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Maybe we have to subsidize zoomers until we can figure this out.

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If I type the name of an enum, then `.`, (and for my settings explicitly request autocomplete suggestions from VsCode), I either don't get anything, or I get a list of 50+ identifi…

KSON looks interesting. Where I work we did a metadata type project in Pkl recently, which is somewhat similar. Unfortunately, developments on the tooling front for Pkl have taken …

Couldn't you just use static classes? I don't see how that would be a factor at all, seems like a very superficial reason that would be easy to work around.

Yea, I came here to say the same thing. Anders' reasons for not going with C# all seem either dubious or superficial and easily worked around. First he mentions the no classes thin…

Here is one in 73 lines of F# by Jon Harrop: https://gist.github.com/isaksky/6681cfad8ced1708a04b2eca92fc...

I've read this a few times over the years and I think the argument is sound. But I wonder if it is sound in the same way this statement is: "It is better to go picking blueberries …

I say higher earners and you think I'm just talking about billionaires? Deranged. I'm just people at higher than the 50th percentile. Say 75th percentile, which probably includes a…

Norwegians are rich if you look at the average, but if you compare higher earners there vs the U.S. I would say they are actually poor. For example, take an above average software …

I'm not sure the use of 'accidentally' was sincere. But I like this choice of words in your post in your first version: > unmercenary assumptions

Not if he does the type of job hopping typical in silicon valley. There are plenty of programmers who only stay at a job ~2 years, and never have to maintain a program over a long …

I'd argue .NET isn't actually that great of a multi language platform. We have a mixed F# and C# solution at work, and that split sometimes causes a lot of friction. If you have so…

Sounds like 'Age of Em' by Robin Hanson: https://ageofem.com/

Saying there is an absence of evidence (of a leak) isn't useful by itself unless they also indicate whether that is evidence of absence (of a leak). I.e., they should indicate whet…

> This doesn't make much sense. MSSQL does these already I think (except the first) We tested all of these before taking the time to do the rewriting, and no, either they don't, or…

To check if rewrite rules are still helpful, yea - we just read release notes and test manually. We've never had a rule change from being beneficial to detrimental. For most of the…

At my work, we often parse and rewrite a query before handing it off to SQL Server, because there are a lot of cases where Microsoft misses obvious optimizations. Sometimes there a…

You think I'm saying "don't be different for any reason." What I'm actually saying is "don't be different without a good reason". Python for example has been criticized for the bre…

> You may as well complain that the C guides didn't work in Java. Java borrowed a lot of syntax from C, and it has been very successful. If Java had instead taken the powershell ap…

> It is a complete re-imagining of what a shell scripting language is. Hardly surprising that it isn't backwards compatible By why does having richer return types necessarily mean …

I want to like powershell because of the richer return types, but it has so many strange deviations from normal shell languages that it is hard to get productive in it. I remember …

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Yea, making it so statements are composing via YAML was a very poor choice. One case I had was needing to change my actions so that steps D, E, and F could be retried together. Wha…