BillyTheKing

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by BillyTheKing 2y ago
totally agree - the iPad Pro could be a great second coding/programming tool - I'd love to justify buying myself one, but.. I just don't see a use-case if I can't work on it. I don't design stuff, don't really
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by BillyTheKing 2y ago
not everyone writes Python, and not everyone starts code-first
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by BillyTheKing 2y ago
In my (limited) experience so far with TypeSpec - it really shines in an API first approach, so you define your API before you implement it, but not so much the other way around.
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by BillyTheKing 2y ago
It's this or writing openapi ymls... Even for people who know yml picking this up to define and write basic openapi definitions is much simpler than writing an openapi doc from hand, which is really painful
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by BillyTheKing 2y ago
I've been using it for my latest API - I was looking for a tool that allowed me to describe APIs similarly to GraphQL and in a design-first sorta way. All these openapi editors just felt crazy clunky and made data-relationship within t
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by BillyTheKing 2y ago
just like everyone else - sell it on the binance p2p market for USDT with very substantial mark-ups
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by BillyTheKing 2y ago
sooo much effort is going into saving a few milliseconds either by rendering code in the browser or on the server - honestly who actually cares.. I like react because of JSX which I prefer to just normal HTML, but whether that's render
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
I mean, yes for personal accounts with a couple of thousand transactions - sure. But esp. in payments or in exchanges there can be accounts with millions of transactions a day. So you get a double-whammy - those are hot-accounts which also
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
yes, that's the gnu cash implementation (also used by formance for example) - I don't love it tbh, yes you can add multiple postings under a single transaction, but.. if you look at one of those postings, or just the transaction i
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
imo, realistically you'll end up with both for payment-operations - just recalculating balances for accounts with millions of transactions also causes issues
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FastLLM: lightweight Language Model tailored for RAG(qdrant.tech)
1 points by BillyTheKing 3y ago|0 comments
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
oh thanks a lot for sharing - I was looking for something just like this! Something like this + hurl is the perfect combination to sketch out APIs imo
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
I've been to Patras a few times (usually while hopping over from Italy).. I'd say, the Peloponnese is amazing. If I could just work remotely from a quiet place I would probably try and find a seaside village or so on it. But Patra
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
yea, they're usually windier and therefore are (and feel) a few degrees cooler. Fortunately they aren't particularly humid either (usually) which makes them feel quite pleasant imo
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
I think that's spot on - what annoys me with some older Greeks is a fairly consistent 'look at our amazing history' attitude, as if they're ancestors of Gods. But then the actual culture is deeply rooted in Greek orthodo
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
I'm based! and have a bias!
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
One of the things with Greeks (in Greece) really is that they're notoriously pessimistic and depressed, unlike what people usually associate with the country. I do think though that there's a bit of a new spirit though among the y
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
I'm half Greek, so obviously a little bias. But would love to see a more thriving tech scene in Athens. It's a cool city, with great night-life, great restaurants, and stunning places nearby, not yet super gentrified and obviously
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
This is a classic example of a 'contrarian' take for what feels like the sake of it. TS/JS tooling is a total and utter disaster at this point. The commonJS/module transition is a nightmare. The fact that something like
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
this was a joke comment in the morning.. but actually just turned out to be an issue now. Was installing nanoid in a project using commonJS and typescript.. all jest tests suddenly failed. So I looked into jest.config - did I need to change
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
how does that work with try/catch? try/catch is significantly more verbose than just if err != nil // do something imo, and also much more brittle. Agree re: Results type in Rust and Ocaml, etc. Those are better in my vi
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
is anyone actually using Deno in production for larger projects?
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
$ cat helper.mjs export const sleep = (dur) => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, dur)) $ cat main.mjs import { sleep } from './helper.js' await sleep(1000) console.log("Go is great; but wei
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
onboarding 10 Typescript Backend developers is like onboarding 10 developers from entirely different languages. Some are _heavily_ OOP driven, and turn literally everything into a class. Some are heavy on functional programming and start us
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
I've been mostly writing Typescript the past 3 years - and recently started writing code in Go. Initially I was a little apprehensive, lack of array functions, slightly less flexible type-system, etc. But after spending some time writi
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
> the cost which often gets quoted with those mistakes is not a real cost Oh that depends entirely on the industry.. in social media maybe not, in banking and Fintech those can most certainly be real costs. And can tell you - that feels
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
I've been in Fintechs for a bit, and this article is pretty much the result of that. As a developer (joined very early on), I wasn't initially aware of the challenges posed by settlement times. However, as we expanded, I began to
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Settlement Times Set Growth Rates – A Case for Crypto(txbyte.com)
2 points by BillyTheKing 3y ago|1 comments
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
why though? this is exactly what databases have been invented for! One could simply store a mapping of numbers to their classifications as 'even' or 'odd' in an SQLite database. This approach has the added benefit of not
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by BillyTheKing 3y ago
maybe it's just going to be easier to fire him in a second step once this current situation which seems to be primarily about ideology is cleared up. In D’Angelo's case it's going to be easier to just point to a clear traditi

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