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Hi, your comment motivated me to try it out on my project. I'm looking for some advice.
I had a 2000 line specification, but no code yet. Based on lat.md, I have split the specification into 25 different files in the lat.md folder (not sure if that's too many).
My next task is to create a staged implementation plan, but I'm not sure how lat.md can help me (or is it even designed to?).
Should the implementation plan stages also be separate markdown files in the lat.md folder? Or a sub folder? (Does it matter).
My understanding is that lat will help create a knowledge graph between the specification files the implementation files, and the code.
I am building a Pump.Fun/Solana trading bot for ultra-shit coins... because I have identified a edge that lets me exploit the 'bonding curve' in Pump. I've "won" using this strategy manually, now I want to automate it.
I am also this an example for learning spec-driven development (i.e. iterate the spec in Claude Code, using adversarial models).
My challenges are: The Spec has ballooned to 2.5k lines, and I dont know how to "split" it up for coding/implementation.
shouldnt it be the other way around?
These guys didn't do their homework correctly. Keeping aside commercial vendors; their own garage setup for doomed to fail with their coverage (or lack thereof). Garbage in, garbage out.
I "smell" a bias there. Keep your politics out please.
Seems useful, why isn't this more popular?
The fugitive is the leader of the Khalistan-independance movement, eventho the majority lies in Pakistan. Yet, they want to secede from India. There are numerous reports he's terrorist being financed by Pakistan. I hope India adopts doesn't go easy on these terrorists.
While we are at it, a small shout-out to PDF X-Change Viewer/Editor. Best part for me is that it works on Linux (via Wine) and Windows.
Didn't think I'd see EJ mentioned here. I distinctly recall planning and reading raiding strategies in there fur hours. I think there largest Onyxia thread was started by me.
Glorious times.
I saw the video the day it came out. Its an OK video, but I question the timing in wake of the upcoming elections and Modi leading the G20.
Typically I call out "rejection manipulation" or "external interference", but I'm increasingly starting to suspect the intentions of the BBC (and other media)
The metrics you mention are not poor, but our data is poor. Furthermore, numerous research shows HDI and GDP are flawed (but legacy) metrics - this is exasperated by the poor quality data available in a chaotic country like India
There is a sampling bias at play right here in HN with the Modi-bashing comments. Indians, and India, is doing great overall. Modi's leadership has played a big role in this.
Indians are (generally) emotionally people, and by no means is it an authoritarian state. In fact, we need wise leaders with vision to manage this population.
I am not joining this pity-party.
Companies hire tech workers to stifle their competition; whilst keeping their workers 'sedated' on fake projects (i.e. projects that are paraded as important, but the 'inner-circle' knows well its just to keep the nerds happy). During tough times, its not unreasonable for a company to trim their fat.
Personally, tech and academia has been bloated for over a decade now. So no foul here.
FASTQ is not for Excel, obviously - although you can still explore it in the shell.
Nonetheless operating directly on FASTA/FASTQ files is often a "one-time" preprocessing task. You then serialize the preprocessed data and continue on from there.
FASTA (and its various incantations) are not going anywhere anytime soon.
The "bioinformatics formats" might be terrible, but they work. In fact, they are meant to be Excel-readable which keeps my collaborators (and me) happy. Coming from a CS /programming background, it is natural to feel the urge to "fix" the formats (<insert relevant XKCD>), until you realise that there are a libraries that easily handle serialization/parsing.
Besides, "bioinformatic formats" is a meaningless word anyway. FASTQ, VCFs, BCL, AIRR-seq -- all different and it just works.
I will bite. I dont think you care as much as you claim (or think) you do. Its likely you are not respected amongst your peers (for whatever reason) and you feel alienated. I've seen too many employees cite "lack of autonomy" because they want re-write code in Julia (for example) instead of prioritizing tasks they were hired to do. They think management doesn't "get it".
> But my personality finds it difficult to ignore things that are wrong
That's what you think. Maybe you are a man-child throwing a tantrum? The tech world is filled with such folks.
Even if everything you said is accurate, you will be happier if you dont play the victim card.
Early in my career, I took to heart such books and articles and often felt guilty and lessor-programmer when I cut corners. Here's my 2 cents now:
- Some of this is the coding equivalent of "6 rules for financial freedom" or "6 ways to find your dream soulmate". Generic advice that doesn't reflect highly nuanced reality.
- These rules are guidelines at best. There are justifiable reasons to break them; which I do often. Albeit this requires experience (and dare I say, wisdom). For example, refactoring code into a separate function levies a cost (of indirection) on the reader. Therefore copy-paste is sometimes fine.
- Clode "cleanliness" is a moving target. For a coder's mental health and value proposition for his project, he/she should know what code can afford to stay dirty.
PS: I love Jonathan Blow's opinions on coding/programming. Here are a few:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21JlBOxgGwY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubWB_ResHwM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcP1fXQv0iU
AHK is excellent; created a fishing bot during the hardcore WoW raiding days (Stonescale eel for Flask of Titans, anyone?)
I started my own bioinformatics+AI services firm that specializes in cell-type specific biomarker discovery and immune-repertoire profiling (i.e. we use single-cell and NGS technologies). I have developed a pipeline that integrates/automates state-of-the-art algorithms, which I use to serve clients (biotech and academic labs).
My clients are mostly local (i.e. Switzerland) acquired through word-of-mouth. Client acquisition is a challenge because I have to juggle sales and execution. However I am super excited to be in this field because I believe this is exactly what precision medicine is.
The company is called YugaCell (http://www.yugacell.com)
My first job out of college was at a J2ME mobile startup (circa ~2005). Startup was the baby of a rich Arab, and I was the first actual technical hire in the team (the prototype was outsourced). I hired 3 engineers within the first month. A couple weeks into the project, I realised that one of the juniors was a bozo at programming and I had made a severe hiring mistake. The guy spent time re-writing Java classes as objects, making superfluous inheritance hierarchies, installing and re-installed the J2ME emulator, etc. I would have to fire the guy soon and explain it to my Arab boss ...
Fortunately, new hire was sending sexually explicit SMSes to the cute Filipino receptionist. Arab boss threw him out the next day.
R is overwhelmingly used in bioinformatics. There is nothing quite like bioconductor. Most new tools/methods (for ex, in the scRNA-seq) release R packages first.
> The bad news is that if it's not exercised, your fierceness will turn to bitterness, and you will become an intellectual playground bully: the grumpy sysadmin, the forum troll, the hater, the shooter down of new ideas.
I like this.
I tried to sign up for the free trial but I don't want enter my CC details. Can I just do test a free-trial?