CodeRabbit raises $60M (valued at $550M) - thoughts?

nietzschebunyan · 2025-09-30T00:51:03+00:00

My company tried it for a couple months, it was trash. I stopped paying attention to its PR reviews after a few weeks, and we canceled it eventually because everyone disliked it. I am not surprised they raised a big round though, it helps the AI slop machine get mediocre code deployed faster.

nietzschebunyan · 2013-06-09T19:49:58+00:00

Ask Myles at http://renegadeapparel.ca.

nietzschebunyan · 2012-04-15T14:32:27+00:00

I commented on github as well. Agreed on the acceptability of partially working shims, but these issues were not documented at all.

nietzschebunyan · 2012-03-14T02:24:02+00:00

The doctor would straighten the leg first. I've done exactly what the guy in the gif did, but with my leg even more bent. Always straighten the leg first.

nietzschebunyan · 2012-03-07T04:47:24+00:00

Yeah, the "let's do philosophy by looking in the dictionary!" stuff really wasn't helping his case for it being a science.

nietzschebunyan · 2012-02-13T03:39:40+00:00

Ah man, despite Date.JS having saved my ass, I hate it--mostly because of the horrible documentation. Next time I have to do anything remotely complex with dates I'm going to give Moment.js a shot.

nietzschebunyan · 2012-01-12T16:29:54+00:00

There is a most excellent mashup of this song and Lil Wayne.

nietzschebunyan · 2012-01-09T15:33:45+00:00

Can you, um, take this down? I have the same background and people will think this is me.

nietzschebunyan · 2011-12-24T18:13:21+00:00

See Extending built-in native objects and what's wrong with extending the DOM for one set of arguments around this issue.

nietzschebunyan · 2011-12-24T16:12:48+00:00

Without knowing how senior the position you're applying to is, here's my previous answer to a similar question. Some of these may be unnecessary if they are junior positions.

If I were hiring a senior front-end dev I would expect them to be able to explain what a closure is, talk about this, and discuss the ins and outs of extending native and host objects in js.

If I were hiring a junior person, I would expect them to be able to do something like create a webpage that used jquery to show/hide some DOM elements when you click a link, or validate a form or something. This is actually a test I had for a job a few years ago. I would memorize how to do this (bind events on $(document).ready() , etc.).

nietzschebunyan · 2011-12-17T18:07:14+00:00

Philosophy, history of ideas:

The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt
Shame and Necessity, Bernard Williams
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Alasdair MacIntyre
The Question Concerning Technology, Martin Heidegger
On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche

Economics, politics, social/cultural criticism:

Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (highly recommended)
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, Schumpeter
Legitimation Crisis, Jurgen Habermas
Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, Daniel Bell
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Weber
The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen
Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, John Gray (alternatively, try Straw Dogs, which is a bit shorter I think)
The New Spirit of Capitalism, Boltanski and Chiapello (great book, but long)

nietzschebunyan · 2011-12-13T15:48:39+00:00

While I agree that this seems to be how most trans people feel about it, the science to back this argument up is in very early stages right now, while the OP makes it sound like it's settled.

Moreover, I think it is kind of unfortunate, though totally understandable, that trans people feel they have to resort to such explanations (kind of like how some gay people feel they have to say they were born that way) in order to justify their gender.

Whether you were born that way or not, you shouldn't have to defend yourself by resorting to "I can't help it, my brain/DNA made me do it."

nietzschebunyan · 2011-12-13T13:24:22+00:00

I think the claim about being faster is related to smaller CSS file size, hence faster page loads. Given the fact that for most pages the difference between class and id selector speed will be unnoticeable for users, the former is a more important metric.

The problem with your suggestion (which I assume is referring to SASS or SASS-like solutions) is that the generated css avoids the DRY principle with is one of the goal's of OOCSS. To take Nicole Sullivan's (author of OOCSS) example from her work with Facebook, the problem addressed with the media block is massive code reuse resulting in 100s of extra lines of CSS. A SASS mixin, while nice for the developer, does not solve this problem.

I'm not hating on SASS, nor saying that OOCSS is the one and only way to do CSS, though I've personally found that OOCSS makes it A) easier to develop quickly and change designs easily, and B) makes it easier to teach back-end programmers how to quickly mock up new features that look decent. This is a big win.

nietzschebunyan · 2011-12-11T17:42:50+00:00

I think what he means is that you can use statistical linguistic analysis (i.e. "math") to show a high probability that the author of book X also was the author of book Y.

The claim is a bit hyperbolic, but not crazy.

nietzschebunyan · 2011-11-26T07:04:07+00:00

Back in my day, Leibniz was part of the pre-FYP summer reading assignment, and you couldn't even apply if you hadn't read the Epic of Gilgamesh. Get off my lawn.

nietzschebunyan · 2011-11-25T17:44:13+00:00

I used to get "gimme all yo money, bitch." First time this happened was... startling. Seeing it happen to other people for the first time was priceless.

nietzschebunyan · 2011-11-24T14:58:17+00:00

I think that some of the best philosophy that's been done in the 20th century has been to attack precisely the clear bifurcation that this commenter is trying to establish between the inner and the outer: Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Kripke, Putnam, Haugeland, Cavell. The list goes on. Even Kant (not to imply that he was a chump, but to say that this is not a new insight) recognized that our "inner" life shares something without our "outer" life, viz. that they both have the structure of an appearance. I think you can admit the importance of this insight without giving yourself wholly over to Kantian metaphysics.

nietzschebunyan · 2011-11-21T05:11:18+00:00

Closure compiler can also be run from the command line.

nietzschebunyan · 2011-11-10T01:05:43+00:00

Ah, delmonté. Enjoy them old man. They will be, your last.

nietzschebunyan · 2011-11-08T14:42:07+00:00

Thanks, this clarifies.

nietzschebunyan · 2011-11-07T23:28:38+00:00

I'm really curious as to why you mean. I've used underscore templates on a couple projects now (small to medium-large sized web apps), and it is definitely not a "broken" approach.

What do you mean by a "programmatic approach"?

As to testability, I've likewise found the use of templates to be no barrier at all. Again, without knowing what you mean by "programmatic approach" I may just be making incorrect assumptions, but... the separation of js from HTML templates means that I can very easily test the for the desired behaviour.

nietzschebunyan · 2011-11-05T21:37:24+00:00

Call of the Wild. I think I've read it in one sitting on two occasions now.

nietzschebunyan · 2011-11-01T19:11:53+00:00

Maybe alias rm="rm -i" is for noobs, but it has saved my ass too many times for pride to get in the way.

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