Why “recurse” is being discussed
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Having a clean DAG still breaks down with recursive Make: if binary X depends on library A, then X's Makefile either has a rule to recurse to A (and then parallel builds of A mi…
by entrope · Oct 1, 2026
Well for starters the use of the term "Recursive" is very dubious. This is as far as the eye can see all very iterative, there is no tail-call or anything fancy, it is loops. Al…
by polotics · Sep 29, 2026
Not really something you can control, but RC always feels "unauthentic" whenever people write about it. It is often portrayed like an old-school hackerspace or makerspace but it…
by yayachiken · Sep 28, 2026
Recurse Center is only YC-affiliated in the sense that the founders did YC (S10). It's not YC sponsored or endorsed as far as I could find. It doesn't really attract the YC kind…
by roncesvalles · Sep 28, 2026
> Has there been a business started based on work done there? Greg Brockman went through Recurse in Summer of 2015, and co-founded OpenAI in December of 2015.
by simonw · Sep 28, 2026
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Recursion occurs when the definition of a concept or process depends on a simpler or previous version of itself. Recursion is used in a variety of disciplines ranging from linguistics to logic. The most common application of recursion is in mathematics and computer science, where a function being defined is applied within its own definition. While this apparently defines an infinite number of instances, it is often done in such a way that no infinite loop or infinite chain of references can occur. Read more on Wikipedia