eatonphil

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   by eatonphil 4y ago

   I shared what has worked for me. :)
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   by eatonphil 4y ago

   See this thread on the topic from a week or two ago. 350 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32701641
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   by eatonphil 4y ago

   What are the good platforms? Emailing the CEO of small, local software companies with your experience and your rate. Also, posting your info on the monthly HN Who's Hiring Freelancers post.
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   by eatonphil 4y ago

   Sure there is: https://useplaintext.email/#why-plaintext . (I don't agree with it, but it's there.)
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   Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project(awesomekling.github.io)

   1341 points by eatonphil 4y ago|473 comments
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   by eatonphil 4y ago

   Ah I see. Is that how `count(1)` also works? Or is that different.
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   by eatonphil 4y ago

   Tested this out on Postgres and it works: SELECT name, count(1) FROM (VALUES ('Kev',12), ('Meg', 14), ('Kev', 14)) people(name, age) GROUP BY 1 Produces: [[Kev, 2], [Meg, 1]]. But I d
8. 1448.▲
   by eatonphil 4y ago

   Blog posts are one thing, this wasn't even a blog post though!
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   by eatonphil 4y ago

   Wow! I did not expect this to end up on HN. This thread was meant as an informal introduction to a few things I'm excited about regarding TigerBeetle, which was just spun out as a company last week and is where I now work. Some of the
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    A primer on Roaring bitmaps: what they are and how they work(vikramoberoi.com)

    2 points by eatonphil 4y ago|0 comments
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    by eatonphil 4y ago

    I like SQLite (qualifying not for you, simonw, but for others). But I hate that I can't be lazy by using arrays in SQLite... because they don't exist. group_concat is a poor approximation. Also, I genuinely dislike how loose SQLit
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    by eatonphil 4y ago

    That says "successful". If you're just talking about all founders it may be different.
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    by eatonphil 4y ago

    I think the average US founder age is 40s. But I'm not sure since most statistics focus on successful founders. This link seems to look at all of them. https://www.zippia.com/founder-jobs/demographics/
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    Constructing and Analyzing the LSM Compaction Design Space(arxiv.org)

    2 points by eatonphil 4y ago|0 comments
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    by eatonphil 4y ago

    See also, discussion from last year: An Intuition for Lisp Syntax (stopa.io) 130 points by codetrotter on May 27, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 114 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27307388
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    by eatonphil 4y ago

    Plus google results for this sort of thing skew towards companies that market well, if at all.
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    by eatonphil 4y ago

    If you want to see how destination driven code generation (DDCG) works concretely, check out this old presentation by a V8 developer. It shows concretely how DDCG compares to common optimizations like peephole and top-of-stack caching. And
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    by eatonphil 4y ago

    There are lots of cool papers Dybvig has published related to Chez Scheme that are relevant for anyone hacking on compilers. Specifically, destination-driven code generation is really neat. My favorite is the slides on the development of Ch
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    by eatonphil 4y ago

    Gotcha, thanks for clarifying.
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    by eatonphil 4y ago

    Two US research university professors (presumably funded by a US federal agency, NBER) agreeing that the US has the best research universities doesn't seem very independent.
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    by eatonphil 4y ago

    I did have a bit of trouble reading it at first. But because I was determined to, I got through. Unfortunately after getting through, it made more sense than it did initially. :) So I'm struggling to think of useful feedback. If this w
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    by eatonphil 4y ago

    This is a fine article but I find the jump from > This works reasonably well. The polling period of reading the events may become a problem, but you can make it better by using database triggers. to > But when we look at tailored back
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    by eatonphil 4y ago

    > It seems like you're suggesting that someone could design a functional-style programming language that compiles to SQL. Not exactly but sort of this: http://blog.hydromatic.net/2020/02/25/morel-a-fun
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    by eatonphil 4y ago

    That is unrelated to what the person you're responding to said.
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    by eatonphil 4y ago

    TigerBeetle is an open source ledger database you might be interested in. Not sure about payments integration though. https://github.com/coilhq/tigerbeetle
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    by eatonphil 4y ago

    > I think the following is needed for sql to be finally accepted as 'serious' contender. Whatever way you slice it, SQL is one of the most used languages today [0]. [0] https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-
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    by eatonphil 4y ago

    If you're interested in learning more about tech, maybe go work for a developer tools or infrastructure company. They build compilers, databases, distributed systems frameworks, IDEs, etc. If you're interested in learning more abo
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    by eatonphil 4y ago

    It doesn't seem like they're going far from the Deno playbook. https://deno.com/blog/series-a
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    by eatonphil 4y ago

    Judging from the precipitous decline in Badger commits since 20221 [0] and that the original/primary author is no longer with dgraph [1] or working on Badger, it may be worth looking at Cockroach's Pebble [2] instead. [0] https:&
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    by eatonphil 4y ago

    I was about to defend it as having come far along but actually seems like it's still having some big issues as discussed in 2020 [0]. > Yeah, there's no workaround that I can find for 3.4 (duplicate effects), 3.5 (read skew), 3