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This. Maybe there's a market opportunity for people who want to be treated like cattle, but even Spirit couldn't find it.

The comments are pretty convincing evidence that most people see only everyone else's complexity while slowly boiling in their own.

Rent-seeking, anyone?

> "small-ish backoffice systems that never has to be web scale". Doesn't production use of Datomic by Nubank and Netflix (to mention just two examples) belie this assertion?

> If you have 10s or 100s of app servers that has the exact same working set in memory, it's probably not worth it. The introduction of intelligent application-level partitioning […

Having the working set present on app servers means they don't put load on a precious centralized resource which becomes a bottleneck for reads. The peer model allows app servers t…

Newer releases have improved significantly in this area. It's now possible to understand perf implications with the addition of io-stats[1] and query-stats[2]. [1] https://docs.dat…

Free beer binaries are not mutually exclusive of Enterprise support agreements featuring all those things you mentioned above _for people that need that_.

Netflix, Facebook (Meta), Nubank, and many others.

Attending https://2023.clojure-conj.org/schedule/

A company that wastes its own money and its candidates' time by failing to screen out any of its red flags as soon as they are known is a red flag.

I mean... 1. https://clojure.org/news/news 2. https://ask.clojure.org/ 3. https://groups.google.com/g/clojure 4. http://planet.clojure.in/ 5. https://twitter.com/i/communities/1494…

Only teenagers?

> Who is really going to be interested in building on top of tech owned by a (new, unknown, regional) bank? As opposed to building on top of tech "owned" by a small software consul…

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> then I remembered that historically hackers have been phenomenally bad people to give any kind of real power to. As opposed to the paragons of virtue who wield power now.

Would be nice to find the microbe that converts plastic to plants.

Confirmation of the old Spanish proverb: "es mejor estar solo que mal acompañado." https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/es%20mejor%20estar%20s...

Whether you're affiliated with Gitlab or not, it's kind of shitty to use someone's platform to push a competitor. Nothing in the terms of service forbids it of course and you're ab…

Getting the word out is what the HN post is for. That's orthogonal to where the content is hosted. In addition to the confidence comment, I think it's kind of shitty.

Because artists have been depicting the political system for centuries.