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  1. Glassdoor pulled that crap with me ironically after a lot of interviews for a senior position that they reached out to me for.
  2. Svelte has a pretty nice support for this via https://svelte.dev/docs/svelte/custom-elements

    It's not a no-build option though.

  3. I use Claude and not crapping on it or the boosters, but most of the people who I've encountered in real life who really gush about it, are either semi-technical, and who struggle in some way when coding. Non technical CEO of small startup I was at, manager who didn't go to college, etc.

    It's a cool tool! Just am tired of being treated like anti AI because I don't outsource my brain to it, or gush over their DIY UI demos.

  4. Nitpicking but I hate how "career" is always used when talking about women's choices, when it's just a damn job. Most women work because they have to. It's not a "career".
  5. This is probably why there’s so much attention on LLM powered coding tools, as it’s one of the few use cases that seem like people would actually pay for it. Ironically mostly developers, who are being marketed as being replaced by AI.
  6. It could, though maybe "just" in a similar way that human brains are the same basic structure.
  7. I don't know what they are thinking, the kiosks are not cheap to install or maintain, they are buggy, and they've put me off from going into McDs anymore. The In-N-Out nearby is cheaper, friendlier with plenty of employees working, (and better quality), so not sure what McD's end game is here.
  8. I always took it as a plus for soft internationalization, e.g. we may not have translated or localized to the current user language, but icons area decent generic hint.
  9. > Instead, they should put their effort on pipeline.

    Previous company "did that", but what it amounted to was young HR women filtering all candidates before engineering saw them or their resumes, and you had to pick from their not-so-great candidates they got based on gender or race. Also interviewers could not see what other interviewers said - so we got bypassed as well behind the scenes

  10. And I'm continually blown away that the modern titans of industry readily bow down to glorified twitter rants and non-technical HR busybodies who pushed DEI internally?
  11. Not to be cynical but that's said a lot in acquisitions by bigger companies to motivate some people to stay, but just doesn't seem to happen.
  12. My personal take is this would be like JavaScript adopting an optional Coffeescript[1] syntax. It's so different that it seems odd to make it an option vs a new language, etc.

    [1] https://coffeescript.org/#introduction

  13. As a former Scala fan, wow you aren't kidding, wth

        val month = i match
            case 1  => "January"
            case 2  => "February"
            // more months here ...
            case 11 => "November"
            case 12 => "December"
            case _  => "Invalid month"  // the default, catch-all
        
        // used for a side effect:
        i match
            case 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 9  => println("odd")
            case 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 => println("even")
        
        // a function written with 'match':
        def isTrueInPerl(a: Matchable): Boolean = a match
            case false | 0 | "" => false
            case _ => true
  14. The issue is there are incentives for more quantity and not quality in modern science (well more like academia), so people will use tools to pump stuff out. It'll get worse as academic jobs tighten due.
  15. It's kinda funny that 20 years ago the Mac cases were translucent plastic, and the UI was brushed metal, now it's the opposite, lol.
  16. Maybe not what the OP or article is talking about, but it's super frustrating recently dealing with non/less technical mgrs, PMs, etc who now think they have this Uno card to bypass technical discussion just because they vibe coded some UI demo. Like no shit, that wasn't the hard part. But since they don't see the real/less visible past like data/auth/security, etc they act like engineers "aren't trying", less innovative, anti-AI or whatever when you bring up objections to their "whole app" they made with their AI snoopy snow cone machine.
  17. Bun is not really frontend tech
  18. I mean companies can either locate where people can afford to live, or pay people enough to live near the office. (Same thing really). Hasn't happened to me in my career yet!
  19. For me it's been like 1-2 times in 25 years, if that
  20. Yeah, I guess I've always distinguished "hallucinating" as e.g I asked for a chicken soup recipe and it told me how to make cyanide. Vs some social media person prompt hacking it to say fascism is good, etc. I've seen more of the latter than the former.

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