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by abrgr 6y ago
This is amazing. Congratulations! I've been thinking along similar lines and so happy this exists. Have you considered extracting the lambda portion into a lambda extension so that you can deploy this as part of any cdk/cloudforma
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Computer Science and the Purpose of Life(adamgberger.com)
2 points by abrgr 7y ago|0 comments
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Process can get you velocity but only culture can get you acceleration(adamgberger.com)
1 points by abrgr 9y ago|0 comments
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What I believe about software and the teams who build it(adamgberger.com)
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by abrgr 9y ago
Our galaxy has ~10^70 atoms. At an atom per compute element, we will use 1/10^10 of our entire galaxy for our own compute? 10^60 is a bit more than the number of atoms in our sun. Given our sub-exponential space advances over the last
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by abrgr 9y ago
10^60 computing elements (presumably doing some computing that we humans want done) with only ~10^80 atoms in the universe? I'm as optimistic a technologist as they come but that seems a bit... extreme
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by abrgr 11y ago
As RyanZAG says, all production has diseconomies of scale in unit complexity. The production process has economies of scale, meaning that churning out more units of equivalent complexity reduces the marginal cost of churning out the next u
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by abrgr 11y ago
I definitely agree that we'll always need people who think like programmers. We can develop tools in the vein of those you mention to significantly enhance the productivity of those people though. I haven't seen many tools like th
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by abrgr 11y ago
"It’s not going to be too much longer before we declaratively describe out systems as well as our code. I am looking forward to that." Amen! Been doing that to the extent possible for a while and it is terrific!
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by abrgr 11y ago
The difficulty of conceptualizing an entire programming system gave rise to a paradigm of small pieces fit together through composition. Each piece should operate at its own level of abstraction. So too with management. Without it, everyone
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by abrgr 11y ago
We're in a world of APIs and de facto protocols now. The bulk of the interesting communication at this point is about data. REST over HTTP provides a decent mechanism for interacting with arbitrary nouns. Anything significantly more
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by abrgr 11y ago
The world would be better without autonomous drones just as it would be better without guns or without bombs. The issue is that in a world in which the knowledge required to make a gun exists, it is in there interest of all of civilization
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by abrgr 11y ago
Socialism is a "bogeyman" in the US because it has contributed nothing to the success of our country and capitalism and private property, its antithesis, has been responsible for our rise as the greatest economic power the world h
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by abrgr 11y ago
As I read it, this article is, quite intelligently, recommending (or at least a consequence of their logic would be a recommendation for) using a point-free style wherever it's applicable. Programming is, primarily, data transform and