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API Design
I would like to analyze what makes a programming API good versus bad. I feel like a lot of new APIs lack wisdom and foresight. A good programming API should guide the programmer away from making mistakes and towards using the API correctly and efficiently. But it seems that a lot of APIs are designed by people who only think of how they ( Read more... ) -
Thought of the day
Whenever you hear people describe themselves as an alpha male, just remember that the wolf study that originated the term was later retracted and replaced because the researcher realized that the dominant wolf he had assumed to be a male was, in fact, a female and the mother of the other wolves. So the proper term to use in place of alpha is ( Read more... ) -
Thought of the day
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Spoken language accents are just regionally-consistent mispronunciations. -
Automated law enforcement is the height of oppression and injustice.
It is encouraging to find something I have been saying being echoed by some big names in Computer Security. -
Stop calling chatbot lies “hallucinations!”
Referring to LLM chatbots producing incorrect information as “hallucinating” is a deliberate and dangerous deception. It implies that chatbots have a concept of reality from which they depart when hallucinating. The truth is that they are always hallucinating. Any correspondence to reality is basically a coincidence. -
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Six days after I wrote this short story, I find this article. I feel reinforced. -
A little bit of science fiction
Jane looked out across the stepped floor at the young men and women slowly shuffling into the room. Some sat down and opened their digital notepads, a few pulled out notebooks with real paper in them, and one opened a full laptop computer. Scattered conversations drifted between them ( Read more... ) -
Another disappointing job
I do not understand why you are having performance problems with Perforce. We used Perforce when I was at Amazon, and they had an order of magnitude more developers than you do. Perforce should have no trouble keeping up, unless you are doing something insane like mapping the entire Perforce repository into every client….I was hired for a one- ( Read more... ) -
Friendly Cats
The friendly cat says, Look at my butthole! -
I have made my previous two posts public.
I have now been away from Amazon for twelve years. Looking back, I have no regrets about what I did or any of the documentation about it that I produced. It is all accurate and informative. So rather than ever try to verbally describe, again, the hell I endured, I am simply going to publish the documentation.
Amazon does in fact have a blacklist, ( Read more... )