- Ha yep. I remember a lot of this drama from my early days working with rails. But my impression is that none of this mattered and has long been water under the bridge. (I didn't know until reading about this current episode that there is new DHH drama.)
- The confusing thing to me about Shopify's role in this - assuming this reporting is accurate - is that if they think having a dependency on open source infrastructure like this is an existential threat, then you would think the solution is to do their own work to break that dependency, not to throw their weight around in this public and dramatic way.
- This is all very interesting, but I'm sorry, personally I just feel the same as the poster you replied to. I don't experience this as anything weird, I just experience it as if I'm looking at a map from the top.
- Yeah, requiring a check in every month to keep getting a prescription always struck me as an ironic requirement when treating people with ADHD.
- Yeah I was initially drawn to rust because I loved ocaml but wished it were more practical.
- I feel like it's the same target market as the Maverick, but the (certainly smaller currently) subset of that market that prefers the drivability of EVs.
I think if they can actually pull off this vehicle at this price point, it will be nice, though maybe still not successful.
But I'm very happy to see US carmakers trying to figure out how to do cheaper EVs. I hope others will follow suit (and that Tesla will get their heads out of their asses and work on this too).
- Excellent point. But I do think that forcing people to use IDEs for productivity was a thing for awhile. But still agree that the current moment is a difference in kind not just in scale.
- Huh? Most people use tools like vim for productivity...
I agree with you that AI dev tools are overhyped at the moment. But IDEs were, in fact, overhyped (to a lesser degree) in the past.
- This seems like a non sequitur. What does this have to do with this thread?
- > It's hard to think of any other major tech product where it's acceptable to shift so much blame on the user.
Maybe, but it isn't hard to think of developer tools where this is the case. This is the entire history of editor and IDE wars.
Imagine running this same study design with vim. How well would you expect the not-previously-experienced developers to perform in such a study?
- > That's as darn good of an explanation of why we fall down as one could possibly give.
To me, the right word for this sentence is clearly "how", not "why".
- And IMO more clearly good. QSBS, like the mortgage deduction, is good for me personally, but still questionable policy in my view.
- It might benefit me someday, but that doesn't mean I'm "thrilled" about it. Government policy is about more than just getting yours.
- The example in the article seemed a lot easier to build and use than a C++ extension.
It's unclear to me from this comment, what exactly your pushback is.
- This isn't an empirical question, it's analysis, not fact finding.
- Ok bub! Enjoy your pleasant fantasy!
- > Taiwan, Japan, Poland, Canada, Spain, Australia, many others, these are all countries that do not have nukes, have a great political and economic relationship with the US, and are currently at 0% risk of attack or invasion by our shared enemies (ok, you can put Taiwan at slightly higher than 0%).
Including Taiwan in this list is hilarious.
Poland, Canada, Spain, Australia, and others, are certainly reevaluating the wisdom of their current strategy. That's the whole point I'm making.
- It would have been easier to solve that problem than to spin up an entire nuclear weapons capability from scratch.
- > Ukraine didn't have nukes. Would they have been invaded if they had nukes? Unclear. Maybe. Maybe not.
Generally interesting comment, but this particular thing is faux uncertainty, I think. The answer is clearly no.
The way North Korea is using their nukes is by not being invaded by their neighboring rivals.
Agreed that if they had created and fully controlled the whole thing from the start, like your Facebook example, that would make more sense. But this aggressive addition of a new owner and removal of existing owners and maintainers seems very hostile and risky to me.