Not only is Burmese food in Myanmar far better, but even the small, modest restaurants bring out a whole spread of complimentary small dishes (pickles, salads, crunchy snacks, all kinds of delicious little sides) before the main meal. It's just built into the dining culture there, and it's incredibly generous compared to what you see abroad.

It's fantastic as a travel/digital nomad tool. It enables me to use a large widescreen display and work efficiently from anywhere in the world.

A lot of Canadian “tourism” isn’t of the stay in a series of hotels for two weeks variety. It’s cross the border to attend a concert or sporting event. Grab a bite to eat and stock up at Walmart/Costco/<insert favorite store here> before heading home. Sales at the Costco nearest the border with BC were down 20% at the same time Costco was seeing increased sales nationwide.

Then why are all the border states, towns and cities (and their elected representatives) begging Canadian tourists to come back, with endless advertisements, appeals to our historic friendship, temporarily re-naming streets ("Canada Street", really? Can't wait for the photo-op of an ICE raid happening there) and even silly incentives (like a 3-pack of free golf balls in one case)...?

Yeah, good luck downplaying the 12+ billion the US tourism industry is about to lose this year.

us-east-1 too

I own one, but it lacks apps. Apple urgently needs to incentivize developers to create apps for the platform, and not just repackaged iPad apps.

We should have immersive games and experiences. In fact, even the intro immersive experience bundled with the Meta Quest has a greater wow factor than most Vision apps.

It's also the same dude who brought us beloved products in Apple's lineup. It's almost a meme at this point to say that Jony Ive's genius needs a containing force like Steve Jobs. Perhaps Sam Altman can fill that role.

Jobs, for all his faults, understood where aesthetic, functionality and user experience intersected extremely well.

He got stuff wrong too, don’t get me wrong, but I have yet to see another CEO (heck any business person of note) with the same pattern of deep understanding of how those things intersected as well as he did

People say this while outright ignoring all the outright failures Jobs had because he DIDN'T have that understanding.

The Lisa, the Newton, NeXT computers, trying to dump Pixar pretty much right before they made it big right as the tech was finally catching up to their ideas.

The reality is Jobs got to roll the dice a bunch of times, and if you get to roll the dice a lot, you will have some wins. Looking only at the wins is not useful.

I don't have the time or space to write up a proper rebuttal, but I will suffice to say, after reading an incredible amount about not only Jobs, but Apple, NeXT, the Newton, Pixar, things about tech, especially early home computing, the man performed well above his peers with regards to where aesthetic, functionality and user experience intersected. Note, I am not talking about how he ran the businesses otherwise.

He wasn't always right, as I said already, but he was far better than most at this. More importantly, he was far better at most at getting others to shave their vision down to the simplest of ideas.

If you look at the competitors to Apple or NeXT during their respective eras, they were not very thoughtful in their deliberations.

It doesn't mean every idea he had was successful either, but I'm speaking specifically to the fact he intersected the three points extremely well. At a certain point, someone is good enough at something its more than luck

Altman can't fill that role for himself, I don't think he could do it for Ive...

The batching concept is a cool idea and could be useful in the right context. That said, this feels like a JavaScript engineer's take on Go. Abstractions like Map and ForEach don't align with Go's emphasis on simplicity and explicitness. The lack of context.Context handling also seems like an oversight, especially when considering concurrency.

Judging by the praise, I'm probably in the minority, but as a code reviewer, I’d much rather see straightforward loops, channels, and Go's native constructs over something like Rill.

> Map and ForEach don't align with Go's emphasis on simplicity and explicitness

I've never paid my bills with Go, but `Map` and `ForEach` don't seem all that different than `for _, u := range Users` to me. Yes, the former is "functional" but only mildly.

In that case there's no particular reason to use them. As far as Go's philosophy goes.

touché

If you were to build a library like `rill` in the Go-way, what would your Batch API usage look like?

I don’t agree with your comment about Map and ForEach, just by virtue of the fact that sync.Map exists in Go’s standard library.

But your point about the lack of contexts is definitely a deal breaker for me personally too.

The "map" under discussion here is very different from sync.Map. The discussion here is focused on the "map" primitive from functional programming - transforming a collection by applying a function to each element.

sync.Map is a concurrency-safe hash map. Same name, totally different thing.

This is such a refreshing perspective! I've always wondered if there's room for craftsmen to build quality products for smaller groups. Your focus on simple, well-designed software really resonates with me. Thanks for showing us a viable path.

I started my career with JavaScript and Node.js, but over time I've grown to dislike its design flaws and dynamic nature. If JavaScript had Dart's strengths, I might still be using it; instead, I've moved on to languages I find more respectable.

The Daily (NYT) and Best of Car Talk. The latter is what happens when 2 engineering-minded individuals become mechanics.

I miss listening to Click and Clack every weekend but the Best Of podcast sort of fills that void. It was an amazing show.