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by kjksf 4y ago
I've collected 53 stories from past HN discussions: https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/wjRD/solo-founders-with-... And another batch: https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/81714acf995e4968
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Maybe you shouldn't play game of telephone like that. Go generics are exceptionally well designed. The reason it took so long for Go to get generics is because Go designers took their time to arrive at a design that fits with the rest
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Because nil is a special thing in Go. nil is not a value, it's a predeclared identifier. it represents zero value for pointers, interfaces, maps, slices, channels and function types, representing an uninitialized value len(nil) feels l
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Applying color balancing in photoshop doesn't make the original image taken by a photographer the product of a machine. Laws are not black and white. The whole point of lawsuits and lengthy opinions by judges is to have a nuanced inter
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And it doesn't matter because anyone can use the AI to produce thousands of similar images with little effort. All those tools have randomization so they don't produce the exact same image for the exact same prompt. The value of a
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Or it means the CEO wants to buy a yacht. Either way if you think it's such a strong signal about company's prospects, go ahead and short companies whose CEO are selling the stock. CEO stock sale is public information. Disclosing
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by kjksf 4y ago
Retired thanks to TSLA. > Do your open source projects help with getting new gigs? I think it did a bit but not as much as I think it should. You would think seeing a proof someone can deliver a complex app by themselves would be enough
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SumatraPDF author here. Glad people like the software for the reasons I thought the would (small, fast). If you haven't already: use Ctrl + K (Command Palette), a better way to operate the program than menus etc. Also I'll plug my
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by kjksf 4y ago
Those are not the odds, just his success rate. If you do everything badly (i.e. come up with bad business ides, cannot implement even those bad ideas, are bad at hiring, managing money, paying taxes etc.) then your success rate will be 0%,
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Well, Ford (and VW) were major investors in Argo AI. Argo AI ran out of money, no-one else was willing to put more money in so Argo AI had to shut down. It looks like Ford effectively acquired the company by hiring all the people (who would
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Here's the difference: TV network made a deal with the government (FCC): they got a monopoly access to a limited resource (spectrum). In exchange they agreed to limitations set by FCC, like decency standards. Limitations that go beyond
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Uber re-wrote their 1 million loc mobile app in 3 months. How much time should it take to implement a subscription payment? With all the respect to Facebook scale, more than 1 month would be a failure. I'm not saying that Facebook did
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Based on how many times those crashes hit HN home page: 0. Reality: quite a few if you bother to Google it e.g. h https://www.google.com/search?q=bwm+crashes+emergency+vehicl... Obviously there are no statistics for "br
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Munroe addressed this complaint and his point was: if the collision is bad enough that it damages that cast, it would total a non-cast car as well. Plus you have to reason on the level of systems, not components. Single-piece rear casting r
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What do you own and where are those magic EV chargers that don't require you to do SOMETHING other than plugging in, like swiping a credit card or some such?
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> It’s no surprise that he is resistant. For many years now Tesla offered other car makers to use Tesla's superchargers as long as they chip in some of the cost of building it. It was a fair offer that no car maker took. The Fed off
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You both absolved car makers of their strategic incompetence and stretched the idea of "anti-competitive" beyond breaking point. I get why car makers don't want to do charging - it takes capital, it takes away focus and histo
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All EVs are subsidized and pretty much all of them (except Tesla) are loosing money while Tesla has industry leading gross and operating profit margins. So it's definitely not subsidies. On a definitional level, gross profit is differe
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Fun fact: Musk says that when Tesla was thinking about doing gigacasting, they called 6 suppliers of those machines asking if they can make 6 gigaton machine (which didn't exist at the time). 5 out of 6 said "no" and 1 said &
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JSDoc provides type annotations in comments. They are (mostly) not for you. They are for the tooling, including your editor, to detect that your declared foo(bar: string) but you're calling it as foo(5). The value of JSDoc is the same
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It's a strange framing of what happened. Musk didn't battle the shareholders. He was accused of doing something illegal but after both sides presented their story to the jury of our peers, the peers found that he did not, in fact,
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I don't know about Rust but Go doesn't. And probably never will. There are a bunch of projects but they are not very good or complete. The problem is that "good" requires massive amounts of work that is beyond the capaci
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In March 2021 there were 150 thousand Flutter apps in Google Play store. In May 2022 - 500 thousand. See: https://www.nomtek.com/blog/flutter-app-examples Today: I'm too lazy but you can google for more up-to-date
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Yes, but you should specialize in domain and not programming language. It's better to be a specialist in JavaScript + crypto than forth. If crypto doesn't pan out, you're still a JavaScript developer that can get a non-crypto
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In the context of this discussion Perl is an exception that proves the rule. There are no Perl jobs because Perl was supplanted by Python and Ruby and embarked on a disastrous Perl 6 journey. This will not happen to node. JavaScript is and
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https://onlinetool.io/gisteditor/ Gist editor and manager - a better UI for managing and editing GitHub gists. Contact info: https://blog.kowalczyk.info/contactme.html
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Because there are lies, damn lies and benchmarks. I looked at first benchmark (funkuch-redux) where C# significantly beats Go (8.3 vs 32). It turns out that the winning C# programs uses SSE2 intrinsics. The second best C# programs virtually
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I wrote more Go programs that I can remember. I never worked at Google and presumably I don't have Google's problems and yet Go is the best language I found to wrote those programs. Simple, fast and productive. Could you connect t
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Name a program you can write in Rust that I can't write in Go. Both Go and Rust and general purpose languages. You can write most (but not all) kinds of software in both of them so a claim that Go is more "limited" than Go is
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Community (as used in this context) is a derivative of a language. The reason inheritance is not popular in Go is that it's not possible. The reason IOC containers are popular in Java and not Go is that Java makes them relatively easy

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