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by 9rx 10mo ago
> If you want sum types, a better approach is to combine the sort of code [...] I'm currently of the opinion that where you truly need this type of thing, write tests that use the ast package to validate that your expectations ho
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by 9rx 10mo ago
> But shouldn't the check just be that the candidate has used more than one different stack? If you had another filtering mechanism, perhaps you could do that. But what other arbitrary, legally acceptable, filter are you going to
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by 9rx 10mo ago
Gates was an exceptionally good problem solver. The trouble with great problem solvers is that they assume everyone else is also great at solving problems, and thus understand that if they are causing trouble for other people that those oth
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by 9rx 10mo ago
To be fair, years ago Rails was what all the "bootcamp" programmer mills were pushing. Only you have the full context, but absent of that it is likely that Rails was truly found to be associated with poor applicants. Not because o
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by 9rx 10mo ago
All programming languages are domain specific, so presumably he is referring to English (or another natural language of the same nature). Meaning that he must be saying that sometimes letting the vibes flow is best.
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by 9rx 10mo ago
> Rails can't be rewritten in C It could if you added message passing to C. Which we have, and DHH admits that Rails took directly from that. Rails is (loosely) a rewrite of what was originally written in C [with extensions].
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by 9rx 10mo ago
> Uh, the American food industry, like nearly every first world food industry, is super state run. The topic is capitalism. It only speaks to ownership. If you want to talk about who is running the show, you'd need to change the s
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by 9rx 10mo ago
> and is not capitalism and communism in opposition. Hard to say. The prevailing assumption, and basis for the Communist Party (on paper, at least), is that capitalists will try to block reaching a state of post-scarcity — the necessar
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by 9rx 10mo ago
> The benefit of switching from C/C++ to Rust is higher than switching from C++ to Go Ten years ago the memory model was a compelling benefit, sure, but nowadays we have Fil-C, that C++ static analyzer posted here yesterday, etc.
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by 9rx 10mo ago
> the distance between C or C++ and Rust is greater then the distance between C++ and Go (in Go's target use case) or between Java and Kotlin What, exactly, does distance mean here? The other explicitly told design consideration f
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by 9rx 10mo ago
> I think this is because of the gap in its target market Surely that gap has been filled for at least a decade, even if only by Rust itself? Moreover, I am not sure that serves as an explanation as it shows up in the strangest places.
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by 9rx 10mo ago
The only other difference mentioned is in implementation, but concepts are not defined by implementation. Obviously you could build a C compiler with neural nets. That wouldn't somehow magically turn everything into something completel
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by 9rx 10mo ago
> neither did communism (I know since I grew up in it Impossible. Communism is a work of science fiction, much like Star Trek which is a more modern adaptation of the same idea. Like Star Trek, the concept is dependent on post-scarcity
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by 9rx 10mo ago
And even ~40% of so-called homeowners rent money in order to be there.
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by 9rx 10mo ago
I also couldn't afford to rent one. I can afford to rent fractional use of one, but by that token I could also afford to buy a very small fraction of one too.
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by 9rx 10mo ago
I suppose it balances in the end, though. If you could make more money elsewhere you'd go elsewhere, so the whole reason you are willing to accept being underpaid through the transitionary phase is because you realize that you will be
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by 9rx 10mo ago
Bit too soon to tell, no? Claude Code wasn't released until the latter half of Q2, offering little time for it to show up in those figures, and Q3 data is only preliminary right now. Moreover, it seems to be the pairing with Opus 4.5 t
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by 9rx 10mo ago
It says non-backbreaking. Truck driving is one of the highest risk jobs towards one's back.
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by 9rx 10mo ago
Also, US manufacturing already struggles to find workers. The problem, though, is that 70% of US manufacturing happens in small town/rural areas, which is not where the people looking for jobs are found, so you get this curious disconn
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by 9rx 10mo ago
It's different in some ways (such is evolution), but is not a distinction that matters. Kind of like the difference between imperative and declarative programming. Different language models, but all the same at the end of the day.
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by 9rx 10mo ago
The important difference is the reduction in boilerplate, which allows programs to be written with (often) significantly less code. Hence the time savings (and fun) spoken of in the original article. This isn't really a new phenomeno
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by 9rx 10mo ago
Equally a good use for a legacy compiler that compiles a legacy language. Granted, you are going to have to write a lot more boilerplate to see it function (that being the difference, after all), but the outcome will be the same either way.
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by 9rx 10mo ago
The only difference is that newer languages have figured out how to remove a lot of the boilerplate.
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by 9rx 10mo ago
If that's what you do, then the name is perfectly apt. Why shy away from what you are?
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by 9rx 10mo ago
To differentiate him from the "cook", which is what we call those who carry out the actual act of cooking.
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by 9rx 10mo ago
Flipping toggle switches went out of fashion many, many, many years ago. We've been describing to trainees (compilers) the dish we want for longer than most on HN have been alive.
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by 9rx 10mo ago
> I am surprised that people don't do a rails new for their new startups. Technology never matters, but marketing does. Traditionally you had to use 'esoteric' technologies to attract top talent, which has long been held
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by 9rx 10mo ago
I admittedly missed that you found a job. Congratulations!
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by 9rx 10mo ago
If you can afford it, carry on! But your other comments suggest otherwise. Hypothetically being able to afford something if things were hypothetically different is not an indicator of what is affordable in reality.
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by 9rx 10mo ago
When a computer is able to invent things, we’ve achieved AGI. Do you believe we are already in the AGI era, or is the inventor in this case actually you?

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