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>Andre has previously maintained that he owns a trademark on Bundler and he will enforce it against Ruby Central. Well, 1. He's not fighting Ruby Central anymore, he'd be fighting …

Seems like a few old scores are being settled during this drama. It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of people on the side of RubyGems are avoiding commenting in case any legal disput…

To be consistent, then the same goes for Shopify.

Just to echo those sentiments, Mike Perham has appeared on a panel discussion recently with his 'competitors', including Solid Queue. https://www.rubyevents.org/talks/panel-the-pas…

I think the thrust of the point is that it's not 'traditional'.

One might suggest that you may not be the only target demographic of Amazon.

When developing a small program for my Synology NAS in Go, I'm sure I had to target a specific version of glibc.

Or The Guardian supporting the Confederacy[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian#History

Should Automattic be compelled to subsidise their competitors?

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> If nobody or barely anyone used Megaupload, he wouldn’t have been in as much trouble. In a world where opportunity costs exist, as they do for law enforcement, this makes sense?

Did I miss the justification for the switch to Java? That decision seemed to come out of the blue.

Something I've observed as an English speaking immigrant is that in general, the US/UK is very forgiving when it comes to foreigners trying to speak English. Where certain types of…

I think the reason that JSON won was that at least on the client-side, it was much easier to turn the response data into a Javascript object to interact with then XML.

I have a KVM switch[1] and it's double middle mouse click to switch outputs. Works well with Mac, Linux or Windows. [1]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08GBXTW2Q?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_s…

None of the scenarios you listed above are unit tests, which I believe is what the OP and the post was referring to.

From the blog post, it sounded like their benchmark relied heavily on a gem with a C extension (nokogiri). It's hard to imagine a performance improvement on code that YJIT has no c…

This type of problem seems to be the exact reason why Object Orientated programming was developed in the first place. Whenever I'm repetitively passing arguments from one method to…

What I can't understand is that The Onion's YouTube channel[1] has 2.5 million subscribers and a billion views. You'd think they be able to do something with that amount of eyeball…

I can't think of anyone besides Anders Hejlsberg that has a better track record with programming language innovation. At least 3 different languages that have all been commercially…

You're effectively describing the "Parable of the broken window". Solar panels and the systems to run them now represent a significant outlay by businesses and some private individ…

> You have to understand that async programming is hard, and no matter how good the tooling is, it's going to make your code more difficult to manage. It has a high price. Is it un…

I don't want to ban things like homeopathy and chiropractors but I have seen them attached to government hospitals in the UK. Chiropractic treatment should not be funded by the pub…

Not sure if it's a usable concept but it sounds similar to what someone else did[1]: > ...I implemented a virtual file system that fetches chunks of the database with HTTP Range re…