pron has been posting about programming languages for years and years, here, in public, for all to see. I guess reading them makes it personal? (We don’t know each other)
The usual persona is the hard-nosed pragmatist[1] who thinks language choice doesn’t matter and that PL preference is mostly about “programmer enjoyment”.
Edit: The original claim might have been skewed. Due to occupation the PL discussions often end up being about Java related things, and the JVM language which is criticized has often been Scala specifically. Here he recommends Kotlin over Scala (not Java): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9948798
Yup, they employed intense scrutiny on books before 2008, followed by ideological filtering as you noted, resulting in empty library shelves.
On that note, it's sad to see the GP downvoted for raising this uncomfortable truth. I guess "deaccessioning" or "weeding" reveals a certain hypocrisy among those who supposedly hate banning books.
A Rustacean implied Go was not memory safe and that Microsoft couldn't understand the power of Rust. Steve Klabnik & others told them off. But other Rustaceans, like Patrick Walton, argued that Go has memory safety issues in theory.
Rustacean, Gopher... this is an embarrassing way of looking at it.
And, speaking of, Go is not a memory safe language when you reach for its concurrency primitives as it very easily lets you violate memory safety (as opposed to Rust, .NET and JVM, where instead you get logic bugs but not memory safety ones).
I mean if I were to oversimplify and over-abstract AGI into a long list of if / elses, that's how I'd go about it. It's just that there's A Lot to consider.
Mercurial had a prominent role in the creation myth. It didn't influence git, but it was there at the same time, for the same reason, and at one time, with an equal amount of influence. Bitbucket was once seen as fairly comparable to Github. People would choose git or hg for their projects with equal regularity. The users were familiar with both choices.
Linus never cared about hg, but lots of people that cared about git at one point would also be at least familiar with some notions from hg.
>The GP put in the work to verify his own memory, after acknowledging the gaps.
The original claim didn’t say anything about it being the experience of their son for specific questions about unions. It was much broader than that. And at least partially inaccurate, given the stated result isn’t even one of the results.
>And then you belittled him.
If asking for a higher standard of evidence for a broad claim than referencing a previous experience and then trying again, but not even sharing the link from a tool that makes it easy to share the conversation from, is considered belittling, then maybe the castrations going on in these models is the right way to go for this crowd. I, personally, aim for a more truth-seeking standard.
>He met the “standard” or guidelines of our community in a way you have not.
These are two different things, and you clearly understand that but are intentionally conflating them. Regardless, if this is where are, maybe HN no longer is the place for me.
Your comment has changed substantially from its initial version.
For the latest version: I think Anduril knows who they're looking for and how to get those people. This commercial, for example, is quite deliberate in filtering out the people they don't want https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXQrci3Wff8
Without more context, this comment sounds like rehashing old (personal?) drama.
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