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Yea, you're probably right. I meant more stylistically, in that python lets you export functions from files, and it's style of OOP feels way more basic and bolted on than ruby, whi…

The original wired piece is effectively a lot of words that swirl around one poorly argued point: ruby is falling behind because of it's lack of static typing support. "Seriousness…

and just like that, 90% of the reason i pay for a jetbrains license just...disappeared

This is the relevant part: > The agent runs over port-forwarded SSH. It establishes a WebSockets connection back to your running VSCode front-end. The underlying protocol on that c…

I hate to break this to you, but typescript ain't type-safe. There's a lot I like about typescript, but your runtime is still node, so any "type-safety" is mostly illusory. Not to …

Will echo what many have said here already, but with a slight twist: 1. Anti-trust activity takes a HUGE portion of the liquidity that does M&A out of the market. That has a dynami…

Oh i missed that part -- that makes way more sense.

100%. A lot of companies effectively waited too long to exit, and in retrospect probably should've gone public in 2021.

Important distinction: this is for a growth fund ("mature companies" in the article). Growth funds are typically fund dedicated to either later stage financings or follow ons from …

The Challenger Sale https://www.amazon.com/Challenger-Sale-Control-Customer-Conv... Founding Sales https://www.foundingsales.com/

I'd focus on the back part. Why was programming joyful then ? Why is it not now? Maybe it's the environment? The language? The community? I think certain people's brains work bette…

Honest question: how? Their event pricing would require you to log something on the order of tens of millions of events to get at a 10k monthly bill. If you were turning it on in a…

Which means neither of the explanations are true.

Lots of experience with Fly's paid support here. tl;dr Absurdly good. FAR better wrt both response times and technical expertise than you'll get with any large public cloud provide…

Complaining about companies raising venture capital on hacker news! What!? No way!? This is going to sound wild , but believe it or not it takes quite a bit of capital to reserve c…

End of an era. Moog is afaik one of the last independently owned American music equipment manufacturers.

If CEOs were as replaceable and disconnected from the outcome of a business as the author suggests, boards would've started doing this long ago and CEO salaries would come down as …

The fact that other countries have defaulted and the US never has is one of the key reasons why US govt bonds are considered "riskless", and contributes hugely to reserve currency …

Yep. It auto-sharpens everything. Looks like trash.

I got an offer for something similar from someone recently, wanting to rent my codementor account that I haven't used in half a decade. Strange times.

For anyone keeping score, 23 million is approximately .05% of Oracle's 43 billion in annual revenue. The only interesting question in these SEC settlements is where the funds go?

A much more complete post covering cursor-based pagination: https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/shifting-our-apis-pag...