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2 ay öncediscuss

I started learning software in the early 2010s and I read a lot of software books like the ones mentioned in the article. I continued reading them as the years went on, but the last one I bought was probably 4 or 5 years ago. Naturally, I probably don't need books as much as I used to -- I can generally pick up something new and know where to find what I need to find, "learning to learn" and all that. I also think they are better for foundational knowledge; many times the books become outdated very quickly. So if I was gonna attempt to write a database or learn distributed programming theory, I'd probably pick up a book, but if I wanted to learn a specific tool (or most languages) I'd probably stick to the web.

2 ay öncediscuss

Same way they do it now. Cold applying, word of mouth/referrals, networking events, etc. Personally my first industry job in like 2012 originated from a networking mixer that I showed up to after seeing a promotional online. My unpaid internship/mentorship before that was a word of mouth from my mom asking her friend's husband which I suppose might count as a connection.

3 ay öncediscuss

When you zoom in to the street map level, the planes are practically invisible with their color and thin borders. Pretty neat though, that's a lot to load and keep smooth.

4 ay öncediscuss

Maybe this applies more towards adults, but I don't think the correct answer for kids is only "just have self-control," something kids are notorious for not having. Certainly there's a lot of parental responsibility here but we can simultaneously hold companies responsible for their part too.

4 ay öncediscuss

If we want to compare it to alcohol/cigarettes, then kids shouldn't be allowed to use this either.

4 ay öncediscuss

Really ironic given that they pulled the rug on general aviation usage.

4 ay öncediscuss

Same here. I quickly learned that if you merely ask questions about it's understanding or plans, it starts looking for alternatives because my questioning is interpreted as rejection or criticism, rather than just taking the question at face value. So I often (not always) have to caveat questions like that too. It's really been like that since before Claude Code or Codex even rolled around.

It's just strange because that's a very human behavior and although this learns from humans, it isn't, so it would be nice if it just acted more robotic in this sense.

6 ay öncediscuss

> Yes I can. I even provided an example for exactly that: `[4]any` can hold references to any type.

And now you've lost type checking. `(&'static str, bool, u64, f64)` is not the same as `[4]any`.

> A lot of things are useful, doesn't mean they are used for that useful case most of the time.

I'm sure you have vast insights into what most people do most of the time.

> Go has wrapped and typed errors, covering exactly that.

Sure, "Go has X because it gives you the tools to reimplement it yourself another way" is true of most anything you can think of.

6 ay öncediscuss

I've only written a handful of production projects in Go so my experience isn't very deep, but I find the syntax to be the ugliest of any PL. The mixed capitalizing based on function privacy, to me, is awful (among other things, i.e. personally I loathe curly brace initialization/definition). I'm sure you get used to it? It doesn't help that it just feels very hacked together, from the wonky generics, the lack of useful types like tuples and enums, the bolted on module system, to the annoying error handling, to say the least.

That said, compile times are great, the concurrency is dead simple, it's performant, and it's still easy to be really productive in it so it's not like I'd never consider it. Many other languages have many of the same issues, anyway.

6 ay öncediscuss

Zed is the only editor I've been using for maybe two months or so. But I find the extensions still sorely lacking and the API not extensive enough yet either. Still, I really love the design as well as how AI was builtin, and some more of the niche differences.

7 ay öncediscuss

Anecdotally, my cats meow at me a lot. But they're my cats (others live in the house and help care for them). I also meow back more than anyone else. In fact, I might be the only one to do so. :)

9 ay öncediscuss

Anything to avoid stricter gun legislation. This type of incident will be considered an unfortunate but necessary sacrifice despite how dystopian it really is.

9 ay öncediscuss

How do you pay with PayPal if not putting in your credit card or bank details? link is a pretty well-known online wallet and much simpler to use than PayPal.

10 ay öncediscuss

It's $16k for a 1-person household. Here's the rest:

$21,150 (2), $26,650 (3), $32,150 (4), $37,650 (5), $43,150 (6), $48,650 (7), $54,150 (8)

Also the median household income in NM is ~$62,000 according to the Census, which is already under the 400% threshold for just a one person household.

https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/federal-poverty-level-fp... https://data.census.gov/profile/New_Mexico?g=040XX00US35

11 ay öncediscuss

Working with one of those right now, on my two-person team, ironically.

11 ay öncediscuss

I am on a team of 2 people with a dedicated manager. That is, the manager does not write code and is not even really technical.

It is awful, send help.

3 yıl öncediscuss

https://blog.beeper.com/p/how-beeper-mini-works

5 yıl öncediscuss

You've got enough replies at this point, but I guess I really am curious who you're talking about? You seem to have a chip on your shoulder so it sounds personal or nearly so. If I had to guess, most attempts to automate things, whether they go poorly or not, are begun by people who have that expertise or skill which you're claiming "computer people" scorn so much (which I also don't think is a very common opinion).

8 yıl öncediscuss

Not much to add, but want to note that you're spot on. I've encountered this SO many times over the years and this is always the explanation I'm given. At first it just made me indignant, too, and to some degree I guess it still does, but now I just try to let it go.