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by ed_blackburn 2y ago
It feels like manufacturers are steering the economy away from consumers "owning" products outright to a model where we consume them through subscriptions or financing arrangements. In this new model, consumers notionally own the
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by ed_blackburn 2y ago
That's the first thing I thought. Is that part of the minimalism? An oversight? As a used an April with 31 days makes me question the basic competency of the site, I'd relate it to poor copy. However, I do adore the stripped back
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by ed_blackburn 2y ago
If you haven't seen it before, you may find this interesting: https://medium.com/building-the-agile-business/a-structure-f...
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by ed_blackburn 2y ago
Defeats the purpose in my view, but to answer your question check out Openfaas or explore Erlang, much if the serverless architecture is Actors forced into Cloud Native primitives. The Holy Grail in my view are actors without knowing or car
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by ed_blackburn 2y ago
Hi, ex Nortel Networks employee here.
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by ed_blackburn 2y ago
We need to see more EV personal vehicles — scooters, bicycles, etc.- and dedicated lanes and tracks for lightweight vehicles such as scooters and bicycles.
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by ed_blackburn 2y ago
I drive in the UK, and this is certainly news to me.
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by ed_blackburn 2y ago
I've started reading this book and I rate it highly so far: Serverless Development on AWS [0]. I agree that finding comprehensive, non-sales-oriented best practices can be challenging. One useful resource is Serverless Land from AWS [
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by ed_blackburn 2y ago
I appreciate that many people have reservations about hyper-focusing on product development and utilising the serverless ecosystem. I understand that it may appear working with coarser primitives is constraining and unproductive, and for un
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by ed_blackburn 3y ago
As an ex-Salesforce engineer, you appear to have a good handle on the engineering implementation side. You had the mechanism to build the workflows and reporting on top. Double down on that because that's your table stakes product. Mak
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by ed_blackburn 3y ago
I'm not American. But I feel seen(!) :)
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by ed_blackburn 3y ago
I came here to say the same thing. Since the UK Govt granted Reaction Engines £60m to invest in SABRE, I've been infrequently checking in. https://reactionengines.co.uk/advanced-propulsion/sabre/ The SABRE st
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by ed_blackburn 3y ago
How does Firefox work with Google Meet? I'm finding Google Meet gets less and less reliable on Safari on my Mac. What's the point of a web app if it only works on one browser?
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by ed_blackburn 3y ago
Rails and Django are brilliant when they can host all your capabilities. Keeping it simple is the operational mantra, and rightly so. What's more complex is defining simple. My organisation wants to focus on the business domain, automa
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by ed_blackburn 3y ago
Did they not effectively acqui-hire or plain hire the pony lang team too?
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by ed_blackburn 3y ago
Sure, it depends on what is expensive. For us, in a primarily asynchronous domain, saving cycles is helpful for lower computational costs and the environment, but in the main, we optimise for reading the code, and one way to lower the cogni
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by ed_blackburn 3y ago
The result package in the article: https://github.com/rustedpy/result There's a pretty decent explanation in the readme. If you're more interested in Monads, I am not sure I'd cover that in a HN comment
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by ed_blackburn 3y ago
I'm six months into my Python journey. We aren't building a library, so everything runs on 3.11. Having spent most of my career in statically typed and sometimes functional languages, I've found the result package approach an
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by ed_blackburn 3y ago
I think I am more excited to see how the competition reacts. The world needs more affordable EVs and there's a price point to be found that successfully balances affordability and quality. I cannot imagine only Tesla are chasing this s
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by ed_blackburn 3y ago
I’m not referring to third party libraries. Rather third-party data providers.
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by ed_blackburn 3y ago
For those pining for a similar yaml query tool for working through acres of config: https://github.com/mikefarah/yq jq is awesome and thanks to the new team for their recent efforts and energy, it massively appreciated
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by ed_blackburn 3y ago
I am six months into a startup. It's a Python monolith with Postgres. It's been a success. There's a product-market fit, paying customers, and a healthy roadmap. The team picked boring tech, and it was the right call. Now, we
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by ed_blackburn 3y ago
If you need to get data out as a feed and you need something robust, you almost always evolve until you land on the WAL option. The only problem with WAL is that many of us are (rightly) moving towards managed cloud sql instances such as AW
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by ed_blackburn 3y ago
It's when these matters start moving from civil to criminal and directors fear criminal proceedings that enforcement is taken seriously by organisations that apply every decision through the lens of is the fine the cost of doing busine
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by ed_blackburn 3y ago
As soon as conversations stray into lines of code etc. I think we've veered directly into Goodhart's Law.
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by ed_blackburn 3y ago
That's a good point and I hadn't considered that perspective, thanks! A build time decision on whether to use WebView or Servo could be beneficial to some vendors but to what degree I don't know.
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by ed_blackburn 3y ago
> Servo can be used to build embedded applications with web technologies, such as kiosk interfaces and digital signage. At present, Servo is especially suited to applications that use WebGL or WebGPU, as well as CSS-based applications wh
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by ed_blackburn 3y ago
Presumably, someone at MS did the maths and elected not to pursue a Slack acquisition, leaving it to Salesforce. As part of that calculation, I always assumed they considered what it cost to build Teams out to reduce the appeal of Slack. Ho
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by ed_blackburn 3y ago
I'd be interested in introducing appropriate abstractions (ABI) and in a module for parallelism. Whereby one can swap out different implementations for sub-interpreters, green threads, GIL or even hardware or cloud vendor-optimised imp
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by ed_blackburn 3y ago
As an application developer, I am curious about where this is leading/empowering. I hope to see something akin to the Project Loom approach in Java whereby suitable parallelisation abstractions are native, and one configures concrete i

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