lobstrosity420

No one likes that either you know.

> Maximalist positions are a thing in our industry. Take a technique, outline its drawbacks, extrapolate you can’t use it under any circumstance, and ban it forever. We are lucky that Rails embraces exactly the opposite mindset as one of its pillars.

> I'm having trouble thinking of a precedent for this - an open source project that has a core API which is effectively a lead generator for their proprietary cloud service.

Is this not Vercel’s entire business model? I don’t think they invented it either.

Honestly, I do. I love typing M-x with a random word and finding something that does what I wanted to or is pretty close.

It’s the entire premise of Snow Crash.

It already lets you have different settings for the internal en external keyboards by default. I use it just like that - vanilla settings on my MacBook built in and for the external keyboard I switch command and option, since it’s a windows keyboard.

I don’t want to be inflammatory, but the amount of baby duck syndrome when people say MacOS and Linux are unusable is crazy. Just try to go vanilla for 2 weeks before you install two dozen utilities.

I don't think the article was saying to choose a market with few customers, of course you want costumers. Rather choose a market with few competitors.

Swift had no horse in that race whatsoever. It was made to interface with Cocoa and it excels at pretty much exclusively that.

I don’t think Reddit being replaced is as much of a given as everyone seems to think. People might simply get tired of the concept altogether. Nobody needs a vote based link aggregator thingy in their lives, and there is no shortage of social media in sight.

That is the magic of EMacs. If Lem manages to capture that, and improve in other areas like performance - they might make something really special.

If there is data loss it’s an incident, full stop. Your observability layer should be letting you know.