java ecosystem doesn't have this problem. It boils down to the barrier of entry. On JS it's so low as to be almost nonexistent, which is why you end up with junk like isPosi
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by vivin 10y ago
This was a very interesting article. Thanks for posting! I have read about the web-plucking behavior before, but had no idea about its path-finding abilities.
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by vivin 10y ago
Have you read the article? It isn't an ad-hoc distinction. You get the base system with a FreeBSD install. It includes the kernel and everything else that makes it a "FreeBSD system". This is stuff maintained by the BSD team.
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by vivin 10y ago
FreeBSD is quite coherent. Anything not part of the base system goes into /usr/local. If you're having trouble understanding the layout of the filesystem, you only have to man hier: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi&
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by vivin 10y ago
I was a long-time FreeBSD user. Started using it in college and continued for a long time. I started using Linux because I had bought myself a new laptop and BSD didn't recognize the wifi card. I continued using FreeBSD at home for a f
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by vivin 11y ago
Woo! It has a bugfix to qt-webkit that I committed. It fixes a canvas.toDataURL issue with PNGs.
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by vivin 11y ago
This is pretty nice. Hope it goes through. It's about time that we had local-variable inference in Java. It does mean that the diamond can't be used this way: var list = new ArrayList<>(); There is no way to infer the
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by vivin 11y ago
I'm going to be using Kotlin for my next hobby project. Really excited about this language!

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