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by grumblenum 5y ago
It's a west-coast tech industry consortium language that is a mashup of subsets of SML, C++ and Cyclone with some very strong opinions about aesthetic differences. "Simple" is not a good description. Lisps are simple. Rust, J
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by grumblenum 5y ago
In 2005 I was in a college dorm that provided the NYT in a common area. I picked up one and the first article I read was a column about Hurricane Katrina. The author interviewed a history professor who bewailed the failings of the president
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by grumblenum 5y ago
I don’t think much will change until the incentives change. Right now there is basically no consequence for doing the wrong thing. Software is unique in that defects are generally tolerated. Minimizing time to market can be everything where
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Creating a monetary incentive to judiciously use a scarce resource seems to be exactly the kind of problem a market solves. Or in the case of a command-economy, perhaps the policies of the party running the state for the last decade should
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by grumblenum 5y ago
>"The police are racist murderers" is, first of all, objectively true and facts don't care about your feelings Um. No? Drawing a hard line on the facts is understandable, but you sound completely out of touch. >So while
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by grumblenum 5y ago
>And if this results in horrific consequences because we've fundamentally undermined security, who's accountable for that? No one (and everyone)? It will be quite the moot point then, won't it? May I add for the Ministry o
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by grumblenum 5y ago
>Oracle was clearly on the wrong side of history here. I agree insofar as that is a euphemism to mean that Oracle is not tightly aligned with the interests of the left. Google is a big donor both in cash and in kind. Oracle is much less
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by grumblenum 5y ago
The most insightful comment is also the most downvoted. What did HN mean by this?
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by grumblenum 5y ago
>Tech startups usually thrive from apps, services, or valuable technologies. I think an unprecedented abundance of cheap leverage and an inability of investors to make reasonable valuations of highly abstract products should be in that l
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Not HN approved, sorry. Plus, I don't think that Yarvin still has his mojo since his wife died. He'll be back, but Urbit is way too convoluted to just coast into success.
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Well, to be fair, Google is in a unique position to shape opinions and manufacture outrage over their right to ham-fistedly thumb their nose at Oracle's software licenses. Google has hundreds of patents, and they have some application
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Pocket is ad-tech that nobody wanted. FTP is, for some, a useful feature. The negativity is because Mozilla maintains a façade of selflessly serving the little guy but then it removes an existing, working feature that makes it a little easi
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by grumblenum 5y ago
The article is about intentional error; however, I have found this to be very approachable and entertaining primer on (probably) unintentional error in research: https://www.statisticsdonewrong.com/ Research that has been
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Uber for numpy, perhaps. The best case scenario would be like Oracle and JavaSE. I lack the imagination to speculate on the worst case, so I am quite surprised that anyone expects to make more than $24M in profit from yet another programmi
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by grumblenum 5y ago
There are also other lightweight alternatives. The Gopher protocol has a small, but disturbed following : http://gopher.muffinlabs.com/gopher.floodgap.com (you can actually use netcat as your gopher client). Gemini is a mor
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by grumblenum 5y ago
In the Bush years he was cool. In the Obama years he wasn't cool. Around 2016 he became a pariah. The press is most often aligned with the interests of the party and is a fair-weather-friend at best.
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Please read The Captive Mind for the version based on true events. Spoiler: the Poles discovered that a political movement with methods and motivations which should sound very familiar didn't turn out to be the good guys after all.
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Those WMDs are surely out there somewhere...
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Maybe they will compensate you with discounts on some of their upcoming offerings like Google Re-Education Camp or Google Kulak Liquidator. Kids, are your parents tainted with dangerous Bourgeois sentiments? Get a free $10 Amazon Gift Car
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Egyptian scribes, the Oracles of Delphi, the Medieval Catholic Church and journalists and of today all seem to be treated kindly enough. The "intelligentsia" exists to serve the prevailing regime (they cannot exist without patrons
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by grumblenum 5y ago
>We don't let MasterCard and Visa print up their own hundred dollar bills, after all. Some financial institutions may engage in fractional reserve lending, and if an entity can "securitize" or otherwise creatively determin
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by grumblenum 5y ago
That sounds insane because you made it up. You don’t get a bill for every core that Amazon owns because you hosted an enterprise edition of GraalVM on one. Even if that were the case, use the CE or collocate or self host.
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Yes, and that's trivial for useful business cases. Let's look at a service beyond reproach: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/dedicated-hosts/pricing/ Wow! An M5 costs $2300 a month, which is almost three
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by grumblenum 5y ago
If your "enterprise" software doesn't generate $18/month, then you probably don't have a viable business model and should use the community edition. I don't take the Oracle hate seriously when it's all the
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Remember how when people wax nostalgic about programming language wars there is the obligatory quip about the relentless and obnoxious media blitz of yesteryear to promote Java? "What has been will be again, what has been done will be
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Has this actually changed since 2017?
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by grumblenum 5y ago
I think it’s pretty funny that you can farm up votes by just mentioning a project in rust, with knows substantive information provided about its value or quality. I wouldn’t consider either of these things more than a toy.
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by grumblenum 5y ago
Just FYI, I didn’t read any of that wall, but it did make me laugh that you wrote it. You should go tell your rest friends to check the slack and down vote.
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by grumblenum 5y ago
I think Compcert isn’t widely used because of its license. GNAT is also GPL. Everyone lost their mind over Oracle charging a nominal sum for their compiler. I don’t think rust would have its corporate backing if it had similar licensing. Al
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by grumblenum 5y ago
>I imagine it's pretty similar to how you verify or audit the output of a compiler with a specification. I must be missing the humor here. You can test against a specification to verify implementation. Testing an implementation agai

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