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by cgenschwap 4y ago
Hey HN! I had a fun idea a few months back of building a forum which was only an API that people could interact with. This way, everyone who wanted to participate would have to build something, almost as a forcing-function for having a comm
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Show HN: Open-source API-only Builders Forum (beta)(youonlygetanapi.com)
5 points by cgenschwap 4y ago|2 comments
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NixOS on the Framework Laptop(worldofbs.com)
11 points by cgenschwap 5y ago|1 comments
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Two Different Views of What Decoupled Code Means(worldofbs.com)
3 points by cgenschwap 5y ago|0 comments
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by cgenschwap 6y ago
You are right that maintaining documentation tends to be the sticking point. The main difference between a graph approach versus a tree approach is the _amount of effort_ required to maintain. If the documentation is incorrect in a tree-bas
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The tree-based approach to organizing documentation sucks(worldofbs.com)
104 points by cgenschwap 6y ago|91 comments
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by cgenschwap 6y ago
You're right the type system isn't really the solution for catching dead code. But compilers can easily check for this, if the language is restricted enough. The issue with a lot of dynamic languages is things like monkey patching
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by cgenschwap 6y ago
I admit I have a bias here, as I use Rust full-time, but Java, Python and Go are not what I would call languages that require less discipline. For instance, Go's error handling is entirely reliant on discipline! All of the meta-program
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by cgenschwap 6y ago
I was at a company that switched from Redshift to Snowflake. It was a night and day difference. Faster (orders of magnitude!), cheaper, and significantly easier to work with (since everyone had their own personal view of the data to mutate&
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by cgenschwap 6y ago
I think you make a good point here, that the majority of software jobs could be classified as software technicians. I feel that designers have a slightly different role that I can't quite put my finger on. For instance, I feel that cla
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Why Are There No Technicians in Software Engineering?(worldofbs.com)
5 points by cgenschwap 6y ago|3 comments