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by arnorhs 2y ago
This looks super interesting. I'm not that familiar with vector databases. I thought they were mostly something used for RAG and other AI-related stuff. Seems like a topic I need to delive into a bit more.
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by arnorhs 2y ago
I wouldn't put an .envrc file in source control. This seems like an anti-pattern. I think it should be standard practice that you can pull and run a project without configuring environment variables. I agree with that. The defaults sho
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by arnorhs 2y ago
> The problem with using Direnv is that despite it being a very useful tool, its setup requires investing time and getting over the Nix ecosystem's learning curve. I'm a bit confused. Direnv is rather simple, is it not.. ? 1. p
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by arnorhs 2y ago
I'm all for creativity but laying devil's advocate,.. who is this supposed creativity for? If the majority of people just want to scan headlines efficiently and read/parse.. isn't that a good thing for most people? Pragm
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by arnorhs 2y ago
It would be pretty slick if the export also included a versioned text spec defining the schema for the data.. So even if the software and all supporting software is no longer available you can still make something to read the data.. This is
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by arnorhs 2y ago
I score low in all categories. I wonder if that means I'm just not very aware of how I think while I'm not doing it. I think a lot though. A little bit too much I wonder if the quiz is missing questions / scoring around thoug
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by arnorhs 2y ago
Often when trying to improve a complex system, the best way to gain new insights and approaches is to just make a branch or even a clean project and try to redo a thing. Even if it doesn't end up in the project often you'll get id
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by arnorhs 2y ago
To me this article is super valid for most software projects. As for the Netscape anecdote, I wouldn't put too much weight on that part. We do not know the extent of it, we do not know if it achieved its goals, and we absolutely can no
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by arnorhs 2y ago
When it comes to a whole application rewrite, I'm pretty certain you should at least be much closer to "never ever rewrite" than "in some cases rewriting makes sense" If you are talking about refactoring or changing
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by arnorhs 2y ago
Usually, the ast can be converted to code, then formatted using a specific formatter. I'm sure slack has a particular code formatter they use. Most of the time when working with an AST you don't think about whitespace except when
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by arnorhs 2y ago
Same here. Chrome android
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by arnorhs 2y ago
This sales strategy has been the basis of a lot of successful companies. Groupon comes to mind
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by arnorhs 2y ago
Another benefit of having stable identies / surrogate primary keys is that any relations (FKs) will be much simpler. Sure, like the post poster you replied to is pointing out, you _can_ use natural keys, and then also relying on dates
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by arnorhs 2y ago
"need", probably not. But anything that can be served from a cdn is better off if it fits. From a latency and bandwidth efficiency perspective
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by arnorhs 2y ago
Now I appreciate the forward-thinking mode of the comment. That being said, the comment makes a lot of glaring assumptions - such as: a) most teams/apps/projects want to switch to using server-side react (?) b) the reason they hav
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by arnorhs 2y ago
for 99% of teams out there, react is not the V in an MVC pattern. In most cases it's a stand alone project and basically is your framework - your model is an API call from react, and react is also the controller.
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by arnorhs 2y ago
Yeah, that's the kind of tradeoff I have a hard time with as well. It's like .. well, you don't strictly need to.. but why not?
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by arnorhs 2y ago
Great post. Definitely some great lessons in there. It's missing a key ingredient though... I see this as any other competing alternative to any kind of product. It's like saying Amazon failed because the didn't have a brick
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by arnorhs 2y ago
This is ambiguously stepping into "overly general / building for the future" territory. Perhaps that is not what you meant. There is a fine line where I do agree with you. Cases such as creating a relation table for categorie
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by arnorhs 2y ago
What are the defining features of this leaderboard model?
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by arnorhs 2y ago
This is pretty interesting. Kind of like Reddit/hn comments in chat format. Esp interesting the part where you can start threads from quotes. Kudos. I'd like to point out the issue with these kinds of threaded discussions for non-
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by arnorhs 2y ago
That is an impressive misrepresentation of history. PHP and its community were dying by the time FB used it. People here on HN kept talking php down. In 2014 FB made their own flavour of php with a bunch of perf features, called hack. Event
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by arnorhs 2y ago
The internet would have never existed with that kind of thinking. Imagine if every website needed to be translated to 500 languages before you can order a domain. Esp ironic, since I absolutely hate seeing my native language (icelandic) in
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by arnorhs 2y ago
The sign up process is not very fluid to me. First off, I don't really like password signups in general, but on Android I was able to get auto generated password for the password field but was stuck because the Google password manager
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by arnorhs 2y ago
Would be interested in testing, however not available in my country.. is there a particular reason? Seems like some artists like to collaborate across borders.. it's not like a dating app where your location is crucial, and you want ce
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by arnorhs 2y ago
Not at all. In a debt-based economy, rising rates put downwards pressures on capital distributors, since they have to get more than the fed rate back on any investment/loan. Higher rates -> reduced money supply -> increased unemp
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by arnorhs 2y ago
The fact that unemployment is low signals that we are not grappling inflation properly. You can't limit inflation without reducing employment rates. Those two go hand in hand. There is a school of thought that the goal of increasing ra
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by arnorhs 2y ago
Constructive feedback usually has a more inviting, accepting and helpful tone of voice. As opposed to the commenter you are referring to, which seemed dismissive and slightly rude to me, tbh. Aside from the tone, the specific feedback was a
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by arnorhs 2y ago
well, those were acquisitions. but yes, automattic is a great company
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by arnorhs 2y ago
100p this. However the no-smartphone policy in schools is far from perfect, since a lot of parents are so busy in their phones, that they give their children pretty unrestricted access at home. You can win a battle but the war is lost

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