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The two URLs I provided don't convince you that this isn't a fad? Of all the SWEs I know, every single one who previously used Eclipse, Atom, or Sublime is now using VSCode. Some of my Emacs & Vim friends have switched, too. I can't imagine what would change this trend in the next 5-10 years. Perhaps a new editor with an integrated LLM coding assistant that's FAR ahead of all competitors? Except VSCode is currently leading there, too.
I'm a long-time Emacs user, but VSCode is definitely not a fad. Microsoft is all-in on it, and it appears to be by far the most popular text editor.
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-t...
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore/TIMESERIES/16907280...
Nice! Years ago I added home row chording to a simple text editor I was writing. It worked so well that I wondered why it's not common practice. You should write more about your project! :)
The tournament Carlsen withdrew from today isn't an online event. All the games are played in person at the St. Louis Chess Club.
For time management, the rough approach is to allocate a fixed % of the remaining time and increase or reduce it, mostly depending on the stability of the evaluation with increasing search depth.
Games are played on the same computer, with only one engine analyzing at a time.
The graph shows each engine's evaluation of the position for each move in the game. The red line is from a 3rd engine "observing" the game.
Capablanca preferred playing quiet, positional chess, often patiently nursing tiny endgame advantages into a win. It's generally much easier to play accurately in simple endgames than complex middlegames, and that's a big factor in his low ACPL score. (I don't mean to take anything away from him - he was probably the best ever at that style of play.)
Just wanted to say thanks for many years of fantastic work on both Stockfish and Leela. The computer chess community owes you a huge debt of gratitude!
Possibly Craig Silverstein, but my guess is Urs Hölzle. He was Google's first VP of engineering and a huge advocate for everything mentioned in the article: "design docs, audited code reviews, early design reviews, readability reviews, resisting introduction of new languages, unit testing and code coverage, profiling and performance testing".
Early Google had more than its fair share of genius engineers with giant egos. Urs was brilliant and tough - a perfect combination for keeping everybody in check and shaping the engineering culture.
There was a recent thread about challenging projects every programmer should try, and I think writing a chess engine would be a nice addition to that list. Chess programming is a refreshing change from modern software development, because you don't need any complicated frameworks or libraries, just a basic grasp of the minimax algorithm for searching a game tree. I have fond memories of writing an engine as a fresh college grad - it was my first "big" project and I made every mistake imaginable, but it was great fun and sharpened my coding skills immensely. It's exhilarating to play against your own program and then try to improve it. Highly recommended!
Digital Ocean, probably.
He wrote about this more detail in an earlier blog post (about halfway down the page).
He evaluated Rust and Go a few years ago and strongly preferred Go.
The chess channels you're visiting are grossly overstating Alpha Zero's impact. AFAICT, it hasn't made any impact on opening theory at all. AZ's strength is in the middlegame, where it appears to be slightly better than traditional engines (like Stockfish) at finding material sacrifices for long term piece activity and/or mating attacks.
One use case I haven't seen mentioned is note-taking. Apple Pencil is a truly amazing device. I use it at work all the time, especially in meetings. It's quieter than typing and because I don't have my laptop open, I'm much less likely to get distracted by slack, email, HN, etc. It's also slower typing, but that may be a good thing because it forces me to mentally organize/consolidate whatever I'm writing.
I can't remember what Senior VP equates to on the tech ladder, but in terms of his overall impact on the company, Urs is definitely an 11.
You definitely can't force a draw against a higher rated player, but you can make one more likely by choosing quiet openings and simplifying in the middlegame. But it's often tricky to pull this off. If you make too many second-best moves in pursuit of simplification, you'll drift into a position that's both simple and bad. :)
Svidler and Grischuk at chess24.com are fantastic, but they're both world class players and beginners will find their commentary and analysis difficult to follow. I'd recommend chess.com - Danny Rensch and Robert Hess are a bit more accessible.
Urs Hölzle (engineering VP) and Eric Veach (AdWords) also don't get nearly as much recognition as they deserve.
I have a similar Google lunch story. A guy sat down, introduced himself as Rob, and told me it was his first day at Google. We had a nice chat, and later I told my office mate that the new guy seemed really smart. He laughed and told me I'd just had lunch with Rob Pike. :)
Gogland is great, and especially easy to learn if you've used other JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, etc).
No, and that's a shame, because the right half of the spacebar would make a perfect enter key. FWIW, when I had right-pinky pain years ago, I remapped semicolon to enter with good results.
If you don't mind non-standard layouts, here are some excellent keyboards that give your thumbs more to do. :)
https://www.trulyergonomic.com/store/truly-ergonomic-mechani...
You might want to try the Matias Ergo Pro. I switched to it after 15 years on the MSFT Natural 4000. I still slightly prefer the 4000's layout and wrist rest, but the overall typing experience on the Matias is much better.
Austin seems like a strong candidate, since it's a major high tech hub and Whole Foods is already headquartered there.
Austin seems like a strong candidate, since it's a major high tech hub and Whole Foods is headquartered there.
Array comprehensions. Anytime I switch from Python to JS, it's the first thing I miss.
Yes, but it took 20 years for Kasparov to find that grace. After losing game 2 of the 1997 match to Deep Blue, he accused the IBM team of cheating, by allowing a human grandmaster to override DB at a critical moment in the game. He repeated this bogus claim for many years, before finally coming to his senses.
You might be interested in this thread from a few weeks ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14341623
For me, the most helpful comment in that discussion was a link to this paper, written by the WebAssembly designers.
https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/blob/master/papers/pldi2...
Here's the paper: http://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(17)30538-X.pdf
The Lichess author gave a tech talk last year where he discussed the design of the client and server.
https://www.infoq.com/fr/presentations/lichessorg-open-sourc...
My Lichess & ICC ratings are typically within 50 points of each other. It's the same for a friend of mine who plays on both servers, too.