icelend

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   by icelend 7y ago

   For me, HN is not a news source. HN is a forum.
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   by icelend 7y ago

   Yeah, that's a good point, given how Crystal might very well work as a language for making games.
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   by icelend 7y ago

   >I know most of the core fiddly bits of AWS like the back of my hand but Azure and GCP are completely incomprehensible to me. You don't think there's anything wrong with that, given how they're tackling almost an identical
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   by icelend 7y ago

   This is all cool, and I'm happy for you for your privilege and luck. However, I'm not sure what your anecdote has to do with what Shopify's CEO is saying. Certainly your hours are not necessary, rather you (and/or your m
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   by icelend 7y ago

   When a company builds a certification system around its thing, you can be sure that simplicity and ease-of-use has stopped being a problem for them.
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   by icelend 7y ago

   >Hilarious considering it is, by far, the most used desktop operating system. You think so? The latest Stackoverflow survey says otherwise: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-... "Linux
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   by icelend 7y ago

   >You pretty much have to go out of your way to make a language that won't run on Windows. That's a bit ridiculous. In the group of most desktop operating systems, Windows is the odd ball. Supporting it is a huge hassle, and fro
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   by icelend 7y ago

   Well, ok, so Crystal is 0 years old.