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Nothing here is untrue, but from my perspective it's overstated. I don't use discord, but I visit the forum daily, follow most of the RFCs, and spend a lot of time coding in Nim ( …

Viaweb was a cash strapped startup in a competitive market, who succeeded against odds because of their speed and agility. They were running on fumes when they were acquired. A lon…

Stevey had a series of articles where he implemented Sokoban in a bunch of JVM languages, and Groovy did very poorly. I can't find a live version of the article, but here's archive…

Google, EBay and Amazon, to name three.

Rails has filters that can run before, after, or around some or all of your controller actions. This can be done on a per controller basis, or it can be application wide. In this c…

The Rails magic is well defined though, and it's all documented. It doesn't simply 'stop working'. It's really nothing more than a set of conventions that happen to make certain th…

This app had something like 200 different tables, with 20 to 50 columns in most tables. Update and insert statements were 5 - 10 lines long, and there were hundreds of the things. …

SQL is extremely verbose. During my previous life as a Java programmer I moved a project from raw SQL to the hibernate ORM, and removed 10,000 lines of code in the process. Using s…

A relevant quote: "We're past the days of using machines as amplifiers of our physical efforts. It's not enough to jam more features into code just so we can eliminate one more pos…

I did that earlier today, shortly after the post went up. Thank you though. I'll contact YC about it.

I haven't received anything yet. Should I be happy, sad, or just confused?