brentjanderson

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Your Calendrical Fallacy Is(yourcalendricalfallacyis.com)
9 points by brentjanderson 3y ago|3 comments
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by brentjanderson 3y ago
That sort of problem is beyond the scope of the runtime in any case, isn't it? In either of the examples you offered (holding a lock, coordinating with other processes), there must be timeouts enforced by the lock or the other processe
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by brentjanderson 3y ago
Erlang/Elixir have a great story here: “let it crash”. Because each slice of activity in an application is wrapped in its own process (think single threaded loop but you can run a million at a time, almost free to create and destroy),
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by brentjanderson 4y ago
You may be able to incorporate the [Membrane Framework]( https://membrane.stream/ ) to do that. Built in Elixir, deals in those types of multimedia problems. I'm not an expert here, but I'd expect that capturing a s
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Iceberger(joshdata.me)
2 points by brentjanderson 4y ago|0 comments
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Elixir v1.14.3 Released(github.com)
7 points by brentjanderson 4y ago|0 comments
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Exploring the beautiful worlds of games made with “RPG in a Box”(itch.io)
2 points by brentjanderson 4y ago|0 comments
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by brentjanderson 4y ago
We needed a way to selectively order ASC or DESC in a Postgres window function. It turns out you can with CASE statements!
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How to ORDER BY using the contents of a column in Postgres(knock.app)
6 points by brentjanderson 4y ago|1 comments
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by brentjanderson 4y ago
https://www.mealime.com/ is fantastic. I've been using it for years. It has saved us money and eat better, with plenty of variety in what we choose to eat each week. 10/10
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The Zettelkasten Method for Fiction Writing(zettelkasten.de)
2 points by brentjanderson 4y ago|0 comments
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by brentjanderson 5y ago
Depends on the database - I know that CockroachDB supports rolling upgrades with zero downtime, as it is built with a multi-primary architecture. For PostgresQL or MySQL/MariaDB, your options are more limited. Here are two that come to
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by brentjanderson 5y ago
I tried a few different options for note taking, including Foam[1], Roam[2], and now Dendron[3]. Dendron has been the best fit for me because it's built on VS Code (I already know my way around and can be more productive in it), and ha
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Elixir v1.13 Released(elixir-lang.org)
64 points by brentjanderson 5y ago|2 comments
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by brentjanderson 5y ago
As others have noted, Spaced Repetition (I use Readwise, Anki is good too) is a good starting point. My workflow for trying to learn new concepts looks like this: 1. Have a habit to review 10 flashcards in Readwise [0] every day 2. As I rea
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Responsible Tech Playbook by Thoughtworks(thoughtworks.com)
19 points by brentjanderson 5y ago|0 comments
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by brentjanderson 5y ago
I have had two separate benefits from using just Postgres in apps: 1. It’s one tool to learn. No need to upskill on topics, partitions, consumer groups, routers, brokers, etc. 2. It’s one transaction boundary. You get a lot of “magic” for
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by brentjanderson 6y ago
The field you're looking for is called "tech transfer" - many universities have technology transfer offices that help research connect from a lab to industry, usually enriching researchers through the sale of patents or consu
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by brentjanderson 6y ago
> Bitcoin increases electricity consumption without offsetting any carbon emissions elsewhere. Isn't that the same as a Tesla opting to potentially emit carbon at a centralized power plant? Bitcoin rigs don't burn gasoline dire
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by brentjanderson 6y ago
Trump's statement this morning included the statement, "it's only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again". Some Trump followers read deeply into every word he says, and these words encourage them to mobil
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by brentjanderson 6y ago
Continuous glucose monitoring doesn't require a blood draw, but it isn't in a form that would work in a watch to my knowledge. I expect that Apple and others are heavily invested in cracking glucose monitoring on a watch like this
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by brentjanderson 6y ago
His point is definitely worth considering. I'd argue, though, that part of the 95% is about putting slack in the system. I don't want to have to wait for an Uber to show up when an emergency arises. The tail case is often the only
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by brentjanderson 6y ago
[Foam]( https://foambubble.github.io/foam/ ) is an incredible tool for a hit-based wiki. It’s a VSCode workspace you can customize endlessly, and it supports features from Obsidian, Roam, and more familiar wiki software.
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by brentjanderson 6y ago
Reminds me of this piece from Seth Godin on the importance of building slack into our lives: https://seths.blog/2019/06/investing-in-slack/ (Not the chat app)
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by brentjanderson 6y ago
As always, it depends. When requirements change, there are a few things that change altogether - and only some of them should affect the database: 1. The data at rest (in your relational database) - database migrations are the solution to t
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by brentjanderson 7y ago
DRY was introduced in the Pragmatic Programmer, and Dave Thomas pointed out in a recent Changelog episode that DRY doesn't mean "Don't repeat code", it means "Don't repeat knowledge." One concrete example:
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Programs, life cycles, and laws of software evolution(blog.acolyer.org)
3 points by brentjanderson 7y ago|0 comments
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by brentjanderson 7y ago
Erlang OTP 21.2 introduced the idea of `persistent_term`, which is a data structure any process can read from at the expense of being costly to modify. This provides a nice alternative to locks, since you can have a single actor/proces
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Ask HN: Practical ways to handle authorization logic
1 points by brentjanderson 7y ago|0 comments
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by brentjanderson 7y ago
Cool project - if you're looking to set up a secure VPN in a quick, no-nonsense way, be sure to look at [Algo]( https://github.com/trailofbits/algo ). Does WireGuard (and IPSec if you want), only secure, sane defaul

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