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Teaching, yes: one should stand for what's important and there might be costs, one should do that despite the costs. Life is not only about gaining some short-term things.

Btw, I heard Matz&co had taken over rubygems.org, right?

Disagree. It's just admitting that the company can and will be cynical when it comes to the conflict of interests between them and the employee. Making friends at the workplace is …

Well said, esp. the last paragraph about the Microsoft strategy.

Cool! Btw, can the sequence :? be called "reverse Elvis" ?

Making decisions based on distinguishing A from B is a legit thing to do. Complaining that it's "telling what's right and wrong" is a strawman argument IMO. It's about choices: the…

Yes but for the purpose of mentioned ISO 8601, the start of the week is assumed to be Monday.

I discovered just this week that the numbering of weeks within the year is different between US and Europe, thus, cal -w can show different numbers for some years depending on the …

Ahh, this little gem ported to Linux, great! That opens much more possibilities to play with it, thanks

No worries. My impression was, the premise of your articles was not (at least not initially) a compiler for a fullest Ruby with all of its intricacies, but rather showing a great t…

I just connected the dots. You're the guy who constructed a direct Ruby-to-assembly compiler some time ago, right?

The story remotely reminds me about this gold: What is this: does not ring, and does not fit in the ass..? Soviet device for ringing in the ass. Infinitely more funny if you lived …

Would be a good advice without this need of comparing to others

Nice to see a fellow P-N'er. This gentleman knows his craft. Good luck!

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nice troll

You're not meant to apply poor man's psychology everywhere just because you have heard about a certain psychological term.

What Joe Armstrong et al took from Prolog is mainly the syntax.

I was recently considering an engineering job offer at Grafana. At the end I was turned off by the amount of their AI-related mindless propaganda and demands they have put right in…

That's great. Is it possible to have any means of private communication with you where you would share the information who this employer is?

Kudos for giving the actual names of the guys.

It was just buzzwords from the beginning, so at least now it's less pretending to make any sense

The behavior of companies when "adapting to AI" is like a famous phrase about communism - they heroically struggle overcoming problems created purely by themselves.

Not only this, but also: Bun's fork will exhibit indeterministic behavior.