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by phillipcarter 7mo ago
Can we all just appreciate the sheer amount of writing and re-writing and executive review that had to go on to make this blog post go out? Goodness, I can smell the hand-wringing and political battling represented by these words through th
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by phillipcarter 7mo ago
Don has always been the language design BDFL, but has ensured it was community driven since at least 2012. In all practicality the team at Microsoft has always been the main drivers of the F# project. It comes with the territory when you’re
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by phillipcarter 9mo ago
Yeah, it sounds weird because the person you’re replying to is using examples of things that came in under Nadella, not Ballmer.
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by phillipcarter 9mo ago
Yeah, nah. No friendship here.
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by phillipcarter 9mo ago
And it should go without saying, but needing to uncover a law enforcement officer’s name should not have to be an act of investigative journalism.
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by phillipcarter 9mo ago
Like today? It’s entirely possible to prosecute the heads of all of these horrific things into the stone age, comb through internal data and throw every agent who’s murdered someone in jail, and not punish everyday people who just cast a vo
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by phillipcarter 9mo ago
The most maximally vindictive candidates are earning my votes in the coming election.
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by phillipcarter 11mo ago
Not to discount physical infrastructure, but the world is quite digital these days and being at the absolute top of the software + associated techs economy is nothing to sniff at.
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by phillipcarter 11mo ago
I don't think it's about dreaming to be Google. K8s is pretty easy to set up now with a hosted cloud platform if you start with it, and helm takes care of pretty much all your infra needs. Migrating to K8s is what's awful. Fr
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by phillipcarter 11mo ago
By recently you mean a decade ago yeah? I mean it’s fair that it was only a half-decade (.NET 5) when it was genuinely complete enough, but lots of stuff was in good shape when it was called .NET Core. It sounds like you’re projecting the p
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by phillipcarter 11mo ago
Not really? Having come deom a TS + Go startup it’s pretty trivial to wire up domain objects across each language and define a clean API boundary with some enforcement at build time. And Go was a far better choice for the backend than TS fo
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by phillipcarter 11mo ago
Is it though? Backends can be any language and there's a lot more variety there -- TS+node, Go, Python, Java. It's just .NET that's largely ignored for no real technical basis.
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by phillipcarter 11mo ago
Rider is your option there, it's better than Visual Studio (I used to work on VS).
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by phillipcarter 11mo ago
> I wonder how much of Meta the corporation is a scam waiting to crumble. I imagine almost none of it. Social networks solve connectivity problems that people want solved. Talk to some "casuals" who aren't in tech about ho
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by phillipcarter 11mo ago
Would be curious about this in more detail since I’ve not normally seen a JS app be significantly slower due to adding autoinstrumentation over the years. There’s obviously an overhead but aside from the occasional bug I’ve never seen it be
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by phillipcarter 11mo ago
I didn’t agree with the article at all.
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by phillipcarter 11mo ago
Wouldn't be a gary marcus post without congratulating himself for tweeting something that all but confirms a disaster that hasn't happened yet. Anyways, OpenAI is not in profit-seeking mode, and there's no economic incentives
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by phillipcarter 1y ago
> that it's not on anyone's land Oh you can bet that, if we assume this happens in 10 years, various countries will absolutely do a "land grab" up high. There is no escaping it.
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by phillipcarter 1y ago
Not necessarily? It's been the basis of one of the major ways people would query their data since 2023 on a product I worked on: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/introducing-query-assistant The difference is this fea
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by phillipcarter 1y ago
I'm "team Anthropic" if we're stack ranking the major American labs pumping out SOTA models by ethics or whatever, but there is no universe in which a company like them operating in this competitive environment didn&#x27
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by phillipcarter 1y ago
Chat for teens.
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by phillipcarter 1y ago
I don't want edgy 4chan-bot in my codebase, so there's no reason to adopt this when there are many other great coding models available.
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by phillipcarter 1y ago
Uhhh, I'm pretty sure DeepSeek shook the industry because of a 14x reduction in training cost, not inference cost. We also don't know the per-token cost for OpenAI and Anthropic models, but I would be highly surprised if it was si
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by phillipcarter 1y ago
Sure. But Gartner is Gartner. They are a trusted brand and you can’t “hold them wrong”. And they also do a great job of being pulled into a meeting with the throat-choker to gaslight them into being fine with the decision. Deep Research doe
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by phillipcarter 1y ago
I wouldn’t bet on automated deep research until they figure out a business model that gives people a throat to choke. Enterprise software is a world where it’s more important to have another human you can blame for when you fuck things up t
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by phillipcarter 1y ago
Purchasing decisions. If Gartner doesn’t claim you’re a Leader, then a massive chunk of your addressable market is not unlockable for you. This may be fine for now, but eventually when your investors demand accelerated revenue curves (and y
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by phillipcarter 1y ago
Yeah, nah. The enterprise software market is nowhere near close to being upended by AI, and Gartner has their tendrils deeply wrapped inside of it. Small companies like Netlify which are barely in use by this market are not a canary in the
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by phillipcarter 1y ago
This is like saying every web app is basically the same fundamental tech - databases.
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by phillipcarter 1y ago
> so honestly, why not? Because it might not work out so well for them? Let's not kid ourselves, this would be an invasion by sea against an opponent who's prepared for many years, has a modern defense force, and has explicitly
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by phillipcarter 1y ago
Yeah, and a lot of turmoil can be unleashed in 9 months. When you have one of the most unstable leaders in history in charge of a country during a once-in-a-century global pandemic, a lot of things get broken.

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