abenedic's comments

Of course it is obvious, it is just that almost no one online believes that the information contained within is worth enough to subscribe, and there is not a frictionless way to compensate the other the $0.03 cents worth of value I potentially got from the article.

A person might make a language so they can learn to make a language. How could Lua exist if a person had no idea the tradeoffs in implementing various languages? You do not know the person's reasons.

The source is actually pretty readable, do you have a git repository anywhere so others can contribute?

Not really a comment on the topic, but I feel like name pollution is becoming a bigger and bigger deal recently. With Dropbox's Naultilus and DragonflyBSD and Google's Dragonfly, and like a hundred other examples, things can only get more and more confusing. Imagine talking to a Mathematician about a meager function, the word has two senses(common and mathematical). Things cannot improve the way we are heading.

As a meta comment, I really like how active Stepha(e?)n is on internet forums. And the energy around Rust is pretty intense. I feel like in there, people are unwilling to try to embrace some of the nuance in the arguments that some people make against Rust.

A person should understand that no language(programming or otherwise) is perfect. Therefore there is some criticism of any language that is valid. Therefore some criticism should be taken seriously as there may be a real point to the criticism.

There are many posts like this, where there are comparisons of Rust to C. Realistically they are all a little biased towards Rust as Rust is a C++ replacement really. A more proper comparison would be Zig or D as a better C against C.

Just understand that a person defending C is not always an idiot, and maybe they have point. Consider the excessive memory use of any working Rust compiler. That will probably not be remedied anytime soon and is a legitimate complaint. The ideal of how something could be is not how something is. The reality is that C works pretty well most of the time, Rust works well most of the time. They both fail at some things.

Regardless of the person's reaction, they do make a very good point. There is a weird thing that happens when you criticize Rust on HN or Reddit where lots of people jump in to prove that any criticism is invalid. I like Rust well enough. I like C too, I have my issues with both, but when someone does raise an objection it can be hard having people pile on them after.

A point of fact is that the two data structures are different. There was even an article on the front page today about how minor changes to data structures can dramatically impact performance.

Anyway, my main point is that there should be a space to discuss the relative merits and issues of languages without it resorting to petty fighting, which even you and the OP and the other commenter are engaging in.

Please everyone try to use the principle of charity when reading a post on this site. There is a good chance the person you are responding to has a reasonable background and isn't totally ignorant. Instead of playing on pedantry, try to understand where they are coming from and understand a one-off post on an internet forum is not the strongest argument they could make.

These are only weird if you give them weird names like the author. Teens have been doing the same things forever.

You should maybe feel bad. Maybe not. In your first month, you should have had what? 20-ish days to get around the monorepo. Look to the bug tracker. Ask your manager for projects or idea about things to work on. Sorry to say it, but you should do SOMETHING soon.

> I have never had any regrets.

You have lived a very charmed life.

I think the idea from a corporate perspective has always been the idea of a programmer as an industrial worker. Just as dispensable, and just as replaceable. Luckily reality has not borne that out.

> ever met someone in finance who studied for months to get ready for an interview? me neither.

I have. My roommate in college. A lot of students in his group studied very year for internships with finance companies.

So, HN has a culture of not explaining down votes, but in this case I can only reason that it is because I said "fuck China". I do not know what experience the down voter has had with China. Myself I made the mistake of loving a person who was later imprisoned in a forced labor camp in China. I understand that that is partly my fault(they were never shy about their beliefs). At some point though it should be okay for a person with grievances to rail against the machine that imprisons them and separates them from their desires.

Ask yourself if you have to worry about your love having all their organs after an act of civil disobedience. I have and do every night. I do not know how to state that in a way that is palatable.

> Listening to spoken English is not easy for non native speakers

Thank you for saying this. You clearly have a good understanding of English(far better than mine at least). I feel like this is an area that is glossed over. For every article that is written in english there are at least 10+ non-native speaker struggling to understand the work, who could extract something useful or help explicate the work.

Myself, I would say this is 80% correct. The bigger deal is the spectral convergence of the trapezoidal sum for periodic entire functions.

I am getting some other spam. I will say my friend came up with the abbreviation of Kazakhstani Secret Military Aptitude Police. That was not the official title, but how my friend characterized our work.

Myself I worry that I have said too much online. A person these days cannot discuss the past without giving away the self.

I think it a little funny that you are attacked for this. Personally I have a hate for China due to nationalistic reasons, perhaps unreasonably. But it is good to question the source of information. After all that is the idea of a free press, no? Should we not all question the source of the information to find bias? For myself overall, I would say fuck China.

I have found from the opposite way that the English alphabet is not so dissimilar to the Cyrillic. Once you get past that a bectop is a vector, and everything is nearly the same. I find there is a vitality in the region that I cannot find anywhere else, but it feels like living when I am there. I have been to many countries in the region and they all feel close to home.

I have wondered about this in the context of future secrets, I have enjoyed that someone else has thought about the present case and come to not dissimilar conclusions as myself. I do wonder about research into future secrets, and coordinating disclosure of a future event.

> It's mostly men, white guys in my city

I am sorry, I am not American, though I live here. Does this not in itself contribute to the uncomfortable feelings of women and minorities in your city?

Sorry to the person who PM'ed me on other media, KSMAP was a phonetic translation. I cannot myself translate it faithfully.