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by hardwaregeek 16d ago
It’s a music player that regularly cannot play music. I don’t understand how you get that wrong for so long.
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by hardwaregeek 24d ago
That seems like a perfectly good use of time for a kid in the 70’s! You’d learn a lot of engineering skills and demonstrate a tenaciousness that most people don’t have. I don’t think the goal is to predict what will be the important technol
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by hardwaregeek 1mo ago
I feel like people aren’t updating to the possibility that a significant portion of software development could be under the purview of SpaceX. Whether it’s developer Twitter, Cursor’s planned GitHub competitor, or Cursor/Grok, that’s a
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by hardwaregeek 3mo ago
Ok but isn’t that true of all software development? It’s not like anybody’s done a rigorous test of writing their entire codebase in Python vs Java. It’s all vibes based there. People create post-hoc justifications for why they use certain
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Strace-UI, Bonsai_term, and the TUI Renaissance(blog.janestreet.com)
4 points by hardwaregeek 4mo ago|0 comments
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by hardwaregeek 5mo ago
When you start getting hate, you’ve made it. Up until then you’re a hypothetical that people like. Maybe they’ve built a side project with you or read the docs. You only get hate when people have used your tool and butted up against limitat
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by hardwaregeek 5mo ago
Both can be true? You can be doing really well and still have long term risk. Dethroning incumbents takes longer than people think and it’s possible that search growth goes 20%, 10%, -10%, -50%
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by hardwaregeek 5mo ago
A fun counter factual: try “proving” that famous scientists are their collaborators based on this methodology. Obviously Hardy and Littlewood are the same person. They’re both British mathematicians who use analysis and number theory and ha
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by hardwaregeek 6mo ago
I’ve proposed that someone open a restaurant of invasive species. You could make some decent dishes with lionfish, blackberries, golden oyster mushrooms, venison, etc
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by hardwaregeek 6mo ago
Agreed. I was skeptical of Deno and I think their package management story was a mistake. But the people were still trying to make JavaScript better and doing so out of genuine love for the language. I especially feel for the employees who
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by hardwaregeek 6mo ago
I'm not fully convinced that there's a tenable model for open source devtool companies. Usually there's some handwavy plan to do hosting or code quality that never comes to fruition. Hosting is a hard business and the 800 pou
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by hardwaregeek 6mo ago
I wonder if it's almost like a new version of management consulting. You hire/invest in a bunch of smart 20-somethings who seem generally intelligent with the idea that they'll "disrupt" an industry with their from-
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by hardwaregeek 6mo ago
For what it’s worth Ruby’s JIT took several different implementations, definitely struggled with Rails compatibility and literally used some people’s PhD research. It wasn’t a trivial affair
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by hardwaregeek 7mo ago
That’d also be an interesting data point! What’s the upper limits of vibe coding? Can you vibe code rust? What about an entire programming language toolchain? How about an ecosystem? Can you make a parallel npm?
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by hardwaregeek 7mo ago
I really want to host a vibe coding competition and see what can actually be made with these systems. Like if we’re doing insane token spends, it better be in service of creating amazing stuff. Can we make an entirely new programming langua
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Nothing's Happening(uptointerpretation.com)
1 points by hardwaregeek 7mo ago|1 comments
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by hardwaregeek 7mo ago
There’s probably a good reason why not, but I’d love a query language with sum types. They just feel like a natural way to model a lot of data
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by hardwaregeek 7mo ago
The fundamental issue is that all of education and childhood accomplishments have become cynical, overly competitive games. Science fairs are now attempts for a child to piggyback off of a lab’s existing work and claim they discovered it. S
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by hardwaregeek 10mo ago
I don’t think these are mutually exclusive takes. Bun is essentially taking Node and giving it a standard library and standard tooling. But you can still use regular node packages if you want. Whereas Deno def leaned into the clean break fo
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by hardwaregeek 10mo ago
I was wondering if the logo would be a tortilla
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by hardwaregeek 10mo ago
Perhaps OCaml is the Velvet Underground of languages. Only a few thousand people learned OCaml but every one made a programming language[1] [1]: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/03/01/velvet/
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by hardwaregeek 10mo ago
I like OCaml and have written the "why we chose XYZ language" posts. Most of the time the real answer is "we like it and it makes us feel good to use it". Like the answers aren't wrong per se but they're more
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by hardwaregeek 11mo ago
Never underestimate cultural momentum I guess. NBA players shot long 2 pointers for decades before people realized 3 > 2. Doctors refused to wash their hands before doing procedures. There’s so many things that seem obvious in retrospect
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by hardwaregeek 11mo ago
I gotta say, I feel pretty vindicated after hearing for years how Python’s tooling was just fine and you should just use virtualenv with pip and how JS must be worse, that when Python devs finally get a taste of npm/cargo/bundler
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by hardwaregeek 11mo ago
I’d agree before AI but it’s so easy to add tests with AI, you might as well. Same with types. You can have AI fix your type checker errors
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by hardwaregeek 1y ago
Hudson River Trading's distributed file system for comparison: https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/hrtbeat/distributed-files...
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by hardwaregeek 1y ago
Remix 3 appears to not be based on React. The React Router/Remix people write great libraries. The problem is that they're constantly chasing the next great library. By the time you use their latest creation, they've already
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by hardwaregeek 1y ago
Nice! I've wanted to give a similar talk. My thesis is that Rust won on usability above all else. If you look at the semantics of Rust, it's essentially an ML style language with typeclasses and linear types. In some alternate his
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by hardwaregeek 1y ago
I think you can say Rust won. There's enough investment from big tech and enough demonstrated value that it won't go away. And compared to functional languages with similarly sophisticated type systems? Rust has gained more users
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by hardwaregeek 1y ago
Yeah it’s tricky because there’s often a senior/junior dynamic here. Junior people really do benefit from structure and in person mentorship. They also tend to have worse home office setups and more free time. Whereas senior people ten

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