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by bmitc 4mo ago
WhatsApp was built on Erlang, though, which was built to scale in the 80s.
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by bmitc 4mo ago
Was it just because WhatsApp was already generally well designed when they purchased it?
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by bmitc 4mo ago
MCP is not an answer to the lack of a CLI or API.
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by bmitc 4mo ago
There are a lot of good books here: https://pragprog.com/categories/architecture-design-and-test... I second the comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327571 ) recommending How to Design Progr
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by bmitc 4mo ago
The Pico is amazing and is by far the best thing they've ever done.
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by bmitc 4mo ago
The Pi Pico is exactly that.
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by bmitc 4mo ago
Why doesn't Claude invoke LSPs? It always asks to install them, but then it never uses them, as mentioned in the comment you replied to.
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by bmitc 4mo ago
And here we are.
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by bmitc 5mo ago
Oh, this is actually designed by Ive? It all makes sense now. He is a joke of a designer. I had thought people had stopped giving him work. This car has absolutely ZERO life to it for any manufacturer, much less a Ferrari.
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by bmitc 5mo ago
So firing a grifter means it would kill the company? Doesn't that mean the company is grifting? If no one else can possibly lead the supposedly the most important company, with billions/trillions (?) of so called value, do you hav
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by bmitc 5mo ago
Gemini CLI is being sunsetted in mid-June and replaced by Antigravity. https://developers.googleblog.com/an-important-update-transi...
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by bmitc 5mo ago
I replied above, but they're already like this.
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by bmitc 5mo ago
The elites already have bad taste. They aren't going anywhere without tax and financial reform and the return of political donation regulation.
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by bmitc 5mo ago
Ikea has long existed before the Internet and over capitalization. I have several Ikea pieces in my home, and I've had some for over a decade. If you build Ikea stuff properly, are selective in what you purchase, and use wood glue when
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by bmitc 5mo ago
(1) will continue to happen because of human behavior and the oligarchy. The oligarchy would love to forget that the time you could call a customer support representative that was native in your language, lived in your country, and actually
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by bmitc 5mo ago
I have never understood basically any decision Google makes at any level. I think they're equivalent to a land owner sitting on top of oil. They have no idea what to do, and anything they do makes pennies compared to the oil, so it doe
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by bmitc 5mo ago
What is your alternative suggestion?
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by bmitc 5mo ago
This is exactly the case here. The author of Bun is a Thiel Fellow, so he's already been trained in The Way. People are trying to wash away the recklessness of this rewrite by applying engineering principles the author their self didn&
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by bmitc 5mo ago
COBOL to Java is a completely different thing and pretty much unrelated. Rust can easily call C libraries and vice versa and so can Zig. A more appropriate and designed rewrite would identify the core pieces of the Zig code that were the pr
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by bmitc 5mo ago
Wouldn't it be better to port more idiomatically? Otherwise, you've done nothing but port all the existing bugs while creating new ones.
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by bmitc 5mo ago
Most people do use LLMs, which is why they have the so-called pessimistic opinions they do.
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by bmitc 5mo ago
That makes the Bun owner's claim, just a week ago in this site, even more dubious when he came on here and said this code was just an experiment and likely to be thrown away.
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by bmitc 5mo ago
Exactly. I feel like people forget about statistics and trends when it comes to the climate. Nearly every long term trend and statistics shows climate and environmental conditions getting worse, and it's almost solely due to human acti
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by bmitc 5mo ago
> Languages with no users don't need to change. That's fine, but that's clearly not what I'm talking about. Languages like F#, Elixir, etc. don't undergo fundamental changes. Yes, every language evolves. But for
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by bmitc 5mo ago
Yes, of course, but I took the conversation to be centered around backend uses cases. What CLI is experiencing garbage collection issues like that in this discussion?
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by bmitc 5mo ago
.NET and the CLR was actually designed by computer scientists and experts, not so for Python.
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by bmitc 5mo ago
That doesn't matter for anything other then CLIs.
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by bmitc 5mo ago
In what way do you feel Python is predictable, especially in comparison to other languages one would build a backend system in? It's predictable vs Rust, C#, F#, Elixir, Go, etc.?
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by bmitc 5mo ago
Why are people still building systems on top of a language that continually undergoes fundamental changes nearly 40 years after release? Is this not the strongest indication that this language is not well designed, it is unstable, and encou
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by bmitc 5mo ago
Those two in the movies were always a highlight for me, especially when the one joins the other in the Mexican factory riot.

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