luckyandroid (u/luckyandroid)

luckyandroid commented on Cursor 1.0 cursor.com/en/changelog/1... · Posted by u/ecz

ramoz · 3 months ago

You don’t get it - autocomplete is evolving from keyboard clicks to prompts. Tab-ing is not as effective as agentic coding.

Your beloved cursor will go all in on this front, less and less priority on focused cursors in the editor.

luckyandroid · 3 months ago

Nah, you definitely don't get it. Some people are here enjoying the act of programming, and Cursor Tab is acting like an improvement on IntelliSense/autocomplete that actually knows what it's doing. Not all of us want to spend half an hour going back and forth with a robot about what it didn't do quite right when we can be in the actual code, tweak a couple lines, and press tab for it to replicate the change in the next 50 now it knows.

Agentic coding is fine, definitely helps me a lot with setup and boilerplate, but finer business logic details and UX changes are now it's strong suit especially if you know WHAT you want but not HOW to explain it in a clear enough format that it can do it without additional prompting.

luckyandroid commented on My website is ugly because I made it goodinternetmagazine.com/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

luckyandroid · 3 months ago

Even with frameworks, I don't see any joy in making something that just looks and feels the same as any other site. I understand it from a business point of view, but if you're trying to just showcase yourself or your work having flavor makes more sense even if it's not the most optimal thing for SEO or retention.

Really hate how modern website building sites moved towards structured, samey sites. I miss the days of Geocities and Freewebs, the unreadable text against cluttered background images, the auto playing music, the trailing cursors, the spinning skeletons in front of crappy looking flames.

luckyandroid commented on Why blog if nobody reads it? andysblog.uk/why-blog-if-... · Posted by u/alexgiann

TeMPOraL · 7 months ago

> "Let's not belabor this over beers but I'll send you a link to something I wrote. It may be a little bit stale but let me know what you think and we can follow up."

How is it being received by those people? I can't help but imagine the response being:

"Okay but then what's the point of us sitting here with beers?"

EDIT:

If I was hanging out talking with someone, and have them terminate an interesting conversation topic by plugging their blog article, I'd feel cut off, and might even start to wonder if they're really seeing me as a friend or colleague, or is this networking for them?

It's not the blog reference itself, but rather cutting off a conversation topic this way, that would irk me in such situation.

luckyandroid · 7 months ago

Yeah I agree, someone saying they don't want to talk anymore because they've already written about something stops it being a discussion and makes it into some sort of lecture but without the notes. If you're insisting on telling someone you wrote about the current topic of conversation, you can just mention it and carry on with it. Like authors who go on podcasts, they'll say "Like I wrote in chapter X, I think that..." - the conversation shouldn't be killed off. Comes off as a bit arrogant.

luckyandroid commented on BBC cryptocurrency documentary pulled from air at last minute theguardian.com/media/202... · Posted by u/nemoniac

WilTimSon · 4 years ago

It's astonishing to me that people will just buy into any success story that involves crypto and NFTs. People don't question why poorly drawn pictures are being bought for thousands of dollars, don't question why there are hundreds of altcoins on the market and some "cryptocurrency experts" are supposedly "offering free tips" on investment. The whole space is rife with scams and embellishments and yet there are so many people just blindly buying into it, including the damn BBC!

luckyandroid · 4 years ago

Every person I've spoken to who's told me they're interested in crypto literally only care about it to make money, and have no interest in learning how it works. They all treat every last crypto-based use as investment like stocks, and not as a normal economic choice (e.g. "I want $3000 worth of bitcoin to buy a car" is not something people are doing, instead it's all "I want $3000 worth of bitcoin because the internet told me it'll be 3 million in a year").

NFTs also annoy me because it's literally the worst part of art industry - "buying" the "rights" to a piece of art so you can turn it for more cash later on, and not as an appreciation of the work. Bored Apes might be one of the few exceptions where people are doing it for "bragging rights", which is infinitely better because you're buying it to say you own it, much closer to normal art purchases.

luckyandroid commented on Who Uses To-Do Lists? arunkprasad.com/log/who-u... · Posted by u/akprasad

aluminussoma · 4 years ago

Cal Newport and Shane Parrish, in a discussion on the Knowledge Project podcast, talked unfavorably about to-do lists. They favored scheduling time to perform the needed tasks in a daily calendar.

I tried that calendaring system a few times. It did not work for me. To-do lists are easy, comfortable, familiar. They may not work for millionaires. They work for me.

luckyandroid · 4 years ago

Setting times is fine, but my approach is I have a list of 4-5 things to do written the night before, and knowing how much time I have in the morning, midday and afternoon as well as the energy I still have left at different parts of the day I say whether they’re done before work, at lunch, or after work.

I’m really not sure on the distinction people are using between to-do lists and these other approaches - they all seem like to-do lists just formatted differently because people work differently.

luckyandroid commented on Who Uses To-Do Lists? arunkprasad.com/log/who-u... · Posted by u/akprasad

luckyandroid · 4 years ago

“Get rid of your to-do list and instead choose one year goal, then break it down into monthly goals, then weekly goals, then daily goals”

And what do you call that list you just wrote down, exactly?

luckyandroid commented on How to easily read 50 books a year ramoswriter.com/how-to-re... · Posted by u/ramoswriter

kvgr · 4 years ago

I want to learn to read programming books, but it is utterly boring for me... I like programming. But reading books about it is, meh. May be a sign of ADHD, dont know...

luckyandroid · 4 years ago

Programming books are generally technical documentation, or close enough - of course they're boring to read. There's so much detail to programming you could spend the rest of your life reading documentation and feel like you barely scratched the surface.

The article suggests identifying the reason you want to read it. In your case, you should identify what kind of problem you're trying to solve (even if not in an actual project and just in your head, something like "how DOES a cloud server work?") and then get that specific knowledge out of the book, as deep as you want to go.

Programming books can be expensive though, so you should generally google overviews of what you're looking for before committing to a whole book.

If you're having to read the thing for work, I guess identify what the problem at work/school you're trying to solve (or what project you'd be applying it to) and regularly relate back what you're reading to what you would do with it practically.

luckyandroid commented on Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it? prospectmagazine.co.uk/ph... · Posted by u/Petiver

mynameisash · 4 years ago

> If you think about it, the universe is conscious, because our conscious minds are part of it

This seems like quite a leap. Parts of the earth are conscious, so is the earth conscious? Parts of the universe are alive, so is the universe alive? Every member of my family is conscious*, but I wouldn't say that "my family" is conscious.

*Solipsism notwithstanding

luckyandroid · 4 years ago

The universe is a system. We a part of that system. So any traits we have are inherently traits that the universe has, even if parts of it don't share it. A human has a hand, the hand is part of the human, but the rest of the human is not necessarily a hand.

luckyandroid commented on Best Practices – Why I Hate Them fev.al/posts/best-practic... · Posted by u/charles_f

djrockstar1 · 4 years ago

One of the key benefits of "Best Practices" is, when provided by the documentation of something you're using, you can reliably consider it as good advice and follow it, even if you don't necessarily understand why it is the best practice.

An instance of this would be "Best Practices for Cloud Firestore"[1] which spends a whole lot of time discussing different ways of avoiding "hotspotting" without really going into any detail about what it is or what specifically causes it, other than that it adds latency. If my project manager asks me why we're not using sequential IDs, and I say it's a best practice according to the documentation, he'll happily accept that answer even if neither of us understand why it's a best practice.

[1] https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/best-practices

luckyandroid · 4 years ago

I'd argue that's the worst kind of best practice, because in order to get an entire team to work on it they now have no reason other than "their manager said so". It's one thing to skim over what you know your project manager won't understand (mine doesn't understand programming at all so really they just take our word on the implementation side of things), but to try and push it to the rest of the team and just hope they remember a long list of do's and don'ts without justification other than a book said to do it is stifling their personal development.

Even worse, if one were to go off and read up on what you've told the team to do on their own behalf, find that they don't agree with it, you've now got to handle: - a discussion that should have happened earlier - possible backtracking of recent work to try and reverse the pattern - OR a backlogged ticket to reverse it while the system now has multiple different patterns sitting around with no push for consistency in either direction due to lack of priority

Obviously becomes much more of an issue the larger the system is, but in general you shouldn't be following (or asking others to follow) best practices without knowing the benefits behind them versus what you're doing now.

luckyandroid commented on Best Practices – Why I Hate Them fev.al/posts/best-practic... · Posted by u/charles_f

luckyandroid · 4 years ago

Used to have to argue with my dev team manager about this, he was a big fan of reading about some new-ish concept that we weren't using yet and then trying to tell the team he needs to spend a couple weeks changing everything over to it. I'd be the only one trying to force him to give us a list of "pros" for it over what we currently do and he wouldn't be able to answer, then go off and half-implement it across the system without telling anyone, causing the degradation of our ability to maintain the system (since it's now less consistently written) and wasting his own time.

People need to take best practices with a pinch of salt, and actually think through whether they'll provide any benefit to them in practice for whatever software they're working on.