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   by SupremumLimit 1y ago

   Your comment follows two persistent HN tropes: (1) ignoring the article, which deals precisely with why the cost of production matters, and (2) steadfastly refusing to recognise that quantity has a quality of its own - in this case a monum
2. 32.▲
   by SupremumLimit 1y ago

   It just turns itself back on in a couple of weeks. Dark patterns ahoy.
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   by SupremumLimit 1y ago

   It is a serious mistake to think that technology can remove bureaucracy. Indeed, technology by its nature makes bureaucracy a lot more rigid. Bureaucracy is about homogenising processes and erasing individual differences, and software reinf
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   by SupremumLimit 2y ago

   I like considering _why_ the government is like that. I would suggest that the suspicion, disdain (evident in your comment) and outright hatred of government (particularly from sections of the political and capitalist classes, particularly
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   PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril(jpcamara.com)

   3 points by SupremumLimit 2y ago|0 comments
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   by SupremumLimit 2y ago

   I’d say the same thing except about 25-30 years ago and definitely not 15, which suggests to me that both of us suffer from observer bias and likely there’s always been a real mix of programmers who were really into it and others who were o
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   by SupremumLimit 2y ago

   Step 1: make everyone an incredible offer Step 2: get them all hired away from your competitor who is now out of business Step 3: in a year or two, restructure all these people out (or just fire them if your jurisdiction allows) Step 4: you
8. 38.▲
   by SupremumLimit 2y ago

   Yes, I meant something else, and of course I'm not advocating for hard to understand code. However, as the sibling comment suggests, what's obscure or hard is relative. The problem with indiscriminate application of "code has
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   by SupremumLimit 2y ago

   Indeed, specialist knowledge is a real constraint, but I think it’s possible to at least _orient_ towards building systems that require no baseline level of skill (the fast food model I guess) or towards training your staff so they acquire
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    by SupremumLimit 2y ago

    This is a wonderfully insightful comment! I’ve encountered a similar phenomenon with regard to skill as well: people want to ensure that every part of the software system can be understood and operated by the least skilled members of the te
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    Claude and ChatGPT for ad-hoc sidequests(simonwillison.net)

    13 points by SupremumLimit 3y ago|0 comments
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    by SupremumLimit 3y ago

    Aha! advertises as far as New Zealand and I also never heard back when I applied. The excuse they supply (at least they do that much…) is that they receive too many applications to respond to everyone. But then why advertise all over the wo
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    by SupremumLimit 3y ago

    Which cloud provider is it, if you don’t mind sharing?
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    by SupremumLimit 3y ago

    Thanks! I used to play it as a kid and have been trying to remember the name of the game for years.
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    Getting Used to Microservices(two-wrongs.com)

    9 points by SupremumLimit 3y ago|0 comments
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    by SupremumLimit 3y ago

    Thanks for the post about the dot, interesting stuff and the TL;DR is excellent.
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    by SupremumLimit 3y ago

    [I am the author of the post.] I know that keyword lists are different from maps, but I think their superficial similarity to maps isn’t ideal, and I don’t think that they’re the best possible solution (eg consider pattern matching on keywo
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    by SupremumLimit 3y ago

    [I am the author of the post.] I have! Didn’t quite see enough value and for me something like Petal makes more sense.
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    by SupremumLimit 5y ago

    FWIW, no significant changes to the language are expected in the next couple of years. Another side of this argument is that the rate of Elm ecosystem change is far more manageable than for JS. A "stable JS framework" is an oxymor
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    by SupremumLimit 7y ago

    One way to get static HTML/CSS from Elm is to execute the JS it produces and serialise the results from the DOM. That's what I do in my static site generator Elmstatic: https://korban.net/elm/elmstatic
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    by SupremumLimit 8y ago

    I've been doing some work on an Elm-based static site generator: https://korban.net/elm/elmstatic/ (It uses elm-static-html under the hood.)
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    by SupremumLimit 8y ago

    I wrote up a list of Elm resources (including books) recently: https://korban.net/posts/elm/2018-07-31-learning-elm-2018-co... There are quite a few books/courses/articles which examine various aspects o
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    A Comprehensive List of Resources for Learning Elm(korban.net)

    4 points by SupremumLimit 8y ago|0 comments
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    Lessons learned from 4 years of using Cordova in production(korban.net)

    1 points by SupremumLimit 9y ago|0 comments
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    by SupremumLimit 10y ago

    I get your point, but Euclid's books are still being sold (in translation): https://www.amazon.com/Euclids-Elements-Euclid/dp/1888009195
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    by SupremumLimit 11y ago

    Nomadic life is simply not possible for 7.3 billion people on this planet. It requires much lower population density.
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    by SupremumLimit 11y ago

    Yes, it used to be free until maybe 3 years ago. I've got a free setup as well.
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    by SupremumLimit 12y ago

    There's a similar project under way in New Zealand, but from what I see, the uptake has been less than enthusiastic due to lack of online services like Netflix and persisting traffic caps.
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    by SupremumLimit 12y ago

    Some of the replies you got with knee-jerk reactions about spam are truly ridiculous. People are just spouting nonsense without any idea about what you do. I hope you aren't letting them get to you. I enjoy your newsletters.
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    by SupremumLimit 12y ago

    You probably mean 0.9m^2. 9m^2 is a decent size bedroom.