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by cbdumas 6y ago
My experience has been very different, rust-analyzer works seamlessly in my VSCode environment, even moving from the remote WSL plugin to the remote SSH plugin. I've had zero issues with it, and it feels truly magical, when I first ins
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by cbdumas 6y ago
> This is a limitation we ran into trying to implement a critical accounting ledger on top of DynamoDB. Sounds like a perfect use case for a traditional RDBMS. Why Dynamo?
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Ask HN: Resources for hardening software handling payments?
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by cbdumas 6y ago
> At worst you are maintaining an old monolith trying to figure out someones logic from 15 years ago. Can you imagine what it will be like 15 years from now, when we're trying to maintain someone's microservices with their logi
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by cbdumas 6y ago
> Trying to draw conclusions on the relative safety of a grocery store employee versus the general public from that number is crazy. That's exactly what the Washington Post article is doing.
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by cbdumas 6y ago
> Just close up shop entirely and go to deliveries / curbside pickup Existing grocery delivery services are already way overburdened, and desperately scaling up[1]. > risk their lives for your oreos. You can't possibly think
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by cbdumas 7y ago
I have only played around with it, but to me the possibility of using a language other than JS to write web apps is really exciting. I don't hate JavaScript by any means, I've used it professionally off and on for years, but it st
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by cbdumas 7y ago
This is speculation, but I believe this is a vestige of when voice chat applications widely used by PC gamers like TeamSpeak and Ventrilo did actually rely on independent servers, usually paid for and administered by individuals (or guild
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by cbdumas 7y ago
I'm not sure if it's a mistake or just some cheeky humor but the "Known Limitations" link on their Docs page returns a 404.
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by cbdumas 7y ago
I love a minimal, text-only website as much as the next crotchety HN reader, but a little bit of CSS goes a very long way in terms of readability. Edit: Upon further inspection I see that this page was designed to be hard to read. Very curi
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by cbdumas 7y ago
I couldn't agree more with this, it's very frustrating. I recently worked through most of the "make a lisp" guide [0], and it was excellent introduction to a simple lisp interpreter. But now I want to try my hand at a co
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by cbdumas 7y ago
I disagree, a system implemented at the language level this way can in principle provide far stronger security guarantees than a typical operating system. Security issues can still come up obviously but they could essentially be isolated to
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by cbdumas 7y ago
"Shopping" on Amazon.com is not a good strategy IMO. It's always best to find something you want on another, more specialized site (forum, review aggregator, specialized review site, etc.) and then look for the item you want
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by cbdumas 7y ago
This seems like a roundabout way of getting to something much more like what wikipedia calls a "Language-based System"[1], which is something I've been thinking about a lot lately. Very cool. [1] https://en.wikiped
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by cbdumas 7y ago
Yep if you click through to the article they linked that's exactly what it says.
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by cbdumas 7y ago
The only clear moral breach I can find in this article is the questionable assertions of Ring cameras reducing crime. This is definitely wrong if Ring does not have any evidence of the truth of these claims and they should stop doing that.
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by cbdumas 7y ago
I think you might be right in this case that practical use preceded theoretical understanding but that's not really my point. Software development certainly has examples of pseudo-math (for example there was a trend a few years back to
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by cbdumas 7y ago
While I don't know the history of the term "algebraic data type", I do know that the algebraic structure of ADTs is much deeper than what this article presented. For instance this structure supports some limited notion of a d
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by cbdumas 7y ago
There are some algorithms that are trivial to implement with Geohashes that are non-trivial with lat-long coordinates. For example, given a set of n points find the k nearest neighbors. To do this with geohash you maintain an ordered list o
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by cbdumas 7y ago
Really? I've seen touch screen ordering at McDonalds all over the place and most people seem to have no problem with it. Why do you think people avoid it?
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by cbdumas 7y ago
Uber's position here seems to be that they are a technology company that connects drivers with things that need to be driven from A to B (people, restaurant orders, etc.). Not sure I buy that but it sounds like they're willing to
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by cbdumas 7y ago
> Physical media is for when you want to really enjoy the music. Wow this is some condescending, pretentious nonsense. Also, every streaming service I've ever used is perfectly capable of playing an album in order.
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by cbdumas 7y ago
I think the idea is that because there is money going out the door in a buyback, rational investors should value the stock that much lower. And this lowered valuation should balance exactly with the price increase due to increased demand. N
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by cbdumas 7y ago
I've recently begun running into internal facing web apps that only work in Chrome :(
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by cbdumas 7y ago
I mean also the fact that the browser most people used at that time was bad may have been a factor. Chrome was a noticeable step up from IE.
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by cbdumas 7y ago
This looks like a public facing version of a tool that AWS uses internally, which is great. Super easy tool to setup and govern AWS accounts, and also access the accounts to which you have access. I always wondered why they didn't sell
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by cbdumas 7y ago
I wish more places would do this not for meetings but for meeting rooms . Meeting rooms in some orgs are a huge pain to get, which actually leads to a negative feedback cycle of people booking them far in advance "just in case" a
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by cbdumas 7y ago
I haven't found the lack of GPU page rendering to be much of an issue, what problems do you experience because of it? Only difference I can see personally is marginally smoother scrolling. I have however found the lack of hardware acce
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by cbdumas 7y ago
> Many of the people who came up with or promoted the idea of dynamically typed languages had decades of experience working with punchcards, assembly code and statically typed languages The problem IMO is that the languages used at that
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by cbdumas 7y ago
So I get the sense that PHP is sort of the tool of choice for web development at small or medium businesses which are not primarily software businesses, but are looking to create a website and maybe do some ecommerce? Is that right? If so I

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