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Chasing the Myth of Zero-Overhead Memory Safety

verdagon.dev
1 points·by cmbothwell·2 lata temu·0 comments

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cmbothwell
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
The irony of the agentic/mimetic interview question is not lost on me. I wonder if it is on the hypothetical interviewees?

Answering “agentic” is the most “mimetic” answer you could give.

The most “agentic” response is probably “Fuck you”.
cmbothwell
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
I’ve come to believe a more depressing take: they _want_ to believe it, and therefore do.

No disclaimer is gonna change that.
cmbothwell
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
This hits at the true nature of the problem which has _nothing_ to do with Redis at all (which is a fine piece of technology written by a thoughtful and conscientious creator) and has everything to do with the fact that our industry at large encourages very little thinking about the problems we are trying to solve.

Hence, fads dominate. I hate to sound so cynical but that has been my experience in every instance of commercial software development.
cmbothwell
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
What was it about Elixir that you found dissatisfactory? I am currently evaluating Clojure vs. Elixir for a new project.
cmbothwell
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
Feel free to contradict me with personal experience, but I actually posit that (like many interesting phenomena in life), the truth is exactly the opposite. The number of people in a team expands to fill the budget allocated. That budget flows from a legible & convincing narrative told to the check-writers (internal or external) that may or may not overlap with reality.