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I discovered pandoc in college, in 2013 or 2014 and it quickly became one of my favourite pieces of software. It was like magic; hassle free and incredibly powerful. Writing proble…

Does BYD want to close the gap between its valuation and Tesla's? I'd argue they're more concerned with capturing market share.

I have friends who moved to Germany, so although I haven't been or experienced immigrating there myself, it's been in the conversation amongst my circles. What I hear about it is t…

I think illustration isn't something too much in the mindshare of open source, so overall support for it isn't great. IMO this has contributed to it. The industry standard tools ar…

I like electronic music production and mixing, and at some point embarked on the quests of writing a DAW (for which I wrote my own state library too) and a dj application. The DJ a…

> Maybe the CEO was always like this, but he went from being a likable, and liked person, to a fucking maniac. I might not know him, but I don't think he changed. I think the circu…

+1. IMO the company with the strongest web infra/tooling teams for example. Also very strong teams working on db/data, source control, performance, reliability, pl/compilers, etc.

It still doesn't take a team that large. When I was at Facebook they decided to re-write Messenger in C. There were people who thought it was a waste of time. There were people who…

This is not a laptop announcement. This is an attempt at a software announcement disguised as a laptop announcement. All that's shared about the actual laptop are renders. The webs…

I've always thought letting the free market decide everything is not an optimal strategy. Protecting sovereignty of key industries like this is a good example. What IMO is a bad st…

Because they need it to work, so that everything built on it works too. Building developers sell you the apartment, not the elevator room, the electrical room, mechanical room, etc…

Bun is not a "product" at Anthropic though, it's a tool for its developers to build products. IMO as long as it remains that way, the incentives for its developers will remain fair…

I think this can be true at the IC level and in situations where the organization's success depends on the product being good, but that's not always the case. Big companies with ma…

Apple is hurt by being so centralized Cupertino IMO. A company that big in city that small and frankly, boring, isn't going to have the best hiring pool. I know plenty of very tale…

I grew up with this animation so I didn't consider it annoying until I bought a new Macbook a couple years ago. I noticed sometimes I would press keyboard shortcuts before my syste…

I think the biggest issue with classes is subclassing, it looks like a good feature to have, but ends up being a problem. If one avoids subclassing, I think classes can be quite us…

First and most importantly is the fact they have a lot of very valuable data they wouldn't want to siphon to a competitor. This data is a key strategic asset in the space where the…

I've worked with text and in my experience all of these things (soft hyphens, emoji correction, non-latin languages, etc) are not exceptions you can easily incorporate later, but r…

Do people really have a choice though? Many people don't choose what OS they use for work, and even when one can pick, the environment we exist in is one where being less productiv…

IMO it's telling that the lineup here is bucketized by screen size and not model. Screen size, processor performance, storage, sensors, etc are ambiguous concepts that don't mean m…

I wonder what the mood is like internally too. I can only imagine there some level of employee discontent.

For anyone interested, they published the post-mortem of the referenced incident: https://withpersona.com/blog/post-incident-review-source-map...

Thanks for the link