caseymarquis

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by caseymarquis 7y ago
I know it's completely tangent to the point of the article, but is anyone else wondering why it took a week to implement scaling objects in a visual editor? The codebase? The coder? Documentation requirements? A combination of things?
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
I've been using .NET Core for new projects since it first came out, and I think it's important to remember that a couple years back .NET Core wasn't really stable enough for production use (in comparison to .NET Framework). T
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
Elasticity?
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
Or just Heroku with a Docker container. Use any language with an HTTP stack. Admin qualifications include: can slide a bar left and right based on demand for the service.
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
I'd like to offer a dissenting point of view on some of this. I roll out of bed, put on comfy pants, and shamble over to my work/ gaming pc. When I get hungry I go cook something. When I need to think through a problem I go clean
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
Psh! I wish! Implementing cooroutines in C is pretty old hat: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html If you just put together a linked list of structs which represent the routines, the time they l
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
I shouldn't bite... sigh. When writing interrupt service routines for serial communications on an obscure architecture with multiple heaps (one 16 bit addressable and one 32 bit addressable), I could have written 2000 lines of assembly
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
I'm looking at hot reloading more for debugging difficult to reproduce bugs in the field than for patching critical systems which can't go down. The goal will be to hot reload logic, but not types. I think that should be doable.
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
Haven't finished the ANTLR book yet, but that was the goal. I'd much rather define a grammar than hand write a(nother) lexer/parser. It also has some useful tools for debugging and visualizing.
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
I will definitely check that out. Thanks! I haven't gotten to building the VM yet, and I'm hoping to just use someone else's and then contribute the tools I need to their ecosystem.
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
FORTH is neat, but I think you need to be too smart to use it. I made a list of other things I want under the peer post about LUA, some of that applies to FORTH.
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
I've looked at LUA, and it's possible I missed a flavor, but I have a long list of things I want: -Static types that match C for seamless interop. -No GC -First class actors -Ahead of time declaration/allocation of
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
Coding in C is like camping. It's fun for a while, but eventually you really miss things like flushing toilets and grocery stores. I like using C, but I get frustrated every time I hit a wall trying to build features from other languag
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
I have no idea. I'm not a doctor, I just read a lot. I used lead based solder as a child, and I turned out okay. That said, people used to use pewter plates and got sick from lead poisoning after eating tomatoes (the acid leached the l
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
I would strongly advise that you pick a stack, and then build a library or repository that you can clone in order to easily make new projects and push them to Heroku. You're probably going to think of dozens of things it would be neat
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
Industry wide, it's about sanitizing a highly toxic substance from the supply chain. I've met a child whose father worked with lead, and would hug him after coming home. The child ended up with permanent brain damage from ingestin
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
Totally fair. There's a few things I'd like to point out: * I get to push the EEG button with just my brain, which is neat and fun. * I get to build multiple high resolution EEGs into something that doesn't look terribl
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
VR is neat, but I'm absolutely inspired by the idea of improved human-computer interfaces like those described and their more mundane uses. We have eye tracking, the ability to read electrical signals and positioning from hands or head
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
Generic collections in C implemented with macros are so heinous, I think this comparison may actually be fairer to C. I say that as an abuser of C macros, and someone who genuinely likes C.
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
Commit messages are whatever an individual, community, or organization decides they should be. Debating beyond that is like debating tabs vs spaces. It doesn't matter as long as everyone you're working with is on the same page.
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
Absolutely. I like GCP more than AWS or Azure, but I don't use it because I don't trust that individual services will be available long term. Meanwhile, AWS sends me emails about minor service changes that may affect me well over
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
I'm in the cohort described in the article, and I call BS on using periods being rude. Omitting periods when sending multiple sentences makes your message jumbled garbage.
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
So, is this basically a service which simulates a managed VPN, but establishes secure P2P connections between devices to maximize throughput? If so, I'm very curious about pricing.
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
I figured paying for a year up front was implied.
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
>>> Princeton University scholar Timothy Searchinger, one of the study's authors, says researchers expect wind speed to continue to increase, he says, which has multiple positive effects. https://xkcd.com/605&#
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
Heck, I work at a 20 person company and this is still generally true. No one is stopping me from using a new service, but using AWS means no new paperwork and no questions. Actionable advice on this would be: If you're B2B, have an opt
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
I don't really think they need to directly apply it? I've never had a direct application for biology, but I'm really glad I learned about it. It informs my thinking about things like funding research on new antibiotics. This
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
Nerves is too resource intensive, but that's the right idea. AtomVM is closer to what I'm thinking, except ideally I want static typing that's interoperable with C, and the readme for the project would be something like: Here
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
I think you could probably build an entire course out of following a button click into a browser, and dissecting all the layers along the way. What happens when you hit the mouse button? Let's break open the mouse and find out. This le
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by caseymarquis 7y ago
<rant> I think you're right that there's no viable alternative to C for IOT right now. However, I also think we need to collectively move past C in this space. The compile, run, debug cycle in embedded electronics is just to

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