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>But it’s also due to the chance intersection of one man’s hobby with his unrelated professional and educational background.

I wonder how many great inventions can be traced to this type of circumstances. I suspect more than we realize.

Re:l: A new runtime for k and q on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @12:40AM (#48827600)
Interesting, references?
Re:Rust but Lisp on Saturday May 09, 2026 @05:56PM (#48078648)
To get proper macros.
I agree. Probably a cost issue as all interviews appear to be done in person.
So you would like me to give my VPS root password to your internet connected Windows app? no thanks. I really hope this is well intentioned, but nobody should use this.
Re:Parametric CAD in Rust on Friday January 30, 2026 @08:19AM (#46824060)
Aren't a few definitions missing from the examples (e.g. base_holes and wall_holes)?
Greenland is not a country, it is a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark.
Re:How to Teach People SQL on Saturday January 17, 2026 @11:02AM (#46659058)
UNION is not a type of JOIN
The man is clearly mentally ill, and the ethics of interviewing such a person, is the only reason this interview is interesting.
I love this approach to learning music.

A nitpick: Isn't the below statement wrong? I thought "RolandTR909" was the name of the soundbank which is used for both bd and sd?

"bd is bass drum (also called kick-drums), sd is snare drum. RolandTR909 is the name of the sound."

Already Out of Stock. I want one :-(
I use Halloy on a daily basis and could not be happier. It is super smooth in use and highly configurable using the config file. Halloy is also a great show case for the iced GUI framework and Rust for desktop apps.
With Datastar your front end logic (if any) is minimal, and you can use any typesafe (or not) language you want for the backend. If you build webcomponents for your Datastar frontend you can use TS to your heart's content.
So your answers is no, you cannot provide any arguments.
Could provide actual arguments for why these aspects of Datastar are "crazy", "even more crazy" and "wrong"?
Re:Zippers: Making Functional "Updates" Efficient (2010) on Thursday October 09, 2025 @08:34AM (#45526726)
Zippers are part of Clojure API (clojure.zip). They take a bit of work to get used to, but once you get it they are an amazing way of making "transactional" "changes" to immutable data structures.
Re:Timesketch: Collaborative forensic timeline analysis on Monday September 22, 2025 @04:57AM (#45330777)
Thanks, I thought I was the only one baffled by this.
Our "minister of Justices" is a scared little boy, deeply traumatised by a childhood characterised by the lack of a basic sense of safety. This trauma has never been addressed and with age he has unfortunately become a politician and earned a law degree. His rational faculties and academic degree are of course a faint echo compared to his childhood trauma, so he has no reservations destroying any personal liberty in the name of safety. I feel deeply for the boy, but fear the man.
Utterly, utterly pathetic. An affront to the uniform.
Re:Show HN: Tesseral – Open-Source Auth on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @11:52AM (#44117368)
This looks neat, unfortunately the dependency on AWS is a show stopper for many European companies these days.
No they did not, Firefly did.

UPDATE, my bad did not read properly.

Re:Why Fennel? on Sunday April 13, 2025 @04:13PM (#43675502)
Clojure
Re:Datastar: Web Framework for the Future? on Saturday April 12, 2025 @05:08AM (#43662707)
Oh I know what happens, the todo app was removed from the front page.
Re:Datastar: Web Framework for the Future? on Friday April 11, 2025 @03:18PM (#43657434)
Link?
Does anyone know why the beautiful covers disappear when I import these books in standard format into Calibre?
Re: on Sunday March 30, 2025 @11:22AM (#43524877)
From the 2nd line.

"Of course, as ever, dissing something for being woke is nasty and fascist-adjacent."

Thank you for sparing me having to read the rest of the post.

Re:What Elon Musk Should Learn from Larry Ellison on Saturday February 01, 2025 @02:15PM (#42901225)
Re:What Elon Musk Should Learn from Larry Ellison on Saturday February 01, 2025 @02:14PM (#42901213)
Having tried both separately I also feel fairly confident I can predict my reaction to the rare Surströmming & Century Egg combo.

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