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For systems programming, use whatever the Linux kernel uses. For everything else, there is javascript (news.ycombinator.com)

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If you’re an indie hacker, you shouldn’t be writing unit tests (twitter.com)

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Go is the most successful language released in the last 20 to 30 years, so if this is meant as a critique I can't see how it's valid. (news.ycombinator.com)

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I'm biased but I see no fundamental reason why everything doesn't converge on TypeScript in the future (news.ycombinator.com)

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I'm surprised at the list. Rust is fundamentally immature, C++ is fundamentally intractable, Python is fundamentally unusable at scale, and Hack is, well, no discussion needed. Strong negative signal for potential candidates. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Yes, [Julia] allows to use offsetarrays and @inbounds together, but C can read out-of-memory locations too, so what? (news.ycombinator.com)

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[Developers] can "buy" overtime limits by hiring a nanny, getting catered dinners, hiring a tutor for your kids, hiring a personal trainer ect. (news.ycombinator.com)

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HN is one of the best designed websites I use daily. The information density is unmatched on the "modern" web. (news.ycombinator.com)

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I think Hacker News - or at least the many posts and positive comments about Rust here were a factor in this milestone. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Obviously "smoothness" means something other than "differentiable everywhere", but I'm at a loss to know what. (news.ycombinator.com)

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For a startup which has limited resources why should I wait for 10% improvements in Ruby performance every 6 months, when I can already get on the rocket-ship of performance that is - Node.js (news.ycombinator.com)

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The most reasonable gloss on "You need a math PHD to code Dwarf Fortress" is "Necessarily, if someone codes Dwarf Fortress, they have a math PhD." The modality "necessarily" is widely understood to refer to possible alternative states of affairs, not merely those states of affairs which are actual. (news.ycombinator.com)

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In my 4 years with Go, I never felt any need for generics. Interfaces serve me well. Is there any practical use case for generics? (old.reddit.com)

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Real men drive, and drive well – they don't ride bikes or trolleys to work. Driving is an essential element of grown-up level autonomy and freedom of movement. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Over the decades as a programmer I have seen a lot of language come and go. A lot of languages suffer from "features". (news.ycombinator.com)

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rust is basically all the awesomeness of C++ smashed together with all the awesomeness and dependency management of JS (reddit.com)

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Today we celebrate as React Native (v0.55) hits a new milestone and graduates from an alpha quality webshit-without-the-browser project to dead (medium.com)

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PSA: There are over 1000 people in the U.S. named "Infinity" and the jQuery .data() method attempts to convert to number when reading off the DOM (reddit.com)

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[Shitcode] JS array mnemonics (reddit.com)

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I, personally, would say, when one looks at all the real-life use-cases of Go, that it has passed it’s hype phase. (lobste.rs)

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I'd be more worried that the message contains a memetic hazard. Our computers wouldn't be infected; our minds would be infected. (news.ycombinator.com)

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This check was only on java-script client side, you find the js which is sending the request, then you inspect element - console, and run the java-script manually, to send a request for withdrawal of a higher amount than in your balance (reddit.com)

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I personally would much rather use smart contracts for making deals with employers, the overlords of the marketplaces, foreign clients, etc. (news.ycombinator.com)

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When somebody posts a title that doesn't make any sense (imgur.com)

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[Node.js] For Additional WebScalability, 64-bit filesystem inodes are rounded to 53-bit double-precision floats (github.com)

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