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by brundolf 3y ago
Nice. This was a major reason I've never hosted anything on Vercel: I didn't want to juggle multiple providers. Glad to know it's an option now
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Show HN: Monch, a tasty TypeScript parser-combinators library(github.com)
4 points by brundolf 3y ago|0 comments
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by brundolf 3y ago
Slightly confused: I use the nano command on my Macs all the time, without manually installing it. Does that command point to a technically separate implementation ("pico"?), or am I missing something else?
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by brundolf 3y ago
Interesting! Do they use those everywhere throughout Firefox or only in special situations?
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by brundolf 3y ago
Obligatory xkcd (one of my favorites): https://xkcd.com/838/
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by brundolf 3y ago
> The module system suffers the same issues as of npm Tough to interpret this since NPM isn't a module system, but: - Requiring the standards-compliant ES module system and getting rid of CommonJS is definitely a huge improvement fo
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by brundolf 3y ago
Deno has a very cool architecture where almost all of the standard library is imported from outside of the runtime. Which means you can pin specific versions of unstable APIs, and never get caught by surprise even as they're being iter
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by brundolf 3y ago
Takes me back to maybe my favorite HN comment ever: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23003595
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by brundolf 3y ago
I think it speaks to the fact that Rust's original/ideal usecase (writing a web browser) is slightly higher-level than actual kernel-level OS work (just like C++'s is). It's expanded into kernel territory, and done a g
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by brundolf 3y ago
Well, except it sounds like Datomic is closed-source :)
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by brundolf 3y ago
Interesting! I assumed Datomic was entirely custom Now I'm even more curious if you could skip Datomic and just do something like this directly with a relational DB in production
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by brundolf 3y ago
Authy does a neat thing where it prompts you to re-enter your password every couple weeks even though it doesn't need it, just as a practice to keep it fresh in your mind
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by brundolf 3y ago
Something I've been curious about: how well (or badly) would it scale to do something similar on a normal relational DB (say, Postgres)? You could have one or more append-only tables that store events/transactions/whatever yo
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by brundolf 3y ago
The goal of the post is to de-mystify, not to make something production-ready. Doing everything in plain code without any magic libraries helps people understand what's happening
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by brundolf 3y ago
Charitably: sometimes you just have to rebuild something. Tech debt, design debt, whatever else. I don't know if they "had to" in this case, but it's plausible It certainly was a choice to ship it in a state where it was
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by brundolf 3y ago
I figured this would happen, and I figured I'd have a few years to hold off updating before they forced me to. Glad it looks like things are going to be mostly back to par by then
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by brundolf 4y ago
Never thought about it this way, but makes a lot of sense. I gave 4 weeks notice one time because I had an especially large amount of knowledge-transfer to do, and it worked out about like described. And the "fun"/QOL aspects
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by brundolf 4y ago
Read this as GPT-3 and was trying to figure out what it means to "port GIMP to" an LLM
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by brundolf 4y ago
> Typically when companies/banks do this sort of pass through banking, the money isn’t actually held in a personal account at the host bank. It’s usually held in one giant account that had a “managed on behalf of many” type structur
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by brundolf 4y ago
In their terms it sounded like if they close your account for whatever reason, you can still go directly to the banks and recover your funds. They did say the funds would be temporarily uninsured at certain points while in transit (deposit&
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by brundolf 4y ago
Some things can be sandboxed in software, some things are only socially-enforceable. For example, look at Apple's requirement to list everything an app does with the user's data. It's impossible to enforce that in software an
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by brundolf 4y ago
I just took a double-look at the Betterment high-yield savings account they'd offered to me previously (I already have an account there for investments), which I'd dismissed because it seemed convenient to keep my savings and chec
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by brundolf 4y ago
> This is weird-ass reasoning But it's on reason.com! It's right in the name! Jokes aside, almost every time I see a politically-wacky headline on HN it comes from this website. "If you have to say it", etc.
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by brundolf 4y ago
> I had witnessed students in earlier courses do the shouting kind of version control: the students shared a source tree over NFS and shouted "I'm editing this file" when they were changing something We did exactly this fo
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by brundolf 4y ago
I don't know what they look like these days but I loved K'nex as a kid. They're similar to legos, but designed from the outset to be dynamic/mechanical (instead of having that awkwardly retrofitted on). You could even ge
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by brundolf 4y ago
> We’re already seeing Rust making major inroads at the lower levels of the JS stack, e.g. Deno, swc, turbo, parcel, react-relay.., even 3.5% of the next.js repo! There's a big difference between using it to write tooling, runtimes,
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by brundolf 4y ago
Thanks! I'll check it out
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by brundolf 4y ago
> not viable anymore at a medium or large company That's not really the point made in the article, he mainly talked about the difficulties of maintaining a hybrid codebase split between Elm and another framework, and how their speci
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by brundolf 4y ago
I think it's fair, even though I'm probably someone who would be knocked by it. You make different tech decisions when you're motivated by the results vs the technology, even if it's not conscious What's unfortunate
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Ask HN: Append-Only SQL Schema?
5 points by brundolf 4y ago|4 comments

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