LewisJEllis

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by LewisJEllis 5y ago
You come off as quite demanding and expectant for apparently not having read their pricing page or billing docs, which specify very clearly that they're talking about row reads/writes. They even go into examples with using `EXPLAI
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by LewisJEllis 5y ago
> shipping more & sooner than you otherwise could, at the expense of ever being able to make the best version of your app This reads like "you need to let perfect be the enemy of good", which is typically not the tradeoff t
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by LewisJEllis 8y ago
Product launch effect? They're a language standards committee, not a company. The entire online world already uses their product. What search capabilities are you hoping for that are currently missing?
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by LewisJEllis 8y ago
Product looks great and would love to use it for iOS+Stripe, so I have to ask - any timeline for Stripe integration? Also this Fall?
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by LewisJEllis 8y ago
Okay, I'll bite. Rather than simply shitting on a technology that thousands of developers actually like and have used to positive effect, and stating that none of those thousands of developers are "in their right mind", could
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by LewisJEllis 9y ago
Nonsense, please check your sources; you're off by nearly an order of magnitude. Death rate throughout Everest's entire history is around 4%, and around 2% from 2000 to present. That's also skewed a bit by 2014 and 2015 being
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by LewisJEllis 9y ago
I don't know about everyone else, but if I'm sleeping in a moving vehicle and it comes to a stop, I'll typically wake up.
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by LewisJEllis 10y ago
With all due respect, do you have any idea what you're talking about? This is poker, not blackjack. Card counting is useless and there's no strategy that will get you thrown out of a casino because it's not the casino's
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by LewisJEllis 10y ago
Hey, Lewis from Sentry here. "Sentry doesn't give you local variable state" is not entirely accurate - it varies from platform to platform. We don't do it for Java (you're obviously ahead of us there), but we do wit
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by LewisJEllis 10y ago
You're either ignoring the cost of engineering time, or you're underestimating the engineering time your clients might spend running their own instance. With the numbers you give, running your service themselves would save them $1
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by LewisJEllis 10y ago
Open source is not necessarily free software, but often is, as that link clarifies: > Nearly all open source software is free software, but there are exceptions. The distinctions made in your citation make it clear that Sentry i
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by LewisJEllis 10y ago
I'm not on TC39, but I sit next to and work closely with people who are, and my understanding (confirmed by this article) is that the primary concern is about stack traces of existing code, specifically code with function calls in tail
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by LewisJEllis 10y ago
Sorry, what? The relevant committee is a bunch of bright computer language designers, doing the best they can while navigating a maze of legacy, backwards compatibility, community, and bureaucracy concerns with every step they take.
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by LewisJEllis 10y ago
If we're going to drop assumptions, then let's remember that context matters and not everyone on HN is a computer scientist or familiar with communicating sequential processes. If the context is not "computer science" bu
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by LewisJEllis 11y ago
The answer to your question is "Not really that big": 3.5kloc with comments/whitespace and 1.6kloc without. Your point is valid that much of this is the library's doing, but I think more of the difference than you&#x27
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by LewisJEllis 11y ago
I agree that Babel doesn't get every single thing right, in much the same way that everything manages to get something wrong, but I don't think you're giving credit to the benefits of its modularity. Another "purpose&quo
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by LewisJEllis 11y ago
Sure, if someone's not using a popular 3rd party CDN because they don't know the option exists or they don't understand the potential benefits, then yes, consideration should be given. They're not always the answer, thou
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by LewisJEllis 11y ago
Yes, ipairs is idiomatic, but that doesn't matter here because ipairs doesn't return the 0 index. > x = {} > x[0] = 2 > x[1] = 3 > for i, v in ipairs(x) do print(i, v) end 1 3 > x[2] = 4 > for i,
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by LewisJEllis 11y ago
Sure, technically you /can/ do it, but only in the same way that you can use negative indices in JavaScript arrays and objects. The 0-indexed element won't tie into length operators without additional manual bookkeeping with
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by LewisJEllis 11y ago
Rockets are more fragile than one might think, but even assuming that would work, it's significantly more useful to be able to land just about anywhere that's flat. Also, we don't have giant posts and nets waiting for us on M
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by LewisJEllis 11y ago
Launches which send the payload beyond low earth orbit require too much velocity for the first stage to then turn around and make it all the way back to the launch site. They put the barge downrange so less fuel will be needed to turn aroun
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by LewisJEllis 11y ago
For a couple of quick intros, try Learn Lua in 15 Minutes[1] and Learning Lua from JS[2]. For a bit more depth, try the Lua-users Tutorial Directory[3]. For serious depth, the two recommended by Gracana, PIL[4] and the reference manual[5],
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by LewisJEllis 11y ago
From http://www.lua.org/about.html : > "Lua" (pronounced LOO-ah) means "Moon" in Portuguese. As such, it is neither an acronym nor an abbreviation, but a noun. More specifically, "Lua" is a n
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by LewisJEllis 11y ago
Years? Really? Not to nit, but the only way "years" is accurate here is if you mean "0.3 years". Your first commit was that January and Caolan's was that May, and when yours was "out" is debatable anyway s
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by LewisJEllis 11y ago
That document has been around since March of last year; it's not a terribly recent thing. See also: https://www.joyent.com/blog/best-practices-for-error-handlin...
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by LewisJEllis 11y ago
I'm not sure what you're expecting here. This was a conference talk, then someone recorded it and made a transcript. It's not like someone thought, "I'm going to present this content using video instead of writing i
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by LewisJEllis 11y ago
No, they're a good bit more expensive. Around $10 vs around $35.
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by LewisJEllis 11y ago
"While a meal generally costs upward of $50 at Silicon Valley-area restaurants, a week’s worth of Soylent or Schmoylent totals $85." I get it, Soylent can save you money on food, but this comically excessive exaggeration isn'
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by LewisJEllis 11y ago
"the 6 figure price most Tesla vehicles sell for" - really? You're right that they're a luxury item, but let's be accurate here. Only the top-of-the-line performance model is $105k, and that's before tax credit
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by LewisJEllis 12y ago
It all reminds me of this post: http://daltoncaldwell.com/dear-mark-zuckerberg Facebook is trying to make the platform too good for startups to resist building on. By the time something built on the platform emerges as a su

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