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Messaging apps are a lot harder to get right than you might think. I worked for years on messaging using XMPP and the problems were legion. I'd be very interested in seeing how a v…

Well, I believe astra is Latin for "star", so it makes sense to me.

My math says 365 days x 10 hours/day = 3650 hours. 8000 hours is just over 2 years, not 20.

> One person with an M-16 could take out an entire massive army of people wielding spears I have to disagree. All it would take is for this army to surround the person with the M-1…

Did you mean m×n=n×m?

Yeah, I wrote quite a bit of Turbo Pascal code on CP/M on a Radio Shack TRS80 Model II. I loved TP and CP/M, especially TP.

You could learn some mainframe stuff using the Hercules emulator[1], but you'd have to find some z/OS installation media somewhere, and I'm not sure if that might infringe copyrigh…

Elixir is not Ruby, it just has a somewhat Ruby-like syntax. The similarities end there. Elixir does not have the performance issues that Ruby has (although it may have different o…

Source: https://www.newsweek.com/young-unafraid-coronavirus-pandemic...

I'm not making these claims. A senior doctor in Western Europe is making these claims[1]. > Fatality is the wrong yardstick. Catching the virus can mess up your life in many, many …

This is false. Studies done in Wuhan show that people with CVD have well over a 10% mortality rate. In addition, COVID-19 has the potential to cause permanent disability if it does…

It’s not only over 80s. It’s anyone with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, morbid obesity, and some others, which collectively describes large swaths of the US popula…

Death is not the only thing that coronavirus can do to you. You can spend weeks or months in therapy before you are recovered, or you can get scarring in your lungs - or worse - th…

xsv is awesome!

I think this is an ironic reply. I hope.

And from the article: "But I know what I don’t want. I don’t want to be stuffed full of tubes with doctors hovering over me, pleased with themselves for keeping my heart beating fo…

> Immutable data structures are great, but when it's the default, it's a huge win in cognitive-overhead. Maybe that feature isn't unique to Clojure but it's certainly not a prerequ…

I highly recommend that book!

> Too many people mumbling and/or talking over each other in meetings, so the remote has trouble following or breaking in. Inadequate videoconference and VPN infrastructure making …

I think it depends on one's personality. I worked for some years using that hybrid model and really didn't like it. Now I work 99.9% from home and vastly prefer it. My only real gr…

> travel across the US one week a month That seems excessive. I work remote and only have to fly in once or twice a year for a few days at a time, maybe a week. Do you have an idea…

> I know some folks sneer a little at Lisp I wonder why. Some developers I know and hold in high regard have almost venerated Lisp, so I've always thought there must be something t…

Honest answer: I feel like I did.