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by 9rx 9mo ago
> otherwise what's the point of their job? Who else is going to move a box from one column to another?
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by 9rx 9mo ago
So does Rust. Rust is 'smarter' than Limbo, in that it can avoid using its GC in a lot of cases (but not all, hence why it still has GC to fall back on when necessary), but, I mean, that discovery was the reason for why Rust was c
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by 9rx 9mo ago
That might be Rust, actually. They have more in common with thoughts about type systems, built-in constructs, deterministic memory usage, etc. Limbo looks more like Go on the concurrency front, but that was inherited from Alef/Plan 9.
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by 9rx 9mo ago
Suppose someone did post that the moon landing was faked. What purpose would downvoting it serve? 1. If posted in good faith, they lose an opportunity to learn. HN should not be joining the ranks of the growing anti-education establishment.
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by 9rx 9mo ago
That's a funny way to say "Actually, you're right. No matter what definition I try to come up with, they end up being either all the same thing or useless", but I'll accept it.
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> Maybe that was true in the 90s Beck still uses it that way, but I can appreciate that he is only the credited originator, not some kind of official authority. Just because he uses it one way does not mean you use it the same way. I o
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> Why do you need to "imagine" anything? Just google it. Why not read the thread? Perhaps the results are regional (in fact, we know they can be), but "regression test" literally returns results for "regressio
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by 9rx 9mo ago
What would you explain? Alarmism needs exaggerated alarm, which isn't found in the earlier comment. One could project their own worries about a warming globe onto the comment, perhaps, but that alarm would stem from within oneself, not
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by 9rx 9mo ago
A healthy business uses revenue to pay bills, employees, etc. Using profit to pay for those things is what we call gambling.
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by 9rx 9mo ago
If, knowing what you know now, you could go back in time and be the one to create Slack would you not do it? Even if everyone is using Teams now (they're not), it took a really long time to show up that Slack's founders were able
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> I already listed a few and very specific classes of tests We have a list of ostensible, undefined classes of tests that are imagined to not be able to be written before the implementation. But clearly all of those listed are written
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> Perhaps you should read up on regression tests, or snapshot tests, or consistency tests, or pretty much any flavor of UI tests. You must have missed the first line: "I've heard all the different labels that get thrown arou
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by 9rx 9mo ago
So much the same as what I've seen before, except instead of abandoning ship when the mess was clear and present, doubling down to see how far of a hole one can dig? Sunk cost must be one hell of a drug for the aforementioned CTO.
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> There are different types of tests, for different purposes. I'm unconvinced. Sure, I've heard all the different labels that get thrown around, but as soon as anyone tries to define them they end up being either all the same
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> Let's not turn the word database into a buzzword. It is much too late for that, but you're right that we'd be wise to put effort into undoing that. This is exactly how you end up with people using Elasticsearch as a pr
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by 9rx 9mo ago
The other thing relational databases don't have, that you are definitely going to need, is a practical implementation. You could maybe consider Rel if you have a particular type of workload, but, realistically, just use a tablational d
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> Anyone in engineering who recommends using a search engine as a primary data store is taking on risk of data loss for their organization. It is true that Elasticsearch was not designed for it, but there is no reason why another &quot
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by 9rx 9mo ago
I've seen some mess-ups in my life, but they started sticking out like a sore thumb long, long, long, long before anywhere close to $30 million was spent on it. What does a $30 million dollar mess-up look like?
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> Thank you for explaining your position. We're on the internet. Is it my position? > I don't know if I would have described that as bad faith, more like good-faith-in-disguise It is good faith from the author's per
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> It’s a money issue It is not. While said third places obviously do need resources to operate, that has already been figured out by those passionate to make a go of having the third place. Generous donations, grants, and fundraising g
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> People move to different communities all the time Although now considerably less than in the past. Peak mobility occurred during the mid-1900s. Most , and increasingly more as time marches forward, will stay close to where they were
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by 9rx 9mo ago
Sure. Outside already satisfies good faith discussion. There is nothing gained in duplicating the exact same thing online. Use the right tool for the job, as they say. Online discussion is a compelling in its own right because you can stop
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> how is anybody supposed to meet anyone? It used to be that you knocked on the door of the residence beside you. > And now many of them prefer the internet over socializing with people they don't care for that much in person.
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> but space is the issue at present I believe. Is it? There are a number of third places around here that sit effectively vacant. The few who are passionate about seeing those spaces thrive will tell you that the problem is getting any
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> I'd love an online community where everyone was having discussions only in good faith. That's already readily available outside. The whole appeal of online 'communities' is that it is not that.
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> crappy life of sleepless nights and hard toil. I went back. Sleepless nights in the tractor is my favourite time of year. But you're still ultimately just siting there staring at a screen — albeit a screen on wheels . Same as s
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> I wonder about what in the software industry causes so many people to have similar "symptoms" from it. By and large those who end up in the software industry are engineers at heart, and therefore want to be engineers, not j
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by 9rx 9mo ago
> That's just not how people or organizations run by people operate. Au contraire. It's not very often that the cost of labor actually drops to anywhere close to zero, but we have some examples. The elevator operator is a pri
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by 9rx 9mo ago
What difference does that make? If the cost of an engineer is zero, they can work on all kinds of nonsensical things that will never be used/consumed. It doesn't really matter as it doesn't cost anything.
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by 9rx 9mo ago
Zero labor cost should see the number of engineers trend towards infinity. The earlier comment suggested the opposite — that it would fall to just 1000 engineers. That would indicate that the cost of labor has skyrocketed.

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