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Choosing a name like that made me think they were acquired by TigerBeetle. Come on like


I’ve noticed the app has gotten a lot slower and buggier on iOS in the last few years. Kind of wondered what they were writing it with.


How much did they get acquired for?


Would be interesting to see the EU say none of the projects it funds can use AWS until Amazon play ball.


Yeah I gave up on it trying to sync photos. The apps on the desktop and mobile gave no indication of its state processing files. So I was waiting after a large upload for replication to occur days later and I didn’t know if it would ever complete.


Bill Gates can sleep happy knowing Ubuntu will never be a challenge to windows


Can someone explain this to me like I’m 5? I thought web assembly was primarily run in a browser. Is this saying you can run a wasm binary in your go project (outside of the browser)?


That is correct. It is a webassembly runtime that you can embed in your go project. There are also other wasm runtimes that run outside the browser, this is one written in Go


Correct!

Just like JavaScript was made to run in a browser, but additional runtimes have been created.


How exactly can your IT department whitelist all software on your device? Are you using any build tools that install third party dependencies or are you using any development tools that do the same? Is your shell locked down so you can’t run command as a super user?

I assume your IT just has a whitelist for some stuff but I can’t imagine actually being a developed without super user privileges. Unless your doing some sort of very controlled software development.


Kind of amazing they are still a going business. I didn't realise any companies really used lisp for anything. I assume whoever is paying them money is doing so for some really niche or legacy?


I am a current LispWorks customer using the product for new product development. I wouldn’t consider my usage niche, but then again, I am not sure what you may consider to be niche or not.


I did some work for a machine translation business that used Common Lisp as their "secret sauce". As they considered it a serious competitive advantage, you wouldn't hear about it anywhere.

I've seen this with quite a few other companies since, but that means that lots of companies could be using lisp and nobody would ever know about it.


Some years ago I read the same "secret weapon" rhetoric on a website dedicated to ... Cobol; I've not taken it seriously since.


A few days ago I noticed that commercial Smalltalk also still exists:

https://www.cincom.com/us/smalltalk

By niche, I assume you mean niche interest rather than niche purpose. They're both general-purpose languages that are usable on the latest OSes, after all.


Isn't grammarly using lisp?


One of the biggest workloads on Google's Borg is the one running the flight-scheduling service that run on CL.


The author sounds absolutely horrible.


Meh. Some of this advice is pretty common sense.

Some of it a little cut throat.

I don’t see anything in here that isn’t in a playbook I’ve seen multiple times, do you?


Yeah I can’t say I disagree with you. The tone of it stuck me as terrible though.


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