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Surely, the cost of storing that type of waste here (on Earth) is very expensive, both from economical perspective and from risk management perspective. It could be very interesting to compare the costs of sending 1kg of nuclear waste into the sun (or out of our solar system, if that makes it cheaper) compared to storing 1kg of nuclear waste anywhere here on Earth, + adding the cost of the infrastructure that is required to actually store and preserve that waste, + adding the cost of people that are required to protect that infrastructure (a facility of some sort), etc...
Python, Ruby, Javascript and others have a "debugger;" statement of some sort that, when hit by the execution flow, will pause the code and let you type stuff in your shell, letting you inspect the code, step forward, etc...
Why does PHP need me to configure an entire IDE or my browser? (I'm looking at you, xdebug). Why can't it have a cli-debugger?
* 24/7 presence, the reply was "you can do that with a bouncer"
* backlog, the reply was "you can do that with a bouncer"
* full text search, the reply was "that's up to the client implementation"
* file sharing, the reply was "it's already possible with XDCC"
and so on and so forth.
Basically, it's not that Slack is great, it's because IRC as a whole just refused to adapt to what users actually wanted/needed.
Also, the amount of tools every single person would need to buy.
"Decentralisation" is a goof idea, but not feasible in the real world, IMHO. And this is a small town example, leave alone a huge capital like Madrid or Barcelona.
Second, it's almost 2020. Why there still isn't a better way to debug PHP than using die()?
And third, "mysqli" has been the defacto method for SQLing, while "mysql"was deprecated years ago.
I'm not sure why this is even in HN.
IMHO that is not fixing the initial problem they are stating that exists, but making it worse, because now you have to write UI-related code in two languages (ruby and js) instead of the 1 that is currently needed (REST + SPA).
Food (just to put an example) will pop up in the stores out of thin air.
Unless, you could somehow prevent competitors from stealing I+D. Which you can't. So closed source it is (that makes things harder for competitors).
Edit: look at the comment right after mine. Perfect proof.