Why do you assume it's a drag for them and not a competitive advantage? I don't know if it's such a terrible thing to use a slightly out of mainstream language, when the standard in the business is to accumulate tens of millions of lines of C++.
Agreed, indeed I believe they have mentioned that OCaml gets them to ship quicker because they are more confident with the correctness of changes.
But being outside of the mainstream may mean you need to occasionally debug more esoteric stuff: https://gallium.inria.fr/blog/intel-skylake-bug/ I'm sure Jane Street can afford doing that, but I'm not so sure if a small team can.
That was an interesting read, thanks.
However I fail to see how it's an issue specific to ocaml. It was a bug in the Skylake processor triggered by a special pattern of instructions produced by gcc. Ocaml built with clang was ok because it doesn't used the same pattern.
Did I miss something?
> Why do you assume it's a drag for them and not a competitive advantage?
Because despite them being very open about it, no one else does it, and every distinguished engineer who pushes a weird tech choice will justify and defend it.
People that haven’t used ocaml think it’s weird. I picked it up casually in 2020. It might not be popular, but it’s certainly not weird. It’s actually quite fantastic. These days I rarely ever use it, but I wish I did!
Since RSS is a pretty simple format, it doesn't require any automation, just a little copy and paste. "Handwriting your RSS feed"[0] makes the case for doing it that way.
They are fucking up the product that they are dominating a market with in order to be an also-ran in another market that's hot. It's Windows 8 all over again.
California's economy is so big because it's part of the American economy. California gets credited for Google, but most of the suckers clicking on ads and making Google rich aren't in California, most of Google's workers aren't in California. Cutting off California from that would be way dumber than Brexit.
The Magic Circle is selling itself as "the world's premier magic society", complete with titles. That's not a harmless men's club, excluding women from that makes it harder for them to make it as professional magicians.
As for the immorality of deceiving a bunch of professional magicians, spare me. Literally no harm was done.
Yes, I'd say the composability of commands is vi's key feature. I can't remember any but the most common shortcuts in other editors. In vi I get so much more bang for the buck since I have easy access to all the commands I remember multiplied by the motions I remember.
I like CyberChef for having a whole bunch of such tools bundled into one page, and especially that you can string them together into a pipeline: https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
They can offer humans in the loop, and those cost a lot. Like, a real live human will contact you and ask if you really want to transfer microsoft.com to Shady Shell Company (Bermuda) Ltd. Porkbun's pricing model is less attractive when your domains are worth billions to you.
