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What sizes of SUV, trolleys, fridges, and storage basements would meet with your approval?

Same. I was just able to order an original kit on eBay for $40, so demand isn’t high.

Absolutely incredible work. This is one of the most amazing news articles I’ve encountered in decades. Congratulations team!

I feel like this could achieve techempower-level legend status

I have been wondering this for 25 years. Now I understand why New York City has so damn many empty buildings.

Wow! Great link. I’m better than average but… yeah, I’d upgrade her to goddess. She’ll just carve a new axe handle when she feels like it. Truly humbling.

Can't wait to try this on Mac (English manual install intstructions at https://github.com/kekcleader/FreeOberon/commit/489c5a929bf9...). I feel like Oberon is very much worth a look for people interested in small, powerful languages.

Because of this I always fix a piercing gaze on any pistachio that crosses my path

No one has yet mentioned that getting good tone quality on a trombone is perhaps its biggest challenge.

The same as true with violin and viola. The older and more primitive and instrument is, the more work you have to do.

Contrast this with the trombone’s cousins, the baritone and euphonium, which have infinitely better tone quality with little to no effort at all.

I will get downvoted for this, but modern players like Trombone Shorty have nowhere near the tone of players like Tommy Dorsey. this is clearly a matter of preference because he could nail that smooth smooth sound if you wanted to. I just don’t like the blatty sound.

I have a bunch of them, but I prefer to play marching baritones because I’m less likely to bang them into a music stand.

No. It has a trombone look but more important, it is not as conical as a baritone so it doesn’t sound as rich.

I didn’t know that. Thanks for letting me… meet the FOCers

I’ll see myself out of the Internet now.

I suppose you're right. What I liked about it was this very specific graf, which gave me a lot to think about as a (potential) future implementor. It tells me this person has thought deeply about these issues and I feel like I have a much better grasp of the concept of a durable workflow than I did after reading TFA. Thank kindly for spending so much time on my comment.

Once you need retries, backoff, timeouts, cancellation, versioning, visibility, task routing, rate limits, leases, heartbeats, stuck-worker detection, replay/debugging semantics, workflow migration, fanout/fanin, long timers, audit trails, and operator tooling, the “just use a database” story becomes “build a poor copy of a workflow engine plus a bunch of workers.” pretty quick.

As a stout proponent of Markdown I have to say getting tables right is hit or miss for me. Love this site.

Stop it, you tease. I'm getting a little tingly

I’m retired and still working on a new business

This looks exciting.

Always preparing for the next job at night

Did I say revolutionary?

Ridiculously good analysis! HN is a national treasure because of posts like this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3gbx78/til_t...

It was an eBay-related business that I had used many times. The resources I used were common sense and a realistic perspective on business, neither of which I was raised with :O. I went in knowing it might be a ripoff so I didn't go into debt. Just used up some of my retirement account.

There was little time for due diligence so I developed a relationship to the owner of the business to help calm my nerves.

Redmond, WA

What do you mean by succeed? To me, it's very specific. It is to live without debt or a mortgage in a safe place where I can afford medical insurance (which currently costs me $65,000/year). It also meant being able to spend as much time with them as my children required.

I guess you could say it took me from ages 21-38. If you count study as a child, 12-38.

However by the time I was 23 I was already super happy. I had a good job and could afford to take my girlfriend out a couple times a week. So the times from 23-38 were fulfilling and very enjoyable even though I didn't feel I "made it" until 38.

12: Started reading business books & biographies

16: Kicked out of high school

21: Dropped out of college & started to teach myself programming.

21: Fired from my first job as programmer

23-31: Worked as computer programmer, moonlighting journalist & got lots of free learning materials. Also spent all extra money on books.

25: Got angel funding for a business that sort of failed 3 years later

28-31: Programming jobs. Fired from another one.

34: PM job at Microsoft. Everyone sold their stock options due to dumb things Marc Andreesen said but I kept it all. Stock went up 1300% in the next 4 years. My friends who had been there much longer all seemed to listen to Marc.

38: Retired to due handicapped kid born. Stock was worth $1 million, had to sell it when I left. So $600K after taxes.

40: Bought a business, fixed it up, and it supported us beautifully for the next 20 years. Spent a lot but also saved a lot. HN calls it a lifestyle business. I made, say, minimum salary for an NFL football player. We bought our house for cash in a neighborhood where one of my favorite guitarists lived, but they couldn't make the house payment and moved out. Same for a local newscaster. I bought another house in the neighborhood for cash as an office.

60: Sold the business, now live off investments. Traded the houses for a farm in town.

I fear I will be downvoted into oblivion but I also want to learn from this.

First let me state the case for C. It’s meant to be used as a systems language that’s as close to assembly as possible while remaining portable (compared to assembly). As such it’s the first high-level language developed for any new processor.

Given the above predicate: Isn’t everything described in the article as it should be?

Add too much to the language and it becomes less possible to implement on new architectures, right? Because the undefined behavior lets implementors stand up new compilers fairly quickly.

For less undefined behavior isn’t it better to use languages that have that in their DNA? D, Zig, Go, Java, etc?

Did GP edit the post? Please explain to me where they stated that developers should act like monks who’ve taken a vow of poverty?

I completely agree with the sentiment of your reply at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48181203 btw

I can top that (he said bitterly). My wife is still gorgeous after 30+ years of marriage and is a 10x programmer. But she was happy when given the choice not to work when we married, and hasn’t touched a compiler in decades.

I did well in business, but the family joke is that I’d be a billionaire if I could have monetized her.

Delightful! Thank you.

I remember it well and now I can’t get that stinger out of my head

Who doesn’t miss the days when a Milliarden was worth something?

But with the batwings I hope