Readit NewsMy wish list is a little more pedestrian:
1. High level like python, but strongly typed
2. "normal" c style syntax
3. First class support for "green thread" style concurrency, like erlang
4. First class support for dataframes and the best of python's various ML/data packages.
5. A really great ORM well integrated into the language, that can handle elastic and nosql as well as sql.
6. A batteries included web solution like laravel that handled the common web use cases like auth, a db admin, etc. Bonus points if it's write once for frontend and backend a la svelte.
7. Pretty much just steal cargo for package management.
<clears throat> umm, Go?
The entire premise of up- and down-voting is that some comments are more valuable _to read_ than others. “Let’s just have a debate” isn’t really a fair criticism; we can’t afford to debate everything, so ultimately there’s going to be a preceding value judgment.
That value judgment may look a lot like an ad hominem, but it’s perfectly rational—for example, in this case, the question is, should I take the time to seriously engage with a book written by a man who claims vaccines cause autism, led a group that opposed flouridation of drinking water, claimed that 5G “damages DNA” and is being installed to facilitate “mass surveillance”, and, oh, by the way, is a master falconer? (Nothing wrong with that, but I find it hilarious.)
Obviously the answer is no. There are a lot of interesting, well-founded books on science that I want to read, and I just don’t have time to read a book by a master falconer, let alone engage meaningfully with it online. Maybe the earth is flat, and I’m just living with my head in the sand. Oh well?
Thank you for responding. I am now better informed due to your explanation. I looked up the author based on your comment and now see the issue in better light. I am sure many others will understand why the parent of my earlier comment was downvoted.
We are at a crossroad here. If people don't push back in 2022, we are going to live in a society that makes "papers please" look like heaven compared to what we have.
Please read this book if you doubt what I'm saying. It's not a god damn conspiracy theory.
https://www.amazon.com/Real-Anthony-Fauci-Democracy-Children...
Lots of downvotes but no counter argument? Please HN, let us do the right thing by disagreeing by argument rather than downvoting someone into oblivion. The only reason I value HN is that it (generally) is open to debate without taking hardline positions. Let us ensure we can retain this culture even when our emotions try to get the better of us.
An “unforgiving minute” suggests something like “the longest minute of your life”.
“Sixty seconds’ worth of distance run” is alluding to the fact that running long distances is tough. And you force yourself to do “just one more minute” to keep on going.
So when you are facing the longest minute of your life you make yourself keep on going; the unforgiving minute is one in which you push yourself, because you know that you have to - but you also know that most likely you have to push yourself for one more minute again and again.
So what Kipling is saying is “if, when - despite things being tough - you can force yourself to keep going, even though you know the next minute might be as tough, or even tougher…”
Thanks, now it makes sense.
Thanks for sharing. As a non-native English speaker, I did not understand this part. What does it mean?
"If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run—"
tapan_jk commented on Engineers should invest in decision-making skills early reforge.com/blog/technica... · Posted by u/znpy
> “An over reliance on solutioning”
Why the hell are software articles inundated with these non-words? The proper word is SOLVING!
Also, overuse of analogies. Maybe it's just me but I am more convinced by a narrative that avoids or sparingly uses analogies.
This seems like an interesting pendulum swing where the few companies not reliant on AWS could capture significant enough revenue by maintaining uptime during a potential busy season outage.
Agree. Now viable alternatives exist. The nextgen cloud providers will learn from the weaknesses of incumbents and innovate.
Even then, I still do not think that's really it. Flat earthers are proof that some people will just obstinately believe in complete and utter horseshit. I've seen dozens of flat earth videos. These people do not listen to reason; they didn't reason themselves into the position and you cannot reason them out of it. The flat earthers doing the "experiments" keep coming up with reasons to keep on believing, even when their experiments are so blinkered and janky they show either nothing at all or that they are, in fact, wrong. (I recommend "Behind the Curve" to see some of these people in action.) Some might just get bored and move on to something else, but mark my words, some people are just seriously stupid[1] and will keep right on believing absurd crap to their graves, on faith alone. The universe will keep smacking them in the face with being wrong, but they'll only get angrier. Hopefully they get tired before they get dangerous.
[1] I mean something specific about stupid. Not just wrong, not just ignorant, but actively and self-assuredly wrong, often to their own detriment. Beware stupid people in large numbers.
Using Occam's razor, I posit that these videos exist because there are too many people watching them; not because there are too many flat earthers out there. I am yet to meet one in person.