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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
For VSCode, there's https://github.com/AnWeber/vscode-httpyac
Comment · 3 years ago
An older yet still excellent take on this topic is https://joeduffyblog.com/2016/02/07/the-error-model/
Comment · 3 years ago
I've been adding C# code completion functionality to my REPL tool, and ended up reverting to the text-davinci model.
The codex (discontinued?) and text-davinci models gave much better results than GPT3.5-turbo, specifically for code completion scenarios. The latest models seem to produce invalid code, mostly having trouble at the boundaries where they start the completion.
My suspicion is that these latter models focus more on conversation semantics than code completion, and completing code "conversationally" vs completing code in a syntactically valid way has differences.
For example, if the last line of code to be completed is a comment, the model will happily continue to write code on the same line as the comment. Not an issue in a conversation model as there is a natural break in a conversation, but when integrating with tooling it's challenging.
Most likely the issue is that I'm not yet effective at prompt engineering, but I had no issues iterating on prompts for the earlier models. I'm loving the DaVinci model and it's working really well -- I just hope it's not discontinued too soon in favor of later models.
Comment · 3 years ago
Just for reference, the PowerShell version of this would be:
ls | where Length -gt 1mb | sort LastWriteTimeComment · 4 years ago
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Comment · 4 years ago
For what it's worth, modern C# can evaluate top-level statements with no other ceremony. The following is a valid standalone C# program:
Console.WriteLine("Hello");
It's still nowhere close to the REPLs of lisp and smalltalk, but it's a step in a more flexible direction.
Comment · 4 years ago
I'd love to see an additional section on unit testing -- if we wanted to write some assertions on our async http handler that queries the database, what would that look like? Would we need to structure the code differently in order to test it?
Comment · 4 years ago
Agreed, the predictive intellisense is really nice and a makes a huge difference in my productivity at the command line. It's similar to Fish Shell's features.
There are a ton of interesting and non-obvious options in PSReadLine, like setting hotkeys for running arbitrary PowerShell functions.
I've put together a nice combination of features in my personal profile available here: https://github.com/waf/config/blob/dfc50fbe7fac9536250c5550c...
Comment · 4 years ago
For C#, there's https://github.com/spectreconsole/spectre.console
I use this in a lot of my "quick apps" for status monitoring
Comment · 5 years ago
Right, AWS accounts created before September 2017 are coupled to amazon.com retail accounts. Accounts created after this are separate.
Comment · 5 years ago
It sounds like the team is interested in adding more automated tests, but are blocked by static singletons, which have high performance but also high coupling, resulting in poor testability.
I'm sure they've heard of test libraries like MS Fakes and Pose; I wonder if these libraries would let them maintain high performance, and only introduce the required layer of indirection during testing?
It mapped from Ruby to C# really well. The only concept I had to add was a `BoardCell` base type for the `Mine` and `Empty` types so we could return either `Mine` or `Empty` in a typesafe way. Everything else matched conceptually 1-1.
It's 118 lines total, with 18 lines of whitespace, so 100 lines exactly. I figure the original Ruby code was also not counting whitespace so it's a fair comparison. I tried to not use any "code golf tricks" that would minimize line count. It's a full program; it could be copy/pasted into a modern .NET 8 project and run without any additional setup.
Note, I posted this same comment on the original blog post, but I've posted it here too as it might be interesting for HN folks.