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'tlack: It only took ten years for a non-toy one to come about! (Less if you count the one that got sued off the internet from the Morgan Stanley employee.) h
by kick 7y ago
'tlack:
It only took ten years for a non-toy one to come about! (Less if you count the one that got sued off the internet from the Morgan Stanley employee.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=944961 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=944961
- saagarjha 7y agoSomehow, I don't think they would appreciate this as much as you might have hoped: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=945093 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=945093
- kick 7y agoIt was more a joke on "Ten years!" rather than assuming anything. I've already read that comment.
- tlack 7y agoFor the record, I'm more open to this style now so I'd like permission to take a few steps back from that statement in 2009 (and probably most of my others that year!). Coding in a terse style really does have some benefits. You can understand more program flow at one time and you can easily see larger patterns. Another recent discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21890259 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21890259
- kick 7y agoI'm really happy you've changed your mind on this! Thanks for being open-minded!
- beefhash 7y agoAnd Google probably won't touch it anyway because AGPL.