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by dreyfan 5y ago
If you're in a competitive multiplayer game and you know that dropping an object on the ground or shooting a certain projectile will trigger new object spawns for a player who doesn't have them cached, you can do so rapidly and ca
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by dreyfan 5y ago
> anyone else, feeling a deep anger rising, when reading this in 2021? Look at most of the stories on the front-page of HN these days. Often some shiny tool to allow front-end JS devs to write and deploy full-stack applications automatic
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by dreyfan 5y ago
They had 250+ meetings over ~3 months to raise only $1.5M? Wow. That's a lot of time that could have been spent building a product. Is this what YC money is supposed to be for? You get a few months of runway that you need to turn into
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Watch the demo, they're not full circle yet. They're intermingling business and presentation logic all over the place. Their data models depend on createPost(), getPost(), and getPosts() style boilerplate methods. It'll be a
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by dreyfan 5y ago
There are millions of fake social profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc that use fake generated profile photos, friend networks among both themselves and gullible real users, and automated markov chain style comments on popular conte
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Phoenix Liveview is far more similar to a python or ruby app. You just have a websocket keeping things synced perfectly and maintaining state. It’s awesome, yes, but it’s quite orthogonal to the nodejs/npm way of doing things. It’s far
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by dreyfan 5y ago
The toolchains to build and deploy a completely static site today are about 10x more complex than a fully dynamic python/ruby/php site a decade or two ago. I genuinely don’t understand it.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
I don’t grasp the allure of Buy Now Pay Later. Isn’t that precisely what credit cards provide? Are they pushing more charges to the retailer and less interest charges to the consumer?
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by dreyfan 5y ago
If Tesla had just issued car ownership as an NFT this wouldn't have happened.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Yeah, then when someone loses or has stolen the keys to that wallet, the domain is forever gone.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
So, you’re telling me there’s a massive inequality in the system controlled by those with wealth and everyday people basically can’t participate because there’s no room for their petty needs.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
because api isn’t blockchain nft dao decentralized
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Look at what I was replying to. The guy commented about the amount of OOP in PHP.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Sorry, I should have clarified "heavy" in terms of the level of OOP [1] insanity but yeah Symfony is very modular. [1] e.g. "Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Loader\Configurator\ContainerConfigurator"
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by dreyfan 5y ago
> Just don't pick a language that is known to be on it's last legs. I’ve heard that exact sentiment over and over since the RoR community aggressively started with their anti-php agenda in about 2006.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
> Is the "your app gets initialized and torn down for every request" true for frameworks like Laravel and Symfony? Yes, though heavy optimization in opcode caching and JIT keeps it fast and the primary process manager today (ph
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Obviously but you’re in the same pool of “commit and magically deployed globally” service offering, except I think you’re actually providing value (deploying backend services alongside static content) as opposed to a commit hook and a cache
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by dreyfan 5y ago
https://i.imgur.com/PF7uxDY.png What about end user experience?
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Does it solve any problems which aren’t self-inflicted by the convoluted JS ecosystem and toolchain?
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by dreyfan 5y ago
> Effortless, infinitely scalable, dynamic web apps. That’s awfully reminiscent of the MongoDB meme.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Yeah I suppose? I think the “git push and it’s magically live” aspect is great. I just wish modern devs understood how the web actually functions so that understanding is transferable instead of thinking it’s all magic.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
It’s bewildering to me how Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare and others have convinced the modern crop of developers this approach is fundamentally different than CDN caching and that “serverless” somehow doesn’t qualify as backend.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Cryptocurrency and related speculative technology does not define “web3” as much as that community would like to pretend it does.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Databricks is a shit platform that encourages terrible data practices and accretion of technical debt.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Databricks is a rapidly approaching IPO. Trying to justify their valuation with their overpriced in-memory hadoop.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
> house deeds (HN, June 5th 2028): "Ask HN: I was phished in Meta Horizons and they stole my house deed NFT. They've already moved in, my wife is furious. How can I get my house back?"
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Curious what you mean by lack of proper threading in phpBB and vBulletin? Are you talking about threading of responses within a broader "Thread" (top-level post entry) e.g. for a refresher some random vbulletin site: https:&#x2F
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by dreyfan 5y ago
Yep, works great. Nobody uses it for anything new though.
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by dreyfan 5y ago
I've yet to see a forum software that works as well as vBulletin and the clones of that did in the early to mid 2000s. Everything today is this weird "conversation" view and comments/threads constantly move around based
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by dreyfan 5y ago
B-Tree indexes perform just fine on datetime fields. Were you using hash or inverted indexes maybe?

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