Another way to look at this is that using LLMs and agents in your business function takes a while to master. It's a skill and it's a good move to push teams to incorporate AI into their workflows before immediately reaching for a new hire. There will be job functions that will be eaten away, I'm sure, but Jevons and his paradox are still undefeated.
Readit Newsweeksie commented on Changes since congestion pricing started in New York nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/Vinnl
Did you have children or did you live alone?
I live in Manhattan with a kid and I love not needing a car. I walk my daughter to school and I walk to work from there. It's great.
weeksie commented on Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director substack.com/home/post/p-... · Posted by u/cfcfcf
I lived and worked as a dev in Seattle for 8 years before moving to Sydney. I want nothing more than for Australia to have a thriving tech scene but I haven’t seen much progress in that area since I moved here 5 years ago. I still love it and have no plans to go back. I just wish there was more opportunity here and not so much constant pressure to move back to the US for increased salary and challenge.
Funny. I lived in Seattle for 5 years before I moved to Sydney, where I lived for 5 years. That was a different era though, tech wasn't the industry it is now and the internet still felt new. I moved down in 2003 and my American accent helped me land a job I wasn't qualified for (having self taught myself some php and java in Seattle, mostly working as a bartender though). In 2005 I started a small software shop with some friends. Back then (2003) the Ruby user's group was too small to get a reservation at a pub so we'd have to partner up with the Smalltalk guys. Rails came out a year or so later and that changed.
I got back into web stuff when I moved to the states and have been up and down the stack many times since, but I have a ton of nostalgia for the stuff we did back then. Web 2 was an annoying new buzzword and we were still mostly writing software for kiosks, device drivers in C, bridging that with Lua, and using Flash for the interface b/c everybody else in the space was using shitty C++ Motif interfaces. . . . memory lane.
Imagine that Newtown and the Inner West are a lot different than when I lived there, but I do miss that time.
The Kiwis too have their own "invented the airplane" guy (Pearse?) Seems a lot was happening at that point in history.
weeksie commented on Introducing command And commandfor In HTML developer.chrome.com/blog... · Posted by u/Kerrick
While programming language theorists have been speculating about “goto”’s more powerful cousin “comefrom” since the 80s, it was only implemented in intercal. Intercal, while clearly superior in safety, performance, and ergonomics to languages like C, has struggled to break into the commercial market (likely because worse is better). It’s exciting to see javascript integrate this feature from intercal- hopefully this leads to a surge in polite programming, analogous to how javascript’s embrace of closure based objects has driven functiOOPnal programming into the mainstream
This is beautiful.
weeksie commented on The housing theory of everything (2021) worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/lifeisstillgood
and they want to live there because they don't like near-by houses? I'd imagine single family housing in manhattan would cost 10x what an apartment costs. Even brown stone housing in new york is more expensive than similarly sized/located apartments (if you call brown stones proper housing even).
It's more expensive because the tax treatment is better. You really have no idea what you're talking about.
weeksie commented on The housing theory of everything (2021) worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/lifeisstillgood
It seems paradoxical to me that the only "solution" to housing shortages, which exist because the area is too attractive in large part because of the availability of jobs, is to build more houses and thus make the area more attractive to businesses because of the increased availability of workers. It looks like a battle against windmills that is bound to get out of hand. Efforts to alleviate the problem only exacerbate it.
It would be interesting to see if the shortage could be reduced by taking a different approach and making the area less attractive. For example, you could tax businesses much more if they are located in very dense areas, or even just limit the total revenue of all businesses in a certain area. Such things would have their own problems and challenges, of course, but there are few economic problems as bad as the housing crisis, and there is more than enough land to go around.
If a city could grow economically by simply building more housing that would be quite the discovery. A perpetual motion machine!
weeksie commented on The housing theory of everything (2021) worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/lifeisstillgood
But who wants to live in apartments? It's better than being homeless but it's hardly a solution. People want single-family housing, and it is possible to build tens of millions of houses within practical commute distances of big cities. Also, we can build new cities!
What a weird argument. There are many, many apartments in New York that people want to live in so badly that they'll pay millions upon millions of dollars to do so.
weeksie commented on The Man in the Midnight-Blue Six-Ply Italian-Milled Wool Suit theatlantic.com/magazine/... · Posted by u/ggm
If you've not read Absurdistan or Lake Success or any of Shteyngart's other novels, then you really should. He's one of our best living authors.
It becomes farcical when not only are you missing the big thing but you're also proud of your ignorance and this guy is both.