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  • When I was a junior, I was given an entire front-end app to develop entirely on my own with very little guidance from the team-lead. It was some ridiculously bad code, especially since it was my first time working with React with basically zero preparation.

    Few months later, project is delivered, I get some time to read docs and guides before starting the next one. Since I was learning theory on what I would practise earlier, I was digesting it extremely fast and it helped me patch up all the holes in my thinking and learn how things should actually be done.

    Soon after the next project came and it was definitely much more of a smooth ride. The code was alright and even the early decisions I made were pretty sustainable much later. It was another project I was working all alone, then some people joined in and I was teaching them, but I would always guide them too much and they weren’t growing very fast.

    Even after a few months, these people were not ready or willing to work independently, which was my personal failure as a mentor. That’s what really assured me that people should be given a lot of space to properly grow.

    My whole career is me working on increasingly larger projects with decreasing assistance. And it’s extremely effective. 4 years in the field and I just became a software architect.





  • ddplf@szmer.infotoTechnology@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    5 months ago

    You made me look ridiculously stupid and rightfully so. Actually, I take that back, I made myself look stupid and you made it obvious as it gets! Thanks for the wake up call

    If I understand correctly, the model is in a way a dictionary of questions with responses, where the journey of figuring out the response is skipped. As in, the answer for the question “What’s the point of existence” is “42”, but it doesn’t contain the thinking process that lead to this result.

    If that’s so, then wouldn’t it be especially prone to hallucinations? I don’t imagine it would respond adequately to the third “why?” in the row.










  • ddplf@szmer.infoBanned from communitytoWorld News@lemmy.mlEuropean Union imposes tariffs on Chinese EVs
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    8 months ago

    Extremely good news, the pricing of Chinese cars is not just a healthy competition to European counterparts, they were a form of attack on the European industry.

    The Chinese never found a way to make profit in spite of radically lower prices, this is a state-funded strive to reach dominion and monopolize the market, after which they can do whatever the fuck they want.

    It is the exact same fucking strategy they practiced with Temu, Alibaba and AliExpress operate at extreme deficit covered by the state, amass clients and then increase the prices.


  • ddplf@szmer.infoBanned from communitytoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlTo DRY or not to DRY
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    8 months ago

    To me, there are two classifications of DRY - one I find harmful, the other very useful.

    First one resembles mathematical extractions, essentially you never allow a single chunk of code to be written twice and you create massive amounts of global util junk. This also creates some bad tight coupling.

    The other is more logical, where you only extract logic in places you want to always change together. Simple and effective.