HeyImAlex

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by HeyImAlex 6y ago
I think a missing piece is making materialized views fast since there will always be cases where someone wants to denormalize to get around performance issues, even with well designed indexes.
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by HeyImAlex 6y ago
I’ve been curious about it, but it’s difficult to wrap my mind around. I’ve read a lot of frank mcsherry’s blog posts, watched his videos, been through the book, and I guess it just hasn’t clicked for me! I also don’t have any use cases tha
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by HeyImAlex 6y ago
This seems like a paradox since broadcasting viral mind destroying rage-bait is... free speech. So what you're suggesting seems like it necessarily involves curtailing free speech.
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by HeyImAlex 6y ago
I had to provide a urine sample to get my ADHD medication. It was sold to me under the auspices of drug testing, even though ADHD meds are out of your system in 48h. A month later I received an explanation of benefits from my insurance comp
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by HeyImAlex 6y ago
Seriously, I’ve had dentists differ in opinions by an order of magnitude. Turns out “necessary” is a pretty broad grey area.
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by HeyImAlex 6y ago
I have three of their little speakers and a sound bar and I’m pretty happy. No connecting/disconnecting bluetooth, no walking out of range and the sound getting choppy, I can select which speaker I want to play directly from spotify or
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by HeyImAlex 6y ago
I've been in San Antonio for the past 5 years and love it, even the heat. I actually got a job in NYC and was planning to move up, but my first day was the day they started wfh.
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by HeyImAlex 6y ago
Yeah, typescript obviates so many assertions that using assertions for things that the compiler can’t catch isn’t too burdensome.
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by HeyImAlex 7y ago
Pretty evil! I imagine the card companies have an explicit rule that, in order to accept their cards, a merchant can't charge their users any extra fee? I wonder if some regulation were created that bans rules like that from existence
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by HeyImAlex 7y ago
I might be remembering wrong, but I think Jane Street's incremental is based on self adjusting computation by acar vs adapton by hammer?
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by HeyImAlex 7y ago
I mean... that’s the point I was making. Interface is just like using a dynamically typed language. So saying python can do this but golang can’t is wrong. They are effectively the same. RE: Permutation, the unmarshalled value will only eve
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by HeyImAlex 7y ago
Isn’t that JSON example the same in python, javascript, and ruby? Unmarshalling into an interface is really just a shitty enum; the number of permutations is finite. A type switch here is like a match but less type safe because it won’t che
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by HeyImAlex 7y ago
Location: San Antonio, TX Remote: No Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Rust Github: https://github.com/heyimalex Résumé/CV: https://heyimalex.com/alex-guerra-resume.pdf
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by HeyImAlex 7y ago
There's a specialized algorithm specifically for running levenshtein distance over tens of thousands of strings called bitap[1]. I wrote an impl in rust a while back[2]. But your advice still applies! Run time scales with max distance.
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by HeyImAlex 7y ago
I see the "I don't crave meat" take a lot from people who have been vegan for a long time, but among my friends who have all become vegan in the last three years we eat an absolute _ton_ of gardein products. I'd say I bu
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by HeyImAlex 7y ago
You can already buy vegan canned tuna at whole foods. Compared to the real thing I'd give it 6/10.
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by HeyImAlex 8y ago
Usability is a killer feature. It’s possible to build a website without understanding how to use the command line. I know I managed it when I was younger!
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by HeyImAlex 8y ago
Usually I've seen right arrow as the activation key.
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by HeyImAlex 8y ago
Just my own anecdote, but I write go and typescript daily and I’d take goroutines and go’s other concurrency primitives over aysync/await any day of the week.
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by HeyImAlex 8y ago
For me it was writing unit tests for python where you’re pretty much manually checking types. Or running slow one off processing scripts that fail at the last step because of an issue that static types would have caught. Writing the same th
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by HeyImAlex 8y ago
Oh for sure.
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by HeyImAlex 8y ago
Eh, rust’s result type has shown that you can do the same thing in way that is more type safe and more ergonomic.
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by HeyImAlex 8y ago
Yeah, and the exact same thing is happening.
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by HeyImAlex 9y ago
Not always. A breaking change is just that, it doesn’t mean a wholly incompatible re-imagining. It’s possible to upgrade major versions without any actual code changes.
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by HeyImAlex 9y ago
It can just be a boolean variable called locked?
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by HeyImAlex 9y ago
All of the "logic" inside render is _presentational_ logic. What would be a better place for that to go?
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by HeyImAlex 10y ago
I don't know a lot about terraform, but it sounds like they are very different things? Terraform talks mostly to cloud provider apis, ansible usually deals with running code on the servers themselves.
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by HeyImAlex 10y ago
Actually I just tried that and it worked also. But I think you're right that this hasn't always been the case because I remember being annoyed about it. Or maybe we're both crazy. You definitely need to specify the type for a
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by HeyImAlex 10y ago
Rust uses error values and its error handling is pretty terse (and more type-safe), so this is more of an indictment against go than error values in general.
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by HeyImAlex 10y ago
Im interacting with edge providers, so I understand to some degree that I'm exposing information. Take phone calls as an analogy; obviously the person on the other end of the line can hear me, but I don't want a stranger at the te

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