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Unfortunately, no, your info about Perl 6 is news to me. Only ran into it a few months ago, tried it in Python and Nim, but haven't seen it in the wild. It's very cool though.

I'll admit I've never written more than small programs in C, but the criticism that this "isn't C" isn't a fair criticism to me. He's not doing anything more than any other library…

Understood. To be specific, they said Rust has the ergonomics of Python, Go, and Java, which are garbage collected languages. It does not strike me as realistic.

Goes without saying, but it is shocking how quickly the world has changed. The easy take would be that a lot of people are finding out how the other half lives, without easy access…

Rust absolutely does not have the ergonomics of any of those languages because it has lifetimes. They are things you don't worry about in those languages. Have you done a lot of Ru…

Not to advocate for one language over another, but sergio, you're right, Nim is ridiculously underrated and a much easier to use than rust. There's just a lot less mental overhead …

If you really want to get into this, Nazi Germany and Hitler were more or less fueled by meth. https://www.amazon.com/Blitzed-Drugs-Germany-Norman-Ohler/dp...

It's been a decade, but a friend in a college town just north of Dallas had an off campus apt for $300 a month. I had an off campus apt much closer to everything for under $500, si…

Those that don't know what it is like to not be naturally happy in many cases may not understand how easy it is to get intoa bad headspace, and how vitally important it is to take …

There is a book by some political scientists have the opposite starting point: Why Nations Fail. For the record, they've also got other material which I think is some of the most b…

You must not know many people with tattoos. ;)

You're reading it wrong. I'm saying that iterating on a nightly basis isn't difficult.

This is undoubtedly true. My point is, if you don't build, you can't do any of what you are laying out. My point isn't that you should recreate Instagram, but that these kind of ap…

I'm a nobody and I don't have any work that I'm ready to show you. You shouldn't take my advice, I very well may not know what I'm talking about. I'm just laying down some beliefs …

You don't think so? What's Instagram doing tech wise which is so complicated? Yeah, at scale, they're doing a lot of stuff you can't do as a single person show, but the core websit…

Yeah, I probably would, because I've worked as hard as anyone for the last 15 years. I'm underpaid. 40k isn't poverty around here, but it's not a lot of money. I just don't need or…

Reddit faked users and content at the beginning, as the founders have stated. If you were building Reddit today, it's something that directly benefits from network effects, as does…

Bill Shakespeare's Julius Caesar https://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/yond-cassius-has-l...

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look, He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

Do you have any specific examples of those companies (2000, 2008-2009)?

Do startups really cost as much as we act like they do? I mean, yeah, if you've got 10, or 30 or however many engineers, it's gonna be expensive, but there are a lot of projects th…

Just to back you up, your post is 1022 characters. If you were limited to 280: Some discussions have nuance that cannot be expressed in 280 characters. Yes, when expressing a simpl…

The network is a boon and bane. The network allows things to go viral, but I don't think a retweet or tweets are very consumable. Twitter has an atrocious UI. I think when people d…

It doesn't help that Dorsey is terrified of making the smallest changes to the platform. I guess he's too busy meditating with Himalayan salts or something. He works 80 hours a wee…