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Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks? by circlefavshape on Monday September 12, 2016 @05:42AM (#12478319)
> If we were stilling coding things that way, we might be able to go to the moon but we wouldn't have self-driving cars

Erm ... we actually don't have self-driving cars

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Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks? by astrodust on Monday September 12, 2016 @10:43AM (#12480062)
Google and Tesla beg to differ.
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Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks? by circlefavshape on Monday September 12, 2016 @12:41PM (#12481219)
For a very restricted definition of "self-driving" ... but fair enough, in the context of the parent post, the self-driving cars we do have are impressive pieces of software
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Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks? by astrodust on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @12:38PM (#12489912)
Google's cars are operating on city streets you know. They're up to over 1.5 million miles.
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