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> unforced error and a pointless footgun

I think it’s the other way. Providing one based on the other is a pointless footgun.

The experience doesn’t end when you’ve made machine code from your source. Developers debug stuff. Developers support their products, sometimes analyzing crash dumps.
The more magic is used in the compiler, the harder it is to debug and support software.

Sometimes that’s justified, e.g. in C# there’s substantial amount of compiler magic for generators and async functions. But these 2 features save substantial amount of code complexity.

Implementing != from == and > from < only provides minimal profit. The manual implementation is a single line method.

Another reason, C# is different language than Rust or Python. It has awesome support for OOP and runtime reflection. What should happen if you use reflection to get op_Inequality for a class where only == is defined? What should happen if you define == in a base class and != in a derived one?
Evidence points to the Neanderthals being an advanced group of peoples, interesting for me is their glue https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/news/a2...
Stone tools are not easy to make, it requires great skill and many could be classified as works of art. It could be said that modern Europeans/Asians are off shoots of Neanderthals
> I fear venture capital (and Silicon Valley) is much more about value extraction than value creation these days.

If you think about it, most of the venture capital goes in financing duds. That's an unfortunate truth about entrepreneurship. So a VC is more or less forced to extract as much value as possible from the successful ones. Not saying it is right or wrong but stating the way things are working.
I have no horse in this race, but AFAIK Lambda School courses are live and not online.
AWS roles and access are incredibly complex to configure and audit though. Needlessly so.
"naysayers, sometimes criminally, try to destroy Tesla"

Who & what did you have in mind, exactly? The only example which comes to mind is the skabooshka lawsuit, which Tesla had to drop when their megacorp legal resources finally ran up against an opponent with some funding, thanks to crowdsourced donations.

Given that essentially every major executive (other than Elon Musk) and huge chunks of the Tesla board have all left the company and furiously dumped their stock, I'd say there's plenty of naysaying coming from within as well. Not exactly the signs of a vital corporate "life force" at work.
Where art is concerned, vapid peacocks flock.
The parts about Amazon was added later after the article was originally published. Maybe they read HN and found her Gitlab account like was posted below before this was published. Most of those news sites back referral link lists.
If a wealthy, influential person is not convicted of a murder they clearly committed, does that mean it's grossly unethical to hold anyone else accountable for murder?
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Personally I’d be surprised if this startup is around in five years
If they declined when they did it, why should they back down now? This would mean that not only they polluted the environment, but also are liars (and cowards). There is no way they'd admit that.
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I feel like she was an unexperienced hacker and got her identity exposed
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Actually, this is a super important point. One time when I was working in a fairly large software company (about 1400 people), my division somehow got placed under sales. We had quarterly company meetings where upper management would try to drive home the important things to the company. The thing was that they split up these meetings into 3 groups: IT, Sales and Business. I was used to going to the IT meetings where they would talk to us about the company values -- especially quality. When I went to the sales meeting, apparently nobody told upper management that there was a group of programmers there because they went on and on about how they knew the product was crap and how they didn't care one iota. Sales job was to sell. A good sales person should be able to sell anything -- even actual crap. Good management knows how to say what it needs to for every audience ;-)
Yeah, Groupon did something similar in France, hired hundreds of sales guys to go to every possible shop in every city then fired them all and kept just a handful in each city and a team of permanent ones only contacting by phone in the main office.
So basically: yes, including but not limited to what I what wrote above?
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/press-release/file/1188626...
In high school, I think I worked for a company that has prior art on deployless software. We wrote php and perl directly on the prod server with vi through putty. No deploy necessary!

What's old is new again I guess.
>They are also very smart, which made them read/like interesting books.

This logic doesn't take us anywhere because there existed equally intelligent people who either worked in farm or meatshop or even might be working as a janitor instead of launching companies worth billions and recommending othes books.

And does being intelligent means not being evil? What if they posted these books to distract you while they go around reading something else which helps them build competitive advantage against masses.

I won't blind accept a reading suggestion from someone even if they happen to be commerically successful or they happen to be smarter.
Good thing they didn't mention it by name ;)
This is by far the most insightful comment on this thread. Especially for fiction and poetry, which like opera and classical music, the we're presently in a period of creative lullness, and seemingly nothing that compares with the grandeur of works from the 19th century ever comes up these days.
Yes, we would be all very interested to read them. I'm aware of these kinds of things happening in the 50s, but a few years ago - that's unthinkable and should lead to criminal investigation. All major media would be extremely interested and talk about it for months.
I am not convinced either. Getting a language off the ground is a 10 year affair, don't think its possible for a funded company to bring up a new language unless they are targeting some niche where full scale programmability is not a requirement.
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We've been using NATS in prod for a very specific usecase: request reply.

We'd got tired of trying to hack around SQS. After a boat load of testing, we settled on NATS. It was our big "innovation token" for that project. It has paid off wonderfully.

The server clusters very well, and is very simple to peer. We've joined two clusters across two regions, and we've not had any issues.

If you need a fast, low latentcy, non persistant, non guarenteed message delevery system NATS is for you.

If you like to store messages in your queues for later consumption, or need _every_ message, NATS isn't for you.
Should probably replace with the first-party article: https://medium.com/darklang/dark-announces-3-5m-in-seed-fina...
Lambda School is both live and online
Meanwhile the republic of kongo plants 350m trees xD
There’s so much energy waste in electric cars from the greater number of times energy must be transferred specifically where it’s changing form. I don’t really see how this can be minimized or changed enough to make and electric car world (or even hybrid electric) scalable in a way that isn’t problematically energy-inefficient. So, I’m at least a little tired of the idea that electric cars are such a groundbreaking solution.

I have nothing against them/people who use them but I’m not convinced that it’s the solution to the looming crisis/possibly explosive break up in our love affair with crude oil. Plus, I’m a little afraid that here in the US we’re about a minute away from destroying Appalachia even moreso—I.e. due to particularly destructive coal mining practices and mountain topping, etc. So I’m apprehensive about increased strain on the power grid. (And I’m not keen on nuclear power either). But I welcome some kind of paradigm shift/future work that reveals I am wrong in this regard. It would be awesome if someone re-engineered and improved some aspects of these things rendering them more effective and less destructive.

(Edited at 2:24EST for typos)
Legal as you'd guess, just not allowed by airline rules.

"the missile launcher appears to be an AGM-176 Griffin, a lightweight, precision-guided munition developed by Raytheon."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-29/tsa-finds-missile-...
Thank you for this. Lovely read! :-)
I haven’t personally seen a moissanite with greater fire and brilliance than a really well cut diamond, although what you said about the cut probably applies here since moissanite has a higher refractive index. Where would you shop for high quality moissanite? So many of the places that sell them seem to focus on being cheap unfortunately.

CZ also has the problem of being softer and more subject to environmental forces, as gems CZ ages much faster.
The effective and ethical development of artificial intelligence
I thought it was a lisp with a reader based on whitespaces other than parenthesis. An IDE with indentation support becomes a survival tool here. I would put it on the list of esoteric languages.
So many murder victims never come forward to speak about the crimes committed against them. This is surely very massively under reported.
'Fought for a long time, but today I gave up': VGSiddhartha letter to CCD family
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction!
I'd add Andrew Tanenbaum's "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation"
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> means re-building the national transmission grid to favour battery models.

You literally can't store enough energy in batteries to power the network. Yesterdays demand for SA was [0] 218,247,760 kWh. At even the most optimistic battery price no one has ever managed to achieve as scale of $100 USD per kWh betteries that's $21,824,776,000 (21 Billion Dollars) for one state, in Australia.

You need to double or triple that to deal with summer heat waves, having enough storage to deal with intermittent renewables etc. You'd be looking at $200 billion for SA alone, with 1.7mil people, to move to battery power, without any of the infrastructure change.

Oh and lithium ion batteries lose half their charge every 10 years or less. So you will need to invest $100 billion every decade. That's $128,381 per person in SA to move to battery power once, and then $6,419.05 per year to replace the lost capacity.

This is a pipe dream wilder than cold fusion.

[0] https://www.aemo.com.au/
The event happened in October 2017. Putin presented a new arsenal of nuclear weapons in March 2018. Some kind of indirect relationship is not impossible.
I now almost nothing about Dark, but I don't understand why it is necessary to do this with a new language and a new editor.
It might just transpile into something else, doesn’t necessarily need to be completely from scratch. Their documentation is pretty opaque though as others have mentioned so who knows.
> If a nomadic group was in a jungle-like environment, wouldn’t they more likely develop the traits of the other species well suited for jungle living?

Yes, and this has already happened. The African jungle has its pygmies; the Southeast Asian peninsula and surrounding islands have their pygmies; and those two groups are totally unrelated.
When you grow as fast as Uber has been, you accumulate a TONNE of fat. Multiple teams hiring people for the same role, creation of roles that have no real value, too many middle managers, etc.

It’s so hard to not get into this state during rapid growth, and to get out of it, and return to being a focused, lean, efficient (and eventually profitable) company, layoffs are basically the only answer. Often LOTS of layoffs. In a few years, I’ll bet many other departments at Uber are hit the way marketing just was.
Whats Left? Functions!

compose(f, g) = \x -> g(f(x))
After the Parse.com fiasco I am not touching a high-vendor lock-in BaaS ever again.
Well, if she is supervised for a few days in order to avoid suicide, and tries to convince everybody how bad her situation is, "depression" of one form or another is a pretty good bet. I don't think there even is an alternative explanation for recurring episodes like that.
Say I need to add messaging with persistence (at least once delivery) for my stack (multiple services, often but not always on the same machine), and I want the stack to not have external dependencies-so it's easy to install. Does liftbridge fill this niche? Would NATS streaming be a better solution or maybe Akka with Persistence module?
Curious, what kind of changes are you making to the curriculum every day that would require you to submit them to the state for approval?
A company is just a bunch of people therefore a company's interest can be whatever a bunch of people interest is. And it's not necessarily max output.
Easily.

2 x EMTs @ $2,000 = $4,000 / month
1 x $100,000 amublance amortized over 3 years = $3,000 / month
150 gallons gas (150 miles per day @ 30mpg) x $2.50 = $375 / month
Callcenter = $500 / month
Overheads = $1000 / month
Supplies = $1000 / month
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Total cost = $10,000 / month
I wonder if this was it, Alba Craft Laboratory, Inc. They processed radioactive uranium in Oxford, Ohio. https://magazine.miamistudent.net/alba-craft/

Sounds like it got cleaned up in the 1990s.
I’ve only seen self pleasure articles about this company.

Has anyone seen what the language or editor looks like?
Actual title: "A Wisconsin lawmaker who's paralyzed isn't allowed to call into meetings; he says that keeps him from doing his job".

That's a big difference from the submitter claiming "isn't allowed to participate".
Where will the West's next deadly wildfire strike? The risks are everywhere
I remember doing this in Smalltalk in about 2010. Multiple editing one image, which was running live!
That site also has the benefit that I don't have to sign my personal info over to oath and their thousands of partners to read it.
They can get to prison, where options are carefully limited.
This reminds me a lot of the Salesforce Apex platform where the language, runtime, datamodel, hosting and all infra is part of one package.

But Salesforce has a very specific niche, this seems to be for general purpose web dev and I’m pretty sure it will be a hard time getting people to switch.
It sounds pretty cool until the point where you read something like: "Deployment is risky because you’ve only tested on your own machine, and now you need to run the same code on many different machines, to serve (millions of) users." Which makes it seem like they don't even know about the existence of Docker; making me doubt most of what they'll try to sell us.
There was a exhibit a few months ago. I am haunted by the Mirror of Paradise. Only a carbon crystal... ;-D

https://www.gia.edu/gia-news-research/mughal-jewels-auction-...
Significantly more than 100% last I checked if you don’t buy wholesale. I went to Bloomingdales 7 years ago and they had “50% off” diamonds and the markup after that discount was still roughly 500% considering the very poor quality of the gemstones. People really get ripped off unless they do proper research. Even Tiffany’s was 2-3x markup, although at least I will say they only had high quality diamonds so that’s a point in their favor.
> If you build your application in Dark’s language inside of Dark’s editor, the reward is you can deploy it automatically on Dark’s infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform without worrying about all of the typical underlying deployment tasks.

> ... Ellen Chisa, CEO and co-founder at the company, admits that the Dark approach requires learning to use her company’s toolset, but she says the trade-off is worth it because everything has been carefully designed to work in tandem.

So this “deployless” method is really you just offset the deploying mechanism and control (probably to varying degrees) to a third party that’s dependent on another third party. I don’t buy that. There are so many tools that make web application deployment simple and easy without constraining what tools you get to use and what platform you get to run it on.

I’d have to look more at the project itself, but just reading that article I have a number of concerns/questions with this idea. I would be interested in who they are trying to market this to. One size fits all sounds great in theory, but rarely ever works out well in practice.
The /a/ to /n/ thing - well of course it depends. It depends on the meaning of those.

For example, if I write 1,2,3 can you guess the next number? It could be a sequence, so answer=4, or just three numbers that happen to be 1,2,3 and the next number I need to add is 8, and later I will remove the 2 (perhaps they are hard coded user ids).

I am guessing your /a/ to /n/ structure is quite flexible. More like the latter of my example.

If you are saying WET event if it is a sequence then I'd argue that's OK if it is unlikely to change and it depends on other factors. Is there other metadata that depends on the letter for example that would benefit from the loop.
Your example doesn't really make much sense -- the whole point of append-only development is that you never have to make changes to the inner layers of your software. The bug would simply be fixed by appending new code that corrects the undesired behaviour.
Considered switching jobs to something more interesting?
The marketing reminds me of the famo.us launch.

“Everything completely different and proprietary and we don’t have any actual real life examples”
Some of the conversation occurred on her Slack server, which as of an hour or two ago was still completely open/public via an invite linked shared on Meetup.

The entire server chat log is a few Google searches away.
iMessage is pretty useless in Europe, because alternatives like WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber, etc are pretty widespread. Aditionally a lot of Apple's new stuff is wither US exclusive or US first . Apple Pay is very new in a lot of countries and barely any banks support it (mainly because credit cards aren't as widely used I guess). Lots of Apple Maps features are only available in big cities, Apple stores are a lot farther apart over here. Asking Siri in German to play a song with an English name hardly ever works. Don't forget that US prices are without tax while their prices in Europe usually include VAT, so the devices seem a lot more expensive too
I think that's the future. Perhaps not exactly Dark itself since we know nothing about it but a toolset that integrates all moving parts from current computation and information engineering and sets them in a well coupled system. Reinvent the wheel at higher levels.
No, the whole trick with thermal PV is that you harvest the entire range from thermal infrared to near. A vapour will only glow so so in lower reaches of thermal IR range.
no VC money anylonger, now it's stock market money, i.e. our pension funds
I'm not sure what you mean by "less likely to lose its value over time". If you buy a natural diamond in retail it lost more than half its value the moment you bought it. (it was never worth the retail price to begin with) As an investment, it's a terrible idea.
+1 for BlueNile, you can do better than them but they are a huge improvement over the mall stores.
Right. It sounds like a fun thing to build. But i'd love to read an honest explanation from an investor of why they funded it.

Dark raised 3.5 million USD from eight funds, which is under half a million each; maybe that amount is so small that a VC will invest it just for fun?
I've been coding since I was a kid, for about 33 years. I actually think they are right about all of this stuff.

Including the part about combining everything together into a holistic solution.

It sounds like a terrific idea. Unfortunately most people seem to hate good ideas. Especially if they represent a significant change from the status quo.

And programmers are afraid to touch anything that's "easy" or moves away from colorful text representing complex obscure systems -- because sadly that is actually the only definition of programming that has stuck. And if there isn't enough of that stuff, programmers are worried they may be mistaken for users.

But maybe even though its a structured editor that makes things easier, it will still look like code and "count" psychologically as programming.

Anyway maybe it will actually become popular. Who knows. Good luck.
Many cross platform native apps are built in C++. Until Swift does C++ interop well, it is unlikely they will be re-written in Swift. Facebook uses Objective C++ - you can mix Objective C and C++ in the same source and use C++ containers/STL on objective-C objects, etc. This is a massive convenience.
Agreed. It only sounds maybe 1 step removed from where aws lambda’s are now. You fiddle with the code in the lambda IDE, and submit for deployment. Is this really that much different?
If fund raising is any indication of this prediction (my bet is yes), look no further than the two big players in India - Swiggy and Zomato [0] and [1]. Losses are in the range of 70 million dollars or so for FY17-18 [2]

[0] https://www.livemint.com/Companies/9cuyxq0GMXuDWaGuMWYsZL/Sw...

[1]https://inc42.com/buzz/zomato-in-talks-for-1bn-war-chest-to-...

[2]https://www.livemint.com/Companies/cjK3T36vZl1easaVBMXVNN/Sw...
My first company did this with .net, so we could have had a full IDE in production, had we wanted to.

We actually did have Visual Studio installed in at least one test server
I think you could just sign up on one of the onion drug/fraud markets for ~$500 vendor deposit and put up a listing for those profiles at like $5-10 a pop.

If you were lazy you could just hit up an existing vendor and ask them to sell your data in batches.

I’m not saying this would be a good idea, but it certainly wouldn’t be very difficult.
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besides second player gaming emotions, how did it turn out? was it value there aside of pair programming?
I'd be shocked if they survive another two years.

This is an absurd approach.

Come use our proprietary system, we built it in the dark without embracing customers, hope we don't fail now that it's public, and launch your startup on it so we can make deployments easier.

#STUPID-IDEA

Go use Netlify.com if you want a serverless solution that you can deploy on trivially.
> offset the deploying mechanism and control (probably to varying degrees) to a third party that’s dependent on another third party

This sounds exactly like working inside any big company, and all that pre-canned infrastructure is a huge benefit to any project

It will be interesting to see what they've built in the cold light of day, and whether it delivers. I'm apparently not nearly as pessimistic as others on this thread
at the moment it's clear: from investors.
Later on that smells too bad like a SaaS on top of other SaaS.
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It certainly is extremely ambitious in scope...

The language design better be exquisite to draw in early adopters. And then it better grow fast to achieve feature parity with all the other server languages.
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I'm relatively outgoing and it still sounds horribly draining
This is hardly "emerging from stealth". This was a blog post from February! https://medium.com/darklang/the-design-of-dark-59f5d38e52d2
Well, with compiled languages and multiple servers it does get a bit more complex.

But yes, these online editor products have been created before and afaik they rarely get significant traction. Yet, even a small user base might make it profitable, so it does make sense, and hence these companies.
To clarify - are you saying that Pivotal doesn't have any formal Standard Operating Procedures?