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In retrospect, it makes a lot of sense. Genesis was huge in NA/Europe, but it was considered somewhat of a failure in Japan.

Sega has always floundered with its home consoles — they released 3 competitors to the NES after all. Genesis ended up being more of a one-trick pony than any indication of longterm success.

2010: All this pump is fake. Sell!

2014: All this pump is fake. Sell!

2018: All this pump is fake. Sell!

2022: All this pump is fake. Sell! See, you can time the market.

Mostly anecdotal opinion as a Chicagoan —

Our tech scene has been largely driven by fintech and a few unicorns. And our unicorns tend to be much more bust than boom — Groupon being the highest profile one. Not sure if it's correlation or causation, but VC investment tends to be more conservative, and the ones I do hear about are mostly fintech.

On top of which, Chicago wasn't all that tech friendly. Pay has been rather stagnant, and promotions above senior engineer didn't exist before Covid/remote stretched everything out. The exception to comp has been prop trading firms, which make oodles of money but... trader culture dominates over eng.

How would GPL help? It doesn't stop hostile forks.

Pretty sure the ask isn't the Zen source.

Lifecycles map closer to how the underlying UI layer works, but not to developer expectations. I've lost countless hours to desynced implementations such as failing to account for componentDidUpdate when overriding componentDidMount or missing a corresponding componentWillUnmount cleanup.

The Zig language doesn't need libc, but because it also includes a fully functional C compiler, it ships with musl source and glibc headers for better crossplatform support.

WeWork would like a chat.

Is he seriously using Javascript as an example of non-OOP language?

Li-ion cells provides 3.6V, which makes them incompatible with traditional alkaline or NiMH. I don't think we've invented a standard for Li-ion batteries yet.

Most compilers for 8-bit and 16-bit CPUs, e.g. Z80 or 80286.

A corollary to this is: the code should match the problem domain.

If the business problem is complicated, trying to further simplify the code usually makes it awkwardly abstracted and extra brittle. The fix should not be _just_ cleaning up the code, but rather trying to resolve the original usecase.

Zig has wasm as a built-in compile target — derived from LLVM 8 so Clang has the same functionality. The link to Dom/OpenGL is still a manual process but there’s some efforts generating the necessary JavaScript helpers.

Much worse than that: their (pre-market) valuation is 44B and takeovers require shareholder agreement, usually at least 20% premium to the market — I'd wager the ask price would be a lot more but let's be conservative... 53B buys you a 9B debt.