hellofunk

You’re talking about really two different issues here. I don’t think anyone would suggest templates can’t get complicated. But they are certainly the doorway into maximum performance over C.

> these languages all go through most likely the same compiler and should produce a roughly equivalent binary

That's not really true. A single compiler may support many languages but that does not mean code written in those languages ends up as the same binary.

Strange thing to say, to be honest. Many of the most performance-critical industries are heavy on C++, not C. Games, finance, high-frequency trading, where every microsecond is worth huge money -- these are typically C++ shops. The strictness and ability to move things to compile time are features not available in C.

> Interestingly, Jacobson’s team also suggests vitamin D as a potentially useful Covid-19 drug. The vitamin is involved in the RAS system and could prove helpful by reducing levels of another compound, known as REN. Again, this could stop potentially deadly bradykinin storms from forming. The researchers note that vitamin D has already been shown to help those with Covid-19. The vitamin is readily available over the counter, and around 20% of the population is deficient. If indeed the vitamin proves effective at reducing the severity of bradykinin storms, it could be an easy, relatively safe way to reduce the severity of the virus.

This implies that the genetic link is somewhat of a coincidence, the family members just happen to have all caught the same virus? Is that the right interpretation? Because BD does seem to come in waves in families.

Sigh. I wondered if someone would come in here and do that. The entire reason I did not paste it myself is because this paragraph has a much different effect on the reader after they have read the rest of the article and understand the backstory.

Edit: Thanks for all the upvotes. I'm glad some in the HN crowd appreciate quality over shortcuts and spoilers. (I was starting to get discouraged!)

Very thrilling read, and the last paragraph sent chills up through my back.

We've built our SAAS on Keli for the last six years and have been amazed by the productivity. Each year we are able to make a net reduction in lines of code. We are now down to only 2 lines, and we expect next year to be the most impressive yet for what we will need to maintain.

> They were examples, and not absolutes.

Well, to be fair, you did use the word "always" which makes things sound... absolute.

> always be popular with users that are highly technical, but not necessarily from a comp-sci background

> Dynamically typed languages, for example, might always be popular with technical, but not comp-sci type users.

Some of the most hardcore "comp-sci" theorists I've ever encountered work only in Scheme, a dynamically typed language.

Even the word "enum" is quite overloaded; i.e. compare Swift's robust class-like enums with those of C or C++.

I installed Catalina on one machine, kept the other on Mojave. I can't tell the difference between the two unless I'm looking hard, and both are equally reliable for me.

It's not just software -- it's services of a wide variety of types. I.e. Apple TV+ is not software. Having your own search engine allows you to integrate with services more tightly and enhance that business.

They are transitioning as iPhone sales stabilize.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-services-busine...

It’s not all about the hardware anymore.

This source is not very trustworthy. No one usually uses 24-hour format in a few places not noted here, such as Holland, a decent-sized European country that many people have heard of. But they are not shaded in this chart. So I wonder how many others are also not shaded.

To suggest that “bug wise“ it is the same between Mac and Linux is a bit of a stretch. I work in a team where the developers are mostly split between Mac and Ubuntu. Guess which ones often have problems joining zoom meetings or attaching their machines to a projector for a presentation? There are a lot of things that you generally don’t have to worry about much if you’re using a Mac. I’m not gonna say that one of these is better than the other, but to suggest they have equivalency wrt common scenarios is a bit strange.

Also, Mac is a certified UNIX environment, it is native.

Lots of countries use a 12 hour clock, that’s a strange claim to make.

I know that feature was on their internal list of bug fixes, so it sounds like they got through at least that far on the list!

> screening new contacts by default

A client could certainly handle this, but it may not translate to other instances of the client.

> merging/renaming threads only for you

An advertised feature that did not even work on their release. Maybe they fixed it by now, I don't know, I did not end up buying the product. The initial release was quite buggy.

Enjoyable to see these mockery sites. The original Hey marketing was just asking to get mocked. Hopefully they take it in good spirit. The lesson learned I think is, don’t act like God unless you want to get mocked for it.

And the gmail attachment outage.

> Gmail was great when it came out, but today it’s a pretty mediocre product.

Gmail has actually gotten super slow to me, I'm not sure what the problem is. Their site loads slowly, navigating around it is slow, the whole UX is slow. It didn't used to be that way. I've considered migrating for that reason alone, let alone any opinion I have of the company.

I think we can just chalk this up to a competition between Canon and Adobe on who can delete the most photos from the world.

Eh, I read it differently. It’s not just one line, it’s three sentences followed by a reference to the political climate. I think it’s a bit much and it threw me off while I was reading it. I’ve seen those kinds of jesting comments in other blogs, but this one is more awkwardly phrased. When they write “Sorry Dr.Hume” I do actually feel sorry for his professor!

> We are at around 50,000,000 cases.

Where is that number coming from? If you were talking about United States, you were off by a factor of 10! If you’re talking about the whole world, you’re still off by a factor of two! At least as far as confirmed cases goes.

We can all assume the number of actual cases is greater than the number of confirmed cases. How much greater, it’s really hard to say, especially as testing has ramped up significantly and I even know Americans who are getting multiple tests with quick responses in certain locations. So you can’t just make up a number as a guess and then use it as evidence.

Your observations are quite subjective and flawed. Yes, Disney world is open, that is hardly the end of it. Is it the same Disney World as before the pandemic? It’s not a binary situation. You can’t just point out that because a place is now open, instead of closed, therefore there are no precautions being taken. We can be debate whether they are taking enough precautions, but you can’t just use this the way you have in this article.

This whole article is just a gut check without real evidence.

That first paragraph, where the author seems to, even in jest, place blame on his college professor, all the wording and weird emphasis on that, it’s just really really strange. I certainly would not want to be his college professor.

A lawyer in Boardwalk Empire, from the 1920s, charges $80 per hour. So hypothesis disproven.

If the story doesn't make sense, that usually means we haven't heard the whole story.

I don’t think they deliberately thought they were doing something inadequately, these problems are always obvious in hindsight. Issue is that eventually most companies will have this moment seeing through the lens of hindsight, the reasons are always different.