dotopotoro

So you dont need developers when you use SaaS?

That’s harsh

Opposite of “live small” usually means “each year bigger and better”, which kind of means geometric growth, which almost by definition seems unsustainable.

Trimming version does not trim whitespace indentation. I guess point goes to “tabs” camp.

You should check out IDEs :)

IDE takes plain old text as input, and lets the coder to interact with the model of the program.

1. Various graphical hints in text (highlighting keywords, selections, …)

2. Visualisation tools (draw database and class diagrams)

3. Navigation capabilities (go to implementation, definition etc)

4. Refactoring capabilities (“rename, “extract variable”, …)

In my view, IDE is already “book with diagrams”. (“Diagrams” can still be improved, but concept is really there)

Would you use a PC without any of keyboard hotkeys?

I’m not fanatical about this, I would use it if I would be forced by circumstances. But I would not be happy about it. And I still would try to educate/convince older colleagues that hotkeys make things quicker/easier/“reliabler”.

From your speculation of source of touchscreen hate, I see that you feel that tesla has superior car touchscreen experience. And I don't doubt that. But however good you can be with touchscreen, you can do even better if you also have bunch of physical buttons (in addition to touchscreen/must look then point device).

Probably we are like linux users. In total, over whole globe, we make up quite a sizeable number, but in each geographic location we are still a rare breed (not enough to get the enough momentum).

For ship, there is probable benefit (tradeoff) of making backup bridge easy - theoretically just a bunch of tablets.

True. Though realistically, regarding left-pad, in other languages I would expect left-pad to be part of string formatting package.

Russia’s relation with China will not be that of equals.

Russia will be just a gas station to China. And China being more authoritarian, will not be such easy target for kgb as Scholz/Merkel/Schroeder were.

Why? (5 “why”s in total)

I like to imagine that their goal is similar, yet less ambitious: to keep C alive only for those who really need it.

Even if they fork the language, standard still provides the common baseline for all, which is useful.

They seem to be very positive influence on amzn

Other reasons for the a bit of noise: speed, simplicity and unambiguity of parsing. (Impacts compilation speed, ease of additional tool development, and ability to continue parsing partially incorrect code)