Category: AI
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Do we have a moral obligation to improve software with AI?
I wrote one of the first native JavaScript spellcheckers, Typo.js, fifteen years ago. At the time, it was really only useful within a browser extension, since webpages didn’t offer all of the JavaScript features it needed. (I originally used it to get YouTube Comment Snob working in Chrome, which didn’t have Firefox’s native spellchecker API.)…
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X for Y Programmers
I’ve been programming in primarily PHP for the last 20 years, and sadly, most of the fun new projects do not use PHP. While the mechanics of every programming language are generally the same (except for you, Haskell), the idioms vary — how do you loop through lists, how do you clone an object, etc.…