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github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-… is amazing, but the fact that it's not available in the extensions search is confusing. It strikes me as obviously the best way to use Kotlin, but it's so hard to find


Many people fail because they go off to build a generic platform, and then find usecases afterwards. It's so much more compelling to find a problem, build a solution, and then after that's proven, make the solution generic.


Every time I remember that "m" comes before "n" in the alphabet I do a double-take


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Good men must die, but death can't kill their names.


It's a hoot how many people have this perception that prompting an AI is somehow a high-variance skill that requires expertise and training. Reminds me of adults saying we "needed classes to learn Microsoft Word" when I was a kid.


Dude, they’re getting the band back together!


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it’s kind of funny that the “main ai guy” is basically nontechnical


Who put the "n" in messenger? Why not "messager"?


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i know this is an insensitive take but i think people in big tech need to adopt more athlete mentality around layoffs being afraid of getting laid off is wild, it’s like openly admitting you’re bottom 10% if you’re aware of this, the obvious thing to do is work on improving.…


I never dreamed I'd be able to write a one-pager and 3 diffs at the same time. 2025 is wild.


Which is more important: great coworkers or great tech? I think, ironically, most great engineers I know would say great tech, and most mid ones would say great people.


You can lead a horse to water but if all horses agree that drinking the water is too much work, at least you'll have cheap gelatin


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David Harmeyer on Facebook’s history of Hacker Cup. How to add N flights to N airports to minimize travel distance.

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Is an elevator a train in the y axis? Does that make apartment buildings train stations?


Programmers don't get tattoos. They put stickers on their MacBooks.


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In a Stanford talk posted today, Eric Schmidt says the reason why Google is losing to @OpenAI and other startups is because Google only has people coming in 1 day per week 👀


People use the phrase "Boil the Ocean" to describe an effort so big it can't be done. The trick is you just have to move fast enough to finish before the rain.


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