Its surprising that date / time parsing is screwed in multiple languages

I have always preferred (even without thinking) to use configuration files as Yaml and kept Json for interprocess communication

( I don't know who said it, but if forced, I will say Albert Einstein or Mark Twain :-) )

Reminds of that article about Postgres for everything: https://github.com/Olshansk/postgres_for_everything

Finally, an interface that matches our enterprise COBOL codebase, perfect for Y2K-compliant enterprises of 1999 :-)

I don't know how much of that article points are still valid.

The other part in favor of mysql (in my opinion) are that there are lots of companies that use mysql in production - so the access patterns, and its quirks are very well defined Companies like Square, YouTube, Meta, Pinterest, now Uber all use mysql. From blind, Stripe was also thinking of moving all its fleet from Mongo to mysql

Perception wise, it looks like companies needing internet scale data are using mysql

PS: I am also a fan of Postgres, and we are using that for our startup. But I don't know the answer if someone asks me, why not Mysql. Hence asking

One guy able to tap into this knowledge in dreams is an indication that it is possible. Now, how do we make this the default for everyone is the question I wonder about

The way we found one variant of wheat in Mexico that was resistant to bacteria, and replicate that to the whole world -- can we do something like that for humans ( even I don't like the sound of it, but I hope you get the feeling )

Read this line on Wiki: "In Perl 6, we decided it would be better to fix the language than fix the user - Larry wall"

Looks like a very good philosophical statement. Maybe there's a lesson here for other programming language

( The other Perl slogan: "Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible" is also really good )

I am really confused by this. Is it really that stable ? For any software that was released this back, I would have thought its abandoned. Are there no features that the community had demanded in this time

This talk is from a technical perspective - and whatever your thoughts on Threads are, it is a great technical feat to launch something of that scale in 5 months!

Can't think of any company that comes close to Meta in the speed of shipping features and products, and Threads app is the best example

I am personally feeling bad that he died. Can't remember any time in recent history when a person with whom I have no personal connecting died, and it is impacting me so much

But yeah, lets find fault with everyone to form a "well-rounded opinion", because that is what we should strive to achieve