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I suppose that depends on what your skill set is. At some point the project would greatly benefit from some attention from a UI/UX specialist -- I'm doing my best, but it's not wha…

Is! We're not dead yet! (see my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36193093 ). I don't think app packaging could be said to be the achilles heel -- how much work it…

The biggest change lately is probably: https://zenhack.net/2023/01/06/introducing-tempest.html But yeah, Sandstorm has been in a state of "not dead but not moving fast" basically s…

Have a look at the packaging tutorial: https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/vagrant-spk/packaging-tu...

The networked actor-model bit & CapTP goes back to E originally[1]. The other contemporary real-world protocol based on this design is capnproto rpc[2], which has implementations i…

> Replacing pointer arithmetic where it's needed with array indexing stands out the most but there's other issues. What situations do you run into where array indexing is not an ac…

There's an opportunity cost. There has to have been a better use of that person's time than taking a tool designed to say yes to repetitive "are you sure?" prompts, and get it to k…

> Of course, there's a very conscious tradeoff being made here. In rust, "cargo build" allows arbitrary execution of code for any dependency (trivially via build.rs), while in go, …

The trouble is that this assumes pre-determined quantity of work. The reality I've seen most in places is that there's no end of stuff to do. The work is never "done." What there i…

I think grep is a compelling example of when it makes sense to do the extra work here. But I'm more dubious of the idea that carefully optimising yes was a good use of engineering …

It's always amazing to me how much performance work the basic gnu tools have seen in general. Grep makes some sense, but even yes(1) is fairly carefully tuned; in some cases it act…

The package they passed in March was $2 trillion. That's _five orders of magnitude_ difference.

$75M is rounding error compared to anything being discussed in the vicinity of the pandemic; I wouldn't really expect it to enter into the conversation.

Obligatory: https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm (Given your numbers and the ones in the talk, it would appear medium pages have doubled in size since the talk was given…

Can't speak for the OP, but for myself: I am not qualified to evaluate the evidence in this case; I just don't have the biology background. But sometimes when you get some out-ther…

My best guess is it's some function of the popularity. The three that my profile shows are - capnproto/capnproto - sandstorm-io/sandstorm - erlang/otp (I don't remember the order).…

PyPI's architecture isn't meaningfully different than npm's. Npm has seen more high profile incidents because: 1. Packages tend to be smaller, and the transitive dependency trees o…

The word "founder" just means "person who started a thing." The use as a synonym for entrepreneur is something I basically haven't seen anywhere outside of very business-focused co…

I'm really glad somebody decided to write this up in a more informal way; I remember being interested in pijul back when that paper was basically the closest thing the tool had to …

Related, capnproto has a corresponding feature (which it calls unions), but being a dsl for defining _protocols_, you obviously have to deal with the possibility of introducing new…

Star-wars is kindof an exceptional case. The original was the highest grossing film of all time when it was released. Return of the Jedi came out years before I was born but the to…

Fwiw, my usual work flow involves 2 remotes, one for the project's mainline repo and one for my fork.

I don't have any great insight that's not in the public record, but from reading that announcement and the other article you linked, observations: - There are a bunch of references…

I think you're right that most folks don't have as detailed a definition in mind as the fairly verbose open source definition. But I think most folks have in mind something more pe…

I assume aweinstock was referring to the first link you posted: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/dynamic Which is an entirely different package, and the relevant types are entir…