Arcsech

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by Arcsech 9y ago
This article was posted on HN a while back suggesting exactly that: https://hackernoon.com/leaner-alternatives-to-server-side-re... It's just as ridiculous as it sounds.
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by Arcsech 9y ago
From TFA: "Salesforce executives were first made aware of the project in a February meeting, and they had signed off on the project, according to one person with knowledge of the meeting." They had executive signoff until half an
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by Arcsech 9y ago
> Might it be true that women are just naturally much less attracted to STEM than men? No. In India in 2015, 45% of CS undergrads were women[0]. In the US, in 1984, it was 37%[1], as opposed to 18% in 2010. The downvotes are because yo
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by Arcsech 9y ago
I don't think that's entirely unique to Lisps, you can get a REPL into an existing Erlang instance very easily. More easily than getting nREPL running in Clojure, actually. I believe Smalltalk as well, although I'm less con
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by Arcsech 9y ago
As far as I can tell, "illegal" and "undocumented" instructions are the same thing[0]. Likely they are "illegal" according to the spec of the processor, and that's where the term came from. [0] At least a
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by Arcsech 9y ago
How is "opt-out option types" different from, say, Java, where everything is nullable and all the problems that come with that? Honest question, as I haven't had a chance to look into P6 as much as I would like. It looks pre
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by Arcsech 9y ago
I highly recommend that you try out a language with good support for option/maybe types: Haskell and Rust are good options here. Very often, your error handling through a chain of operations will be to use a slightly different operator
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by Arcsech 9y ago
The use of what most HN users would consider an absurd number of tabs is shockingly (to me anyway) common among the non-tech-worker crowd. I'd say about half of my family members that don't work in tech have at least dozens and pr
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by Arcsech 9y ago
Well first, Elixir isn't purely functional. It's got side effects all over the place, it just doesn't have mutable variables. Second... While I love static typing as much as the next guy, there's definitely value in imm
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by Arcsech 9y ago
Here's a dump of the "Programming" folder from my RSS reader: Aphyr's (aka the guy behind the Jepsen distributed system test series): https://aphyr.com/ Fred Herbert, the author of Learn You Some Erlang:
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by Arcsech 9y ago
The Magnus Archives is a great horror podcast. It's mostly-independent pieces of short fiction, but start at the beginning because there's definitely a meta-narrative. Also good is The Bright Sessions, also fiction, about a psych
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by Arcsech 9y ago
This seems like a Rube Goldberg solution for a problem better solved by just... not using a SPA for a page with the primary function of displaying text. I mean, maybe I'm missing something. What's an example of a page where this w
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by Arcsech 9y ago
Yep, I also missed Kotlin. I technically missed Clojure too, because I rushed and hit Emacs Lisp before actually fully reading the example and all the answers.
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by Arcsech 9y ago
That's very disappointing. While I don't begrudge Cognitect money, it's obviously possible to make money with an OSS database and I wish they'd gone that route. It's my opinion that your database is the #1 most impo
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by Arcsech 9y ago
"Accessibility costs money" is a popular thing to say, but I'm not convinced that needs to be true. Okay, fine, captioning/transcribing videos I'll give you, but many of the other issues on this page can be addresse
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by Arcsech 9y ago
Also, some databases, such as Cassandra[0] divide data into multiple files on disk which are sorted within the file but not between files, and use bloom filters to prune down the number of files which must be checked for a given key. [0]:
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by Arcsech 9y ago
For what it's worth, I'm in the process of converting one of our components from JavaScript to Java because it is incredibly fragile, difficult to modify, and everyone hates working with it. Not everyone is forced to use Java. I r
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by Arcsech 9y ago
I just want to echo this: I work in Elixir on side projects at least, and HelloSign sounds like a cool place to work! But no way I'm moving to California.
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by Arcsech 9y ago
I wouldn't be surprised to see DO either roll out DaaS next or partner with someone (Compose.io?) to do it. That's one of two things (the other being VPC, which I know they're working on per HN posts elsewhere) that make AWS
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by Arcsech 9y ago
As described in the article & accompanying illustration, that's actually Isolation. Atomicity in ACID refers to "either all of the operations in this transaction happen, or none of them do".
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by Arcsech 9y ago
The problem is "Prolog is the database" is that there isn't a great solution for persisting that database, which is usually what people mean when they talk about databases. Sure, for SWI-Prolog there's Persistency but th
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by Arcsech 9y ago
To be fair, a big part of this page is the interactive exercises, which would be a nightmare to try to do on mobile anyway. So I can see why being compatible with mobile wasn't a big concern.
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by Arcsech 9y ago
Rich Hickey is really, really smart and friendly enough, but he doesn't engage with the community nearly as much as Jose Valim or Chris McCord (Elixir and Phoenix devs) do.
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by Arcsech 9y ago
I agree with the sentiment of the article, but why does this site ask for notification permissions? It's a blog - if I want notifications about new posts I'll add your RSS feed to my reader.
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Notes from an Emergency(idlewords.com)
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by Arcsech 9y ago
Almost no coffee, but a fair bit of caffeine - maybe 3 or 4 cups of tea with an occasional soda mixed in. I'm working on night classes for a graduate degree as well, so towards the end of the semester mix in some energy drinks too - de
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by Arcsech 9y ago
iCloud is at least also an Apple product. The last time I installed Win10 (fresh, legal install media direct from Microsoft), on the first boot there was an ad for Candy Crush in the start menu. That's just unacceptable.
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by Arcsech 9y ago
I'm curious about the durability - I live Colorado Springs, which is typically very sunny (good for solar), but can get pretty bad hailstorms. This means that the average roof lifetime here is much shorter than elsewhere. If the Tesl
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by Arcsech 9y ago
Chaos Engineering seems most useful in the context of distributed systems though, and I'm not entirely certain how you would implement it outside of that context. I would consider applying invalid inputs, etc. to non-distributed system
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by Arcsech 9y ago
It seems to be!

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