This is so perfectly on the line between satire and genuine, it's fantastic.
I disagree, and wish to determine the precise location of that line for no particular reason, in a thread that continues for days replete with a veritably endless level of pedantry.
We made a snarky nerd AI using bash scripts and curl, but looked upon itself and said “actually #!/bin/bash is not portable.”
1. Regarding the first part, many people want something plug and play. And even if they were plug and play, the problem is that the user experience with debugging might suck, and you don't have AI helpers.
2. There are some unannounced viral parts i didn't get to show in there. Up to x people trolled, tiered plans above that.
Why write in bash when you can write in rust
we all know that the lambda calculus is the only true way to produce software or to think about ruining the world, really at scale. If you're not using functional programming to ruin the world what are you doing really.
This is a reference to the HN comments on the Dropbox launch, right?
Has to be. It's funny to me as a non engineer that is getting more fluent over time with engineering concepts, to notice that it's not just occasional comments but a good proportion of the posts themselves on HN that are somewhat in that vein. "Tell HN: We rewrote a compiler to run on a Miele dishwasher SoC", "Show HN: a new anti-DNS web browser that only accepts actual IP addresses as URL"
Whoever is looking to promote content to HN front page or affect opinions of it’s community..
no one said anything about that being a product
Exactly. Far too many people just want to watch the world burn.