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restlessbyteson Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?

For general linguistics: "The Unfolding of Language" by Guy Deutscher.

restlessbyteson Differences with other Lisps

Replace "main advantage" with "one major advantage" and I'll 100% agree!

restlessbyteson Disabling /all chat in matchmade queues

This point is addressed in the article:

> "While /all chat can be the source of fun social interaction between teams, as well as some good-hearted banter, right now negative interactions outweigh the positives."

restlessbyteson What if we could transpile COBOL into Elixir

> What if we could transpile COBOL into Elixir

You've then successfully ported your code base from one language for which it's really difficult to find programmers to another language for which it's really difficult to to find programmers.

restlessbyteson We deleted the production database by accident

While I'm very sympathetic to "we accidentally nuked our prod DB" because, let's admit it: we've all been there at some point, I'm also a bit baffled here because I don't think that the problem lies with too much wine, Postgres permissions or scripts on localhosts but the fact that recreating a database by FIRST dropping all tables and THEN recreating them is like deliberately inviting those gremlins in.

But, as I said, that happens and blaming doesn't fix anything, so, for the future:

1. make a temporary backup of your database 2. create tables with new data 3. drop old tables