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am totally fascinated by programmers who don't use many of the IDE features I take for granted today: autocomplete, language servers, and recently copilot

So to the devs who don't use these tools, how do you do it? Do you just remember every type and field in a codebase? What does your flow look like?

One example is that I cannot live without the language server go-to-definition feature. What do you do if you need to look up the definition/implementation of some function which is in some other file?","time":1734938608,"title":"Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?","type":"story"}],[41978235,{"by":"amichail","descendants":99,"id":41978235,"kids":[41980145,41979716,41980234,41978532,41978906,41978452,41998592,41978317,41978850,41979649,41979994,41994428,41982492,41978262,41980513,41979277,41989658,41983135,41980026,41979486,41982941,41978967,41982474,41980006,41978335,41990344,41979137,41979148,41980021,41983103,41985792,42046469,41979668,41979056,41979059,41978506,41978993],"score":37,"text":"Maybe the focus could be on solving calculus problems with the help of a symbolic algebra system instead?","time":1730162964,"title":"Ask HN: Can calculus be taught without differentiating or integrating by hand?","type":"story"}],[41894765,{"by":"reverseCh","descendants":405,"id":41894765,"kids":[41896595,41920264,41925627,41920017,41923271,41919953,41923280,41924015,41896536,41896313,41922795,41897684,41896385,41897173,41925978,41921197,41920238,41896392,41922421,41922325,41896665,41922577,41924848,41922555,41925325,41921298,41922979,41896290,41922745,41921182,41924169,41897104,41922731,41926702,41923875,41924508,41919825,41896504,41923464,41909112,41923360,41896560,41919815,41919797,41921134,41902218,41896364,41919898,41920665,41896490,41920314,41896807,41924688,41897280,41922167,41923528,41923731,41924199,41896766,41922635,41896671,41923892,41919986,41920377,41924451,41920516,41896489,41924607,41921137,41920936,41921263,41909608,41922116,41899593,41920674,41921030,41923322,41921741,41923439,41919749,41922806,41919713,41926376,41923475,41922565,41927208,41922862,41919702,41922229,41925629,41919931,41926115,41905874,41926403,41926230,41922256,41919729,41961402,41924008,41924696,41922722,41908465,41919963,41923966,41923911,41921834,41922145,41924073,41922106,41920237,41923409,41987746,41925977,41909176,41922615,41925092,41926260,41920657,41920612,41920772,41897090,41923241,41922113,41924137,41921210,41923909,41920639,41931172,41921509,41922220,41925577,41925888,41922741,41922690,41921365,41920843,41935538,41924220,41920728,41926251,41925966,41926652,41927961,41925380,41894996,41919798,41946128,41923757,41922017,41921517,41923539,41925579,41923759,41920528,41920192,41923612,41922809,41923883,41923987,41926057,41924179,41930179,41927281,41923873,41919744,41921836,41922293,41920645,41926354,41919845,41925951,41896589,41925826,41923548,41921406,41921306,41926300,41922713,41925420,41924908,41925749,41923678,41922442,41920747,41922080,41922816,41922014,41928637,41924070,41927935,41924341,41925742,41922854,41925020,41924874,41920187,41934559,41919938,41922691,41896382,41899209,41926604,41927740,41920010,41922273,41926323,41921831,41919683,41921938,41935941,41924234,41920263,41926349,41922604,41938065,41896136,41921279,41921273,41899099,41920322,41926680,41926435,41896565,41896299,41926900,41947092,41923698,41922655,41923081,41922585,41896191,41923015,41897861,41957779,41923025,41945892,41898051,41905588,41922501],"score":296,"text":"I recently came across the concept of "useless" programs - pieces of code that serve no practical purpose but are fun, creative, or challenging to write. These could be anything from elaborate ASCII art generators to programs that solve imaginary problems.\nI'm curious to hear about the most interesting or creative "useless" programs the HN community has written. What was your motivation? What unexpected challenges did you face? Did you learn anything valuable from the experience?\nSome examples to get the ball rolling:\n1. A program that prints the lyrics of "99 Bottles of Beer" in binary.\nA text-based game where you play as a semicolon trying to find its way to the end of a line of code.\nA script that translates English text into Shakespearean insults.\nShare your creations, no matter how quirky or impractical. Let's celebrate the joy of coding for coding's sake!","time":1729425391,"title":"Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?","type":"story"}],[41898603,{"by":"todsacerdoti","descendants":322,"id":41898603,"kids":[41904629,41901887,41903191,41901399,41902494,41902697,41898942,41901215,41900069,41904524,41898959,41904138,41904081,41903194,41898724,41904989,41899143,41907517,41899074,41904394,41904091,41902736,41904292,41898871,41930642,41899336,41904336,41912959,41898858,41899978,41899004,41898801,41898891,41904832,41903189,41905374,41899856,41906108,41901456,41898772,41898983,41905469,41910307,41902327,41904885,41900398,41898802,41901260,41899671,41898791,41902228,41902332,41901506,41902744,41898747,41900976,41900896],"score":168,"time":1729459502,"title":"Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in \"faster\" languages","type":"story","url":"https://nolanlawson.com/2024/10/20/why-im-skeptical-of-rewriting-javascript-tools-in-faster-languages/"}],[41656015,{"by":"throwaway844535","descendants":105,"id":41656015,"kids":[41657166,41659226,41657007,41657293,41658100,41657272,41657171,41656867,41657081,41656225,41657231,41657270,41657095,41656439,41658915,41659556,41656539,41656714,41669578,41657338,41670771,41657921,41656741,41680744,41656692,41656753,41656893,41657549,41657242,41667342,41670087,41657646,41667882,41657903,41659294,41665685,41656770,41657755,41657226,41657442,41687591,41669515,41658866,41657004,41656526,41657368,41661903,41656456,41658392,41659314,41659004,41656551,41666802,41656904,41662520,41673183,41657040,41656520,41656607,41657041,41657828,41676615,41657023,41658121,41656969,41658644,41657606,41662223,41657892,41665478,41658865,41666209,41663257,41678948,41760208],"score":134,"text":"Context: I'm a senior dev, well-employed, and hopefully won't be looking for a job anytime soon. I'm just working on a blog/website as a hobby side-project, and really could use some external motivation to keep going (instead of scrolling through social media and watching TV). Also I can't decide what to write about, and whether to make it more nerdy or more professional.","time":1727340242,"title":"Ask HN: Did you personal website help you get hired? Tell about it","type":"story"}],[41387062,{"by":"hopa","descendants":123,"id":41387062,"kids":[41387850,41387931,41387763,41387801,41387270,41387633,41387717,41387869,41387187,41387884,41387821,41388704,41387958,41387432,41387777,41387718,41388106,41387921,41387532,41415759,41415745,41420346,41387615,41417662,41387912,41387709,41416724,41397796,41387855,41387557,41419330,41387965,41472701,41387900,41387535,41388166,41417340,41402499,41388186,41415738,41417962,41398312,41433729,41389914,41415628,41406235,41387935,41388836,41416555,41387943,41425110,41417813,41387828,41423129,41387886,41387848,41419712,41397324,41387715],"score":156,"text":"I'm a recent grad looking to keep improving. I've read Clean Code, Game Programming Patterns, and Architecture Patterns with Python, and I feel I learned / improved a lot from each of them. \nI was looking at Coding Horror's book recommendation list: https://blog.codinghorror.com/recommended-reading-for-developers/ \nbut all those books seem very out of date. \nAny suggestions for best books for software engineers in 2024?","time":1724903025,"title":"Ask HN: What books should I read to improve as a software engineer?","type":"story"}]]

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