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253 points rbanffy | 5 comments | 16 May 25 09:42 UTC | HN request time: 1.03s | source
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pjmlp ◴[16 May 25 12:27 UTC] No.44004601[source]▶
On the other news, Microsoft dumped the whole faster Python team, apparently the 2025 earnings weren't enough to keep the team around.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mdboom_its-been-a-tough-coupl...

Lets see whatever performance improvements still land on CPython, unless other company sponsors the work.

I guess Facebook (no need to correct me on the name) is still sponsoring part of it.

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falcor84 ◴[16 May 25 12:45 UTC] No.44004800[source]▶
It wouldn't have bothered me if you just said "Facebook" - I probably wouldn't have even noticed it. But I'm really curious why you chose to write "Facebook", then apparently noticed the issue, and instead of replacing it with "Meta" decided to add the much longer "(no need to correct me on the name)". What axe are you grinding?
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pjmlp ◴[16 May 25 13:00 UTC] No.44004942[source]▶
Yes, because I am quite certain someone without anything better to do would correct me on that.

For me Facebook will always be Facebook, and Twitter will always be Twitter.

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1. falcor84 ◴[16 May 25 13:26 UTC] No.44005249[source]▶
> Yes, because I am quite certain someone without anything better to do would correct me on that.

Well, you sure managed to avoid that by setting up camp on that hill. Kudos on so much time saved.

> For me Facebook will always be Facebook, and Twitter will always be Twitter.

Well, for me the product will always be "Thefacebook", but that's since I haven't used it since. But I do respect that there's a company running it now that does more stuff and contributes to open source projects.

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2. biorach ◴[16 May 25 13:54 UTC] No.44005565[source]▶
> Well, you sure managed to avoid that by setting up camp on that hill. Kudos on so much time saved.

Why are you picking a fight about this?

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3. Flamentono2 ◴[16 May 25 14:03 UTC] No.44005670[source]▶
With money which destroied our society
4. falcor84 ◴[16 May 25 14:15 UTC] No.44005803[source]▶
I think I'm taking it personally because I had previously changed my name and had people repeatedly call me by my old name just to annoy/hurt me.

Obviously I know that companies aren't people and don't have feelings, but I can't understand why you would intentionally avoid using their chosen name, even when it's more effort to you.

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5. kstrauser ◴[16 May 25 14:20 UTC] No.44005860{3}[source]▶
I wouldn’t do that to a person. I’m not worried about hurting Twitter’s feelings, though.