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Re:Mitchellh starts a new company: Superlogical on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @01:11PM (#49100219)
"Any sufficiently VC-funded AI startup will inevitably try to re-invent a log.md file" - Spongebob Squarepants
Re:It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle on Saturday May 30, 2026 @01:48PM (#48338875)
What about drawing a pelican riding a bicycle?
Re:What Color is Your Function? (2015) on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @02:19AM (#48290375)
They are (lightweight) processes since they have no shared memory. Each process has its own stack and heap.
so much for acquiring Bun...
Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:43AM (#46159081)
It's downdetectors all the way down
Re:The Weird Concept of Branchless Programming on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @04:43AM (#45435619)
Would it be possible to create a programming language that allows you to write branching programs, but is guaranteed to compile it into branchless code?
Re:Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly on Thursday September 25, 2025 @05:20AM (#45370797)
I tried to run these commands. It downloads [email protected], but then hangs without producing any output. However, it seems to work for

  wasmer run python/python@=0.2.0
Re:You don't want to hire "the best engineers" on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @11:52AM (#45104730)
It brings Steve Jobs' quote to mind: "It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do"

Companies who generically look for "the best engineers" think their problems will be solved if they can just hire someone smart and tell them what to do. They say they want "the best engineers" but then their job descriptions and interview processes scream "we want someone who will execute our vision exactly as we've defined it."

The best engineers will tell you why your architecture is wrong, why your code sucks, why your timeline is unrealistic, and why your product decisions make no technical sense. If you're not ready for that level of pushback, you don't actually want the best engineers.

Re:Zig's Lovely Syntax on Sunday August 10, 2025 @02:07PM (#44857042)
When I first read it I thought it was line comments.
Re:Why Cargo Check Is So Slow on Saturday August 09, 2025 @11:06AM (#44847094)
#![forbid(proc_macros)]
Re:I made a website that makes you cry on Friday August 01, 2025 @02:36AM (#44753634)
I thought I wouldn't cry but then I cried
It's not only about showing off syntax. It's also about showing what type of applications the language makes easy to implement.
Re:Asynchrony Is Not Concurrency on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @06:00AM (#44645049)
This talk gives a good distinction between asynchrony, concurrency, parallelism, scheduling (cooperative, preemptive)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5_MmZVLiSM&t=346s