points by niekmaas 20 hours ago | 0 comments
"Some of you older programmers may have used jQuery." Oh dear, I'm getting old as the jQuery era was my prime of programming before other activities in life took over. Apparently, as someone in their early fourties I am now in the older category.
On topic: thanks for this great summary of the issue. I too miss the prime stackoverflow days. Although the availability of LLMs has allowed me to learn new things and generate some code again, the passion and love for programming that was on (the early) stackoverflow, I do miss. Also the times of just buying a book to learn about a new tool or language (jQuery in Action teached me a lot) feels different from just asking Claude Code to fix or explain something.
[–] bcvvvy 20 hours ago
[–] ourmandave 19 hours ago
Z80 Assembly! Fortran! ENIAC cables!
And the ghost of Alan Turing shows up.
[–] bcvvvy 19 hours ago
(not even joking)
[–] hangrybear666 17 hours ago
[–] bcvvvy 15 hours ago
Our products are both mature, entirely finished, fully deterministic and the last attempt at this using the same approach just burned all the money that was spent instead of generating any new revenue.
[–] vardump 18 hours ago
(In other words, my daddy bought me a C64 in the eighties. ;-))
[–] jacquesm 14 hours ago
[–] bcvvvy 13 hours ago
[–] jacquesm 13 hours ago
[–] chrisweekly 17 hours ago
[–] drjasonharrison 16 hours ago
That's like saying you played games on your dad's Philips G8.
[–] chrisweekly 12 hours ago
Larn was a text-based RPG that was in fact easily run as a networked game over a modem to a server at GenRad where my dad worked. Details escape me (it was over 40 years ago, I was like 12 years old) but these basics are factual.
[–] bcvvvy 15 hours ago