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by hosh 3y ago
I think reading this and other comments slid something in place for me about “Living Systems”.
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by hosh 3y ago
Hmm. That brings up an interesting take on “make work visible”.
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by hosh 3y ago
You and I may know this, yet I have encountered smart people who defend a local maxima.
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by hosh 3y ago
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/277469 Looks like I misread it. While the Actor model was conceived before Erlang, the Erlang actor model was developed in parallel. It isn’t a pure implementation of Act
515.
by hosh 3y ago
I think that was before things like raft or paxos I had some similar issues with rabbitmq On the other hand, Phoenix channels were much more flexible about membership
516.
by hosh 3y ago
Erlang developed the way it did before people started calling it an Actor model. The key characteristic is not a state machine, but that: - first class processes send messages to each other - messages are queued - each process is single exe
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by hosh 3y ago
It is not as if I expected Typescript to be promising for external data validation. I was watching what people say about Typescript, and how people actually use Typescript. I wrote Ruby with duck-typing for 10 years and it never seemed
518.
by hosh 3y ago
It took me months before it sank in that Nodejs async wasn't really async as I knew it from Elixir -- there's an implicit queue, and no true suspension of the execution flow. One justification for this was that it is supposed to m
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by hosh 3y ago
I went from Ruby to Elixir to Nodejs. I am writing Nodejs because I have to, not because I want to. Having used it now, I will never ever start a new project with it. Nodejs's concurrency controls, ability to scale, tools for reliabili
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by hosh 3y ago
The fact that you _can_ open a REPL in production and inspect the data at runtime is huge. Although few people use hotloading in code before, shapes of data can change from deployment to deployment.
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by hosh 3y ago
I'm currently working on a data engineering team, unborking some things on a team where all the original developers of the codebase had left. Up until then, I wrote Ruby for over 10 years, and Elixir for 3. I didn't have an opinio
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by hosh 3y ago
I agree that you have to make decisions somehow. My points were directed at the phrase “properly modeled”, rather than “very few queries that make sense”. I see the purpose of reporting within an organization is to allow someone, somewhere
523.
by hosh 3y ago
It's already bad enough that people, by default, are not aware of the frame of reference in which they see the world, let alone communicate with. As just a very simple example, unless I am explicitly clear about speaking from a Living
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by hosh 3y ago
Beware the fallacy of legibility. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-call...
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by hosh 3y ago
Data gets messy, because the real world is messy. Once you start ingesting from other sources, it gets very messy. There is a reason ideas like the "data mesh" or semantic web (distributed schemas) were attempted.
526.
by hosh 3y ago
Another way I understand the idea of schema growth that, you should transform schemas with monoids.
527.
by hosh 3y ago
Didn't Robert O Becker also explored this space?
528.
by hosh 3y ago
I wrote Ruby for 10 years and Elixir for about 4. The Ruby version is a bit awkward because it has to make compromises with existing syntax … however, I have already been able to make use of it. My Ruby code these days have gotten a lot mor
529.
by hosh 3y ago
I use it in Elixir. My Ruby has gotten functional these days so pattern matching is a welcome addition for me. The other half of pattern matching is function clauses …
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by hosh 3y ago
I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree then. From my perspective, that characterization has taken on an even more interesting turn now that I have read through a history of Chinese martial arts, and its role throughout the centuries and mo
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by hosh 3y ago
I think you underestimate what people will do when desperate, or the extent of gender bias among the Hans. I was born in Taiwan and raised in America, and I still caught whiffs of it. I am not sure where you are getting the idea that people
532.
by hosh 3y ago
> The idea that Chinese families give up their born infant babies because of gender is a racist extrapolation of sex-selective abortion I'm not sure I understand this. Female infanticide due to the One Child Policy happened -- and s
533.
by hosh 3y ago
They may have lived, but they turned into autonomous extensions of the Primer. Nell was the only real person, so of course the Mouse Army responded to her. As the other commenter said -- the mouse army were not actualized individuals.
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by hosh 3y ago
The mouse army were extensions of the automations of the Primer. Nell was able to lead and initiate things because she was the only one who really grew up. I remember someone noting a similar idea in Snow Crash -- that idea of biomass, in w
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by hosh 3y ago
Exactly. That refutation stuck with me all these years. I remember being very much inspired by the Primer and poking around with that idea. But the more I explore things like, Consciousness, awareness, or ideas like regenerative education,
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by hosh 3y ago
I think people forget Stephenson’s cautionary note at the end of The Diamond Age — that the Primer is no substitute for parenting.
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by hosh 3y ago
I wasn't able to see the blog article (because it 404 by the time I am looking at this). I'm considering introducing this to the eng team I am a part of, because multiple teams and multiple projects often touch the same db. Anyone
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by hosh 3y ago
I did find this: https://github.com/xataio/pgroll
539.
by hosh 3y ago
What about efforts by say, the Internet Archive, and maybe more specialized indexes maintained by communities?
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by hosh 3y ago
I heard of the concept for some time but I guess someone is coining it as a term to make it an easier sell.

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