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by gajus 4y ago
That's just not true. You shouldn't take offense to this at all. People have busy schedules.
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by gajus 4y ago
I think the future of work communication is going to be something similar to what these guys are doing https://www.volleyapp.com/ I don't Volley is there yet (or even close), but the concept is on the right path: async
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by gajus 4y ago
Personally, I switched to voice messages (via WhatsApp or Slack). It doesn't work for everything, but... if I know this will take me more than a minute to type, it is going to be a voice message. If it requires visual aid – Loom. The o
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by gajus 4y ago
My problem with this is that it contributes to the broken culture of email. – Wanna go for coffee? – January is busy. After? is a completely fine exchange. Adding a wall of text to convey the same information does not help anyone.
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Ask HN: What would your 3 sentence bio sound like?
5 points by gajus 4y ago|1 comments
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Debugging Mysterious Traffic from Boardman, OR(contra.com)
3 points by gajus 4y ago|0 comments
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by gajus 4y ago
Unfortunately, compile time has no way of knowing what SQL code will return. Even if we wrote a somewhat intelligent parser that can introspect the database schema (as I have several times), there is still the possibility that the schema wi
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by gajus 4y ago
I do think that we need to pick one or the other approach, and not mix them, as mixing them at engineer's discretion just opens to unforeseeable outcomes, e.g. Engineer making the choice without understanding the implications or the co
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by gajus 4y ago
I like this. It vibes with a language learning app concept idea I recently shared out loud. https://twitter.com/kuizinas/status/1591867392220594183
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Ask HN: How do you handle recoverable errors?
2 points by gajus 4y ago|7 comments
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by gajus 4y ago
Unlike the other websites mentioned, Contra is commission free and does not limit your communication with the freelancer.
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Twitter Feature Predictions for 2023(twitter.com)
2 points by gajus 4y ago|0 comments
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Slonik Is Awesome(vadosware.io)
2 points by gajus 4y ago|0 comments
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by gajus 4y ago
Congrats on the launch of the new website! Feel free to add Contra to https://linear.app/customers . We are avid users of Linear!
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by gajus 4y ago
There are some very legitimate use cases for runtime validation, namely when dealing with external inputs/databases, e.g. https://github.com/gajus/slonik#user-content-runtime-validat... Flow had [flow-runtime]( ht
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by gajus 4y ago
What's really missing is a seamless ability to add runtime checks to TypeScript. Otherwise, between Flowtype and TypeScript, static type checking is a solved problem in JS. Hegel is basically a less mature version of Flow. I preferred
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IRC chat logs from historical events like 1991 USSR collapse(twitter.com)
6 points by gajus 4y ago|0 comments
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Bulk inserting nested data into the database (part II)(contra.com)
1 points by gajus 4y ago|0 comments
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Scaling API by routing SQL queries between read-write and read-only instances(contra.com)
1 points by gajus 4y ago|0 comments
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by gajus 4y ago
Expectations. If you look back at software 20 years ago, even the most popular websites had relatively low complexity, both in terms of UI and functionality. A single person could have built most of them and value came primarily from conten
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by gajus 4y ago
I just followed up with an article that shows how to serialize Liqe into SQL https://contra.com/p/WobOBob7-building-advanced-sql-search-f...
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Building advanced SQL search from a user text input(contra.com)
1 points by gajus 4y ago|0 comments
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by gajus 4y ago
If anyone is looking to contribute, I would really appreciate someone taking over this issue. https://github.com/gajus/liqe/issues/1 It is not a particularly hard issue to solve but requires an understanding
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Show HN: Liqe – lightweight Lucene-like parser and serializer for JavaScript(github.com)
4 points by gajus 4y ago|2 comments
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Writing safe SQL using JavaScript(contra.com)
1 points by gajus 4y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: To store display results in a search index or not to
1 points by gajus 4y ago|0 comments
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Thoughts about the leadership challenges of adopting new complex technologies(twitter.com)
1 points by gajus 4y ago|0 comments
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Fully qualified names vs. a jungle of imports(contra.com)
1 points by gajus 4y ago|0 comments
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by gajus 4y ago
What is the significance of this?
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Rewriting tests from Cypress to Playwright using GPT3(contra.com)
3 points by gajus 4y ago|0 comments

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