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Is this for real? They really thought git was an appropriate tool on which to build a messaging service?


Not quite, it gets you about 90% there. Even with a grammar to use off the shelf, you still need to write queries to make use of it for highlighting, text object selection, auto indenting, etc. These have so far been particular to the editor.


This is surely just the bias of those willing to make a comment one way or the other. If you are so-so about it, you probably don't make the effort to make a comment.


This stuck out to me too. Terraform absolutely does check the current reality of the state and applies changes to do what the HCL tells is to. They are either using terraform in a really weird way, or this article was written by someone that doesn't actually run terraform themselves.


Phew! I thought I was misunderstanding terraform when I saw that.

Perhaps they are working with certain poorly implemented or buggy providers, and not realizing those providers were doing something different than terraform's properly working behavior that most providers implemented.

Bugs happen, but the first step is agreeing on intended behavior so we know what's a bug!


Am I the only one who was extremely confused by the writing? I think the whole effect was just lost on me, because I went from thinking her brother was the one who died, to thinking he was the driver, to finally getting to the part where she actually says explicitly that he was the other boy in the road.


Show me where anyone involved in Rust in an official capacity has claimed that "reliable software cannot be written in C/C++"


Wow this guy is fucking delusional. I can't believe he seriously thinks his employees are smiling every day, and that they aren't burnt out because they "believe in the mission"


Chrome was always a non-starter for me without an option to cycle tabs in most-recently used order.


So you just gave up on it ? juat like that. It's because of people like you that software ends up slow and bloated..


Wow. So you are saying that because I chose not to use Chrome that all software suffers? I didn't realize that there was only one good choice, or that Firefox was "slow and bloated," or that my choice of which software to use somehow contributes to the quality of code that software engineers outside of Google write.

MRU tabs is essential to my usage flow. Sorry if that hurts your feelings. I frequently have many tabs open, and I need to be able to quickly switch back and forth between two or three tabs. People have been clamoring for MRU tabs since Chrome came out, and Google and the Chromium developers simply ignore them. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=161960


Wow, judging from the comments in here, there are a lot of people that are in management positions that are horrible judges of technical ability and value. This question asks so many things that it doesn't really ask anything at all. No matter which field they decide dive into, if they can dive into any at all, it sheds no light whatsoever on their ability to solve problems, or their ability to learn new difficult concepts. Moreover, making assumptions about where their specialties lie because of the topic they chose to answer in is wrong--if they answered well, they could be skilled in many other topics as well, and if they didn't, that doesn't mean they're incompetent--it means they didn't know how to answer what is essentially a trick question.


>it sheds no light whatsoever on their ability to solve problems, or their ability to learn new difficult concepts.

This is of course correct; one way to check for these is to ask specific questions for prior job experience; however the top-dog companies like to hire promising graduates right out of college and so they don't wish to cut them off by asking these questions.


I may do that in the future, once Rust has stabilized. They've recently changed the concurrency model to use native threads, instead of green threads, so their documentation is not accurate at present. And a comparison between them wouldn't really be meaningful anyway, until Rust has stabilized. That said, I'm sure there are plenty of other articles that compare Go and Rust.


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