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I made it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37932996

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081 Inspired by this exchange: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37923271

Unlicensed is the same as fully copyrighted. There is a presumotion of ownership. Licenses in this case serve to clarify allowable uses. Without a license, nothing is allowable as …

The Ozymandius is amazing: http://www.thecodelesscode.com/case/234

Do we want to heat up the oceans that much though?

Isn't that a bit obvious? We all know about the tens of billions paid every year to maintain position. Obviously this wasn't in case Apple would segue to Bing. The business case of…

How much time do you guys really need for such a course? I have then stacking up and have a list of a few dozen books and courses to go over. I am beginning to think I'm doing this…

Every organization differs, of course, making this difficult to usefully answer. I have always prefered seeing senior devs as capable of architecting and implementing solutions (be…

We had seen interesting developpments around vector databases, but then people stopped hyping them as you could just save them in normal databases without real differences. I wonde…

Does anyone have a recomended book to learn chemistry? Assuming nearly 0 knowledge retained from school. P.s. cool that our names are so close.

Does browse also mean post/save in some way? That would potentially enable an eventual escape scenario, with memory.

I thought it was the default android podcast app, lacking ads etc. This is sad, alas...

Elixir seems to be picking up insane steam right now. Every day or two there is a fascinating Elixir post here and its promise seems too good to resist. Has anyone else latched the…

You are thinking of BSD, which is far more stable than Linux for servers etc.

How do you set this up?

How could I make that clearer? I explicitly asked about what language ecosystems offer the snallest production containers and gave examples.

(Inspired by this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36653340 and Whartung's observation that Linux forums used to bring up packaging the run time.) What languages can fit in th…

You can skip "echo" and let the error message output "hello world" along with extra text!

Learn Racket. It's an amazing introduction to computer science / programming. My partner has been picking it up lately having a lot of fun and learning a lot at the same time.

The best Racket textbook (Beautiful Racket) is even focused around building new languages!

I once bought socks on Amazon, which came with a note saying they would send me a free item for a good review. I then got a free electric kettle with another card. Then I got lense…

I've been working on porting golang's net/http and gorilla/websocket libs to Racket for the past few months (I don't like the servelet model.) Does anyone have insight into how tha…

What use cases do you actually have for plugins? I mean, why do you need that hotloading factor?

> they're building everything on Illumos (Solaris) This is an amazing plus in my eyes. Solaris systems are amazing.

Could you share more about how nd why you use AIX? How is it in production? Im very interested in corp Unixes but have never met anyone still using one, alrhough new features keep …