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Great post! I've worked on a few query generating systems of varying degrees of complexity, and SQL is pretty rough as a compilation target. I've spent more time than I'd have like…

No rename symbol? What am I missing? It seems like a no brainer.

If you do backend web development in 99% of software companies then being very good at whatever your RDBMS is is a superpower. It's definitely worth learning SQL very well, but you…

Ha! I had not intended to imply that one is better than the other, but I am glad that it made you feel good :). I also came "from above".

I don’t think this is confusing to the vast majority of people writing Go. In my experience, the average programmer isn’t even aware of the stack vs heap distinction these days. If…

American hegemony, and all that.

I believe they change color to express emotion.

You're right. How naive of me.

Google kills Gemini cloud services is the best one. I can't believe I haven't seen that joke until today.

In my experience (I've put hundreds of billions of tokens through structured outputs over the last 18 months), I think the answer is yes, but only in edge cases. It generally happe…

I say this in jest, but it's a fun little idea. It's easy to make the case that an LLM 'program' is homoiconic, as the code and the data are all just plain text. LLMs also offer ri…

It should have always worked this way. Without this feature you take the algebra out of relational algebra. That's the root of most of the composition issues in SQL. Sadly it's a f…

The best strategy is to write a helper function in the console to click for you. Then invest heavily in the DVDs, DVD bounce rate, stimulation per bounce, and general SPS increases…

This is a beautiful comment, and I couldn't agree more. There is only one standard of accomplishment and it's set by people like Mozart. Accepting that is humbling, but it's requir…

You're right that I didn't mean to communicate that, but it's a good point. I agree with you entirely that this is the big downside of YC and frankly all VC backed entrepreneurship…

This is the process. They want people with high agency, a bias to action, and who make progress in the face of uncertainty.

This was not my experience. I have no degree, I'm not American, and I applied back in October 2021 about 3 hours before the dead line and filmed my application video from a coffee …

Hey HN - our team wants to open source a project called NASTY (NASTY Abstract Syntax Tree thingY) that we built for ourselves. NASTY was built to maintain testable/composable data …

I'm in the UK (Oxfordshire) and have a 1gb symmetrical connection at home. It's provided by Gigaclear - there's a handful of other similar operators that do fibre in more "rural" a…

Don't overthink it, just get out there and talk to people. The more the better. In my experience, the limiting factor on day 1 is a lack of information, so your job is to learn unt…

Congrats on the launch! It's a bit early for me to try out something like this but I'm keen on exploring a usage based pricing model for my product... I'll come knocking when the t…

This is similar to what I do (although I use esbuild), however like an idiot I just run tsc manually so obviously I forget sometimes and it takes 10 minutes to realise the build fa…

It's an alternative to the X window system: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/ Appreciate where you're coming from re the detail. It can be hard to know where to draw the line when e…