locknitpicker

> However, when something I care about crashes and burns once in a blue moon, I make sure to put the fire out, at least to make it survive till regular hours. You are free what you choose to do wit…

> And, in turn, you appear to be oblivious to the point - the release cadence of this best-case scenario still means like a decade between updates to the project. It doesn't seem you are manag…

I don't know what argument you think you are making. React was released in 2011 whereas AngularJS was released in 2010 and Angular2+, what we actually call Angular, was released in 2014. So your …

> Nah you won't. Js frameworks comme and go all the time React was released 12 years ago, and since then a few React clones popped up as well such as Preact.

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> Did I miss a new C++ version released <2 days ago perhaps? You certainly are missing something. C++26 was officially released 4 months ago, and support is slowly being rolled out to compilers …

> TIL I have a "open Hacker News" hand reflex You mean it's not your homepage?

> And in ten years after react is forgotten about, there will still be companies actively hiring Java developer In ten years you'll see greybeards complaining that new kids don't know shi…

> Does it though? I mean I'm still teaching thread-safety and recursion to my interns... a solid foundation is a solid foundation. I think you are confusing interiorizing some fundamentals wit…

> Certainly that depends on the nature of the software. For instance, I don't expect some header-only library that does what it's supposed to do to ever need updating. If it's a head…

> Yep, you're definitely not wrong. We see it all the time on GitHub. If a project hasn't gotten a new commit in 2 days then the project is claimed dead. There is a difference between bei…

> You might be underestimating HN's popularity. I think you're confusing popularity with criticality. I'm sure everyone in here can withstand a few hours without browsing the page.

> For sure, but for this to work you need someone downstream to notice those messages and prioritize the work to migrate off the deprecated code paths. Deprecation messages show up as compiler warn…

> I'm convinced this isn't possible in practice. I don't agree. Some programming languages started supporting a deprecated/obsolete tagging mechanism that is designed to trigger…

> If someone maintaining a project that's 25 years old and hasn't had a complete overhaul is "confident" about anything, they must be the one who originally wrote it =) You are …

> This resolves the long-standing "strict tables" debate by ignoring both sides. This is brilliant. Well done.

> Terminology-wise, does this read like a better title instead?: Generates does not convey any info on the nature of the process used to create the output. In this context, extrapolates or pre…

> "Hallucination" has always seemed like a misnomer to me anyway considering LLMs don't know anything. They just impressively get things right enough to be useful assuming you audit …

> So a project that's still using Java 1.6 and has perfect test coverage and some poor developer is paid to maintain it (but NOT upgrade it!) is not "legacy" in your book? If a proje…

> This reads like a document that's meant to convince AWS management to invest in the new chip, focusing on how it's maximally flexible for sale, not a document to convince customers to u…

> What you list are common characteristics encountered in legacy systems, but what makes it legacy is a business decision of declaring it obsolete and in maintenance mode, and so that no money or t…

> Most of software work is maintaining "legacy" code, that is older systems that have been around for a long time and get a lot of use. That's not the definition of legacy. Being the…

> It's not about its ability to churn out lots of code quickly: it's an extra set of eyes/brain that works much faster that human developer. This is the key take right here. LLMs exc…

> You're arguing from an end-user perspective, No.I am arguing from a software engineer's perspective tackling a systems design problem. > I'm pointing out that the Internet wasn&…

> Again, they are not pressed into Russia, they are volunteering to go into Russia (...) They volunteer to join the armed forces once they are promised cushy non-combat positions in the homeland or…

> that's just an <a href> link. the only latency is your browser pulling the (admittedly, unnecessarily large) page I fail to see the relevance of your comment. So you came up with an ex…

> I have to agree, it's much easier to remove and consolidate duplicative work than unwind a poor abstraction that is embedded everywhere. That is basically the core tenet of "Write Every…

> Don't take the agency from them. Kenyans are not stupid, (...) What? It's pretty clear it's the other way around: claiming that Kenyans are pressed to Russia's frontline becau…

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