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Comment · 1 year ago
I think you missed the point. It doesn't matter if people used paper or anything. They can do whatever they want, as long as their they can commit code to the source control with high quality.
Comment · 1 year ago
I didn't say print is bad. There is a ton of problems where debuggers alone are not enough and print is required. I meant choosing print when the debugger is readily available and allows developers to get what they need without constantly changing the code to insert "print" and recompile/rerun the code.
Comment · 1 year ago
> The other side is those people who do not find those kind of bugs annoying

Anecdotally, I find these are the same people who work less effectively and efficiently. At my company, I know people who mainly use Notepad++ for editing code when VSCode (or another IDE) is readily available, who use print over debuggers, who don't get frustrated by runtime errors that could be caught in IDEs, and who opt out of using coding assistants. I happen to know as a matter of fact that the person who codes in Notepad++ frequently has trivial errors, and generally these people don't push code out as fast they could.

And they don't care to change the way they work even after seeing the alternatives and knowing they are objectively more efficient.

I am not their managers, so I say to myself "this is none of my business" and move on. I do feel pity for them.

Comment · 1 year ago
Apparently people can't read.

I don't know which part of "to me" is not clear.

I don't design PCB boards (thus the "useless" word), and the comment was apparently a lighthearted joke in response to another lighthearted joke.

Comment · 1 year ago
> Requirements: Mac computers with Apple silicon or AMD GPUs

Apple still remembers those Macbook Pros/iMac and Mac Pros with AMD GPUs. A bit unexpected.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
FSF?
Comment · 1 year ago
Interesting. In Cody training sessions given by Sourcegraph, I saw OpenCtx mentioned a few times "casually", and the focus is always on Cody core concepts and features like prompt engineering and manual context etc. Sounds like for enterprise customers, setting up context is meant for infrastructure teams within the company, and end users mostly should not worry about OpenCxt?
Comment · 1 year ago
Is this similar to what Sourcegraph's OpenCtx tries to do?

Has OpenCtx ever gained much traction?

Comment · 1 year ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm

> In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is a finite sequence of mathematically rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation.

Looks good to me.

And did you just question "WHERE" and "ORDER BY" in SQL? I wouldn't do that. There are probably a ton of algorithms and optimizations done there. In my very naive understanding, quick sort is at least worth something.

Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah, people thought Walt Disney was crazy at the time as well.
Comment · 1 year ago
Exactly. I would use the same logic and argue that it is not fair for CEOs flying in private jets when other workers commute in car traffic. If the day comes when Elon Musk, Andy Jassy and alike fly commercial, I wouldn't complain a word about going to office five days a week.
Comment · 1 year ago
Well, I wouldn't. Teleportation wouldn't even be necessary in my case as it takes 5 minutes for me to get to my office. I just don't see any point in being in office on days when I am focusing on writing code to push features out.
Comment · 1 year ago
I wonder at OpenAI, Anthropic etc, how many people actually believe in "creating generalized artificial intelligence"

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