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by boberoni 4y ago
> Unlike Python, in Ruby… There are a number of shortcuts that, although give you more to remember, you quickly learn. They tend to make Ruby fun and very productive. I use Python, but have never tried Ruby. The ecosystem for Python pa
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Most complaints about Electron that I see are about memory usage. If you’re running on an old laptop with little RAM, running 3+ Electron apps can start to slow your entire system down. There’s also a breed of users who are extremely sensit
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Tauri 1.0 Released, a Cross-Platform Desktop App Framework Built with Rust(tauri.app)
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> (Almost) Nobody (really) cares about flops ...because we should really be caring about memory bandwidth In university, I was shocked to learn in a database class that CPU costs are dwarfed by the I/O costs in the memory hierarch
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by boberoni 4y ago
> I've always been a firm believer that micro-optimization is a critical task for developers to undertake. In the worst case, it tends to be a great teacher. It's also only through such efforts that informed decisions, based o
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Higher education is the most socially acceptable form of capitalism. You invest in large upfront costs with the hopes that the multipliers of your capital will make it all worth it. Here, capital includes skills, knowledge, relationships, a
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by boberoni 4y ago
This is like a news article/research paper version of a cost savings calculator on a pricing page. You could save 90% on storage costs if you switch from AWS to XCloudProvider This makes me want to dig into the research data and buil
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by boberoni 4y ago
For my personal use cases, I use Windows and macos. For running web apps and hobby projects, I always use Linux (Debian and Ubuntu distros). To me, Linux is the operating system for anything where I only interact with via the command li
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by boberoni 4y ago
This feedback is a bit harsh and not at all constructive towards their actual value proposition: a technical search engine for devs. Dark mode is not a core value proposition. (my guess is that) The logo and search bar take up a lot of spac
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by boberoni 4y ago
> #6: Intimacy creates villainy. This is something that comes up again and again in marketing and persuasion, although I still do not fully understand the psychology behind it. It is often more effective to tell the intimate story of a
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by boberoni 4y ago
> Kefir also says in all bold letters in its README.md: "Usage is strongly discouraged. This is [an] experimental project which is not meant for production purposes." > That was all the encouragement I needed. I love t
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by boberoni 4y ago
Not an Uber engineer, but I worked at another company with a lot of ex-facebook senior engineers in the founding team. They were already familiar with the Phabricator workflow, so they stuck to what they knew. My guess is that the early Ube
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by boberoni 4y ago
It looks like PostHog uses a permissive license (MIT). For business model (3), how fo you defend against other companies taking your project and selling a hosted version themself? This was a problem for Elastic and AWS, iirc
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by boberoni 4y ago
I might be abusing the term here, but Plausible seems like the best example of a mittelstand[1] that sells SaaS. They are not beholden to VC investors and can grow slowly, organically. According to this article, they were able to cover thei
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by boberoni 4y ago
It's all abstractions. Python code is no-C-code. C code is no-assembly-code. And so on...
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by boberoni 4y ago
There are a lot of comments here about not forgiving corporations for their past because corporations are not people but are legal entities with profit-driven motives. I agree that we should not view Microsoft's donation to Gnome as al
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by boberoni 4y ago
The article discusses the structure of documentation as three pillars: the what, the why, and the how. I prefer to think about documentation in terms of four audiences: - the student (tutorials) - the chef (how-to guides) - the theorist (e
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by boberoni 4y ago
> Python has a great/dope community Python's community is one of the greatest and worst parts of the language. Python might not be the best language for anything, but it's the second best language for everything. I've
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by boberoni 4y ago
This book was published in 2017. The author, Nicolas Rougier, also has a few other books online books on data visualization[0] and the reproducibility problem in research[1]. [0] https://github.com/rougier/scientific-vi
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by boberoni 4y ago
The two data visualizations in the article are poorly designed. They show line graphs where the X-axis is the type of EC2 instance and the Y-axis is the price. Firstly, the X-axis of any line graph should be time. Or perhaps some other vari
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by boberoni 4y ago
I feel bad for those who were misled. Some of them ended up paying up to 25% more than they expected. >>> “Despite thousands of consumers complaining to Airbnb about the way prices were displayed, Airbnb didn’t amend its book
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by boberoni 4y ago
They have a write-up that compares their project to Matomo. [0] You can find comparisons with SimpleAnalytics, Fathom, and Plausible on their website as well. [0] https://scale8.com/vs-matomo/
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by boberoni 4y ago
As you said in our last sentence, it's good to have a balance of activities throughout your day and week. For me, I try to be consistent on my projects weekly, not daily. I sometimes will have a month where I don't even want to th
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It would seem so, although there's a distinction between (1) being acquired for the product/team vs. (2) being acquired by a private equity firm. For case (1), you would want to build a mittelstand product that is strategically al
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by boberoni 4y ago
For i18n in my own projects, I typically use tools like gettext and involves lots of volunteers to do the translations. I might try out these neural machine translation tools to see how they fare. I also wonder if these machine translation
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> This is not upstreamable in its current form What does "upstreamable" mean in this context? Is this good or bad? As a follow-up, what would need to be different so that it is upstreamable and would that be good or bad?
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> “This rapid headcount growth has led to some duplicate roles and job functions, and more layers and complexity than are optimal,” Tenev (Robinhood CEO) wrote. “After carefully considering all these factors, we determined that making t
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Is there a way to do this with Elixir?
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I'm curious about the methodology of this survey. The first thing I think about when reading survey results is the possibility of selection bias.
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It is true that this website has no password to steal, but a MITM attack could still be impactful. For example, a MITM attack could inject a <script> tag to run arbitrary client-side code. Any content that is served over HTTP has a ri

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