I understood their comment as going from $100 / hour * 100 hours to $100 / hour * 500 hours not to $500 / hour * 100 hours
Have you heard of the War of the Currents? > As the use of AC spread rapidly with other companies deploying their own systems, the Edison Electric Light Company claimed in early 1888 that high voltages used in an…
Fair enough!
I agree with GP. I would amend their claim with "most problems* could be solved by building high density housing and services in areas with jobs." I.e., build real cities. Building homes on federal land in the middle of…
Yeah, I think we should keep that aspect of prop 13. That is what it was originally billed as. It just doesn't make sense that golf courses pay taxes that are more aligned with the 70's property values. If there was…
I would not describe LA to SF as a consistent experience. I had an 8:30 PM flight delayed until 1:30 AM. Actually, the only consistency I've had with those flights is that they are consistently delayed. I've heard that…
I live in America. I have all my life. I've ridden on nice trains in Europe and Japan. The culture in the last 80-100 years has revolved around cars, but before that relied heavily on trains. I much prefer riding a…
Last time I checked (2020) there were already a few rejected proposals to shorten the syntax for this. It seemed like they were pretty exasperated by them at the time.
Isn't it being a method call not quite equivalent? Are you able to define the method over arbitrary data types? In Elixir, it is just a macro so it applies to all functions. I'm only a Scala novice so I'm not sure how…
> I know HN has a bit of a click-bait love relationship with Erlang/Elixir but it hasn't translated over to adoption and there are companies that are just burning money trying to do what you get out of the box for free…
Did you ever see Crystal? It's more or less a typed Ruby. I've heard that you can port some code directly. https://crystal-lang.org/
I think there are a couple of bugs in the pseudo-code: traverse_node(page, version, key): retry: # Read the page pageCopy = copy(page) # BUG1: version is an argument so it likely won't be correct on retry if version !=…
Given how companies operate internationally, is it fair to compare the stock market valuation against GDP? If Apple moved to a New Zealand based stock exchange, would that mean that the stock market in New Zealand…
No doubt his administration will cast a long shadow. I was only responding to the allusion that he could become a long term dictator.
TBH, I am one of those people that's a little too young to remember Yeltsin. I know him generally, but wasn't aware of the direct through line to Putin. Overall, that's a pretty sobering analysis.
Trump is pretty old at this point. Even if he decided to go full dictator, how long does he have? Maybe 5 to 10 years? I don't think it would be quite as "stable" as Putin's Russia.
Musk did backtrack on the $2 trillion goal. 'Musk told political strategist Mark Penn in an interview broadcast on X that the $2 trillion figure was a “best-case outcome” and that he thought there was only a “good shot”…
> Even in the HN thread on the essay, it felt like hardly anyone actually read and understood it, just brought their own assumptions and intellectual allergies and let them run wild. It would be great if people could…
One benefit of a low hood is that it scoops up pedestrians that might get hit instead of hitting their torsos with the vehicle. It'll probably break your legs, but you are more likely to survive. This is one of the…
Pyret would be a good alternative. It's designed for education by racketeers. https://pyret.org/
I work in data engineering. I tend to do println debugging because the production data sets are not available from my machine. I tend to prefer REPL or notebook driven development from a computer that is connected to…
I'm not saying that they should stop anti-trust work for browsers. I'm saying that it won't necessarily make things better for the browser ecosystem as things stand. Things would definitely get worse before they got…
Google funds Chrome. Other browsers use Chrome as a base. The majority of Firefox's funding is from Google. They will suffer as well. MS would need to step back up with browsers and you would also have Safari left over.…
Yeah, I think most of the games in the Lisp Game Jam are made with Fennel and Love. The game jam is cohosted by technomancy, the maintainer of Fennel. https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2024
There is a whole branch of programming languages that use prefix notation like that. It's one of the oldest branches starting in 1958. The benefit of the prefix notation is that it is really easy to write macros and…
I understood their comment as going from $100 / hour * 100 hours to $100 / hour * 500 hours not to $500 / hour * 100 hours
Have you heard of the War of the Currents? > As the use of AC spread rapidly with other companies deploying their own systems, the Edison Electric Light Company claimed in early 1888 that high voltages used in an…
Fair enough!
I agree with GP. I would amend their claim with "most problems* could be solved by building high density housing and services in areas with jobs." I.e., build real cities. Building homes on federal land in the middle of…
Yeah, I think we should keep that aspect of prop 13. That is what it was originally billed as. It just doesn't make sense that golf courses pay taxes that are more aligned with the 70's property values. If there was…
I would not describe LA to SF as a consistent experience. I had an 8:30 PM flight delayed until 1:30 AM. Actually, the only consistency I've had with those flights is that they are consistently delayed. I've heard that…
I live in America. I have all my life. I've ridden on nice trains in Europe and Japan. The culture in the last 80-100 years has revolved around cars, but before that relied heavily on trains. I much prefer riding a…
Last time I checked (2020) there were already a few rejected proposals to shorten the syntax for this. It seemed like they were pretty exasperated by them at the time.
Isn't it being a method call not quite equivalent? Are you able to define the method over arbitrary data types? In Elixir, it is just a macro so it applies to all functions. I'm only a Scala novice so I'm not sure how…
> I know HN has a bit of a click-bait love relationship with Erlang/Elixir but it hasn't translated over to adoption and there are companies that are just burning money trying to do what you get out of the box for free…
Did you ever see Crystal? It's more or less a typed Ruby. I've heard that you can port some code directly. https://crystal-lang.org/
I think there are a couple of bugs in the pseudo-code: traverse_node(page, version, key): retry: # Read the page pageCopy = copy(page) # BUG1: version is an argument so it likely won't be correct on retry if version !=…
Given how companies operate internationally, is it fair to compare the stock market valuation against GDP? If Apple moved to a New Zealand based stock exchange, would that mean that the stock market in New Zealand…
No doubt his administration will cast a long shadow. I was only responding to the allusion that he could become a long term dictator.
TBH, I am one of those people that's a little too young to remember Yeltsin. I know him generally, but wasn't aware of the direct through line to Putin. Overall, that's a pretty sobering analysis.
Trump is pretty old at this point. Even if he decided to go full dictator, how long does he have? Maybe 5 to 10 years? I don't think it would be quite as "stable" as Putin's Russia.
Musk did backtrack on the $2 trillion goal. 'Musk told political strategist Mark Penn in an interview broadcast on X that the $2 trillion figure was a “best-case outcome” and that he thought there was only a “good shot”…
> Even in the HN thread on the essay, it felt like hardly anyone actually read and understood it, just brought their own assumptions and intellectual allergies and let them run wild. It would be great if people could…
One benefit of a low hood is that it scoops up pedestrians that might get hit instead of hitting their torsos with the vehicle. It'll probably break your legs, but you are more likely to survive. This is one of the…
Pyret would be a good alternative. It's designed for education by racketeers. https://pyret.org/
I work in data engineering. I tend to do println debugging because the production data sets are not available from my machine. I tend to prefer REPL or notebook driven development from a computer that is connected to…
I'm not saying that they should stop anti-trust work for browsers. I'm saying that it won't necessarily make things better for the browser ecosystem as things stand. Things would definitely get worse before they got…
Google funds Chrome. Other browsers use Chrome as a base. The majority of Firefox's funding is from Google. They will suffer as well. MS would need to step back up with browsers and you would also have Safari left over.…
Yeah, I think most of the games in the Lisp Game Jam are made with Fennel and Love. The game jam is cohosted by technomancy, the maintainer of Fennel. https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2024
There is a whole branch of programming languages that use prefix notation like that. It's one of the oldest branches starting in 1958. The benefit of the prefix notation is that it is really easy to write macros and…