20 years working on Python. Two things have driven its success. First, it's easy to learn and reasonably powerful. You can make a lot of useful things really quickly, which was true even 15 years ago. It's only gotten…
Beats Opus 4.6 at what exactly? It certainly isn't code. I use a combination of a Claude Max subscription and local inference, including qwen3.8-27b, 4bit. I have found qwen to be absolutely useless at anything but very…
Lots of keyboard warriors here, very few of them solving real problems at scale.
Buffalo also feature prominently in The West, another fantastic Ken Burns documentary. https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-west/
The lesson is that shockingly few people have realized is that the problem space is not, nor has it ever been, served by declarative solutions. You can describe the state you want a system to be in but there will…
"Moving on" and recounting a story can be, and often are, entirely different things.
Ruby/RoR values form over function. Over the past few (five or so?) years, as teams went through the transition from aggressive feature development to devoting more effort to maintenance and operations, they realized…
Their own internal price target, the FMV they assign to shares. https://www.wsj.com/articles/stripe-cuts-internal-valuation-...
Please. Stripe is privately held so let's look at a market comp, SQ. SQ 2021 Revenue: $17B SQ 2021 cash and short term investments: $5.3B Stripe 2021 Revenue: $12B Similar businesses, operating in the same market, with…
Interesting concept, and plenty of good discussion and criticism in other comments. One thing in particular from the article that I found especially objectionable: > For now, the theory is just that—a theory. This is a…
I tried to order a Solo Stove last fall. I placed the order, they accepted it, everything seemed like a normal e-commerce experience. Two days later, I received an email saying my order had been canceled for suspected…
You put it better than I could. There are certainly naive examples of how to use it out in the wild but that's not SQLAlchemy's fault. It's a sophisticated tool that accurately reflects how a database works. I caution…
Yes, the premium received at the time the contract was sold.
That's not what the fallacy fallacy means. It is possible to form an coherent argument that happens to include a fallacy, where eliminating that fallacy doesn't invalidate the argument. Essentially, the argument itself…
citation needed
> The whole idea of containerization came from Google anyways, who uses it internally. Not really. Jails and chroots are a form of containerization and have existed for a long time. Sun debuted containers (with Zones…
Of course. However, you don't need someone to provision and monitor power, connectivity, datacenter security, and all the responsibilities AWS absolutely prices in for you. You also substantially reduce your effort and…
> The nearest galaxy is 25k light years away so even at the maximum speed it would take 25 thousand years to travel here. Given your arithmetic, I assume by "maximum speed" you mean the speed of light, in which case…
Almost everything on computers is perceptually more rich, useful, and intuitive than it was in 1983.
^The word “mafia” is never heard in The Godfather$
Assuming it's even possible (there are cases where it isn't), unless you're doing the entire operation in a single RUN instruction (install dependencies, compile, remove dependencies), deleting dependencies isn't enough…
If you consider Wikipedia and its citations to be reliable sources, it would generally be considered bad form to expect others to address you as Doctor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorary_degree#Use_of_title_a...
> This is just the reality of a faceless bureaucracy which isn't accountable to anyone or anything. Please. They're accountable to their one billion plus customers who depend on them to keep as much riff raff as…
> I almost took a job at WeWork just 2 months ago with a recruiter working very hard to convince me I'd be rich when they IPO. Independently of what you read here, you saw right through this as total bullshit, right?…
> Not to mention the (ongoing) Python 2->3 debacle. When will this talking point die? It's not "ongoing". There's an overwhelming majority who have adopted Python 3 and a small population of laggards.
20 years working on Python. Two things have driven its success. First, it's easy to learn and reasonably powerful. You can make a lot of useful things really quickly, which was true even 15 years ago. It's only gotten…
Beats Opus 4.6 at what exactly? It certainly isn't code. I use a combination of a Claude Max subscription and local inference, including qwen3.8-27b, 4bit. I have found qwen to be absolutely useless at anything but very…
Lots of keyboard warriors here, very few of them solving real problems at scale.
Buffalo also feature prominently in The West, another fantastic Ken Burns documentary. https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-west/
The lesson is that shockingly few people have realized is that the problem space is not, nor has it ever been, served by declarative solutions. You can describe the state you want a system to be in but there will…
"Moving on" and recounting a story can be, and often are, entirely different things.
Ruby/RoR values form over function. Over the past few (five or so?) years, as teams went through the transition from aggressive feature development to devoting more effort to maintenance and operations, they realized…
Their own internal price target, the FMV they assign to shares. https://www.wsj.com/articles/stripe-cuts-internal-valuation-...
Please. Stripe is privately held so let's look at a market comp, SQ. SQ 2021 Revenue: $17B SQ 2021 cash and short term investments: $5.3B Stripe 2021 Revenue: $12B Similar businesses, operating in the same market, with…
Interesting concept, and plenty of good discussion and criticism in other comments. One thing in particular from the article that I found especially objectionable: > For now, the theory is just that—a theory. This is a…
I tried to order a Solo Stove last fall. I placed the order, they accepted it, everything seemed like a normal e-commerce experience. Two days later, I received an email saying my order had been canceled for suspected…
You put it better than I could. There are certainly naive examples of how to use it out in the wild but that's not SQLAlchemy's fault. It's a sophisticated tool that accurately reflects how a database works. I caution…
Yes, the premium received at the time the contract was sold.
That's not what the fallacy fallacy means. It is possible to form an coherent argument that happens to include a fallacy, where eliminating that fallacy doesn't invalidate the argument. Essentially, the argument itself…
citation needed
> The whole idea of containerization came from Google anyways, who uses it internally. Not really. Jails and chroots are a form of containerization and have existed for a long time. Sun debuted containers (with Zones…
Of course. However, you don't need someone to provision and monitor power, connectivity, datacenter security, and all the responsibilities AWS absolutely prices in for you. You also substantially reduce your effort and…
> The nearest galaxy is 25k light years away so even at the maximum speed it would take 25 thousand years to travel here. Given your arithmetic, I assume by "maximum speed" you mean the speed of light, in which case…
Almost everything on computers is perceptually more rich, useful, and intuitive than it was in 1983.
^The word “mafia” is never heard in The Godfather$
Assuming it's even possible (there are cases where it isn't), unless you're doing the entire operation in a single RUN instruction (install dependencies, compile, remove dependencies), deleting dependencies isn't enough…
If you consider Wikipedia and its citations to be reliable sources, it would generally be considered bad form to expect others to address you as Doctor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorary_degree#Use_of_title_a...
> This is just the reality of a faceless bureaucracy which isn't accountable to anyone or anything. Please. They're accountable to their one billion plus customers who depend on them to keep as much riff raff as…
> I almost took a job at WeWork just 2 months ago with a recruiter working very hard to convince me I'd be rich when they IPO. Independently of what you read here, you saw right through this as total bullshit, right?…
> Not to mention the (ongoing) Python 2->3 debacle. When will this talking point die? It's not "ongoing". There's an overwhelming majority who have adopted Python 3 and a small population of laggards.