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Amateur developer, professional contrarian. Using twitter to organize my thoughts. ~ 50% tech, 50% whatever. Target mood for all tweets: thoughtful, joking.

Belgrade, Serbia
Joined February 2016
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@jessfraz How are you gonna open multiple tabs and carefully cross-compare offers??
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Why don't they just hire Devin?
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Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer. Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork. Devin is
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@zeta_globin A bunch of people are sacrificing their interests to go after lucrative dev careers, just in time for those careers to stop being so lucrative.
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@SwannMarcus89 Funny how people pretend they are still young when they get middle age, then pretend they are way older when they get old. Seems the optimal stages are being young and being very old. Middle stages to be avoided.
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Neurons making new connections. I never envisioned them walking around like tiny electric spiders. So cool!
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Summarized theories in the thread: 1. Bug populations have declined 2. Bugs have evolved to avoid cars 3. Cars are more aerodynamic 4. More cars = less bugs per windshield 5. Nothing's changed Fascinating.
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Did bugs just evolve their way into avoiding roads lol? I remember when my dad drove for a long time you could hardly see with all the dead bugs
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@t3dotgg Imagine everyone waiting to pay, angrily glancing at their watches, while he's dicking with his phone, trying to convince AI to make a working bill splitting app.
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Debugging journey
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@ruima If he had only put all that effort into his CEO job, instead of a crazy murder plot.
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@phillip_trudeau Except this.
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If someone ask me to refactor the first "nonsense" code, I will use this way. Only thing I will change is white background of the code. Thanks @viniciuscgp
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@thekitze "Catch" 🙄 So staged.
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@ChShersh It's like a guy who goes to mountains to find himself and become strong. 10 years later, you see a beefy tan guy, hanging from a cliff wearing rocks on his back. He's still training, still growing! Amazing! Yet there he is alone in the mountains, while the world is moving on...
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@geoffkeene Maybe ideologues wouldn't be freaking out about who is allowed into which bathroom if USA had reasonably private bathrooms.
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@animeterrorist But there is no defense
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@danluu The cake was literally a lie
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@Carnage4Life The real question is why more CEOs don't do the same. Hard to imagine Cook will have negative financial consequences with "just" 50m instead of 100m this year, and it's a fantastic PR scoop.
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@nearcyan Safari is the last chance. If Apple refuses to play along, they still hold big enough and lucrative enough market for sites to not be able to just block the non-DRM browsers off.
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@RichardHanania Like when two karens bump carts in walmart. long way off from anything resembling a respectable institution
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@t3dotgg It's not that universities should teach it, it's that it demonstrates a fundamental lack of interest in the craft.
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@Noahpinion He failed at his main mandate, which was to restore normality to politics.
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@nixcraft Self-hosted SVN. Before that, a succession of numbered directories on hdd.
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@kevg1412 @paultoo @btaylor After he replaced the code, he slept with the xml guy's wife and took his kids to disneyland
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@dhh You don't have to understand car engine to appreciate how it can get you places.
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@GrantSlatton Elite counter-signaling. "I am so good, I don't need to have a linkedin profile, an impressive job title, wear business clothes, etc. My reputation speaks for itself. IYKYK"
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Richard Hanania has internet followers, but no soldiers. He is not a part of any organization. His unorthodox views piss off both sides of the aisle. Basically, no group would really go to bat for him. He is exactly the type of person freedom of speech is meant to protect.
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@danprimack If this didn't work for Tumblr, which actually had non-sexual content, it certainly won't work for them.
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@SwannMarcus89 Pure bloods... like in Harry Potter!?
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@RayGesualdo The more senior you are, the more creative are the ways you take down production.
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@wanyeburkett They've fully acclimated to the world where people are just interchangeable avatars in an app, that you can frictionlessly remove from your life.
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@shanselman The only problem is it leaves old mounted dmg-s lingering on your desktop.
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@joe_r_Odonnell It's almost unbelievable now that this debate used to be like the biggest thing on the internet for YEARS.
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@Carnage4Life To every backlash there's a backlash. Once the perks are gone en-masse, they instantly become more valuable to the ones who decide to bring them back.
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@Invertible_Man @Aella_Girl The only thing missing is one-off micropayment instead subscription.
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@paulg I think the difference is, unlike nuclear power and vaccines, AI researchers don't fully understand how AI can do the things it does. Ignorance breeds fear.
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@cmuratori At least jazz music has sound
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It's funny how Musk is willing to sleep on the office floor in his 50-ies to make his companies successful, but not to just Shut The Fuck Up.
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Twitter ad share payouts are plummeting, amid advertisers fleeing the platform… average payouts are down 50% month-over-month! Assuming Twitter’s revenue is proportionate, that’s a devastating loss!
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@wanyeburkett What exactly are they supposed to do about it?
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@nikitabier He may get all the money, but does he get the chicks? Yes. But is he happy!? Also yes.
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@deedydas Nepotism is the standard mode of hiring around the world. Meritocracy is the exception.
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@peer_rich Genius. Mom bugging you come down to lunch, as a service.
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@JasonKPargin There was a pent up enthusiasm for anyone different. Interesting question: will the same happen on the Republican side if Trump somehow gets replaced?
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This could be the peak stonetoss. The layers of internet culture meaning in this piece of work are surreal. References in pictures. Interesting how the mainstream culture is left wing, but the best internet artist ATM is far right.
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@growing_daniel At that moment Starlink satellite crashes on your head, putting you out of your misery
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@ThomasTalhelm Completed within 5 minutes? Or broke the deadline and submitted anyway? Were people paid whether they completed or not? Did they know that? You might be measuring which people are freelancing as side-gigs vs which depend on it for survival.
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@paulg Europe and China are 5000 miles away, and they traded since the time of Romans. Inca and Aztec didn't seem to have known about each other, even though they are 2000 miles away.
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@Carnage4Life Once they remove job ads from their homepage, I'll know they're serious.
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Why don't they just hire Devin?
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@LibertyCappy It was just humans from a different tribe - similar enough they might fool you to be kin, but not kin enough to carry your genes.
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@VictorishB123 @BNONews Natural selection will then start selecting for orcas that look cute enough for humans to rescue.
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@housecor Search params shouldn't be required to load the page. If required, they should be a part of the path.
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@t3dotgg Plus, the tailwind guy actually won gold :P
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@dhh Two points: 1. You can totally understand and learn how to write generic code like that, if you want to. Muscle car is a better analogy. 2. There is plenty of code around your ruby codebases that does things for you that you don't fully understand, and it's fine.
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@matthewcp A bunch of infra-adjacent stuff is easier if you use proper verbs. Eg. PATCH is idempotent, POST is not.
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@levelsio @nikitabier Hotelier acquaintances say it's impossible to hire good people in Italy. It's too easy for hired hands to just jump in and out of unemployment. No pressure to perform at that level of pay / career prospects. Makes me think it'd be impossible to get good service under UBI.
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@AdamRackis Maybe we should rethink the whole idea of "I want huge parts of public infrastructure to be dedicated to my inefficient rustic transportation method".
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@meaning_enjoyer They are guided by smell more than looks. While looks differ, I bet dog smell stayed pretty much the same.
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@nearcyan I know, but Apple can decide not to provide this DRM API that Chrome is adding. Then you can use any DRM-free fork of Chrome, set up Safari user agent, and you're good to go. Right?
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I learned all I needed about these postmodern grievance study fields when researchers managed to get completely bogus papers into their journals. It's a jobs program for midwit ideologues.
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Probably THE academic responsible for the narrative that "systemic racism" infests US police departments just got fired for "incompetence" and falsifying most of his data. No further comment.
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@thekitze Wait till you see what happens when you change type=password into type=text.
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@sweatystartup These posts are the best when they reach escape velocity and get in front of outraged normies who have no idea who Nick Huber is.
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@the_transit_guy I've seen streets that were "optimized" with this kind of mindset, and it's always a disaster. Anything goes wrong, and everything clogs up. Zero redundancy.
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@michael_nielsen "phrasemongers" is such a good word, making note to use it at some point
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@RichardHanania This honestly feels... surprisingly well organized. Was he this efficient the first time around as well? Or did he learn?
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@robinberjon @jeswin I am aware Firefox exists and use Android (so I can set the default), therefore I am perfectly capable of fully moving to Firefox if I so desire. In fact, I tried that multiple times. Uncomfortable truth: Chrome is just a better product.
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@t3dotgg People hate on the node_modules directory, but it's truly a blessing.
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Snowflake being formed
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@GergelyOrosz @Pragmatic_Eng I don't understand these laws. Are the workers now supposed to go back to their seats and continue working enthusiastically, like nothing ever happened? Might be ok for assembly line work in a factory, but is a terrible fit for highly skilled labor.
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@sgodofsk He stayed just on the right side of plausible deniability, which is why they can't prosecute him for it, which is why they are doing all this other stuff, which makes him appear as a victim, which increases his chances for a comeback
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@amasad The most interesting part of this is how people who were saying "Google has AI figured out, they are just keeping it secret" turned out to be completely wrong.
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@SwannMarcus89 This is actually good for democracy. People vote with their conscience first, personal interest second. It's buying votes that is bad.
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@TkDodo This one is 🤯 You can call setState during render!?
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@patio11 That's the most baffling aspect of the whole "he didn't build X, he just paid someone else to build it" trope. If that was so easy, then all billionaires would be out building rockets, instead of buying expensive toys and luxuries.
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@TylerGlaiel Game is just a box of value you crack open and pour down your mouth. More is better.
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@levelsio Europe: Screw trying to compete, let's just live off rich people vacationing here Also Europe: *arrests rich people who go there*
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@marcoarment Inexperienced people always believe there is some magical design guru who can show up and solve everything. No. UX is a slog of iteration.
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@ns123abc @ID_AA_Carmack That was a while ago, probably outdated by now?
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@GergelyOrosz These tradeoffs are often presented as make vs buy. But it's actually make less vs buy + integrate. Where "integrate" is some percentage of the work that would have gone into "make". And "less" indicates you don't have to build everything that would have come with "buy".
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@wanyeburkett The kind of people who make movies were self selected from the kind of people who hate 9-5 office life.
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@forgebitz I sometimes click on a link to a google thing, and it asks me to sign in, but it picks the wrong account, and I can't switch it. And sometimes it just shows me "access denied", and I have to open the thing in a new tab and switch account there. If they improve this, great.
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@Aella_Girl Having to deal with questions like that is why it will never be totally legal/regulated
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@thekitze It's like a washing machine. Once your current one breaks, you buy a new one. You note all the little improvements/changes they made. But fundamentally, you don't care, and quickly forget about them. You need a thing to fill the role X, and this particular thing suffices.
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@Austen Literally battered woman syndrome. "What wife doesn't get knuckled a bit every now or then?"
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@RichardHanania This is a (perhaps justified) counter-reaction to the liberal sentiment overreach, but in the long run, I think we'll learn these civic liberties were enshrined for a good reason.
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@AdamRackis Obsessing over meta-work means you have too much time on your hands and someone needs to fill it with real work.
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@Austen He's the kind of guy who, 150 years ago, would challenge you to a duel to defend his honor.
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@mootoday They belong both locally (pre-push) and on CI. Pre-push because they are faster, and save you from context switching. CI because "trust but verify". Mistakes happen.
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@wanyeburkett It's the kind of rule that solves a problem for majority without them having to give anything up personally. The majority being non-landlords, and the problem being people ending up homeless.
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@JLarky 1. Inertia 2. Fear of a compatibility bug eating away all the time I'd have saved on debugging
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@GergelyOrosz My 5c: You're a bit too cautious with this. It's uncomfortable to hear bad things are coming, but if it moves one person out of their comfort zone to start leetcoding and/or shaking up their LinkedIn account, it's worth it.
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Air Crash Investigation is seriously the only thing worth watching on TV. Highly recommended for people interested in systems.
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If you want to see how complex systems mixed with humans fail, Air Disasters is the best TV show you will ever watch. It's amazing. 10/10.
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@wanyeburkett Sure. But maybe... people should be allowed to do things they want in their life. Even if it's a bit inconvenient for others.
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AI doomers are always super polite and serious, while e/acc laugh in their faces. This is not accidental. Doomers want their dark concerns to be taken seriously, while e/acc want to dismiss them as ridiculous. Memetic brinkmanship happens at all levels of the conversation.
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Wow. -100 bayes points to @balajis for blocking me for… this?! So disappointed in him. The AI discourse is getting murdered by tribalism.
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@wanyeburkett Adam Ruins Everything explained.
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@mjvmroz @awesomekling Show alert() and ask the user which implementation they want. :P
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@Carnage4Life Ah, I didn't mean backlash by the workforce. Just that, when these perks are gone, some startup will try to attract above average talent by loudly bringing some of them back. And the cycle will begin anew.
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@wanyeburkett If you want to optimize your own success at modern life, it's clearly optimal to have fewer kids. Kids in a modern society are an absolute economic net negative. Can't use them for labor, wouldn't want to even if it was legal. Instead of becoming a part of your growing clan,
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@CFDevelop - a lot of people don't have oss to show off - easier to review the work when you yourself understand the problem - easier to compare candidates when they performed similar tasks
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One of the most useful programming videos I've seen in a while - a code review performed by @awesomekling . You can find a LOT of programming tutorials on the internet, but almost no stuff like this. Each team/individual figure it out on their own.
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@housecor Variation is fine, as long as outliers are welcomed into the fields where they are a minority
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@mealreplacer In fact, the entire date is an irresponsible distraction. We need those people on keyboards, writing more papers. The future depends on it.
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