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Comment · 5 days ago
Telemetry does not include any data from your terminals, or names of files, folders or projects. In fact they even provide an example JSON payload for you to inspect in the settings dialog.
Comment · 14 days ago
Comment · 5 months ago
While Apple does make nice hardware and appear to be listening to their users in that respect, don't forget that Tahoe has not been particularly well-received.
Comment · 10 months ago
While I agree with your sentiment, the actual quote is subtly different, which changes the meaning:

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

Comment · 11 months ago
That was my first thought too! but then realised Allan Border has a double L, while the app's name is "Alan"
Comment · 11 months ago
Nothing is in its "final form" today.

I'm a long time SWE and in the last week, I've made and shipped production changes across around 6 different repos/monorepos, ranging from Python to Golang, to Kotlin to TS to Java. I'd consider myself "expert" in maybe one or two of those codebases and only having a passing knowledge of the others.

I'm using AI, not to fire-and-forget changes, but to explain and document where I can find certain functionality, generate snippets and boilerplate, and produce test cases for the changes I need. I read, review and consider that every line of code I commit has my name against it, and treat it as such.

Without these tools I'd estimate being around 25% as effective when it comes to getting up to speed on unfamiliar code and service. For that alone, AI tooling is utterly invaluable.

Comment · 1 year ago
> Easiest day for engineers on-call everywhere

I have three words for you: cascading systems failure

Comment · 1 year ago
> ... Feedly that pretend to care about RSS but layer on features unrelated to the protocol

I've been using Feedly since Google killed reader, and while I like the RSS functionality it offers, I do agree that they've slowly been adding more and more features I don't care for.

Maybe it's time to migrate to something like TFA suggests.

I also agree with your other comments; it's huge a shame.

Comment · 1 year ago
I see what you did there
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
"Don't put your hand in the fire."
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
As was also pointed out in the TFA, while you may not be "marking people down" because of unfamiliarity with syntax, an interviewee who has more experience with the language (and it's debugging tools) used in the interview will have an inherent advantage over someone who isn't as familiar.
Comment · 2 years ago
I agree, nice and thick, with lots of butter! Don't listen to the advice in the article :-)

> The trick is not to spread it thickly like peanut butter; instead, you take about a quarter of a teaspoon’s worth and scrape it thinly over the entire slice.

Comment · 2 years ago
And if your main.go is in a sub-directory, e.g. cmd/pathto/cli/main.go:

    $ go run ./cmd/pathto/cli

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