another-dave

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It reminds me of that old parable where the acolyte asks the priest "Father, can I smoke while I pray?" and gets told "No, you should be focusing on praying. That wouldn't be respectful". But then he says "Can I pray while I smoke?" and gets told "of course, you can pray at any time".

If it's 'walking time', I probably don't want to consume that with work. But if it's 'working time', it could be great to have a nice walk during it.

another-dave

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I mean, even all else aside - why would they need a "perpetual, irrevocable" licence?

another-dave

قبل 11 يومًاdiscuss

"That in itself shows people regard the interaction they had with the company as a purchase, not just temporary access that can be removed unilaterally on a whim."

and of course an end user believes it's a purchase when the companies explicitly say things like "Rent for £2.99 or Buy for £9.99".

If Sony want to market this as buying rather than renting a film, then I think that they need to either -

- negotiate a contract that "grandfathers in" availability for as long as the platform exists, even if they lose rights to sell to new customers - refund what it'd now cost to buy outright elsewhere if they're pulling the title (if they want, maybe pro rate that. e.g. count a purchase as 100 years of access to it. If I lose rights after 10 years, I get a 90% refund)

another-dave

قبل 11 يومًاdiscuss

Is it? I thought that's specifically what the OP was talking about — the ranking that their resumé scored on the ATS algorithm.

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قبل 12 يومًاdiscuss

> If you contribute to open source you are more likely to contribute to the company on weekends

I wonder if that assumption is bourne out in reality though?

I'd imagine if someone's OSS contributions are enough of a factor that it's worth hiring them, they're not going to drop it on a whim to work extra hours on the day job.

(Assuming you weed out open source contributions like "I made a todo list app in React but licenced it as MIT" or "I fixed a typo in the docs for NextJS". )

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قبل 12 يومًاdiscuss

For one, if you go on to Hacker Rank's "Screen" page, they mention the product is used by Stripe/AirBnB/LinkedIn/Atlassian/IBM etc etc. I imagine that there's plenty more companies using it too.

But I'd also assume that their competitors are doing something similar so I don't think we as an industry can just ignore that it's happening.

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قبل 12 يومًاdiscuss

I always find it funny when a technical crowd starts picking on em dashes as a sure sign of AI. I mean, are keyboard shortcuts really that difficult for developers? Some of us always knew how to use correct punctuation, even before LLMs existed.

Also, neither "this is not" or "it is" appear at all in the article?

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قبل 15 يومًاdiscuss

I find physical menus much easier to search personally - I can "time slice" switching my attention around different parts of the menu fairly easily and home in on which I might want.

It's clear how much menu there is to sort through. If I want to pick something for someone else (e.g. my daughter), there's clear sign posting to what's available.

Often the digital menus I get linked to are either just a PDF of the paper menu (in which case, I'm viewing it at phone window size rather than full A4) or it's a website with nesting in different ways, so you're not sure if you've seen everything or not.

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قبل 16 يومًاdiscuss

"The effort length and instantaneous power output changes, of course."

but that's what the phrase is meant to convey, right?

Don't run through consumable X (energy/money/etc) like there's no tomorrow - even though there's <some big important milestone> now, we've got dozens more of those that we need to meet, so you're better off getting this one done at 75% than committing 100% to it and failing on all the others.

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قبل 23 يومًاdiscuss

Always reminds me of Guy Steele's "Growing a Language" talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw6TaiXzHAE&t=48s

Think it's a great fit for IF alright.

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قبل 24 يومًاdiscuss

It's technically feasible to just draw all the individual dots but it doesn't necessarily convey the information better.

When individual points are drawn close together, they're hard to discern without zooming right in. Even with additive opacity, they max out quite quickly once a couple of dots overlap.

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قبل 30 يومًاdiscuss

"Can the sandwich be further compressed? We don’t think so. At one end of the pipeline, development teams need to decide what to build."

I mean, but this is talking about the process as a whole, not individual jobs.

"Farmers won't be replaced by combine harvesters - we still need someone to decide what to plant and to harvest it". Sure, but if you used to have 10 labourers in a field manually ploughing with a pair of oxen and now you have one guy driving the machinery it absolutely has replaced jobs.

Companies are already talking about "1 person teams" to deliver projects. We'll still have _some_ jobs but the ratio will change dramatically and engineering will move a lot closer to "team lead" role (and maybe even Product Manger role to boot)

another-dave

الشهر الماضيdiscuss

they are responsible for it, but it's useful in reporting to differentiate between "fulfilled by" and "bought through"

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What I always wonder is why we don't have more standardisation around end-user contracts. E.g. something equivalent to YC's SAFE (https://www.ycombinator.com/documents) but for employment agreements, leaseholds etc.

We understand what we can & can't do with software licences and creative commons because we know "this is MIT" or "that is CC, no commercial, with attribution" and we don't need to delve further.

If we had similar for employment terms - ACME Ltd want to hire me for £x at Y location using the standard "UK employee contract" - it feels like you could sidestep a lot of the need for AI parsing individual documents that are all subtly different.

Lawyers are _already_ using templates, but they're all using bespoke templates and it means that you've got ambiguity by virtue of the fact that the sentence in my contract has never been tested in court.

another-dave

قبل شهرينdiscuss

I really wish there was a "pre prompt" hook natively. As in, before the agent releases control back to me to prompt it again, it runs the hook.

I have a pre-push hook that runs all lint/prettier/typechecks/tests etc. These are all clearly signposted in the project, the AGENTS and CLAUDE files are set to run them.

Still though, I'll get it saying "All done" and then it'll fail something basic like formatting when I go to push. Or I've come back to a 'ralph wiggum' loop before and found it saying "tests are broken, but that's not part of this commit, so ignoring"

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Exactly like the article describes Britain doing with the Soviets - " At the time the British government wasn't involved in space exploration, so paying for a spot on a flight was the only way to get there."

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Need a proof reader who can spell strawberry? Send your AI draft to us for corrections.

another-dave

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he explicitly said 'double-digit bottom-line growth'

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> The real 'next big thing' would be integrating an engine like Gemini with OS-level hooks (similar to the OpenClaw approach) so agents can manipulate app windows and state directly. Resurrecting Web Intents as 2-way App Intents would be the key to making this work.

I think for something like this, it will only work if you can allow you local files to get messed up by the LLM but then, because everything has been synced to the cloud, there's a safe "revert" option.

I'd love that built on a Linux foundation too, but realistically reckon if they're going down that path they've got the core of "all your app state can be backed-up/transferred" already in Android so they'd likely lean heavily on that.

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