atherton94027

> As long as there is some form of memory access, any language can do basically everything that one can do in C/C++, but this doesn't make much sense.

No VB6 had really easy COM integration which let you tap into a lot of Windows system components. The same code in C++ often required hundreds of lines of scaffolding, and I'm not exaggerating

Per-capita volume of miles traveled went up by 5x since 1950: https://enotrans.org/article/americans-drove-1-0-percent-mor...

> Actually, please don't do this resource burning with startups or other SMBs, unless it's clear they want to burn resources

Startups are fine scheduling candidates for 5-6 rounds of interviews, they should be fine with the occasional tire-kicker

Exactly — anyone who has worked in sales for a New York minute knows that any six figures deal will have a human account manager assigned to it.

Could you break down a bit more why this happened? From an external perspective it really sounds like some sales rep decided to pressure a non-profit to make their quota

It's a very common "gotcha" comment on HN unfortunately — latch on some specific definition of a term then dismiss anything that doesn't fit it. Not sure what we can do about it unfortunately