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I wonder how older you are than the average javascript crowd :-)

Another little thing is (from my own point of view) is that many application don't live in a vacuum : they use json schema, or WSDL; and database with types and constraints. So what the language does not "type", the context does.
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Could also just use DuckDuckGo! its my normal search engine so nothing out of the ordinary to be using it.
Fake news does not look like ads, and if targeted to receptive individuals, it gets retweeted/fb-shared to a like-minded audience. The comparison with "nobody clicks on ads" is not apt.
I would say this is more about that person who wrote that message, not about startups in general. Because in the end, large company or startups, its peoples decision how to react to things.
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> It is frowned upon to comment too much on code formatting.

Do you have standards for those though? Like gofmt, prettier, ide formatting configs, etc? I and many others can be rather ocd about maintaining a consistent code style, although I will admit that it's far too easy to focus on that in code reviews (low-hanging fruit). Which is why it should be automatically enforced by tooling so it isn't a distraction during reviews.
Not to deny there's a problem but this quote: "the problems in the system because there are computers in the decision loop"... Does the author expect hand made search results?
The British already tried that.
"While Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies rely on proof of work, where miners solve a cryptographic puzzle to reach consensus on the state of the ledger, proof-of-stake systems reach consensus by coin-holder vote.
As a result, proof of stake is vastly more energy efficient than proof of work."

I'm not an expert on cryptography - can anyone back up this claim? because it seems to have solved a major issue with the miners
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>Perhaps now it is time for a new generation to make their mark, will their efforts last 40 years? Rust anyone?

I'd think it's quite difficult for a new language to replace a language whose main attractive points are it's longevity, stability (not the code and programs coming out of it, but the syntax and tools etc), and broad support.

There are many fields where C is easy to beat. But I don't think the next 40 year lasting language will be a C replacement.
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I've developed some resistence against marketing people talking nonsense over the years but this serverless thing is ... some next level bullshit.

Just because I'm not maintaining my car's engine doesn't mean my car's engineless! Just call it "managed cloud" or something -- calling it "serverless" is nothing short of a blatant lie!..
And that competition made the opposition better, the argument goes. Except it didn’t.
The writer of the article wrote more details in a reddit discussion on the article three years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/22fpz0/whats_b...

Found it in the wikipedia footnotes :)
C works everywhere, and everyone knows C, or can learn it in a couple of weeks and get coding. This is a hard combination to wholesale replace, but then not even Rust aims to do that. Instead it aims to chip away gradually, and I don't see why it can't do that .
It's more like you're renting a car rather than owning a car - you'd be well within your rights to call yourself "carless" then, no?
When I was contracting in IT I liked that I wasn't looking for promotion, I could just get on with doing what I was good at. I haven't got the skills to be a project manager, head of department, CTO etc. Many of the permanent staff were always looking to their next cushy job in the company and were laden down with politics and not being constrained by that was great. I also liked moving to new companies, learning new ways of doing things and being exposed to different environments.

Long term I've no idea if it was the right choice but it certainly suited how my mind worked.
Although an explosive, black powder (i.e. old timey gunpowder) is not a high explosive. It generates more gas than actual concussive force, so it generally only works well when enclosed in a vessel like the barrel of a musket or a cannon.

On its own it isn't actually a very useful explosive. You couldn't use it for mining, unlike dynamite (made from nitroglycerine). You could set fire to a pile of gunpowder and stand nearby, and you'd be fine.

This is why you can buy big bags of black powder easily, but you can't buy high explosives without all sorts of licences and permits.
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PHP is having it's 21st this year and is in use on around 200 million websites, I think it'll make it :)

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I think that during the nineties the focus switched from compiled, small runtime, unmanaged language to higher level, garbage collected, "big runtime" languages like Java or the scripting languages. One notable exception being C++ but its complexity and the difficulty to interface it with other languages meant that it couldn't completely replace C.

So for a long time if you wanted to do low level, fast, small, reasonably portable code you simply didn't have much of a choice.

Rust is the first language in a long time that I think could end up replacing C in all of its use cases but there's still some way to go. The main difficulty I can foresee is that like C++ it's significantly more complex than C and harder to interface with other programing languages (you end up making an unsafe C interface).

I think C is here to stay. The billions of lines of C code out there won't be rewritten in a fortnight.
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Indeed. I think the obvious candidate is JavaScript.

C is what it is partly because of its relationship with Unix, and also because it was the language that gave most straightforward access to "the machine" -- whatever that is.

And the hard truth is that The Machine was the only real universal platform around. But now we have this thing called The Web, which is not quite as universal but is getting there, and is much more like a single platform. JS has a special relationship with it.

The only thing that might upset this JS+Web applecart is WebAssembly. A "C of the Web" (call it W) would be a language high level enough to be pleasant to use, but which would have little or no runtime beyond what is native to WebAsm, and thus anyone could use libraries written in W.
Amazon came a few years too late and couldn't offer anything that sets them apart from the competition (next day delivery is pretty standard fare for any web retailer here) so yeah they were beaten. Or rather they saw the battlefield and didn't engage.

THAT is what made Amazon big in the US: they were first. Nothing magical about it really. But I think my country was one of the few that already had established players. Oh there's China ofcourse, they are forerunners with ecommerce. The future belongs to Alibaba.

Same with the supermarket delivery stuff, that's already been around for years. Don't understand the fuss.

I have the feeling a lot of retail in the US missed to catch on to the internet. Bezos became a god partially through incompetent competition.
If the results can't be trusted, don't use Google or (especially) Facebook as your news sources. As understand it, Google will aggregate its news - it hasn't got someone picking the articles. Stick with an established news source - i'll pick the BBC because I live in the UK.
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I'm quite bored by the obsession of some for replacing C.

Yes, it does exactly what you tell it to do and that's dangerous. It was a high level language 25 years ago, but today the metaphor should be assembly. Nobody would criticize assembly for letting you shoot yourself in the foot, C is much the same.

The biggest threat to the tech sector is Linus dying and being replaced by some charlatan who insists on replacing C and using Jira.

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Javascript might soon become obsolete with the arrival of WebAssembly.
> people will eventually go “French Revolution.”

With a powerful army & technology controlled by government, this isn't an option anymore. Anybody trying to start something will be quickly and silently removed.
Masses can be brought down easily by a few professional soldiers (not with rudimentary rubber batons, as in Spain this weekend)

See how having an encrypted phone at border control is a felony, you can be locked up instantly, even if encryption is only to protect your work and personal family photos.

What to do? Just obey and continue working to collect $$$, the only instrument which can guarantee your semi-independence?
Little compared to what? They're infinitely big compared to no variations. Ignoring that part because it's unclear is like throwing out the baby and keeping the bathwater to me.
I gather it's because they generally fall into general news, rather than things that would be specifically interesting to HN, and also because stories about mass shootings always tend to degenerate into people just insulting each other.
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This is where the good old car analogy falls apart doesn't it :)

I have this software package that I happen to own (the car) whose engine (the backend code) is claimed to be nonexistent, which annoys me slightly more than just "slightly" which motivates me enough to exchange micro-rants on forums with complete strangers.
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Levandowski had done a lot of valuable stuff for google before, so they kind of gave him free reign even though he was known for not being easy to deal with.
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Is it able to simulate spotty connections, where the connection keeps dropping in and out? Because I find that tends to be the thing that websites and applications most often don't factor for properly.
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It looks like this photograph was probably taken on Berry street on the other side of the Caltrain tracks, near the Embarcadero Freeway, and "7th and Berry" is only an approximate location.
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> Do we want Google to hide a meme spreading around the community?

How is this even a question? Of course you want them to hide the "meme" of a man falsely accused of mass murder. Google placed the 4chan threads in the section normally reserved for news.
I think an unintended takeaway here is that Deliveroo is likely to be looking for office space either in the city or the South Bay.
This hasn’t been true for a very long time (1997). I-551 Permanent Resident Cards issued since 2010 are labelled as “United States of America / Permanent Resident”, the word “alien” is not present on the document at all.
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This is a toy application that made at the hackathon. It is inspired by two concepts, one is Kemono Friends and the other is Puyo Puyo.
The Kemono Friends is the Japanese animation that the story is like innocent animal character's adventure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemono_Friends

And the Puyo Puyo is a puzzle game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyo_Puyo

(It needs 4 Puyos to remove these originally, but I use 3 for simplify).

First I tried to implement the feature to control the falling objects but to see the animal faces is so fun and cute. Because of this, I dropped its implementation.
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Maybe you should check his Github account ?
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I've done mostly contract work because I liked the freedom when I was younger. Now I notice a lot of people my age have moved on to management or jobs "higher on the ladder" while I stress about the uncertainty of income when contracts end. I assume the lifestyle might suit people who are extraordinarily good networkers, but I feel mostly tired these days. My younger self didn't know about the fatigue the responsibility for a family brings.

In a fixed career you have a chance to build something up, while in contracting you're often back to square one with each new contract. You might have more experience, but you don't have the sort of trust and responsibility which you earn if you work long enough in a company or with the same group of people.

It's hard to find truly permanent jobs these days.

I think it's also biting companies in the long run, as I notice more and more graveyards of abandoned projects and services running without anybody present who was involved in building or setting up. But those costs don't seem as obvious to those in charge who'd rather not have to hire permanent workers.

(I work in software engineering and security.)
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Hello, I can speak for Sicily, and here this mechanism can work both sides, simply there are people that avoid to engage too much with the mate of another person, regardless of the sex. While I also think this is unacceptable, at least for my cultural background and my values, I think it is still a simpler to correct and more acceptable thing compared to not making eye contact or speaking with a woman because of not giving her the same importance of the other men. So yes, anyway even not engaging with a person because of its sentimental status with other persons you do not want to upset is terrible, but at least is not so directly sexism.
The fact that 80% of the women on OKCupid go for the top 20% of men on there means this b.s. doesn't matter and they're just trying to stay relevant lol.
Fu£@*dcompany was a CF site.
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I would argue that while writing your first c doesn't take much knowledge (and is much easier than say rust), writing good C is harder than writing e.g., good Java. (Where I'd say some dimensions for good are bug free, reasonable performance, and readability)
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> C works everywhere, and everyone knows C, or can learn it in a couple of weeks and get coding.

You hit the nail in the head. The go-to tutorial and reference book of C is «The C programming language» by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, which provides a complete and very thorough description of C and its standard library in less than 260 pages. That's unbeatable.

As a comparison, the go-to book for C++, «the C++ programming language» by Bjarne Stroustrup, goes beyond 1200 pages and doesn't cover some fundamental aspects of C++, and even «The Rust Programming Language» by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols, a book on a programming language which was designed to eat away C's market, is over 400 pages.

This speaks volumes on the effort required by anyone to get on their feet and be productive with these programming language.
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It was a thing a good while back. In fact it was the first Application Server. Still around early 2000s it was one of the best ways to create web applications. And then it wasn't.
What is interesting is that the Lucee (http://lucee.org/) project doesn't even mention ColdFusion or CFML in the first few pages.
> The same tired argument has been made every decade since the 70s

One of my father's COBOL books from the punch-card days has a similar sales pitch about English-like syntax and ordinary people becoming programmers.
JavaScript was very nice before ES6. All ES6 did was to add syntax sugar/meta. var in JavaScript belongs to the function it is declared in. ES6 made the language way more complicated, and divided the community up into more dialects.
The plan was to unite compile-to-JavaScript communities like CoffeeScript, but that didn't work because there's more compile-to-JavaScript languages now then it ever has been.