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"Big Sky Dev Con", not "Better Software Conference" for those who were (like me) initially confused. :) Someone commented in the past few days that the most impressive demo they sa…

Happy to learn about the concept today. It resonates with me. I sometimes think of something Kant wrote, about how friction (hardship, etc.) elevates us. In Kant's own words: "With…

As programmers and as engineers, we often seek objective metrics to judge the value of things, neglecting aesthetic value and value that cannot easily be reduced to objective metri…

That's an interesting feature I didn't know F# had. It sounds similar to row polymorphism (which I found a good description of here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7829766 ).…

I'm just putting this Alan Kay question (from Stack Overflow) here because of relevance. In that question, he's considered not with implementation or how good the execution of an i…

That looks pretty great! I would love to use this at work if functional programming idioms were already familiar to the team and I didn't face resistance introducing them. Thank yo…

I think you're right. People describe Java as being colourless.

My experience with this is in .NET, which has methods like readFile (which is async) and readFileSync. .NET doesn't really need to provide two separate utility methods like this th…

I had the same opinion with async/await, that it's nice to know a function performs IO and will wait before continuing. Makes it clearer when to use Promise.all to make multiple re…

Integrating Defender sounds like it would create an antitrust issue? If I remember correctly, MS was in the past taken to court and forced to sell some product or other separately,…

I'm not doubting, but can you give a few examples of Microsoft trouncing others? I do recall Disney (a main reason copyright laws last so long, and who didn't want Steamboat Willie…

Great article. Reminds me of this quote from RG Collingwood about how pervasive copying has been throughout history, and how the famous names we know to have copied would be baffle…

I remember you describing Ropey's author as a "lovely human" too, and want to say that "it takes one to know one/real recognises real". :)

This made me think of part of RG Collingwood's Autobiography, when he spoke of growing up while many around him were artists of one kind or another. "During the same years I was co…

I'm inclined to agree with your sentiment, but the example given doesn't quite sit right with me. "Often a sentence fragment missing a verb (like this)." vs "Often a sentence fragm…

Thanks for enumerating; I never heard of any of that except for the pandemic (and I honestly don't know either way how much better/worse someone else would have done in that positi…

I mentioned I never saw a difference in my daily life specifically, in response to a Trump presidency being called "dystopian". I was of course alive when Labour was in charge and …

That's a legitimate point. The referendum was 8 years ago and I was 18 back then so there might be some myopia on my part.

Thanks for the reply. I suppose I have a hard time seeing much happening that will be too bad for ordinary citizens either way. I recall people panicking about a Trump presidency i…

Would you mind explaining what the negative practical consequences would be in the event of a Trump nomination? The worst thing I remember from him (an action which was truly horri…

I remember my CS course using web tech (Codio) to teach coding, which doesn't seem like a bad option for educators, as far as dealing with cross-platform differences goes.

I think the FSF bent of open source is easier to identify as explicitly political because it tries to force developers to do something they may or may not want (disclose source cod…

Nice article that reminds me of that one Sherlock Holmes quote. “I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture…

Value speculation is a neat trick. I was also surprised a low-level hack like this worked in a high-level language like OCaml. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35844078