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by fizx 6y ago
I'm assuming that it's basically a port of GraphQL+DataLoader, so basically using recursive descent to manage hash joins.
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by fizx 6y ago
You know how we have that "libraries are better than frameworks" discussion once a month? It sounds like your platform team was a framework. Ideally, a platform team should give you reliable, self-service components to build upon
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by fizx 6y ago
There's a difference if the client developers can register stored procedures. Typically, you can't do that with RPC, and it's a big value-add of GraphQL. If that happens, then SQL and GraphQL look a lot alike. SQL would be
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by fizx 7y ago
Depends on whether you want to exist on ads revenue. You could run Meetup with 5 people in a basement if you had simple subscription revenue, but effectively maximizing an advertising opportunity requires at least ~1000 people.
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by fizx 7y ago
protobuf can do nullable values, but you have to ask for them as primitives are the default. e.g. StringValue (nullable) vs string (not)
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by fizx 7y ago
Quick, give him a growth-hacking gig!
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by fizx 7y ago
Take-home projects are a band-pass filter on hiring. The best candidates won't bother, the worst candidates can't complete. Though, honestly, it seems like you could save everyone's time and get similar results screening for
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by fizx 7y ago
https://gradientretreat.com/ is close to this. It's a bit harder as a programmer, because we naturally have access to money in a way that artists don't, so people are less inclined to help us. I do recommend takin
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by fizx 7y ago
I don't think I've seen another situation where the arguably premier framework for some language was so contrary to the language's purpose and community goals. It would be like building a GraphQL framework that serialized all
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by fizx 7y ago
LMAO Ferret was sooo bad. It was written by a guy who effed off to Japan to study Jujitsu, and I remember my first startup job was porting all of its ints to size_t.
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by fizx 7y ago
I mean, that product is called LogDNA. But Elasticsearch has evolved into a whole bunch of things to meet everyone's needs. There's a way to do what you want and simply, but you have to find the simple path in the middle of the b
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by fizx 7y ago
You don't get to lead thousands of people by making publicly offensive statements, even accidentally. So yes, that does lead to more boring answers to newspapers. Politicians don't swear in public, but they sure do in private. I
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by fizx 7y ago
It's rare that I notice the compile time for either. Incremental compilers are great!
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by fizx 7y ago
That's more of a proof that regexes can't do everything, than a proof email is bad.
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by fizx 7y ago
It's amazing how much driving a nice car in a downturn makes your employees hate you.
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by fizx 7y ago
You're both right :) You want the "quirky rockstars" as your prototypers, not your architects. Then everyone can thrive.
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by fizx 7y ago
My brother built a wedding photography business in ~2008. He filled out the entire first summer of bookings with $50 of highly targeted facebook ads (female, engaged, 200mi radius). The same ads today would be much more competitive, but th
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by fizx 7y ago
AFAICT, the point of GraphQL to get an API that corresponds to your React state tree, so that there's much less mental overhead from client developers who don't want to deal with multiple shifting data representations. Batching al
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by fizx 7y ago
This is a UI-centric take. There are lots of internals that could/should be shared between apps. Recently relevant examples: a customized WebRTC stack, a websocket client with extra authentication and delivery rules. FWIW, my take on
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by fizx 7y ago
That's around 100,000 engineers worth of salary. Good luck (:
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by fizx 7y ago
Hello from Sequoia Capital! Hi, I'm a senior human acquisition engineer with [some dumb startup] who just raised an A round with Sequoia (yet to announce, please keep confidential). Talking E2E for a second, would you like to hear abou
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by fizx 7y ago
fast.ai
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by fizx 7y ago
Agree that 90% of people want to do effective work. The problem is that 6 people have 7 opinions about what effective means. It's not about blame, it's about trying to ensure the team works together cohesively, and that individua
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by fizx 7y ago
Making standups useful to everyone on mid-to-large teams (i.e. > 6:1 employee:manager ratio) is quite challenging, but yes, you raise a good point that this is viable, particularly for smaller teams.
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by fizx 7y ago
As someone who has gone to the dark side, there's an interesting tradeoff here. There's basically three scenarios: (1) all employees are trusted and unmeasured, but you have to tap people on the shoulder every once in a while to
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by fizx 7y ago
Ideally, every self-driving car would have secondary insurance baked into its price. If someone dies, it's an insurance payout of a standardized amount.
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by fizx 7y ago
A reasonably configured Postgres is easily sub-millisecond for reads and writes on a small dataset like this. I suspect that the author is doing something quite wrong. People generally reach for Redis too quickly, IMO. Postgres is about a
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by fizx 7y ago
It is illegal, which is why you'll never see them do it in writing.
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by fizx 7y ago
There's plenty of active research into quantum computing meets machine learning. Any real progress here would create quite a market.
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by fizx 7y ago
> After a company grows beyond its ability to maintain order within its own activities, it should always prune down toward its essential businesses and reform itself before the next stage of growth. Why?

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