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Very cool! I wonder if it performs differently on actual “production” code versus random tests? I opened ChatGPT, typed a random non-sensical prompt, copy-pasted the response[1] into the tool and it gave me 50% AI generated.
[1] https://chatgpt.com/share/e/68c9d578-8290-8007-93f4-4b178369...
Would they have space? Considering that Github was always remote, that's a lot of people to fit into existing space. Though I guess it depends on how many Github employees are within 50 miles of Redmond.
Can't tell if this affects Github employees as well? I was under impression that they don't actually have offices to “return to”.
For some reason, any model trips up on our FE unit tests. Which are pretty generic tests for a React app. The only difference is that we use vitest instead of jest and, even with special prompts, I can't seem to make it remember that throughout the whole context window.
I don't think they mean auto-complete, though I have no proof of that. If they include auto-completion, that's extremely disingenuous on their part. While I expect something like this from VCs hyping their portfolios, I'd expect NYT journalists to do more due diligence.
Same. Getting a drivers license and car plates in Seattle was a _fantastic_ experience. Start with a simple, fast web app. Finish with a 10 minute start-to-end in person appointment.
Hm, I’ll need to ask about it!
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If it was a recruiter encouraging you to apply, chances are it was a mass campaign to fill the recruiting pipeline.
In my experience that’s how recruiters work and the only thing it indicates is that the company has open roles to fill.
A few years ago I got fed up with then-popular JavaScript linter, JSLint, and forked it to make JSHint. I wouldn't say JSHint was the only criteria that landed me the job but it definitely help when interviewing for positions where JavaScript was important. At the very least, it put my name thru the first filter both at Mozilla and then at Medium.
Recently bought a used 10 year old MacMini to use as a home server behind Tailscale. So now writing small apps here and there for myself. Latest is bland, it's like del.icio.us but you can host it yourself: https://github.com/valueof/bland.
I believe its managed by the GIFCT: https://gifct.org/
Played around with the sandbox for a few minutes and it feels great! Can't wait to try it out properly on the weekend.
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I interviewed at Alto a couple of years back. Even though I went to take another offer (it was more closely related to the area I wanted to focus on) their interview process was great and their product/engineering team seemed fantastic.
Because Medium doesn’t author anything
OneZero is a publication owned and operated by Medium.
Author/editor of Beautiful JavaScript here. I'm very confused by this website. It appears somebody took one chapter (Functional JavaScript) and re-published it as a book.
If you want to purchase the complete book do it from the O'Reilly website or from Amazon. All proceeds go to EFF.
It will either be in tomorrow's Nightly or we will do an extra build of Nightly in the afternoon.
(I'm a member of the Firefox Developer Tools team)
Our RDP (Remote Debugging Protocol) is not interoperable with the one in Chrome or any other browser. There are two reasons:
1) Both us and Chrome team would like to iterate on our protocols and tools as fast as we can. Maybe in future, when tools across browsers stabilize there will be a case for a standard but I personally believe that a wrapper protocol is a better answer.
2) RDPs depend on their platform's architecture. Ours is very SpiderMonkey centric while Chrome's is all about V8.
Google organized a nice Summit during the I/O this year and I attended on behalf of our team (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOO9Kb1-JJU). I shared my thoughts on interoperability and other issues here: https://medium.com/web-developer-tools/1060a9f69e6a
Hope that helps.
Mozilla is more conservative with money than other companies. No corporate credit cards, no daily travel allowances, no daily breakfast, lunch and dinner (only lunch and only once a week, after all-hands).
However, being too conservative doesn't work in Silicon Valley because you have to compete with companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. for talent with their perks and benefits. Whether it's good or bad in the long term I do not know but it is a fact.
Back in the days, IE6 was the best browser out there.
Firefox already ships with some (most?) of these features.
Except that you did:
> I know you pretend like you don’t care, but I’m sure that down deep you’re wondering why NodeJS is getting all the attention instead of you.
(For some reason I can't reply to the reply so will have to post here.)
> But why couldn't you have both?! That's what I mean when I'm talking about a false dichotomy, you're just using a strawman argument.
You can't have both because people don't have unlimited amount of time and resources. I'm not sure why I have to explain this.
Why don't you link to git-scm circa 2009 (when Git started getting popular): http://web.archive.org/web/20090303081943/http://git-scm.com... No brand identity? Mascot (or whatever it is in the header) looks amateurish? No thought given ot typograph? And somehow Git managed to kick everyone's ass. Here's a hint how: by being better than all other version control systems and not by having the prettiest website.
Look at this site: http://kernel.org/ Design is plain, the mascot looks amateurish, there is no logo to establish brand identity. They don't know how to sell anything, this will never catch on.
The first thing you should always do is create a ticket. There you can discuss if its worth spending time on a patch and what the best implementation could be. Pull requests that come up out of nowhere usually end up in the end of maintainers' queue.
Or you can continue calling people who maintain free and open source projects in their spare time douchebags and neckbeards.
Crock made a post about JSON comments?
Anyway, I wouldn't focus on JavaScript engines because JSON is now a universal format so for languages other than JavaScript you will have to define a formal specification.
Three things:
* Comments in JSON files are not a great idea because people might (will?) abuse them to add special instructions for their own serializers. As soon as this happens we'll have a format that is not compatible with other serializers.
* JSON today is a universal format. So, what are special characters? Should '1hello' be quoted? If no, then its not a subset of JavaScript anymore. If you're writing a new specification you have to define all those things. Same with multiline strings: space after backslash?
* Why? I know that hand-writing JSON can be annoying but is this really the biggest problem we have?
Create an issue!