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Looks great, if I remember correctly the author mentioned that the spring color palette + fruit examples are a bit tongue-in-cheek.

Or empathetic, especially when they throw money away à la $70M parties:

“General and administrative expenses increased by $68.1m ... The increase was primarily driven by … an in-person company event held in Q3 2025”


Some choice Jack Dorsey quotes:

From New Yorker profile: “His goal… is… by making information freer, he hopes to make the world fairer, kinder, and nicer.”

Where he also writes, “I definitely feel the most fundamental issue is economic equality.”

But hey, the stock is up 25%!


Will never not complain about languages not giving code examples. It’s like writing a charting/UI/style library and showing no examples. Just what?

You overlooked the examples. They might not satisfy you, but there are examples.

To be fair, the examples are extremely easy to overlook. They are also, to put it delicately, not the most helpful.

The examples are fine for an early-stage poc project like this one. `minutes` with evaluation trace and `[Fold]<-` are illustrative, and if you work them out with pen and paper, you can get a good grasp on the main ideas of the language. That you have to search for them on a page that looks like a slightly-formatted README instead of having a nice scrollable with syntax-highlighted snippets at the top is because this IS a slightly-formatted README - and that's also completely fine at this stage. What's important is that there are a few interesting concepts there and that it was published. Even if this one fizzles, as 99.999% of languages do, that doesn't matter if some other language down the line gets inspired by those concepts.

Absolutely agree. But fairness precludes denying the existence of examples.

They are not prominent, but they are in a section with the heading 'Examples'.


apparently fold example is very helpful to some.

if it's something you do 100% of the time, is it really adding any information to the world?

absolutely does! for a new language that no one has heard of, it is essential that examples make at least a parallel with other languages. providing examples for mundane things is very useful to build the understanding with the reader who hasn't been writing a paper on OM language.

The Venezuelan people?


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You said "democratically", which is not necessary


The issue is that the "Venezuelan people" cannot decide because they are under a dictatorship.


Of course they can. At any time they can decide they've had enough and overthrow their government.

It happened in the past. Ever heard of the French Revolution?


You must be fortunate to have a lived experience where the answer isn’t immediately (and obviously) financial security.

Also: plenty of meaning outside of running a SaaS. Hell, undergraduate research assistants probably contribute more to societal at large.


The article didn’t even mention that, at 29 years old, he abandoned his 5 year-old son to go on his middle-aged crisis journey. Some person to celebrate.


Apparently it was his ex that took the child and moved out of his reach, to Northern Ireland, to the place he couldn't go because of his military background.

Perhaps this explains his motivation to just go on a ridiculous healing journey.


Would love to see the percentage of Forbes 30u30 who also had (sorry, claimed) a disability in college.


>Would love to see the percentage of Forbes 30u30 who also had (sorry, claimed) a disability in college.

Once they get out of prison, we should ask them.[0]

[0] I'll be here all week. Try the prime rib!


You work in tech and are somehow convinced working on a blockchain app is a good thing? We should make employees pass a basic economics test!


Yeah, my guess is the team vibe-coded it because wow is does it have poor performance /is difficult to use. A few links didn’t even work for me…


If so that means they asked the AI to use PHP. Which is even more horrifying.


The server appears to be down right now too :/


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