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Isn’t that my point?

Honestly good question. Second time Gleam marketing has showed up on front page in a few days. I’m pretty well plugged in to the state of the industry and never heard of it.

Was super surprised to see this #1 on the front page just now. Really makes you wonder.

Could be a great time to revisit the trades where AI has a long way to go in helping out.

We’re experimenting with this stuff. So far great. Way better isolation (obviously) than containers. Pretty easy to use so far. Any gotchas?

Not sure how I feel about “front-paging hackernews” as part of a devrel take home test. Obviously, I understand how important it is—I want my devrels to write content that drives front page traffic. But as a HN user…

You should read Venture Deals! Great book by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson that's really comprehensive in this.

Honestly why hasn't there been a flash-like competitor or alternative that has filled the gap of creatives being able to quickly produce content and distribute it easily on the internet? I think the HTML5 folks envisioned <audio/> and <canvas/> being all you need for interactive stuff, but that hasn't really come to fruition. For animated content, is it perhaps YouTube that took over?

Reported. It'll be amended soon after the statisticians get fired and yes-men get put in.

Ah this is interesting. I've been blindly using this library for the past 6 years: https://github.com/stretchr/testify.

"That sub" over on Reddit is already calling this guy a hero, claiming he stepped in on a carjacking. It's a good segue for them to complain about the state of DC crime.

The fact that there's an individual that goes by "Big Balls" that works for the US government (we're paying his salary) that authoritarian sycophants are elevating to hero status...that's what we're up against.

Ah this looks great. Whence been doing a lot of work with Iceberg lately and a lot of the basics are still missing in the ecosystem. Like, for instance, a really easy way to explore your tables.

It’ll be interesting to see how table maintenance works out. Everyone is implementing their own. Turns out storage engines have been doing a lot of work for us for the past 50 years…

Anyway, seems like pairing this with Lakekeeper would be great.

Back in my day we just called this "knowing what to google" but alright, guys.

Please let it be the end.

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Reality has a left-leaning bias.

Crazy how big the data ecosystem has grown. Congrats to the Neon team on a good outcome, but good luck integrating into DBX culture and surviving.

I'm seeing a lot of DBX hate in this thread overall. I think it's warranted. At Tower[0], we're trying to provide a decent open solution. It stars with owning your own data, and Iceberg helps you break free.

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Definitely agree, their M&A strategy is setup to strangle whoever they buy and they don't even know it. They're struggling in the face of Iceberg, DuckDB and the other tectonic shifts happening in the open source world. They are trying to innovate through acquisition, but can't quite make it because their culture kills the companies they buy.

I'm biased, I'm a big-data-tech refugee (ex-Snowflake) and am working on https://tower.dev right now, but we're definitely seeing the open source trend supported by Iceberg. It'll be really interesting to see how this plays out.

Said another way: Millions to billions harvested from app developers now returned.

> no work required other than updating the JRE we use

Have you tried updating production usage of a JRE before??

As a founder in Berlin, I get excited when my city does stuff like this and is well represented in the maker community. Germany has a long way to go to really create a culture that fosters innovation, but these are the right first steps.

I think this is something Americans (I'm American, born and raised on the west coast) don't understand: They talk shit about EU innovation and talk up their own dominance, but the tides are turning and the EU is motivated. The landscape will look very, very different in a few years.

Was absolutely crazy to me to learn he was from Bend. I grew up in Bend, and in the early 2000s when I was in HS, his guides were super important to me. It wasn't till a couple years ago that I learned he was from Bend!

I would like a different timeline, please.

That is also the tale of humanity. 100 years ago an “unsatisfying job” was working on a farm with your abusive uncle. “Can’t find love” meant that all the men died in a war so…

Yeah exactly, Python if you need all those features for safety. If portability is more important to you, maybe it’s OK to put up with the weird quirks of bash.

I agree with this statement. The world is absolutely chock full of weird control flow constructs layered on top of YAML. When I opened this repo and saw it was YAML driven I just rolled my eyes.

With just a little bit of effort, shell scripting really isn’t that arcane.

Combine that with the real likelihood of a 9/11-type event due to collapse of the FBI and boy oh boy will Trump fans have a lot to answer for.

People don’t want to admit it.

Amazing to see Russia win the Cold War—one we didn’t even know we were in. Their propaganda network is so strong that it took 3 weeks to go from “Russia is the enemy” to “eh, we have other problems” amongst the folks who…subscribe accordingly. Absolute masterclass in projecting power in the digital age.

History shows that those who support monsters are indeed remembered and judged accordingly. The world will change in a few years.

When data challenges people’s’ world view they find crafty ways to split hairs.