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i work for a for-profit owned by a non-profit. This is a weird take. You can shape a product, sure you need to bring in a profit, but there are options of working with your owner (…

is that like a Landau Lifshitz for Math?

I think there was a funding campaign once where a developer offered to re-implement the missing Apple APIs, but since they basically put up a standard salary it didn't reach the fu…

I always wonder at these attributions. Like all windows versions gave you bluescreen and ran Microsoft excel. To me not one stood out particularly bad or good compared to the other…

this summarizes pretty well my first thoughts when reading the headline: "How python grew from a language to a community", because the Python community in 2000, the Python communit…

Just reading the title. As a college student the premise of screening through the cocktail menu would have sounded like a great project. As a 30 something I am more interested of d…

> I think this is a very lopsided way of looking at pull requests. They are about a lot more than just trust. Reviewing and being reviewed is a great way of learning from colleague…

Indeed it was.

I used to think this way, i.e. assuming a misunderstanding on the product development side. Nowadays I think its more of a conscious decision many times. Like "We know someone coul…

Honestly, its infuriating. There are three languages that I speak and understand sufficiently well for consuming youtube videos. I don't ever want these to be translated. And then,…

I studied at a German university where one of the prominent advocates for universal basic income, Götz Werner (the owner of a well-known German health and beauty retail chain), gav…

That is an interesting example because the second amendment is I think a primary example of a law that is very creatively read by folks that consider themselves literalists. if the…

thank you for a well written reply, that I did not have the patience to write.

Really cool to see Oberon / Modula retro-tech stuff on the front page. Whats somewhat interesting is how structurally similar Oberon is to Go. One could say Go is Oberon dragged ha…

ah, thanks, that isn't extremely exotic.

When I used parser combinations in rust years ago the compile times were really long. In also think it’s a strange reason to move away from rust as a language.

Again, it is not a failure of him or his project that his development process heavily relied on him reviewing, modifying and merging patches and that he at times did not commit tim…

It’s astonishing that you can arrive at this conclusion from my comment. He did great work, his development process did not scale. I am happy that I was able to use vim for more th…

Braam really took Neovim personally and got better at getting stuff into vim that he wouldn't merge before once neovim was arround as a competitor. I really lost track of vim in th…

It seems they lost the first game in the gGmbH (gemeinnützige GmbH, thus "charitable Ltd") leading to a normal GmbH (similar to a Ltd.). In Germany only certain purposes qualify as…

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Quite often you have a sequence. There is a dance that becomes popular, music is composed for dancing and played for dancing. At one point fancy composers use the rhythmic and melo…

There is (mechanical/optical/*) engineering, experimental and theoretical physics, and then there is maths (focussing on physical problems). I think taking these four abstraction l…

That's a bit ... excessive? A compatibility nightmare of the same magnitude as Python 2 to Python 3 migration.

> By reputation it produced some excellent developers It goes both ways, excellent developers, quite often people who would also have excelled in a computer science program (but fa…