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Could someone explain to me why cars running on natural gas aren't popular in the US like they are in South America / Europe? Converting a car to also run on natural gas costs a fe…

Bill Gates was prescient about many things we are living with right now - video-on-demand, online shopping, "wallet PCs" (smartphones), voice recognition, "social interfaces" (Siri…

> Vlang has constantly over promised and under delivered, most of the features they advertise don't work or works in a very limited scope. This is the 3rd time in this thread this …

By the way usually when a hit piece about V starts circulating on HN, the author of V takes the time to refute the claims in the comments section: https://news.ycombinator.com/item…

To give you some background on why your original post might've been considered inflammatory - the author of the blog you shared has openly said "V is something that should be ignor…

Since you are comparing Zig with V: > V promised a lot of stuff as ready but has undelivered most of them This is wrong. V has an online playground, a package manager, hot code rel…

D and Nim are great mature languages. If you think they're suitable for the domain you're working on and reach out for either of them, you're not gonna go wrong. They have large co…

4 months of severance + 2 extra weeks for every year of service i.e. 20 weeks (~5 months) if you've been there for the last 10 years. So ~9 months paid holiday in total. Not bad at…

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Literally from the thread I shared: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33337381 (posted from a 12-year-old account) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33333904 (posted from…

Hard to ignore it when it's always in your face: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33331549 I don't mind languages getting hyped but seeing posts every week on the front page of…

Great question. I'm subscribed to daily newsletters on The Washington Post, Bloomberg and The BBC News. This is how I stay in the loop. I also get instant notifications for breakin…

Thank you for the explanation. I didn't know that (I'm new here).

Duplicate of this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33401486

Duplicate of this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33370434

Probably this thread is going to have some anecdotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33374770 It's already got ~1,600 comments.

The Road Ahead by Bill Gates (1995) It made me realize it's not companies I would like to be working at but people I would like to be working with.