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joshdick
·il y a 20 jours·discuss
This paper is from 1997 ...
joshdick
·il y a 21 jours·discuss
I did the same thing! I was playing nonogram puzzles a lot in an ad-infested iPhone app, got sick of the ads, and replaced it with my own site:

https://karstendick.github.io/nonogram/
joshdick
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
I think new forms of media, like radio and television, are worthwhile comparisons to AI. They were hugely influential technologies in the 20th century, making a small number of media companies hugely powerful. That sounds a lot like AI.

The difference to AI is that we regulated the heck out of radio and television companies. I think this is evidence in favor of heavily regulating AI.
joshdick
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Seriously. If he doesn't already have a diagnosis, he should probably get evaluated.
joshdick
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
This is 4XX versus 5XX errors in HTTP.
joshdick
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
> everything owned by no one is owned by infrastructure eventually

Whoa, now there is a truth bomb. I've seen this happen a bunch, but never put it this succinctly before.
joshdick
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
Aww, that's so sweet!
joshdick
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
> Look, we clearly have a problem here. This task was voted a two-pointer and after two weeks we're still here talking about this. This shows me that there's a skills mismatch between you and what we expect from someone in this role.

This is depressingly real. So much agita is caused by tasks that are initially underestimated.
joshdick
·il y a 11 mois·discuss
Claude Code
joshdick
·il y a 6 ans·discuss
A recent HN article answers this question, actually!

"A basic installation of SAP has 20,000 database tables, 3,000 of which are configuration tables."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22244750
joshdick
·il y a 6 ans·discuss
WikiMedia's database schema is used by Wikipedia, one of the most popular websites there is, so it's arguably a very successful database schema design:

https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:Database_...
joshdick
·il y a 11 ans·discuss
I really enjoyed "Notes to a Software Team Leader: Growing Self Organizing Teams."

The second half of the book is advice from various tech leads.