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> My library lets you do parallelism in a unique way That's a big claim which you don't really back up as much as you need to. Unique is an extremely high bar
by adw 8y ago
> My library lets you do parallelism in a unique way
That's a big claim which you don't really back up as much as you need to. Unique is an extremely high bar in this very busy field.
There are several other similar red flags on the linked GitHub; I think your enthusiasm is running away from you a little. You might want to dial the ten-dollar language back a bit – it made me immediately suspicious ("utterly perfect", for example is another danger phrase).
It's the combination of grandiose language + solution-in-search-of-a-problem which leads to that.
If you're going to sell hard, what I would want to see is a large, complex, high-traffic system which makes extensive use of this; if you compare and contrast with Ray, which I've also only just encountered in this thread, there's a real problem (distributed hyperparameter optimization) which they've built a solution for with the library, and that immediately lends it credibility; I know the system can be used for something because it has been.
- devxpy 8y ago'utterly perfect ' are not my words http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#Multithreading-with-ZeroMQ http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#Multithreading-with-ZeroMQ Thought linking it there would make it better, but I'll just remove it... And you do make a good point. It doesn't really solve anything technically. But would you agree that it exposes a better API for doing much of the same stuff?
- adw 8y agoI wouldn't know without using it. That's where "software using this library" is a really useful bit of social proof. Think of Django; even without looking at the code you have a lot of evidence that it can conveniently solve a wide range of real problems.
- devxpy 8y agoWell HN I'd say is a pretty good place to raise social awareness
- devxpy 8y agoUpdate - I hopefully made the language a little better? https://github.com/pycampers/zproc/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/pycampers/zproc/blob/master/README.md
- adw 8y agoI think this is quite a lot better! Nice work.