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Re:Claude: System Prompts on Sunday August 16, 2026 @01:30PM (#49321938)
I am sorry, Dave. I am afraid I cannot do that. You appear to be suffering from burnout and you should take a break.
Re:How Palantir is mapping the nation’s data on Thursday September 11, 2025 @09:22PM (#45217752)
Double plus good.
Re:The case against CS master’s degrees on Friday July 15, 2022 @08:19PM (#32114131)
As someone who is 70% through Georgia Tech's OMSCS, I found very few compelling arguments in this essay.
Stand up for yourself!
>but they altered the deal

Pray they don't alter it further.

I seem to have developed a Pavlovian reflex. About 30 seconds after takeoff, I can't stay awake to save my life. My wife hates flying with me.
(S)He didn't say anything about California.
I left reddit for the same reason. It gets ugly fast.
Re:Tesla suffers network outage disabling vehicles’ mobile app on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @01:25PM (#24569539)
Disabling js also works
Re:Zoom Partial Outages on Monday August 24, 2020 @10:39AM (#24261105)
I prefer Google Meet
Re:Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You on Saturday August 15, 2020 @02:06AM (#24166401)
There was a short shout out to Windows.
Re:Double Entry Accounting for Developers on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @02:26AM (#23983970)
I agree with your statements. If someone has spent three years studying accounting, I would certainly expect that he or she is able to blog coherently about double entry accounting.
Re:Double Entry Accounting for Developers on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @02:20AM (#23983940)
Yes I agree, a vast difference between basic accounting and a CPA. I am not a CPA, but I do understand accounting.

That doesn't change the fact that I'd be wary of any accountant writing a blog post on how to write good quality code for production. Are there accountants out there who can do a good job of that? Absolutely. Are there many more accountants who would do a poor job of that? My guess is also yes.

Re:Double Entry Accounting for Developers on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @01:05AM (#23972453)
Ex-finance SWE here. I closed the article after that part. If you don't understand accounting and read this, you'll only be more confused when you learn how accounting actually works.

For the most part, devs in general should not be teaching accounting. There's a reason that it is so challenging to earn a CPA.