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by 10241024 4y ago
Could someone explain to me why cars running on natural gas aren't popular in the US like they are in South America / Europe? Converting a car to also run on natural gas costs a few hundred dollars in South America / Europe b
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by 10241024 4y ago
Bill Gates was prescient about many things we are living with right now - video-on-demand, online shopping, "wallet PCs" (smartphones), voice recognition, "social interfaces" (Siri, Alexa). I recommend his book The Road
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by 10241024 4y ago
> Vlang has constantly over promised and under delivered, most of the features they advertise don't work or works in a very limited scope. This is the 3rd time in this thread this claim is getting repeated. From my previous comment:
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by 10241024 4y ago
By the way usually when a hit piece about V starts circulating on HN, the author of V takes the time to refute the claims in the comments section: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31793554 (Ctrl+F amedvednikov) But I ag
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by 10241024 4y ago
To give you some background on why your original post might've been considered inflammatory - the author of the blog you shared has openly said "V is something that should be ignored until it dies into obscurity": https:&#x2
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by 10241024 4y ago
Since you are comparing Zig with V: > V promised a lot of stuff as ready but has undelivered most of them This is wrong. V has an online playground, a package manager, hot code reloading and a REPL whereas Zig doesn't even though Zi
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by 10241024 4y ago
D and Nim are great mature languages. If you think they're suitable for the domain you're working on and reach out for either of them, you're not gonna go wrong. They have large communities and you'll easily find answers
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by 10241024 4y ago
4 months of severance + 2 extra weeks for every year of service i.e. 20 weeks (~5 months) if you've been there for the last 10 years. So ~9 months paid holiday in total. Not bad at all.
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by 10241024 4y ago
https://archive.ph/85Zxv
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by 10241024 4y ago
Literally from the thread I shared: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33337381 (posted from a 12-year-old account) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33333904 (posted from a 2-year-old account)
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by 10241024 4y ago
Hard to ignore it when it's always in your face: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33331549 I don't mind languages getting hyped but seeing posts every week on the front page of HN about an unstable esoteric la
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by 10241024 4y ago
Great question. I'm subscribed to daily newsletters on The Washington Post, Bloomberg and The BBC News. This is how I stay in the loop. I also get instant notifications for breaking news (e.g. when the latest prime minister of the UK r
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by 10241024 4y ago
Thank you for the explanation. I didn't know that (I'm new here).
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by 10241024 4y ago
Duplicate of this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33401486
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by 10241024 4y ago
Duplicate of this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33370434
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by 10241024 4y ago
Probably this thread is going to have some anecdotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33374770 It's already got ~1,600 comments.
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by 10241024 4y ago
The Road Ahead by Bill Gates (1995) It made me realize it's not companies I would like to be working at but people I would like to be working with.