mikeschmatz

It already exists -> The stock market.

It was my conclusion as well. I only found async useful in situations when a service has to deal with a large number of incoming requests, e.g. web server

I say you dodged a bullet. Imagine working under this person.

> Anyway, this is much longer than I meant, but my conclusion is that I'll continue to use async/await for web apps and REST APIs (because, why not), but for services, I'm going back to the threadpool, green threads and synchronization primitives, and only using async/await in a limited way where it provides clear value - not async all the way down from the entrypoint.

AFAIK, .Net doesn't support "green threads" and they repeatedly confirmed that there are no future plans to do so. Additionally, M:N threading model has serious interop issues as evident in Go, which is a no-go for system languages. Personally, I don't see a need for green threads since kernel threads are fast enough and don't use that much RAM as people tend to believe. And when they are not, sure, go async/await.

Rust is a complete pain for the types of problems Python is used for. Same for Go/Java.

Borland C++ and Turbo Vision were a killer combo back in the DOS times. Borland's decline over the years was painful to watch. I guess that what happens to the engineering driven companies that get overtaken by the MBA types.

You purposely set them very low, then "beat" them and watch stock price go to the moon.

> Because Amazon is comparatively low-margin vs. other tech companies, improved revenue has a much greater effect on earnings.

Are you saying that 10% revenue increase has led to 10x earnings beat? That doesn't make any sense.

Or, they are simply gaming H1B and/or employer-sponsored Green Card application process that requires submitting a proof that they couldn't find a US citizen.

C# with .Net Core seems to fit the bill.

The right term is "entreporn" which what this article really is.

> There’s no actual skill called business. Avoid business schools and magazines.

Proceeds giving a bunch of generic business and life lessons.

> What do you think society would look like in 20 years? My guess is what would happen is we would build robots, machines, software and hardware to do everything. We would all be living in massive abundance.

> We would essentially be retired, in the sense that none of us would have to work for any of the basics. We’d even have robotic nurses. We’d have machine driven hospitals. We’d have self-driving cars. We’d have farms that are 100% automated. We’d have clean energy.

Do we really need to run a thought experiment? Haven't some of it already happened to see the results? Doesn't look that rosy as this guy is describing.

> I tried reasoning with them, that I just wanted to view content and did not attend to write answers or interact etc, plus, they had a valid email address and facebook profile (also fake name on facebook). They fought back "we actually want proof of your real name like a scan of ID". I danced around and did not end up giving them a scan of my id, but I changed it to my real name.

I don't understand why you bothered arguing with them instead, I dunno, creating a new fake account?

Shall we legalize slavery then? Just imagine how many business models would become viable if labor was free