hasenj

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   by hasenj 9y ago

   It's solved from a technical point of view. You might want to find ways to optimize it form non-technical aspects, such as, how to get more users, how to write better titles, etc. But there's nothing that is technically challengin
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   by hasenj 9y ago

   Delivering news is a solved problem.
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   by hasenj 9y ago

   I don't think that's a bonus point. That's the most important point. Better to spend more time and money building the right thing than wasting time building the wrong thing.
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   by hasenj 9y ago

   I think the sigh is about top talent being used for ads instead of something more fundamental to the advancement of technology, such as AI for things more significant like vision and language translation, etc.
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   by hasenj 9y ago

   > you have to passionate on what you're working on to make it the best it can be You need to be passionate about being a professional who only delivers the best they can. You don't need any passion for the particular domain or
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   by hasenj 9y ago

   And even if you could manually verify the binary output of a compiler and prove it correct, you still don't know that the CPU itself is not malicious.
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   by hasenj 9y ago

   I really think trying to create ORMs is a misguided endavour. Instead what we really need is a way to map a row from an sql query to a struct (or similar). Luckily, the SQLite helpers from Anko do provide this ability, and it's pretty
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   by hasenj 9y ago

   With the complicated aws-based deployment schemes people are using these days, what's the chance that the db is on the same machine?
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   by hasenj 9y ago

   Yea my hunch/hypothesis does not apply to slow languages like python. That's why I said a fast language that's compiled to native binaries. For example, D, Swift, or Go.
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    by hasenj 9y ago

    terraform itself is a monster I want to avoid .. I want no dependencies .. and no dependency manager.
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    by hasenj 9y ago

    I really don't understand why majority of websites use mysql or even postgres for that matter. The vast majority of websites would run perfectly fine on sqlite. Not only would you get rid of network latency, you would also vastly reduc
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    by hasenj 9y ago

    Probably not. Why? That's the trillion dollar question.
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    by hasenj 9y ago

    Swift is at least an order of magnitude faster than python. It provides static typing. It compiles to native binaries. It's still fun to program in. There are already frameworks that allow programming web servers in Swift. It's mo
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    by hasenj 9y ago

    People have been using python for server side applications for years, and not only it had no concurrency primitives (until very recently), but it has a GIL that makes multi-threaded programs impossible. According to the documentation at per
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    by hasenj 9y ago

    I think it's nicer to program in swift than go. It's already possible to do so to, by the way. http://perfect.org/ What I think go has over swift is the complete independence from platform. You can write go code o
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    by hasenj 9y ago

    Am I the only one who thinks it's weird that Codable is a magic interface? Are there any other "magic" interfaces?
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    by hasenj 9y ago

    If I already have swift-3 and Xcode 8, how do I install only swift-4?
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    by hasenj 9y ago

    Consciousness does not have to mean being "mentally" (intellectually) aware of what's going on. It's about experiencing stuff, and having a _sensation_
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    by hasenj 9y ago

    This is great news. However, I wish the mac release was available as independent binaries without having to come along with Xcode.
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    by hasenj 9y ago

    I don't miss how "concise" it is. Concise syntax usually means "fun to write, hell to read". It's not that ES6 is good enough; it's that CoffeeScript is actually "bad".
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    by hasenj 9y ago

    ultrafast and ultra annoying.
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    by hasenj 9y ago

    Rule 5 is where dynamic languages usually utterly fail.
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    by hasenj 9y ago

    But most people are not Facebook (and will never be). If you have to have several hardware servers, I don't see why the application server itself cannot contain basic boilerplate code to coordinate communication between the different i
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    by hasenj 9y ago

    In python, yes. But if I was in Go, I'd just fire (and forget) a goroutine to do that.
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    by hasenj 9y ago

    Depends. If they have their own set of values and rules (no matter how arbitrary) that don't include sexual restrictions, they might end up having their own sense of community. If their lack of sexual rules is part of a bigger 'no
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    by hasenj 9y ago

    This need is actually being exacerbated by the likes of FB.
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    by hasenj 9y ago

    > work hard to have an inclusive and supportive community. With the condition that you abide by the rules. It's the assurance that everyone adheres to more-or-less the same values that glues the community together. Also, if I may ve
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    by hasenj 9y ago

    Japan and Germany were completely devastated after WWII, on a scale we have never witnessed in our lifetimes, yet they rose out of the Ashes. So no, it's not colonialism. It has to be something less visible. Something that a country li
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    by hasenj 9y ago

    I prefer VSCode mostly for the intellisense/auto-complete. As far as git is concerned, I use it from the command line an cannot understand why anyone would want to interact with git from VSCode or any other text editor.
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    by hasenj 9y ago

    It looks like a wiki to me. Packed with some "interesting" features (blocks/tabs). Don't see the connection with the headline "document versioning".