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I don't understand your objection.

You're unhappy that it's titled like a thematic sequel but isn't one? Or that the gameplay is too different than it's predecessors? Or something else?

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Migrating to an Oracle product from literally anywhere else seems like a terrible, terrible idea

> , "if average income in a year was greater than welfare eligibility for that year, no eligibility" doesn't sound kafkaesque.

It sounds like the definition of Kafkaesque to me, if the law says eligibility is determined based on your income over two weeks.

This was in the case study linked elsewhere:

> Lidl based its inventory management system on purchase prices. The standard SAP for retail software uses retail prices, and fearing the group could lose a competitive edge by compromising, Lidl declined to change, so the software was instead adapted.

https://www.henricodolfing.com/2020/05/case-study-lidl-sap-d...

Years ago there was a site called prelang that tried to create a framework framework. It was incredibly cool, but I think it became abandoned.

https://www.producthunt.com/products/prelang#prelang

previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7985162

This is super cool.

This is incredibly cool. Thanks HN for bringing things like this to the front page, which I would have never otherwise heard about.

It's like a Mitch Hedberg punchline:

    FileZilla now contains adware...
    
    it always did, but it does now, too.

Can you respond to the point made by Sneak downthread that there is silent data transfer to your company in the background?

that description should be on their front page; it communicates the concept more clearly than "A language made for WebAssembly" IMO

2012 discussion is interesting

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4235876

Okteta is part of the KDE project, GPL, and has similar templating functionality

ahh. let's call your spacetime water something that evokes these qualities...

"ether"!

(this is not meant to be substantive criticism of your idea; I just think it's funny how much this sounds like the 19th century concept of ether that was abandoned)

It's dependent on the jurisdiction, but in the US: yes

> Unity definitely seems like it has lost sight of what made the engine rise to prominence in 2010-2015.

What made the engine rise to prominence in 2010-2015, in your view?

This amazing bit from the wikipedia article about the fly:

"The first, and to-date largest, documented infestation of C. hominivorax myiasis outside of the Americas occurred in North Africa from 1989 to 1991. The outbreak was traced to a herd of sheep in Libya's Tripoli region, which began suffering screwworm attacks in July 1989; over the following months, the myiasis spread rapidly, infecting numerous herds across a 25,000 km2 area. Eventually, the infested region spanned from the Mediterranean coast to the Sahara Desert, threatening the more than 2.7 million animals susceptible to C. hominvorax that inhabited the area. More than 14,000 cases of large-scale myiasis due to the C. hominivorax species were documented. Traditional control methods using veterinary assessment and treatment of individual animals were insufficient to contain the widely dispersed outbreak, so the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization launched a program based on the sterile insect technique.[10] About 1.26 billion sterile flies were produced in Mexico, shipped to the infested area, and released to mate with their wild counterparts. Within months, the C. hominvorax population collapsed; by April 1991, the program had succeeded in eradicating C. hominivorax in the Eastern Hemisphere. This effort, which cost under US$100 million, was among the most efficient and successful international animal health programs in UN history."

Incredible!

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochliomyia

We all understand the point being made: this is a ridiculous answer by Siri.

The treatment of a hypothetical human-assistant-that-never-was is really irrelevant.

For others' convenience:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair

(I was ignorant)

"the GPL is ineffective because the non-GPL parts become proprietary" doesn't seem like a strong argument against the superiority of the GPL.

why are there so many build systems?

it's understandable why programmers have opinions about aesthetics regarding their IDE, language, or framework of choice, but what is there to be opinionated about with a build system?

great summary.

there are remarkable parallels to Andrew Wakefield's paper about autism, vaccination, and his hypothesis about the gut.

Perhaps this should have been published in the Lancet[1]

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS014067...

You don't need a church to express social disapproval.

There are lots of behaviors that are not illegal and not against religion that we still use social feedback to minimize.

The article makes a strong case. Even if rust allows formal verification, not all programmers use it, and if you use their library, you don't know if it's been verified.

Take it back to the goto analogy: can you formally verify goto? Yes. Does that mean it's good to include as a language primitive? No.

You are basically taking an entire argument, ignoring its merits, and saying "but you can do it another way". You are exactly right, but you haven't rebutted the fact that structured concurrency is philosophically superior.

I love rust and the community; they will get to the truth of this argument eventually. But I suspect the truth is that "njs was right", and I hope the it's sooner rather than later.

I saw the anti-forward, but missed that quote. Thanks for pointing it out, and for the thoughtful blurb. Great context!

can anyone give a first-hand historical perspective on this, regarding what was going on and how this was seen in 1994?

The GTK project is hard to understand. They develop with a philosophy that is almost the antithesis of the kernel (which basically says "changes that break programs are bugs"). It would be fine for an application being used directly by end users, but for a library and gui system it is bonkers. I have tried to compile a gtk-based app from source, and had no end of difficulty just because my library release varied by a point-version.

It left a really crummy taste in my mouth.

I really like GTK, and once it's compiled it's great, but these aspects are really painful.

> For some reason (probably because of the way it's implemented internally)

(this is tautologically true)