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Took me a year. Loved it! Planning to go back when I have the energy. The Pale King was also really good and a little easier going.

“agentic coding has measurably improved every velocity metric we track and, in some teams, driven an order-of-magnitude gains in output”

Of course it has. But is that a good enough measure of value? What about the business and customer outcomes from all the extra lines of code and closed JIRA tickets? Was it worth it?

Yeah, it’s called “Reflections”.

Thank you.

I think that is what you want. From Wikipedia:

> In 2016, the IEEE Computer Society kicked off the SWEBOK Evolution effort to develop future iterations of the body of knowledge. The SWEBOK Evolution project resulted in the publication of SWEBOK Guide version 4 in October 2024.

So the thing called "SWEBOK Guide" is actually the reference text for SWEBOK.

The idea that someone's response to being fired should be the same as a manager's response to one of their reports quitting is hilariously out of touch.

Good advice! A rule of thumb I use is that the sentence should make sense if it was read outside of a browser, which results in roughly the same thing.

Would’ve been easy with fastmod: https://github.com/facebookincubator/fastmod

And if there’s pairing on a sub-task…?

If I’m a Boltzmann brain that can only survive for an instant, why do I experience existing for a whole lifetime?

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This is great. But it seems to fail with words containing repeat letters, for example, with my word as BOOKS, not on hard mode:

SOARE JUMBY BOOST (at this point, it claimed to have won!)

What do you call yourself?

It's a small detail, but after moving to iOS from Android recently I discovered Universal Clipboard: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT209460.

You copy text on one device and paste it on the other. A great piece of UX, and an example of the best interface being no interface at all.

You don't necessarily lose the stack trace. Typically the left side of an either is an Exception (or an error ADT that wraps one). When you want to handle the left case, you can log out the full trace as you would without Either.

The Monad instance for Either means that chaining them together with flatMap has a short-circuiting effect and the first failure will stop the rest of the chain from being evaluated. I find this actually makes it easier to know where your errors are happening, and also allows you to centralise your error handling logic.

Hi HN,

I'm looking for help validating an idea for a product that provides multi-armed bandit optimisation over an API. The idea is that client sites will provide impression and conversion events to our API, which provides recommendations about which variant to display, optimising performance over time.

I think this could be useful to businesses that currently use A/B testing but am trying to understand if an API on its own is useful enough to be a standalone product.

Please have a look at the site and let me know if it's clear what the product is and if you think it'd be useful. I'd also appreciate any advice on how to validate an idea like this, how to identify problems this kind of product to solve, etc. Thank you!

How do you distinguish between "quibbles" and changes that are worth making yourself? I suspect it's quite a subjective thing.

I'd also suggest using a less disparaging term than quibblers.

London is good. I'm a self-taught dev who moved from tech support to QA to engineering. There's a lot of work here and quite a bit of competition, but I wouldn't say not having a degree has been a problem.

I recently started my first Clojure/ClojureScript project using the Reagent template for Leiningen[1]. It gives you Ring/Compojure/Hiccup on the backend for simple routing and views, and Reagent with a client-side routing framework on the frontend. It took me 10 minutes to get it running and figure out what the different components were doing. I'm sure ultimately I'll roll my own setup but this is a good way to get going if you're new.

1: https://github.com/reagent-project/reagent-template

__START__ mr. speaker , the gentleman is 110 percent right . the gentleman from ohio mentioned an issue about being nonpartisan and being , i would say , third-party validators , i just want to make clear the supreme court cases made it clear that you could discriminate with your personal church money , but not with federal money . all of the cases are consistent . in fact , if my colleagues read the cases , they point out that if you are using federal money , you can not discriminate . __END__

It's fun. I like it.

You let whoever was in charge of your page's scrolling fail a bit too much.

A bit of humility will do you good.

Sorry to pile in, but the scrolling is really terrible as well.

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Well said.

It's really not a black and white thing. People that shout can be right or wrong, the same goes for people that are less assertive about making their point.

The focus should be on the point that's being put forward, not the way it was expressed.

> `tar` up an entire WordPress install, save it as `favicon.ico` and then easily pull the files from the server.

assuming I have access to the server to create the tar and save it, what's the difference between downloading the archive as favicon.ico or any other name?

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