Copy to another hard drive. Guess twice. Wipe hard drive. Rinse, wash, repeat. Infinite guesses.
Readit Newsaggieben commented on Ask HN: How do you decide which programming language to use? · Posted by u/javaguy1
As an individual, I almost always would choose a language I already know comfortably, and every other factor would come after that - unless I were setting out to learn something new.
Other factors:
- is there tooling that will help me be productive with this language?
- is there a broad enough community of users such that finding helpful resources will be straightforward?
- how likely is it that the language I choose will be well-supported by its owners (or community) in 5-10 years?
- is the language expressive? can it be made to be efficient?
- does it appeal to me aesthetically?
- does it have good cross-platform support? (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- is it supported by build systems and/or CI products?
Through the filter of "stuff I know", my choice for most things at this point is F# on .NET Core/.NET 5. (and/or Fable).
For learning something new, I'd probably choose elixir with elm, or maybe Rust, depending on the application.
aggieben commented on Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web withblue.ink/2020/11/12/m... · Posted by u/talhah
I really hate that these discussions always end up stopping at whether the idea of censorship is good or bad. One side will point out all the bad ways censorship can be used, and then the other side will point out the misinformation that spreads when there is absolute free speech.
The thing is, both sides are right. However, neither side ever talks about trying to take any steps to mitigate the negatives of their position.
I am anti-censorship, but I think that people on our side can't just ignore the damage misinformation is causing our society right now. We also can't just rely on the old adage that "the truth will win out in the end". Free speech advocates like to believe that is a truism, but the evidence keeps showing us that that isn't true. There is nothing inevitable about the truth, and lies have many advantages that can often prevent the truth from winning.
So what do we do? I am much more interested in talking about steps we can take to mitigate and prevent misinformation while preserving free speech.
Just because censorship isn't a good option doesn't mean we should just throw up our hands and allow misinformation to win the day. The truth needs allies, and allies with a strategy.
> I am much more interested in talking about steps we can take to mitigate and prevent misinformation while preserving free speech.
How do you even categorize misinformation when western societies have decided that there is no such thing as truth?
Our crisis is far, far, deeper than what information can be published online. We are in the midst of an epistemological cataclysm.
aggieben commented on Astonishing Performance of .NET 5 alexyakunin.medium.com/as... · Posted by u/pjmlp
There is nothing low ceremony in .Net.
I recently ran through the entire ecosystem thinking that there must be something akin to Sinatra (micro web framework) in .Net. Nope. Every single thing is built on top of ASP .net.
I did find a WIP library where they are trying to go for a low ceremony framework https://github.com/featherhttp/framework, but even that is built on top of ASP .net
For me the worst bit about .Net is their treatment of F#. IMO, it is one of the most practical and usable functional languages out there. But none of the official docs have anything on F# at all. Here is an example doc; see if you can find any code example for F#. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/tutorials/razor...
Its always C#. And I have 0 interest in that kitchen sink language.
Between ASP.Net and C# being the entire world for .Net, I have really not much interest in using it for anything. There are plentiful of interesting languages and ecosystems that I can use for my small time projects.
ASP.NET is pretty bare bones, all by itself. It's pretty much just a simple pipeline of request handlers with DI support (which is also optional). MVC, routing, Razor - all unnecessary if you don't want to use them.
I agree that the ASP.NET documentation is lacking in F# code samples (although the example you picked is a bad one as Razor doesn't support F#, and so naturally wouldn't have F# code samples). You might find that Giraffe is a more comfortable framework, as it's essentially an F#-ified shim on top of ASP.NET.
Fascinating to see how heavily Ruby and Python feature. The things that surprised me by their absence and near absence were languages I love: JS and C#
That said, this is taking now well established startups that will have begun their lives 5+ years ago in general. If I was picking a back end stack then I'd probably hesitate before picking the .NET Framework. But these days I'd easily pick .NET Core.
Likewise, I'd want a statically typed back end and 5 years ago I'd probably have hesitated before using TypeScript and node together. Now I do it regularly.
Would be super interesting to see the same chart in 5 years with companies starting now.
+1 for choosing .NET Core. I'm right there with you. Extra points for F#.
So the use of C# dooms my startup? I feel really out of touch having never used python or ruby.
Not at all. Keep in mind that YC startups are birthed from a very narrow slice of the tech world. .NET Core is very, very good tech and unless you need something super niche, there's no reason to doubt your choice. Press on.
This would be more interesting if YC didn't have a strong inherent bias toward these particular languages. In other words: these are the results because this is what YC picks and filters for, not because of any inherent meaningfulness about choosing these languages, or qualities of the languages.
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aggieben commented on Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled status.coinbase.com/incid... · Posted by u/tomduncalf
Bitcoin can never achieve mainstream adoption since the transaction throughput is capped at 3 per second.
Maybe other technologies will, but Bitcoin cannot.
This is incorrect. Firstly, it's 10 per second. Secondly, it shouldn't be all that hard to imagine "side chains" or even "local-party networks" being built to handle transactions and use the underlying blockchain as a settlement mechanism. This is, as I understand it, how the lightning network works/will work, and I see no reason to think it wouldn't improve Bitcoin's adoption, which is already orders of magnitude better than other cryptos.
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