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renewiltord 1y ago
But I don’t want to solve actual problems. I want to write the 3689th lisp interpreter in the world.
- pdimitar 1y ago
  Your right and prerogative, obviously. But out there, a stranger you care nothing about, will think less of you. Wish I had that free time and freedom though... The things I would do.
  - renewiltord 1y ago
    You can have that free time. Stop posting on HN and write some code. I can do both but if I couldn’t I’d pick the latter.
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bigyabai 1y ago
Pay me
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dang 1y ago
Can you please follow the site guidelines when posting to HN? You broke them badly in this thread, and we've had to ask you this many times before. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- pdimitar 1y ago
  Apparently I did. Seems I underestimated the impact of what I perceived as a small rant. [no longer replying non-constructively to anyone in this sub-thread]
yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
Okay, fair enough. Which part are you working on and how far have you gotten?
- pdimitar 1y ago
  Elixir -> Rust -> SQLite library (FFI bridge). The FFI library is completed (without some of SQLite's advanced features that I don't deem important for a v1) and I am just adding more tests now, though the integration layer with Elixir's de-facto data mapper library (Ecto) has not been started yet. Which means that an announcement would be met with crickets, hence I'll work on that integration layer VerySoon™. Otherwise the whole thing wouldn't ever help anyone. I do feel strongly about it as I believe most apps don't need a full-blown database server. I've seen what SQLite can do and to me it's still a hidden gem (or a blind spot) to many programmers. So I am putting my sweat where my mouth is and will provide that to the Elixir community, for 100% free, no one-time payments and no subscription software. And yes, I do get annoyed by privileged people casually working on completely irrelevant stuff that's never going to move anything forward. Obviously everyone has the right to do whatever they like in their free time, but announcements on HN I can't combine with that and they do annoy me greatly. "Oh look, it's just a hobby project but I want you all to look at it!" -- don't know, it does not make any sense to me. Seems pretentious and ego-serving but I could be looking at it wrong. Triggers tend to remove nuance after all.
teddyh 1y ago
OK, say, for the sake of argument, that DwarFS solves the disk space problem. What about the RAM problem?
- pdimitar 1y ago
  Addressing this requires me being interested in all the details (which would get me half way there on the road to being a contributor, which I'm not aiming at). I was responding to the central point of the article + ranted a bit. I'm simply getting annoyed by the low effort that is put in such prominent open-source software. And here I am, working in my corner on a soon-to-be-released open-source library that will likely see 100 users for a year at most... agonizing on increasing test coverage that actually paid off and it uncovered bugs and I fixed them. And enlisted LLMs and professional acquaintances to minimize or eliminate memory copying in the FFI part of the code... ...and a very prominent open-source software maintainers have not even bothered to start looking at the lowest-hanging fruit: reducing disk usage. That frustrated me and I expressed it.

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renewiltord 1y ago

But I don’t want to solve actual problems. I want to write the 3689th lisp interpreter in the world.

pdimitar 1y ago
Your right and prerogative, obviously. But out there, a stranger you care nothing about, will think less of you. Wish I had that free time and freedom though... The things I would do.
- renewiltord 1y ago
  You can have that free time. Stop posting on HN and write some code. I can do both but if I couldn’t I’d pick the latter.
  - pdimitar 1y ago
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bigyabai 1y ago

Pay me

pdimitar 1y ago
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dang 1y ago

Can you please follow the site guidelines when posting to HN? You broke them badly in this thread, and we've had to ask you this many times before. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

pdimitar 1y ago
Apparently I did. Seems I underestimated the impact of what I perceived as a small rant. [no longer replying non-constructively to anyone in this sub-thread]

yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago

Okay, fair enough. Which part are you working on and how far have you gotten?

pdimitar 1y ago
Elixir -> Rust -> SQLite library (FFI bridge). The FFI library is completed (without some of SQLite's advanced features that I don't deem important for a v1) and I am just adding more tests now, though the integration layer with Elixir's de-facto data mapper library (Ecto) has not been started yet. Which means that an announcement would be met with crickets, hence I'll work on that integration layer VerySoon™. Otherwise the whole thing wouldn't ever help anyone. I do feel strongly about it as I believe most apps don't need a full-blown database server. I've seen what SQLite can do and to me it's still a hidden gem (or a blind spot) to many programmers. So I am putting my sweat where my mouth is and will provide that to the Elixir community, for 100% free, no one-time payments and no subscription software. And yes, I do get annoyed by privileged people casually working on completely irrelevant stuff that's never going to move anything forward. Obviously everyone has the right to do whatever they like in their free time, but announcements on HN I can't combine with that and they do annoy me greatly. "Oh look, it's just a hobby project but I want you all to look at it!" -- don't know, it does not make any sense to me. Seems pretentious and ego-serving but I could be looking at it wrong. Triggers tend to remove nuance after all.

teddyh 1y ago

OK, say, for the sake of argument, that DwarFS solves the disk space problem. What about the RAM problem?

pdimitar 1y ago
Addressing this requires me being interested in all the details (which would get me half way there on the road to being a contributor, which I'm not aiming at). I was responding to the central point of the article + ranted a bit. I'm simply getting annoyed by the low effort that is put in such prominent open-source software. And here I am, working in my corner on a soon-to-be-released open-source library that will likely see 100 users for a year at most... agonizing on increasing test coverage that actually paid off and it uncovered bugs and I fixed them. And enlisted LLMs and professional acquaintances to minimize or eliminate memory copying in the FFI part of the code... ...and a very prominent open-source software maintainers have not even bothered to start looking at the lowest-hanging fruit: reducing disk usage. That frustrated me and I expressed it.