How different is this from ledger in terms of storing transactions???

Seems like a missed trick, I'm not going to change my accounting system for one app but if it was in the pta ecosystem I could easily see myself using it as a nice front end for my existing data files.

As a GnuCash user, my pipe dream in this area is all of these tools--ledger, beancount, GnuCash, this--operating on the same data format. There are some things I like about each of them but it is not easy to switch back and forth.

Converting between pta formats is easy but between pta and database formats will always be difficult.

Was I the only one who was expecting Lisa Su to attempt Leetcode hard in this interview?

It is an interview with a CEO - expect platitudes and fortune cookie wisdom that contradict their own (corporate) behaviours.

As an IC this is exactly what makes 'fireside chats' with executives so unsatisfying.

There's also never an actual fire. Like at least put a video of a fireplace on in the background.

It's called "fireside chat" because of the layoffs. :-/

For the people downvoting this joke: the joke is that "fireside" means "the side of the people who are doing the firing". I think it's funny.

Not really. I wouldn't classify leetcode as "hard problems". Maybe dumb problems that don't really help anyone, but no, not "hard problems"

Sounds like you have beef with leetcode. I think that comment was referencing the problems on leetcode tagged with the "hard" label.

They should switch back to digitalocean when things were manangeable

this one too doesnt let you go back if music starts playing

Ban such sites with loud music and hijacking back button

is anyone else thinking Jetbrains Mono is the best thing ever made for terminal and vim font??

Nothing beats Iosevka Term (Slab) for me. It nails so many details for me I can't imagine switching ever again.

Wow that one was new to me, looks pretty good.

I avoid it like the plague because of ligatures, although I must admit other than that I enjoyed in my (admittedly short) experience with JetBrains IDEs. Have never tested them elsewhere.

Why don't you just disable them? Or does your editor not give you the option?

They offer a "JetBrains Mono NL" variant where the NL is for No-Ligatures. I use it daily on Eclipse.

I wasn't aware that you could disable them, I thought this was handled entirely by the font and not by the editor. Living and learning. Might try JetBrains Mono again without ligatures this time, after I finish my trial of IBM Plex.

Ah, no, I phrased that in a rather callous way. I'm sorry – my apologies.

If you do decide to give it a try, I hope your editor makes it easy to configure (since they really run the gamut) and that you have another typeface to enjoy!

Don't know about best, but it's pretty great. That's what I've been using for the last one year.

For low-DPI, I haven't found anything that beats Lucida Console.

This is just becoming sad.

Rather than the person thinking what to gift by using his/her own brain. You are delegating that work to a generic AI. If people are using it, that just means that there is a huge disconnect between you and your mother

How did they make it soooo crisp and native looking???

It's just a full screen web app, browsers have a lot of APIs to make web app experiences feel more native these days.

I tried to go wrong way and i was not able to do. Thanks for telling us

"A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street." -- Doug Linder

"Three programmers come to a one-way street. The academic looks to the right, doesn't see any oncoming cars, and crosses. The corporate programmer looks to the left, then looks to the right, and then crosses. The distributed systems engineer looks to the left, then looks to the right, then looks up to make sure there aren't any planes falling out of the sky…"

"... the hacker looks down to check for landmines and footguns, and then runs to catch up with the rest, grumbling something about computer scientists and off-by-one errors."

The distributed systems engineer definitely uses a mirror to watch both directions at the same time while crossing the street. They've been caught by Time of Check - Time of Use errors before.

Well, I do always look both ways when crossing the one-way street where I live.

But not because of programming experience, but because of late-night Taxi drivers who drive like Doc Brown (https://youtu.be/vHake6w4Su0?t=17) and believe that "reverse" is some kind of cheat code that flips the direction of the road.

Also, cyclists.

In tourist-filled parts of the world where they drive on the left side of the road (e.g. UK, Australia, Japan), you sometimes see signs reminding the tourists to look right before crossing the road.

London in particular has the signs ("Look left", "Look right") written in words on the road surface itself at obvious crossing points, especially near stations etc. So pedestrians look down at them as they go to cross the road.

One should really look both ways before stepping out onto the road though =)

Who said they write bad code??? All those dark matter dev are working on most mission critical softwares and not just writing JS. Most of them see past hype for sure.

Indeed. As an example, modern era devs don't realize how much of the global financial system is underpinned by decades old Cobol code. Personally I'd rather be working on a system that's massively important with less flashy tech, than building more inconsequential apps with the latest frameworks.

> Personally I'd rather be working on a system that's massively important with less flashy tech, than building more inconsequential apps with the latest frameworks.

I am the same type of person. Solving a problem and creating a great product can be very rewarding and is my primary motivation.

There have been times in my career where I have been thinking more about how I could sneak in a new technology in a project. In those cases it was a sign that the things I worked on were not motivating enough, or a bad work environment. I'm more aware of how these things affect me now that I have the benefit of hindsight.

and better thing is those critical systems are built with a robust mindset. things don't fail randomly like they do in JS land.