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by akrymski 4y ago
How's that different to what Madoff was doing? You put money in a pot, you get interest from people putting money, until your deposits vanish. If Madoff would also run an exchange that first converted USD into monopoly tokens and paid
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by akrymski 4y ago
This is probably the biggest achievement of AI to date. I'm surprised DeepMind isn't playing the game of financial markets yet.
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DeepMind’s game-playing AI has beaten a 50-year-old record in computer science(technologyreview.com)
9 points by akrymski 4y ago|1 comments
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by akrymski 4y ago
I don't believe any of those apply to this library. But indeed those were the issues with Backbone at the time. Check out an example app: https://github.com/akrymski/espresso.js/tree/master/examples
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by akrymski 4y ago
Here you go: https://github.com/akrymski/espresso.js/tree/master/examples...
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by akrymski 4y ago
It was 10 years ago, as was Backbone and many others. IMHO X is an alternative to React if you can build a web app with X. Sometimes less is more. Some people prefer vanilla JS or a lightweight library to a huge framework with an "eco
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by akrymski 4y ago
Few interesting ideas: - Clear separation between HTML markup and code, the DOM is static and is not generated by createElement(..) - No virtual DOM or HTML diffing: every component has an internal state and updates the corresponding DOM at
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Espresso.js – minimal React alternative – is now a decade old(krymski.com)
87 points by akrymski 4y ago|44 comments
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by akrymski 4y ago
I've used this approach in my minimal MVC lib for over a decade, simply using hidden elements instead of templates http://krymski.com/espresso.js/
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by akrymski 4y ago
https://archive.ph/upZgF > The company filed for bankruptcy in July with a $1.2bn hole in its balance sheet. The business had a peak last year of $25bn-worth of crypto assets deposited by customers attracted by the outsi
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Celsius Network founder withdrew $10M ahead of bankruptcy(ft.com)
1 points by akrymski 4y ago|3 comments
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by akrymski 4y ago
Indeed RDS was never designed to be "re-sold", and assuming that a single PG instance will handle lots of different users is naive. Turns out if you're aiming to be an infra provider, building your own infra is the way to go
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by akrymski 4y ago
Every company needs sales. Just look at Google's or FB's giant sales teams.
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Mark Zuckerberg gets lost in space on his risky mission to metaverse(thetimes.co.uk)
3 points by akrymski 4y ago|1 comments
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by akrymski 4y ago
Caching at the edge could be done by an API gateway or nginx. Geo aware SQL DB sounds like a lot of added complexity. What is the latency trade off in practice? 100ms ping time is probably small compared to query execution time, especiall
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by akrymski 4y ago
Do most web apps need edge compute? Don't most backends talk to a central DB server anyway? Unless data is geographically sharded as well, is there really a benefit? Collaborative apps perhaps?
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by akrymski 4y ago
I don't agree. Extra layers of abstraction like Prisma / ORMs only add complexity. Sure it means you don't have to learn SQL at all, and that's really the only advantage. But time spent learning an API/ORM is bett
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by akrymski 4y ago
You should be able to achieve a 10X improvement in speed just with good query and schema design, but ultimately everything depends on your data layout. Avoid ORMs, GraphQL etc - write raw SQL specific to the views that your clients need, if
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by akrymski 4y ago
Indeed, there was tonnes of n-tier architecture stuff in Java EE land in the 90s. SOAP - Service Orchestration and Automation was/is another concept from the 90s that is conceptually similar to GraphQL. I don't like the terms fro
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by akrymski 4y ago
Number of queries is not the problem, it's the total query time for the frontend that you're ultimately concerned with. An API is designed to aggregate and format data from various data-sources. The speed of your REST API will ul
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by akrymski 4y ago
Indeed in most cases replacing simple code with GraphQL only adds complexity. The old approach has been more like this: [client] <- RESTful request -> [your API] <- Your data fetching logic -> [DB] <- SQL query (with para
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Biden again says US forces would defend Taiwan(cnn.com)
3 points by akrymski 4y ago|8 comments
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by akrymski 4y ago
https://www.slintel.com/tech/collaborative-design-and-protot...
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by akrymski 4y ago
While Figma is a great vector tool it doesn't hold a candle to Photoshop when it comes to image editing. There's a reason photographers use Photoshop for retouching photos.
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by akrymski 4y ago
But Photoshop is not a vector design tool? I thought this move happened in the 90s
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by akrymski 4y ago
Thanks, I've never actually seen anyone use it in practice but turns out that Figma has a 31.73% market share in the Collaborative Design And Prototyping category, while Adobe XD has a 15.14% market share in the same space
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by akrymski 4y ago
Great, we've replaced regulated banks by a handful of unregulated and pseudo-anonymous entities (pools & brokers).
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by akrymski 4y ago
> doing it would destroy confidence in the coin and absolute tank the price People seem to say that but there's no evidence of this in fact. A price will only tank if lots of other holders rush to sell before the thief sells his
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by akrymski 4y ago
Can someone plz enlighten me how Figma competes with Adobe? AFAIK Web/app designers use either Sketch or Figma, publishers use Illustrator and photographers use Photoshop/Lightroom. At least that's how it's been back i
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by akrymski 4y ago
By contrast products on Amazon have COGS closer to 10%

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