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Facebook used the same strategy to compete with Google Maps. The company became one of the biggest contributors to OpenStreetMap, which everyone has benefited from downstream.

Submitting projects like this to HN is a good way to get them nerfed.

If they're optimizing for SVG generation, then that's an excellent outcome in my opinion. Vector images shouldn't be "pretty niche".

It's an interesting example of the metric becoming a target. Simon started drawing pelicans because it wasn't something that existed before.

Another format that's worth investigating is Asciidoc. It supports the richness of Docbook XML but has fewer quirks than rST in my eyes.

Sorry if this is somewhat pedantic, but I believe that only US companies (and possibly only Delaware corporations?) are bound by the requirement to maximize shareholder value and t…

References only have a single bit available as a niche (the null byte), which Option makes use of for null pointer optimization ( https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/index.html#re…

Asciidoc corresponds directly to DocBook XML. They're two formats with exactly the same semantics.

MCP is an example of "worse is better". Everyone knows that it's not very good, but it gets the job done.

It's been a while since I've played in the area, but is PCA still the go to method for dimensionality reduction?

This reminds me of when I provided some impressions of Erlang as a newcomer to their mailing list. One of my suggestions was that they include hash tables, rather than rely on reco…

There are a few commercially valid strategies. 1. Goodwill and mindshare. If you're known as "the best" or "the most innovative", then you'll attract customers. 2. Talent acquisiti…

That's a curious remark, although I guess it doesn't look high level from the eyes of someone looking at programming languages today. C has always been classed as a high level lang…

Perhaps the most generous interpretation is that the authors were writing an article for people who do the naïve thing without reading the docs. There are quite a few people in tha…

> The secretive nature of Cyc has multiple causes. Lenat personally did not release the source code of his PhD project or EURISKO, remained unimpressed with open source, and dislik…

When production took longer and costs were not optimized, there was time for editors and writers to spend time editing and writing.

Shipping highly optimized assembler for a program made to work on computers with 4KB RAM as a ~100 MB PDF is quite the flex. I must admit that while it's computationally quite wast…

More generally, using the prefix "Modern" haunts every product name that uses it. Technologies move fast and modern becomes antiquated very quickly.

My workaround is to use a computer monitor connected to a Linux box that I actually control.

I've always assumed that they charge you for publishing.

I consider Rust's Result and Option to be monads. Is this incorrect?

I love how deeply nerd-sniped you have been by this topic. It's wonderful to be able to observe your delight in solving this. Thank you for sharing.

That's the intent of the document - to reach people for guidance. The document under discussion is requesting comment from industry.

Sorry for the huge delays and also for missing the LinkedIn message. Your support for creators is very much appreciated. There is now light at the end of the tunnel. More info here…

I'm extremely sorry about this. It's been such a huge wait for everyone who supported me. Thank you so much for holding on so long. I finally have time to complete the material and…