anthonyskipper

This is a good thing. Imagine if we kept model-t's as our primary car instead of evolving.

You sound like someone who doesn't own an EV? I plug mine into a standard outlet outside my house. It's pretty much always charged. If your plumber is driving so far they need to recharge on the way I think you have bigger problems than the ROI on the vehicle.

Yeah, the flaw in his assumption is that an enterprise will use anything other than completely open licenses. Most companies ban AGPL, and really anything other than FreeBSD or MIT licenses. Primarily because they don't want to built anything with a non-free licenses as otherwise amounts to a permanent tax for the software infrastructure going forward.

The second flaw is assuming open source developers should get paid. If they want to do that they can start a company and sell commercial software, or they can join a big company(Faang, RH, IBM, etc) that outputs open source as a matter of business. But anything else is wishful thinking.

Luckily Raycast work in an unregulated industry. In a lot of regulated industries this would not be an option as 4-eye reviews are a mandatory policy requirement.

I also don't know how smart it is to brag about, seems like just asking for something to go wrong.

Back in the MS-Dos days Norton was the only game in town for a bunch of things... Disk defragmenting, tools for working with file system, etc. It was a swiss army knife of good tools. But your point is generally correct in that for the last 20 years it has been atrociously bad.

It used to be you could install IIS on windows and get asp. Then they bundled it really tight so you were tied to a version of IIS based on the windows version. (eg NT4=IIs4, w2kserver=IIS5) Then they unbundled it with .net. But now you needed the entire .net bundle to just run some asp and you were tied to the version of the framework. No one was ever happy with how they bundled anything on the dev side.

IPFS and WASM - Combined they let you build apps that don't need a cloud provider, and can effectively be immortal.

A company wide style doesn't quite get it done. Is your style not to allow high kinded FP coding? (because it is too hard to understand). If so does that mean you don't allow libraries written in that style, like SLICK?

We had PHDs and very senior engineers, and they thought debugging common libraries like slick would take them weeks of work and they opted for avoiding that entire type of scala. But that is hard to do, because its a lot more than a coding style.

I had a startup that went all in on scala. By the time we realized we chose the wrong language it was too late.

Complexity is the primary issue with the scala language... when the whole goal is to have a scalable language which in itself is diametrically opposed to simplicity, your language is dead on arrival.

After using Scala, Go seemed like a dream come true.

We really loved the integration of OO and FP, really miss the FP awesomeness honestly... but simplicity trumps doing either of those things well.

Nah, it's par for course for startups for the following reasons...

You can get tons of credits for your startup, typically hundreds of thousands from Microsoft, Amazon, etc. -- Eventually you run out of credits, so you switch providers. I did this 3 times at a startup and got three years of free infrastructure.

If you are selling enterprise software, then you use k8s so you can deploy at enterprise without having to integrate with all the wacky requirements.

You can build a saas that offers isolated service nodes on k8s infra pretty easy if you just give everyone a small vm with a k8s cluster on it.

If you use a scale to zero model, your infra costs are a lot cheaper. Simiarly the auto-scaling k8s capabilities are really nice and it's awesome to be able to easily build systems that can scale up massively. You never know when you r startup will get popular.

They already did series-e and looped back around: https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/docker-series-e--a2...

Gitlab - Having 12 products in the SDLC space rolled into a single product was a life changing productivity benefit.

It is not a brand, it's when all the capabilities come together in a single package with one general way to do things that you get the benefits. You could do all this stuff with IaaS but there were too many ways and not enough lines in the sand between dev and ops in the IaaS world. IaaS should be considered a legacy approach.

It enables 12 factor apps, and if you are using a cloud provider there is no infra setup, so you do not need puppet/ansible/etc. It's a better way to deploy apps hands down.

If your company is implementing and managing their own k8s clusters they are doing it wrong. Use a cloud hosted solution.

I have to say that reading the Radicle designers observations about git on IPFS I think they solved the wrong problem. I would love to be able to save and work with git repos on ipfs.

Most of the other things radicle aims to provide seem like they are better centralized. There is a reason we all use gitlab/github for collab services. It is that centralization is better for that kind of thing.

Try mining cryptocurrency, running prime95, playing fps shooters, or even dota on high settings. You will notice the battery draining while plugged in. You also see it if you are on an airplane, but that is usually because the charger tries to pull too much and overheats and gives up ghost. Macbooks have underpowered chargers.

Today I would say Java/Scala mostly because of jvm access to huge numbers of libraries. But also because of things like Akka.

There may be other options depending on whether you consider JavaScript or Go to be a functional language.

Marvin Minsky died and we have a revolution in AI. Jeff Hawkings called that one in "on intelligence"

The advice here is terrible and the opposite of what it should be. I've seen tons of startups screw this up and wreck great opportunities. Yes, you need a lawyer to review the contract, but you should just sign it and move along if the lawyer says it looks ok. Mutual NDAs are standard fair in the business world, especially from an established company.

Anyone have a working Brew update URL?