phil bohun
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@ValenPaolini9 @Vicente15477281 It was useful to be able to refer to times before 1970, especially in the 1970s.
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@bushido_hk I don't think it makes them dumb, but it atrophies their coding muscles. And it keeps newbs from developing muscles in the first place.
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People always say "use boring technology", but I was thinking today if a technology can be too boring? Go is relatively barren of fancy features, yet I keep coming back to it because I actually need to get stuff done. But do people avoid it because it is "too boring"?
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@John92Emily I'm working on a personal project to create a UI library in Go. Never created one before so it's fun to see all the features we take for granted. I will probably open source it in a couple weeks once enough of it is done.
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@John92Emily For breaking out of the c-like style probably Lua and Common Lisp. Learning how to use (meta)tables creatively in Lua is a mind stretcher. Common Lisp allows you to do anything, so you have to learn to discipline yourself. Plus you learn the strategic use of macros.
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@balajis I had a similar conclusion:
LLMs replacing engineers take: There will always be people/companies that want/need fine-grained control over creation and use of apps/solutions. That requires an unambiguous language with exactly repeatable results (aka prog language). LLMs with natural lang just won't cut it.
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@devonzuegel There's a reason people travel thousands of miles to see cathedrals. They have soul. We need that again in our architecture, and really everything we produce.
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@theo I don't think they started issuing SS cards till 1937 and they've issued less than 500M.
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@djcows "The machine will never be trolled, you will. You will always be trolled" That is a perfect quote.
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Has anyone figured out how to explain monads without talking about burritos or going deep into mathland and babbling about endofunctors? Where's Richard Feynman when we need a comprehensible explanation?
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@luisitoguanes Maybe, but people were really excited in the 80s for UML to replace normal programming and it didn't take off. It turns out text is a far more compact and precise way of communicating design. In college I had to do UML and my classmates and I didn't like it.
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