amasad

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   by amasad 7y ago

   This account made me realize how much of tweeting is bragging. I don't think people are like that in real life conversation but on Twitter we're all trying to sell something, be it ourselves, our products, or, in this case, our mo
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   by amasad 7y ago

   This is such a cool educational tool! I got it to run on repl.it https://repl.it/@amasad/selfie
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   by amasad 7y ago

   Awesome! Is this used anywhere in production?
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   by amasad 7y ago

   We started as just an editor and a console -- I initially modeled it after the Dr Scheme REPL (now Racket) -- but our users wanted more. Kids who learned to code using our repl wanted to use it to build and publish apps so we evolved the pr
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   by amasad 7y ago

   Focused on simplicity, speed, and generality. They do really well on frontend and client-side execution. Our speciality, on the other hand, is language support and containers/general dev environments.
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   by amasad 7y ago

   Great to hear :-) Certainly the plan. Just a matter of priorities and time. I'm curious, what's so attractive about self hosted version?
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   by amasad 7y ago

   Much of the component pieces are open-source, as I mention in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22278301 And the goal is to get to open-source most, if not all of it. Is GitPod fully open-source? AFAICT you
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   by amasad 7y ago

   Thanks so much for the mention. It's indeed a lot of work, but we've done so much with such a small team and it's only accelerating as we layer all of our solutions on top of each other. We're solving one problem at a ti
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   by amasad 7y ago

   We've made something similar at Repl.it -- we call it "Repl from Repo". It's far from running everything but it can run a lot: https://repl.it/blog/github We tried to make it as seamless and as low
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    by amasad 7y ago

    This is my calling. I'm the cofounder of Repl.it and I've dedicated my career to solving this problem. Simon -- since you're the cocreator of Django, you might get a kick out of this: From loading up a Django environment to a
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    by amasad 7y ago

    I really like the essay but I think there is a form of Stockholm syndrome playing out especially with the following statements: > using a Haskell package for the first time, and being frustrated by how many annoying snags there were >
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    by amasad 7y ago

    I've realized that fanboys are the same as haters with a "bit flipped" when we've had a super fan flip flop to and from being hater. And in each case he was writing articles and tweets about our startup saying why it&#x2
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    A Lua Interpreter in CSharp(repl.it)

    1 points by amasad 7y ago|0 comments
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    by amasad 7y ago

    This is amusing but doesn't really prove anything special about GPT-2 or general intelligence. You can probably get similar results with an n-gram model.
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    Evaldb: Use your favorite language as a database(github.com)

    1 points by amasad 7y ago|0 comments
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    by amasad 7y ago

    Try listening on 0.0.0.0 which will listen on all IPs on the machine and is required for running on remote environments like repl.it. When you do that we automatically detect the port open and show you a web view.
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    by amasad 7y ago

    Give it a try for a "real" project and see how you feel about it. We've improved a lot recently. I'd love to hear your feedback when you try it out: amjad@repl.it
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    by amasad 7y ago

    I looked up the PR author and it's a repl.it user and community moderator ( https://repl.it/@eankeen ). Anyways, I hope the PRs are not annoying -- it certainly cool to be able to run under game quickly (I scored 97 htt
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    by amasad 7y ago

    We're certainly not operating any bots if that's what you're implying.
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    by amasad 7y ago

    Not yet. But planned
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    by amasad 7y ago

    Thank you! ^^ According to "disruption" theory we're on our way :P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
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    by amasad 7y ago

    No, not at all. Our infra costs are a lot less than most people expect.
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    by amasad 7y ago

    Thanks -- we'll take a look!
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    by amasad 7y ago

    For engineers it may look simple but for someone new to programming -- and we've done the research -- the more elements in the app the more easy it is to get overwhelmed (cognitive load). Repl.it, with all the features we added, still
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    by amasad 7y ago

    We decided against using vscode verbatim for a few reasons, chief among them is keeping repl.it simple for people starting to code. And as much as I like vscode and the team behind it, it doesn't seem smart to tie your core tech to a p
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    by amasad 7y ago

    Are you behind a firewall? Some block websockets. It also could be an aggressive adblocker.
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    by amasad 7y ago

    Gitpod is awesome and a really bright team behind it. However, Repl.it is different in that we're focused on speed and minimal configuration. You don't even need to login to clone a repo and start it. The URL structure is repl.it&
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    by amasad 7y ago

    Chromebooks are one of the primary devices we test on ( https://m.imgur.com/a/3eCnqUE )! That's a good point tho, will discuss with the team.
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    Massively Multiplayer Hackathon(repl.it)

    3 points by amasad 7y ago|0 comments
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    by amasad 7y ago

    I fixed it here: https://repl.it/@amasad/easydbio-python-example Super awesome project and it could be great for our users as well. I just posted to our community https://repl.it/talk/announcements