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In retrospect, it makes a lot of sense. Genesis was huge in NA/Europe, but it was considered somewhat of a failure in Japan.

Sega has always floundered with its home consoles — they released 3 competitors to the NES after all. Genesis ended up being more of a one-trick pony than any indication of longterm success.

2010: All this pump is fake. Sell!

2014: All this pump is fake. Sell!

2018: All this pump is fake. Sell!

2022: All this pump is fake. Sell! See, you can time the market.

Mostly anecdotal opinion as a Chicagoan —

Our tech scene has been largely driven by fintech and a few unicorns. And our unicorns tend to be much more bust than boom — Groupon being the highest profile one. Not sure if it's correlation or causation, but VC investment tends to be more conservative, and the ones I do hear about are mostly fintech.

On top of which, Chicago wasn't all that tech friendly. Pay has been rather stagnant, and promotions above senior engineer didn't exist before Covid/remote stretched everything out. The exception to comp has been prop trading firms, which make oodles of money but... trader culture dominates over eng.

How would GPL help? It doesn't stop hostile forks.

Pretty sure the ask isn't the Zen source.

Lifecycles map closer to how the underlying UI layer works, but not to developer expectations. I've lost countless hours to desynced implementations such as failing to account for componentDidUpdate when overriding componentDidMount or missing a corresponding componentWillUnmount cleanup.

The Zig language doesn't need libc, but because it also includes a fully functional C compiler, it ships with musl source and glibc headers for better crossplatform support.

WeWork would like a chat.

There's a task to rename UB to illegal behavior: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2402

As well as some followups to see if Zig can detect all of these errors: * https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1966 * https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2301

Is he seriously using Javascript as an example of non-OOP language?

Li-ion cells provides 3.6V, which makes them incompatible with traditional alkaline or NiMH. I don't think we've invented a standard for Li-ion batteries yet.

Most compilers for 8-bit and 16-bit CPUs, e.g. Z80 or 80286.

A corollary to this is: the code should match the problem domain.

If the business problem is complicated, trying to further simplify the code usually makes it awkwardly abstracted and extra brittle. The fix should not be _just_ cleaning up the code, but rather trying to resolve the original usecase.

Zig has wasm as a built-in compile target — derived from LLVM 8 so Clang has the same functionality. The link to Dom/OpenGL is still a manual process but there’s some efforts generating the necessary JavaScript helpers.

Much worse than that: their (pre-market) valuation is 44B and takeovers require shareholder agreement, usually at least 20% premium to the market — I'd wager the ask price would be a lot more but let's be conservative... 53B buys you a 9B debt.

Funnily enough, the listed MSRP usually much higher than actual dealership price.

Mole was just redefined as exactly 6.02214076e23 — the number of Si-28 atoms in a perfect 1 kg sphere. This was an intentionally check against the kibble balance measurement.

More info from an older Veritasium video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMByI4s-D-Y

tar actually makes sense with a little mnemonic:

  tar xzf $file
  - xtract
  - ze (actually gzip but fake-accent "the" is more memorable)
  - file

There’s an OS reason: the only way to detect if there’s an incoming or ongoing phone cal is by having full phone permissions.

Pretty strong refutation to his version: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-says-1-000-fraudu...

Stay-at-home dads explains 2 million of this article's main statistic. So even if the remaining 5 million of the "needs work", the employment number is closer to 89%.

Edit: there's a reason economists usually use "looking for work" for unemployment numbers: it's really hard to gauge why people don't look for work.

Just concat using a semicolon instead of just a new line.

Monthly cost is $21.67 under Next 24.

If you pay off the entire amount, you keep the device. If you upgrade before the contract ends, you have the option of paying off the remaining amount and keeping it (or returning it).

It's most likely a terrible idea to return the device instead of paying off and selling it, and AT&T probably makes free money from that, but the rest of the plan is pretty reasonable.

I'll never understand how Next disparagers get their numbers. The screenshot [1] clearly shows $21.67 per month for 30 months ($650.10).

Next is effectively 0% installment loan for buying a new device with the (admittedly terrible) option of terminating the contract and returning the device for a new Next contract.

[1] http://i1.wp.com/don.citarella.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/0...

The homebuyer can simply buy a smaller home and extract the difference between paying mortgage and renting.

How is Yahoo doing better? Mayer has definitely changed a lot, but I'd argue that much of it is for the worse.

Her most prominent changes, stack ranking and acqui-hires, are pretty bad in general (inciting cutthroat competition and burning cash for disloyal employees).

I've always thought of semver as documenting common sense: fix bugs often, add features when possible, and don't break the public API unless you have to.

If all projects strictly followed semver, we wouldn't have this debate. But it's not semver's fault that some developers ignore common sense.