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Re:Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20 on Thursday January 08, 2026 @02:49PM (#46545564)
can you prove that?
Re:LLMs Are Not Fun on Monday December 29, 2025 @03:24PM (#46425139)
I don´t understand. Most answers say they want to program but that they don´t want to type, compile, debug, add files to the project, refactor, etc. Well that´s programming.

Asking a prompt to do something is asking a prompt to do something.

In my case I fear the day comes where I can not program anymore and I have to give orders to a prompt.

Will they end up using ads? (not joking)
Not only meritocracy. A big part also believes that they are better than the rest. So they think these problems will never touch them.

I don´t know. Maybe we spend too much time alone in front of a monitor to understand what´s really going on.

Re:15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python on Friday April 18, 2025 @05:22PM (#43731975)
Not saying it isn´t useful but with this change Python's crypto depends on Microsoft (https://fstar-lang.org/ and https://project-everest.github.io/)
Re:Introducing command And commandfor In HTML on Friday March 07, 2025 @02:40PM (#43293637)
I like how they present it as a novel idea, when this is as old as it gets. This is not new of course but it seems it won´t stop. Ever.
Re:GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens on Thursday February 06, 2025 @02:40PM (#42965749)
Time to quit using Github?
Re:GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens on Thursday February 06, 2025 @01:58PM (#42965360)
They are not going to say "we are making an agent to replace programmers. We will use their code and their guidance to train it"
Re:Attracting and Retaining Debian Contributors on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @04:32PM (#41640610)
The problem with these large open source projects is that they are already on maintenance mode and the fun part has already been done a long ago. Who wants to work for months doing menial tasks so that when they "graduate" they can start doing maintenance.
Re:Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker on Monday September 02, 2024 @01:21PM (#41427174)
Are those emails legit?
Who backed him?
Have you tried the drug?
Re:Show HN: Heynote – A Dedicated Scratchpad for Developers on Friday December 22, 2023 @10:24AM (#38734988)
Great work! I´ve been looking for something like this for quite a time!

C# syntax support would be welcomed.

Maybe because it makes it easier to read to people with impaired vision. Just a guess.
I guess it is because after decades of use, grep has probably been fixed to handle lots of user cases that the new tools don´t handle because they haven´t found them yet.
Re:Ask HN: Learn C in 2023? on Friday December 23, 2022 @09:48AM (#34106385)
The C programming language book.
Is your physical health ok? Is your mental health ok? Is there something you are telling yourself that is not true?
Re:New Zealand imposes lifetime ban on youth buying cigarettes on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @11:44AM (#33971361)
Marijuana lobbists 1 vs Tobacco lobbists 0. Health be damned (in either case)
Re:The mid in fake midcentury modern on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @10:19AM (#33895322)
Because is cheaper
I guess it came as childish because that´s the way those perks were given to us by management. In fact the head of a big studio (around 800 people) I worked on refered to these perks in private as "glitter".
Re:Why Does Nobody Want to Learn Java in 2022? on Thursday October 27, 2022 @01:37PM (#33361122)
Because languages are chosen because of fashion.
Re:Ask HN: How to avoid being a pragmatic programmer? on Friday October 21, 2022 @11:54AM (#33289385)
Because what gets built is the knowledge of the system. The CRUD part is an implementation detail.
Re:Yak Shaving: A Short Lesson on Staying Focused (2018) on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @11:19AM (#32751811)
>At the time of writing this, this "article" is #1 on HN default sort. It's an incredibly short, and fluffy post (self reported as a 3 minute read), with little more substance than an urban dictionary listing. I'm baffled.

The magic is in the Ren & Stimpy reference.

Re:Is engineering management bullshit? on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @10:45AM (#32751326)
In my experience Engineering management is essential. But most EM management sucks. Why?

Because in our industry management has no legal accountability. Nobody dies if a feature is half-assed. If the feature sucks they just create a ticket and assign it to a dev.

And because of that tech management has always been crowded with bullshit artists who promote other bullshit artists like them (which they have to, if not they would get exposed). And the story repeats over and over again.

Re:The Timeless Way of Programming on Monday September 05, 2022 @04:38PM (#32729154)
Out of curiosity, does it pay well? I was told that this kind of industrial/architectural design work pays really well.
Re:Delphi still exists and is actively developed on Thursday August 18, 2022 @10:58AM (#32510583)
In the 90´s, early 00s, when it was used for troyans and malware a lot.
Maybe you are better than your coworkers at maintaining code.
Re:Ask HN: Any great books about technical writing? on Monday August 08, 2022 @04:40PM (#32390734)
Thanks!
Re:Ask HN: Is attitude more important than knowledge? on Thursday July 07, 2022 @04:28PM (#32018905)
Find a successful entrepreneur. Make him/her your mentor.
In FE dev your primary business is building a competitive user experience in the browser, and browser and related techs are constantly changing to enable better ones.

In BE dev, unless you are working at scale, your primary business is to code business logic which also changes but doesnt require much tech churn.

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