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May 16, 2014 at 20:34
"One of the best ways to really understand a new or novel language feature is to think of ways to twist and abuse it" http://t.co/PiWL6Ec0SF

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One fun way of testing new AI models: take an existing codebase you have and just ask them to "review it and fix bugs". In principle this should find more issues over time as models get smarter. I've found a few bugs this way at least.
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The vast majority of libraries have a single maintainer. Even if you weight by downloads, roughly half of downloaded libraries have a single maintainer too.
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I see people advocating for writing a FAQ, but I really struggle to write one from scratch. The best FAQs are written as a response to, well, frequent questions. How do you populate the initial FAQ?