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by dfee 4y ago
Just take a look at that page. Line height issues. Odd icons. Weird verbiage. Swapping ‘ph’ for ‘f’. A declaration the author is a ‘User’, with no projects, and a “tada” token (whatever that is). Phab users may feel right at home. Unfortuna
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by dfee 4y ago
Sorry, this didn’t make any sense to me. The reasoning about non-neutrality is that a tree has captured some carbon (its growth), then we burn it and release that carbon back into the atmosphere (1:1 equality). However, anything on top of t
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by dfee 4y ago
Yes, I have (and currently do) use slf4j. It’s not a panacea. Maybe you also write software that services millions of MAUs with engineering teams spread across the world - and seen immensely different results. That’d be a breath of fresh ai
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by dfee 4y ago
My God. Logging in protobuf? Logging is the lowest of all debugging utilities - its the first thing you ever do writing software - “hello world”. And, while I admire structural logging, the truth is printing strings remains (truly) the lo
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by dfee 4y ago
While we’re on the topic of philosophy… I re-read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on my road trip to Montana last week. I bring this up because it spoke to me in a way that Meditations seems to speak to others. Surely, there’s roo
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by dfee 4y ago
Point 2 is very interesting. Any anecdata to corroborate?
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by dfee 4y ago
Find me an engineer who knows both vue.js and Postgres and they’re worth their pound of salt. And, if you’re differentiating against React and SQLite - e.g. they’re not familiar with JSONB style queries or CTEs, but instead have some altern
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by dfee 4y ago
Fantastic. I’ve finally found a tolerable sports site.
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by dfee 4y ago
You lose all leverage until you have market power. E.g. https://brickset.com/article/47293/the-lego-group-acquires-b...
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by dfee 4y ago
I don’t work at Lego. I have no beef with Lego. I enjoy Lego. I’m talking more about the origination of companies. An acquisition of one engineer to go lead a new program at a major company is just not realistic.
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by dfee 4y ago
The analogy makes sense if you’re implying that it’s a monodeploy of apps - all on the same “plot of land”. I’ve never used the language, so no feedback to the value of the claim, but that metaphor does resonate.
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by dfee 4y ago
Who’s idea was it? The problem is that there’s no credit given to a product manager at Lego for original thinking and delivery. So it’s DOA. I’ve seen this as a bit over my career doing engineering. The decision maker for product innovati
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by dfee 4y ago
Is it viable to build a traditional web product/company on top of Haskell? That sounds like a silly question - but I’m serious. I’m enamored by the beauty of FP, but I’m not sure if there’s enough tooling or libraries to get to market.
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by dfee 4y ago
It’s commoditized and a race to the bottom and a rounding error for AWS spend to wipeout everyone in the space and it might be a good business, it’s getting harder to differentiate, and …? Not that it’s going to happen. But there’s a pletho
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by dfee 4y ago
> A year later, Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death. > A bounty of over $3 million has also been offered for anyone who kills Rushdie. > Iran’s government has long si
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by dfee 4y ago
When I was asked “why isn’t your room clean?”, I don’t think my mom was trying to have a philosophical discussion with me. Well, maybe the first time.
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by dfee 4y ago
You don’t know what you’re talking about. There are a bag full of other tricks. Like - increasing subscription revenue, offsetting lost subscribers.
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by dfee 4y ago
This response makes about half sense. There are flaws - geographic and mathematic. Could this be a GPT3 response?
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by dfee 4y ago
I’m not sure what it is, but you’ve got some odd font-size bugs going on.
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by dfee 4y ago
I looked up bahnization hoping it was a real concept. Did you just coin it?
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by dfee 4y ago
Awesome. Did not know I could disable that content. Also, dropped a few dictionaries I had enabled (Russian? Spanish? German?) - hopefully the swipe-to-text will improve accuracy now, too.
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by dfee 4y ago
I’d never heard that there’s an upper limit to the size of a black hole. What is supposed to happen when it approaches this limit?
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by dfee 4y ago
I’ve been looking a lot at RedwoodJS, but it doesn’t seem to be “just right”. Don’t know if I’m bike-shedding, either. I do think React is a requisite for a rich application (not blog). I think auth + DB + deploy + fe/be in one asset i
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by dfee 4y ago
Italy is much smaller than the US. It’s about the equivalent size of New Mexico - which has 1/30th the population (2M). Public transit isn’t bad - I told on an Amtrak from LA to SD yesterday which was quite nice. But, I also rode on th
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by dfee 4y ago
This linked project is very cool! I wonder if this path is expressly a non-goal of the TypeScript team though…?
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by dfee 4y ago
beej! Wow! I read your guide in undergrad (many years ago, on the recommendation of a prof) and self-taught myself how networks work a year before my dedicated class on the subject. Your work truly inspired me then and I still fondly recall
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by dfee 4y ago
My experience is that soft-deletes are blunt tools bridging the gap between hard deletes and event sourcing (capturing all the changes against the table, in a replay-worthy stream). Event sourcing is hard – because the engineers responsible
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by dfee 4y ago
The author is patting themselves on the back a bit, and with regard to the painter, discussed in the closing sentence, loses sight of other non-written communication. It’s the broad strokes - in any form - that drive the largest impact. Ind
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by dfee 4y ago
I’m finishing up making my family a GAAP family (kinda joking, but mostly serious). I’m doing this to understand where my money comes from and where it goes. Think YNAB, but including paychecks, etc. against a family of four. Built with som
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by dfee 4y ago
Totally agree. Now, I’ve actually found functional programming - specifically, Either<Error, Value> - to be of great use in helping me focus only on the happy path.

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