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The acquisition was in 2023.

My former PhD student has been porting it to VS Code.

https://github.com/CodeRibbon/CodeRibbon-Theia

I published a paper comparing navigation time with a canvas-based editor (Code Bubbles) vs. traditional tab-based editor (Eclipe) vs. a carousel-based editor (Patchworks, a tool I designed).

We found the canvas provided too much freedom.

https://austinhenley.com/pubs/Henley2014CHI_Patchworks.pdf

We just published a paper on this topic. I wrote a summary of it, “Learning to code with and without AI”.

https://austinhenley.com/blog/learningwithai.html

I don’t get what this is. How do I search the db? All I see is “test post” and links to 4 unrelated pieces of content?

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40907155

I moved to teaching.

Just yesterday there was a discussion on taking lower pay work for happiness…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720121

I have done this twice in the last 12 months.

1. I left Microsoft to join a startup and took a >100k pay cut.

2. The startup was acquired, and I quit the parent company to go teach. Again, taking a sizable pay cut.

I’m happy with all the decisions (to join and to leave). After having a high salary for a few years, the happiness piece becomes far more important.

I would like to search, either by keyword, paper title, venue, DOI, or author. (I was trying to see if any of my papers are on here.)

There’s still hope! We recently published a paper where we interviewed instructors about their concerns of AI tools in the classroom and then we deployed one.

See here: https://austinhenley.com/blog/codeaid.html

I miss the days of Flash.

I used to be able to make a game in a few weeks from my dorm, add Mochi ads, upload it to Newgrounds, and then it would spread to thousands of sites and get played by hundreds of thousands of people.

Hamilton Khaki or Tissot Gentleman are great all-around watches.

A lot of improvements!

Relevant to my 2020 article: What’s wrong with computational notebooks?

https://austinhenley.com/blog/notebookpainpoints.html

I just wrote up my experiences of using it for a week: https://austinhenley.com/blog/copilotworkspace.html

TL;DR: Copilot Workspace is a great concept. But the UX and framing is entirely wrong and sets the wrong expectation for users. The current prototype is very slow (5+ minutes for one-line code changes) and the generated code is often buggy or has nothing to do with the specification. It doesn’t help me understand the code. The generated plan is usually good. ChatGPT does a much better job in my head-to-head comparisons (assuming I already know exactly what code is relevant). I'm still optimistic of where it can go from here.

I recommend everyone sign up to try it and give the team feedback.

My old post is relevant here, “Why I prefer making useless stuff”. Which is very different than working on useless stuff at work!

https://austinhenley.com/blog/makinguselessstuff.html

Type inference has usability problems (2019): https://austinhenley.com/blog/typeinference.html

Minor feedback: After doing a search with 0 results, there is a "load more" button that doesn't do anything.

This is a better link that gives some details: https://www.sterba-bike.cz/item/the-bike-collection-of-robin...

It is documented, the second chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

I blogged my adventure of implementing cosine from scratch and how others have done it:

https://austinhenley.com/blog/cosine.html

As one of the people quoted in the IEEE Spectrum article, I agree.

Something I said that wasn’t included in the article: prompt engineering will change, but expressing intent will always be required. Whether it be through code, logic, natural language, demonstration, or something else.

Excel supports reusable lambdas: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/lambda-function-b...

It is a proper programming language.

For #1, there has been research on linting and automated semantic error or smell detection in Excel (e.g., https://github.com/ExceLint/ExceLint). Some features are live in Excel today!

For #2, Excel now supports Python.

I don't think you need to do any conversions, all of the necessary information exists in the spreadsheet.

It is called stacking.

Eli Bendersky also has a nice post on Pratt parsing from 2010. I used both of these when implementing it for the first time.

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2010/01/02/top-down-operator-p...

How could I control a screen like that with a Raspberry Pi?

A fully featured, commercial ray tracer takes many years, much like a fully featured, commercial web browser.

That is in the sequel! “More challenging projects every programmer should try”

https://austinhenley.com/blog/morechallengingprojects.html