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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • We’re talking about, say, learning Spanish and Duolingo be like “now translate this very long and overly specific sentence to English”

    Then you end up trying to construct the English sentence even though you’re learning Spanish

    Here’s an example where I think my sentence is perfectly fine, but it just expected a different word order. It expected me to put If at the beginning, but I didn’t notice it was capitalized.

    Korean doesn’t even have capital letters, why is it doing some gotcha about English capitalization when I already know English?











  • It depends, if you work in a statically typed language you can just use a tool to refactor. I bet a ton of advice is from JavaScript programmers where it’s simply not safe to do this.

    My first job doing JavaScript I realized the IDE’s refactor tool wasn’t aware that two variables of the same name were in fact a different variable. Due to how scoping works, it’s hard to write a reliable tool to rename variables for JS. I accidentally introduced a bug renaming a variable.