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by akkartik 5y ago
I'm not yet sure how I feel about Gemini (I like inline links), but this post makes me think it's starting to gain some traction. It's past the "first they ignore it" and "then they laugh at it" phases and
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by akkartik 5y ago
As someone without skin in this particular game, I'm curious to hear your view of the OS landscape today. Have you considered (or perhaps even tried) migrating rsync.net out of FreeBSD given these issues?
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by akkartik 5y ago
Here's another attempt, a day and a half later. My thesis, if you will. Before we invented software, the world has gradually refined the ability to depend on lots of people for services. When we buy a shoe we rely on maybe 10,000 disti
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by akkartik 5y ago
From 3 days ago: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/107656797631193281 One less risk to worry about.
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by akkartik 5y ago
You joke, but.. https://github.com/akkartik/mu/tree/main/shell
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by akkartik 5y ago
Yeah that's a failure on my part. Like I said, I've spent ten years trying to articulate it and spent a few hours in conversation with you, and I still can't seem to get my actual thesis across. I don't think another att
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by akkartik 5y ago
> If you took my comment to mean that writing the code makes me the expert on all possible implementations or choices for the solution, or that I am best qualified to decide what the best solution is, I must have communicated poorly. N
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by akkartik 5y ago
Perhaps I'm coming down with something. I'm uninterested in the sub-thread past https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019146#30042174 . It feels like willful misinterpretation, like you forgot what I said 2 exchan
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by akkartik 5y ago
> Should Ken Thompson & co. included strlcpy()? I'm getting a little impatient with all this argument in circles. The point is not what someone should have done with hindsight. The point of this little sub-thread is that sayin
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by akkartik 5y ago
What makes strcpy() a better compromise than strncpy() or strlcpy() with 64K or 128K of RAM?
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by akkartik 5y ago
Maybe it took you decades. One decade sufficed for most of the world. This is starting to feel like a pissing contest. Go write your software thinking you know more than your users. Me, I constantly need to talk to mine. They're ofte
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by akkartik 5y ago
> Reimplementing and forking are generally not value adds. Building software is today about creating/adding value. Check out the writings of Carlota Perez[1]. She distinguishes between two phases in adoption of a technology: insta
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by akkartik 5y ago
Yeah, that's a really good example. In general, accessibility and internationalization seem like really good reasons to specialize. We can't all know all possible languages.
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by akkartik 5y ago
> If I write some code, I’m realistically the expert. Ha, disagree. This is overly general and reductionist. See, I know the C strcpy() function is a bad idea. In this I know more than Ken Thompson or whatever Unix God did at the time
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by akkartik 5y ago
I was just alluding to a subjective sense that you got something reasonable for your trouble and efforts. You could do something, or you learned something, or you were entertained. My argument doesn't depend too much on the precise mea
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by akkartik 5y ago
> Give it enough time and you’ll see “Redis expert” show up as a specialty. No opinion on what happens to Redis after Antirez left it ( http://antirez.com/news/133 ). But I have high hopes that the versions he creat
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by akkartik 5y ago
> Does the proliferation of medical specialties indicate a problem? Ivan Illich certainly thought so: http://akkartik.name/illich.pdf . And he said a lot of useful stuff in my opinion. But I don't know enough to ha
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by akkartik 5y ago
> For the record, these large libraries are going great. I’ve built numerous products that simply would not have ever been created without, say, SQL. The cost would simply have been too high. I’ve built others with libraries that the pr
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by akkartik 5y ago
I question the need for scale in 90% of the places where the tech industry has cargo-culted it. Clearly I'm still failing to articulate this. Perhaps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019146#30040616 will help tr
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by akkartik 5y ago
Yeah, I agree with this. There's a larger context here of capitalism evolving firms because they're more efficient, even though they dilute the price-communication value of markets to some extent. As a consequence your boss and my
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by akkartik 5y ago
Can you elaborate on this comment? Based on your comments elsewhere I think we're likely to be largely in agreement. I tend to have a love/hate relationship with Conway's Law, spending half my time thinking about how to desig
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by akkartik 5y ago
Thank you! My ideas are definitely greatly influenced by my time in the Lisp world. Here's the first time I articulated them, back in 2011 (so before the first entry in OP): http://arclanguage.org/item?id=13263 . > i
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by akkartik 5y ago
Yeah, I can totally relate. What I'm trying to point out in OP is a third way beyond "build all the things" and "reuse all the things others built" that doesn't get explored as often: build/reuse less. Do
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by akkartik 5y ago
Yes. And that's ok! The world ran on artisans for hundreds of years. It's even better than that right now, because we already have factories: the programs. Do we need factories to build the factories? I don't think we're
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by akkartik 5y ago
Totally agreed! Here's a prototype from a few years ago where I tried to make this easier: https://github.com/akkartik/mu1#readme (read just the first few paragraphs) I still think the full answer lies in this dir
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by akkartik 5y ago
Totally agreed!
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by akkartik 5y ago
Thanks, I largely agree with that. I just don't think we're getting a good deal for society with a year of effort from a paid programmer. When I said "reward" I meant understanding, not enjoyment. We programmers are pr
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by akkartik 5y ago
I think an older version said, "an hour's worth of reward." Does that seem clearer? Thanks.
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by akkartik 5y ago
Yes! I'd like to reiterate my link to https://creators.vice.com/en_uk/article/animator-hand-draws-... in OP.
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by akkartik 5y ago
"Separation of concerns is a hard-won insight." Absolutely. I'm arguing for separating just concerns, without entangling them with considerations of people . It's certainly reasonable to consider my projects toy. I

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