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New comment by sinnsro in "Startups Brag They Spend More Money on AI Than Human Employees"

sinnsro — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:56:41 +0000

Reading your post, it is clear to me that management and engineers will rediscover the theory of constraints at some point if they can connect the dots.

New comment by sinnsro in "ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL"

sinnsro — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:25:35 +0000

I fail to see your point, as the base pipes can be combined with blocks and wrapping the target function into another function.

Although, IMHO, if that many operations are crammed into a single pipe pass, then something is amiss.

New comment by sinnsro in "ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL"

sinnsro — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:09:29 +0000

The base pipe has an underscore as a placeholder. From the docs:

Usage:

     lhs |> rhs

Arguments:

     lhs: expression producing a value.

     rhs: a call expression.

Details: [...]

     It is also possible to use a named argument with the placeholder
     ‘_’ in the ‘rhs’ call to specify where the ‘lhs’ is to be
     inserted.  The placeholder can only appear once on the ‘rhs’.

PetaPerl: Perl but in Rust

sinnsro — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:19:51 +0000

Article URL: https://perl.petamem.com/docs/eng/introduction.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47467261

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by sinnsro in "Why Objective-C"

sinnsro — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:10:37 +0000

> we wanted Delphi and got Haskell instead

Please elaborate.

> However note the same phenomen happening with other languages, as soon as you have a team being paid to develop a language, their job depends on adding features in every single release.

Users also request those features. You said yourself that programming languages are products. In that sense, people are always evaluating them through the lenses of utility (the economics concept), and if they have to pick between two languages, with similar capabilities, they will pick up the one that maximises that utility.

This to weird design decisions getting inserted into the fabric as a consequence (the current state of C++ comes to mind). And given developers are too opinionated about everything, we get politics as a side effect.

New comment by sinnsro in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

sinnsro — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:59:09 +0000

I am not sure if the average executive is dumb or just shortsighted. Imagine making decisions based solely on the optics of the Pareto principle when corporate history itself says that is fraught with risk.

New comment by sinnsro in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

sinnsro — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:52:07 +0000

Bean Counter Tim is going to drive Apple into the ground before he does anything useful. Just look at the current state of the ecosystem when it comes to UI/UX and software stability.

New comment by sinnsro in "Julia: Performance Tips"

sinnsro — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:44:32 +0000

> A very minor nit: Julia is a compiled language

Caught. Should have just listed the usual suspects (C, C++, maybe Rust nowadays?).

> and the best 2 solutions were in Julia. C++ was a close third, and Rust after that.

Awesome. Which type of problem was this, if you can share?

New comment by sinnsro in "Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down"

sinnsro — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:41:07 +0000

Now that the money is gone

What are we supposed to do?

After all that we've been through

When everything that felt so right is wrong

Now that the money is gone (money is gone)

New comment by sinnsro in "Julia: Performance Tips"

sinnsro — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:48:16 +0000

While others have mentioned plenty of reasons, for this particular case I want to highlight 3 things:

1. Julia has great tooling for operations research/linear programming. JuMP provides an standardise interface to interact with solvers (e.g., Gurobi, CPLEX) via wrapper libraries.

2. I like its overall ergonomics. It is fast enough that a programmer might not need to use a compiled language for performance. The type system allows for multiple dispatch. And the syntax is more approachable than say Python for matrix algebra.

3. I would say the performance is overstated by the community but out of the box it is good enough to avoid languages like C/C++ to build solutions. The two-language problem in academia is real, and Julia helps to reduce that gap somewhat in certain fields.

Building a Pure Data API with Lasagna Pull

sinnsro — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:30:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.loicb.dev/blog/building-a-pure-data-api-with-lasagna-pull

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121469

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sinnsro in "Poor Deming never stood a chance"

sinnsro — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:33:19 +0000

The statement holds true for a broad set of companies and management styles. I speak from personal experience: the wrong incentives are always there, and they run counter to many things listed by Deming. The obsession with "financial impact" is there with varying degrees, even in functions where it is hard to quantify said impact.

It might not apply to R&D-heavy companies, but we do see engineering companies pivoting into more finance-oriented management. Boeing is one such case and look at the damage.

New comment by sinnsro in "Poor Deming never stood a chance"

sinnsro — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:27:56 +0000

The core issue with the article is that author mixes up bad management and "fog of management" with the fact that financial results have a disproportionate amount of influence in how things are organised. Every team and employee should do their part to contribute to the financial targets every quarter and within the fiscal year. Which clashes with Deming's points 11b and 12b [1].

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1. https://deming.org/explore/fourteen-points/

MacOS26.4 displays warnings for apps that won't run after Rosetta 2 support Ends

sinnsro — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:33:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/16/macos-tahoe-26-4-rosetta-2-warnings/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47041273

Points: 1

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New comment by sinnsro in "Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface"

sinnsro — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:40:09 +0000

Executives who focus on the financial side of things and do not care about correctness in operations are the ones steering lots of companies nowadays. Boeing is a good example/case study on how financialisation eats up companies from the inside by emphasising monetary results over actual engineering.

The Accidental Winners of the War on Higher Ed

sinnsro — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:58:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/liberal-arts-college-war-higher-ed/685800/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46981733

Points: 2

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New comment by sinnsro in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

sinnsro — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:39:12 +0000

God forbid paying the masses a living wage or allowing them access to things their forebears had. They will own nothing and they will be thankful for it.

[/s just in case it goes over someone's head]

New comment by sinnsro in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"

sinnsro — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:35:11 +0000

Again, another great move sponsored by bean counter boy Tim.

New comment by sinnsro in "C isn't a programming language anymore (2022)"

sinnsro — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:16:07 +0000

> It doesn't mean that people haven't tried or even succeeded. Android was successful in multiple fronts in replacing C. Its "intents" and low level interface description language for hardware interfaces are great replacement for C ABI. Windows' COM is also a good replacement that gets rid of language dependence. There are still newer OSes try like Redox or Fuchsia.

I am not sure I buy this from a system perspective, especially when taking this[1] into consideration.

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1. Alexis King's reply to "Why do common Rust packages depend on C code?". Link: https://langdev.stackexchange.com/a/3237

New comment by sinnsro in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

sinnsro — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:50:04 +0000

Thanks for sharing! Every time I see a post about Elixir and how it Just Works™, I get an urge to learn and build something with it.