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Nah I worked at Google and even there most engineers didn't like Go.

Nowadays it's really easy enough to use real Haskell in the browser with GHCJS, and FRP libraries like Reflex provide a much more complete experience than Elm's restricted form.

They give you all that stuff to some degree to cover over how toxic the culture and job is otherwise. Leaving Google was the best decision I ever made despite the fact that I now g…

I left Google for very many of the reasons mentioned in the article and I'm a white male. So I can only imagine how hard it must be for minorities. Thankfully I had the opportunity…

IMO Unix is plenty bad enough to warrant replacement but unfortunately its iron grip on computing dooms any good ideas like capabilities in the short to medium term (at least 10 ye…

Why is it on AMD to support TensorFlow? Pretty sure it is on the machine learning people to use the standard APIs like OpenCL or Vulkan etc instead of CUDA...

I quite working at Google largely because I found many more dicks there than average. So maybe Max would be a perfect fit. (Although let's not forget that admitting you are a dick …

Arch with reproducible builds is called NixOS. No but in all seriousness, maybe there should be some unification of efforts. The distros share a similar philosophy modulo Nix's bet…

IPFS isn't a consumer app. It's an underlying protocol to power something which presumably would build in encryption.

Yeah coming from NYC these numbers seem pretty high especially considering everyone here is saying they're low for being biased towards startups.

Interesting that they relate this to linear logic. Of the various sub-structural logics I'm pretty sure ordered logic (no exchange) is much more similar to stack machines than line…

Is FUSE itself really not fast enough? Referencing Dropbox/Project Infinite seems to suggest this is a network latency issue.

This level of myopia from Go developers is why it gets so much flack.

It's simply astounding that the Google engineers working on Go lack the imagination to understand what problems generics would solve.

I don't fundamentally disagree with the article but this is ridiculous: > People sometimes ask me, “What is the most important concept in political economy?” The answer is easy, bu…

CS education will have to improve dramatically both in reach and quality for that to be possible. Doesn't seem likely for many decades.

This is really well written and seems to agree with the traditional FP lore. I'm curious what led Alan Kay then to OOP in Smalltalk.

Rich people have done an absolutely astounding job of convincing poor conservatives that this nonsense makes sense.

Study Suggests Malnutrition Can Be Fixed With Food, Not Crop Hoarding

This is an interesting line of thought. The spread of capitalism was fueled by the new technology of the Industrial Revolution. Perhaps the next mode of production will be fueled b…

Private property and personal property are not the same thing.

You don't think good old fashioned bugs are a problem?

> will be permanently successful Surely you don't mean actually permanent. So what time scale do you think they will last?

Off by one errors basically don't exist if you use modern languages and practices.