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Came here to say exactly this. Since when was being a nerd about consumer preferences? But then I start wondering if we are just gatekeeping nerddom?

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> Europe is a union of 27 sovereign nations I guess the Swiss, British, Norwegians, Albanians etc etc are not welcome to participate in this project. EDIT: In any case this whole t…

Algebraic data types please. When you programme in Haskell, you use them all time, and yet support is missing in so many languages. It's one of the things that makes Swift look att…

So if I sell project management software for the construction industry, I should pivot to... selling houses?

I guess you don't want kids to go to the beach either, where the standard attire is even more "revealing" ?

the main reasons for my preference are that: gmail/fastmail are simple, I can use from multiple computers easily, have good defaults and most importantly, they almost always work. …

> Spoiler alert: we didn’t get app-like performance. We didn’t get better user experiences. Not sure about that, I'll take Gmail and fastmail any day over outlook and evolution

They launched in 2016

This may be too early to ask, but are you targeting a near-v8 level of performance? Or more like quickjs or duktape?

> Nomi joins your video calls How will you obtain consent for this from everyone participating in the call?

In the beginning, when you read papers like this, it can be hard work. You can either give up or put some effort in to try to understand it. Maybe look at some of the other Jepsen …

The Gettier examples disagree!

The CoffeeScript rails clone? Seems an unlikely inspiration for this

What is Batman? My Google skills are failing

Serious question: why Rust? Sounds like this is not exactly systems level programming or any user would suffer from or even notice garbage collection latency. Is Rust building up a…

Didn't know Max Weber was lurking on HN.

> your Danish language setting in Croydon screams "I VPN to Copenhagen for overpriced pastries." First time an LLM made me laugh

There's a great YouTube channel that has a lot to say about this: carefree wanderings ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnEuIogVV2Mv6Q1a3nHIRsQ ). The idea is that after first sin…

> type hints are a thing even with plain JS Can you clarify how you do this? the type annotation TC39 is not approved; but I'm interested in hearing if you have a "userland" approa…

The author never actually says what is so wrong with JavaScript. I think it is quite a good dynamically typed language, and it certainly has some very high-performance implementati…