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The first part was a question and the second two parts were examples. Writers can't be held responsible for the lack of reading comprehension exhibited by audience members.

isn't a computer limitation it is a physical one. Assumes facts not in evidence. That could easily be a firmware (on-gate) vs. software (DHD) argument. Carter said it is "impossibl…

Protip: don't take hundreds of millions of dollars from VCs if you care about your users.

Nice comparison! But, more likely, it's just a play on a reason a Stargate (when unaided by some hostile energy source or time dilation field) just shuts off after 38 minutes with …

In Erlang you need to have explicit number of arguments and need to explicitly implement them. Or, you know, just use lists as parameters. That's the standard Erlang pattern for un…

Elixir is really not similar to Ruby and the comparison wears thin. Wasn't Elixir just created because 100%-Ruby-til-Death programmers refuse to learn any other non-ruby-like synta…

Erlang is a DSL for weeding out smart programmers from drone programmers.

allocate a separate list node for each piece of data So many programmers don't even consider "overhead" of data when writing things. But, most of the time it doesn't matter. Do you…

strong AI can be immortal My grandfather was very racist and never changed as long as he lived. I'm glad most people aren't immortal. There's no guarantee a full AI wouldn't be tem…

I do not understand how a business can understand OSS and implement the OSS core-only model Whenever you see "open core," you should read it as "VCs said we need to do this to keep…

Not really factitious. The whole "do things that don't scale (grit! be resilient! schlep!)" is pretty central to modern cult of pg startup dogma.

That's the holy grail of The Cloud: just write a description of what you want and what you want happens. DWIM programmatic casting. I think pg originated his "sufficiently smart co…

It would fix a lot of things like e.g. San Francisco. Imagine if all those two story, single family homes were taxed at their land value (40 story condos! condos everywhere!) where…

NGDP level targeting says during economic downturns, the government should fill the gap between the downturn and the previous economic output level (creating jobs, buying things, p…

before the Friendly AI problem has been solved. That's like saying they aren't telling us how to make time travel because the grandfather paradox hasn't been solved. They aren't wi…

If Tesla employees can address individual cars with no oversight or audit trail or "2+ man rule" in place, that's a huge lapse of professional responsibility. We need something lik…

Somewhat uncharacteristic for him. But probably perfectly characteristic of the design firm he hired to do it for him.

holy run on sentence batman I posted this yesterday if it helps: https://matt.sh/heroin

Would you fix a software bug by editing the code on a running server and tell yourself that you will add it to the repository later? Absolutely yes in the right circumstances (have…

access to several other acquired founders who helped us ultimately navigate That's founder code for "we actually failed, but we know rich people, so our failure is really our succe…

Rarely. It's mostly a game of "i'm too chicken to make decisions on my own." VCs love love love the joke of "We're supposed to be all about new unproven dynamic ventures and insigh…

Everything falls after launch. Everything. It's relatively easy to get the "hey look over there!" viral bump, but beyond that it turns into a game of retention with ugly words like…

VCR repair too. The big thing nobody talks about (or some people even brag about) is how Tesla records your entire driving history to improve their future products. It's kinda cree…

trying to distill the activity of 7+ billion people Yeah, it's slightly disingenuous, but we still need some models. It's like when people take the total revenue of Google and divi…