drej

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by drej 8y ago
Can’t. It’s either a fully standard file or something that will fail at some point.
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by drej 8y ago
Some valid points, but the only one that pains me are comments, the rest is fine. I don’t want to program my config files, it goes against the whole idea of configuring stuff. JSON being JSON makes it language agnostic and easily shared (vi
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by drej 8y ago
All of this is presented on a site where my browser downloaded a full megabyte of JavaScript. Lovely :-)
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by drej 8y ago
If you want to know a bit more, follow Matt Klein, the creator of Envoy, he's commented on this a bit. https://twitter.com/mattklein123
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by drej 8y ago
Whoops, apologies, misread that one sentence. Agreed - if one takes the performance on an absolute scale, it is usually sufficient (also the reason why people use Python or PHP, despite both being, relatively, quite slow). It is only once p
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by drej 8y ago
I wouldn't call Go dead slow, it really does depend on the use case. Go was originally designed for systems that don't require absolute max performance, it was focused on providing safety and a good standard library for building t
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by drej 8y ago
Re: VSCode: Just select mypy as your Python linter and it will do all those red underline thingies to report errors in place. Or set flake8 as your linter if you'd prefer to have PEP violations displayed instead.
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by drej 8y ago
Is there an architectural flag that will get Alpine to install these wheels? If so, I’d be happy to help with this.
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by drej 8y ago
True, but it's still a pain having to do that, all I want is to install a package in an interpreted language, I'm not building a project in a compiled language.
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by drej 8y ago
I would love to Alpine all the things, it's just so fast to work with, BUT musl makes things hard, especially if you're over in Pythonland - packages with C dependencies, if built, are only built for glibc, so when installing them
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by drej 8y ago
Oh I do appreciate it - I've read Martin Kleppmann's book cover to cover and then watched all of the speeches Kyle Kingsbury has given in the past three years or so. I love this area, my absolute favourite is deterministic testing
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by drej 8y ago
Um, that simile does not make any sense - because we're not talking about their website, but their blog about Jepsen tests , which showed some shortcomings (and it is not derogatory, it's extremely rare that somebody passes Jepse
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by drej 8y ago
I know they worked hard, I appreciate that. But I got a wholly different feeling about the state of things from those two sources. Also, does everyone run the very latest version of all their software? What use to me is that my vendor has f
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by drej 8y ago
I recommend first reading bits of the Jepsen report, because the company blog paints quite a different picture. > We’re excited to report that FaunaDB has passed: > Additionally, it offers the highest possible level of correctness: &g
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by drej 8y ago
I can recommend this recent podcast episode on coding for the ZX Spectrum - in this instance commissioned by the authors of Black Mirror. https://hanselminutes.com/670/coding-for-the-zx-spectrum-and...
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by drej 8y ago
I'm not talking about database queries, I'm talking about working within the UI. If you compare it to Navicat or any of the Java-based apps, TablePlus is really quite fast.
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by drej 8y ago
> TablePlus may, in its sole discretion, at any time and for any or no reason, suspend or terminate this Agreement with or without prior notice. > Without limiting the foregoing, neither TablePlus nor any TablePlus’s provider makes an
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by drej 8y ago
This piece of software is superb. It's lightning fast, the UI is so easy to use, in terms of productivity it's super nice (small things like "copy as an insert statement"). It has been my daily driver for months now, but
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by drej 8y ago
This is a video and slides; this discussion is from when the article was linked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17079197
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by drej 8y ago
Yes please! Last year, I discovered a severe security flaw on a couple dozen websites and the sheer communication of this was super painful. I can't just e-mail someone at hi@foobar.com, I'd usually have to send an e-mail along th
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by drej 8y ago
Valuable yet fairly common. I remember interviewing at FAANG and being asked to code up various tree traversal algorithms... and moments later I would be asked to write window function aggregations in SQL. And it was like this for all the i
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by drej 8y ago
Is there an open source alternative to this shared runtime? I can't quite recall seeing this process-level isolation in the FaaS sphere, maybe except for gVisor. Thanks.
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by drej 8y ago
This is all fine for personal/proprietary purposes, but open source can't be that cutting edge. While type annotations are probably fine (3.5), f-strings (3.6) or dataclasses (3.7) won't make it to mainstream OSS anytime soon
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by drej 8y ago
Of course, silly me, I take loc and ripgrep to be so essential I conflated them. Too much Christmas merriment, not enough proper thinking. Sorry.
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by drej 8y ago
I only skimmed this, but why isn’t ripgrep mentioned? (While other Rust-based tools are.) By the way, ripgrep author has a good writeup on performance comprison. https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
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by drej 8y ago
I can recommend Simon Singh's book on this topic, his writing is rather captivating (The Big Bang is one of the best books I've read, so is the Code Book). He also made a BBC documentary on the topic. https://simonsingh
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by drej 8y ago
Matt Godbolt is a great speaker as well. I loved this talk that included a bit about the architecture behind his Compiler Explorer. The rest of his talk is super cool as well. E.g. closed form solutions from O(n) code? Compilers are awesome
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by drej 8y ago
In case you are wondering why this exists, there is a discussion here: https://github.com/Azure/golua/issues/36
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by drej 8y ago
Macs aside - this video clearly shows the wonderful experience you can get when an audio/video producer cares about audio quality. Spoken word recorded with clear audio is so lovely. I listen to podcasts and audiobooks on a daily basis
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by drej 8y ago
This is the worst class of managers I have ever experiences: engineering managers with little dev experience. They rose quickly and became managers fairly early on in their career. They got excited by the opportunity, but then realised earl

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