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by iamwil 7y ago
Maybe it should have read, "No one would heed a Pentagon report for years"
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Ask HN: What do you use for async background jobs?
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Ask HN: What do you use for async background jobs?
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by iamwil 7y ago
sometimes not even.
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by iamwil 7y ago
Working on a SQL query builder with vim-like keyboard interface to explore data. Often times, for any real-life data, there are exceptions to the data over different periods of time. Building complex queries that handles these exceptions wh
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by iamwil 7y ago
You misinterpret--or rather, I wasn't clear. While I say it aspires, I'm not saying it's a good choice. I'm just saying its odd behavior makes a lot more sense once you know it's meant to be declarative, and you can
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by iamwil 7y ago
Whenever I ask different ex-Pebblers about what killed the company, their perspective is always relative to their area of concern.
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by iamwil 7y ago
It should technically throw an error before compiling. You're thinking about it as an imperative language, when it aspires to be declarative.
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Most popular colors through the decades: 1920s – 2020s(juiceboxinteractive.com)
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How old are the symbols on a keyboard?(breckyunits.com)
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by iamwil 7y ago
I'm not against trying. I'm just saying, ok, if we're going to try it, these are the things that immediately come to mind as hurdles to get over. I wish they addressed those hurdles in the post (or maybe in a later post).
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by iamwil 7y ago
Wait, Isn't the appeal of a stream of bytes that the OS is agnostic to whatever the application layers above are doing with it? That way, you can separate concerns and evolve each layer independently. It's probably the reason the
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by iamwil 7y ago
no. you're thinking of convertible notes.
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Ask HN: Is there a good JavaScript SQL parser for the front end?
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by iamwil 7y ago
How would writing f using combinators yield the ability to derive g?
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by iamwil 7y ago
Where did you learn how it worked? Was it just through his other blog posts?
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by iamwil 7y ago
How come it feels lightweight? Would you be able to articulate it?
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by iamwil 7y ago
I've also been lurking on the FoC community, and hadn't seen much on an articulation on the social and incentive structures that produce software. Do you think they'd be receptive to it? And by "social and inventive stru
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by iamwil 7y ago
Thanks for the insights. You comment about VCS resonates with the workflow experience in data science. Jupyter notebooks aren't conducive to collaboration. I'll have to check out Godot's note system, and it seems like when ev
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by iamwil 7y ago
I had a coworker that worked on the fraud team at Second Life. He said the engineers ran the place and would work on stuff that was technically interesting to them, rather than working on stuff that users wanted or needed. That probably did
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by iamwil 7y ago
I often wondered if that's the curse of building a horizontal product where you're trying to satisfy multiple types of users with different jobs to do (typical in enterprise products) Or if it's just an inherent complexity in
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by iamwil 7y ago
What convinced you to pull the trigger and use the Godot on the new project? Was it the VR development smoothness?
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by iamwil 7y ago
What do people do to deal with it? Are there services / libs that help you do the conversion? Or is it that you can't fully trust them, and you'll need to do that by hand anyway, because you might be one of the exceptional ca
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by iamwil 7y ago
Yikes. Does Unity do forced paid upgrades, so you'd have to deal with the incompatibilities? Do they have a culture of incompatibilities so they can simplify their development and keep the best features and discard the worst?
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by iamwil 7y ago
And that's exactly it! Why do people adopt seemingly less mature technologies? If they never did, we'd never have new stuff, and startups would never win! But they do, and the question is, how does it happen? The canonical story i
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by iamwil 7y ago
Of course not. That's silly. But search engines were terrible back then. I remember using the lot of them, and it was hard to find anything. Using Google for the first time was incredible in 1998/1999. It just showed you exactly w
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by iamwil 7y ago
I agree it's all slower and sucks. But I don't think it's solely a technical problem. 1/ What didn't seem to get mentioned was the speed to market. It's far worse to build the right thing no one wants, than to
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by iamwil 7y ago
I used .plan in college. Email was provided by a telnet system, and you can update your own .plan account and see what your friends wrote by fingering their unix account. It's kinda like how statuses were used in AIM/ICQ, or if tw
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by iamwil 7y ago
How did you find Viaweb as a customer? Google wasn't around in 1995, so I imagine it was hard to find anything.
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by iamwil 7y ago
> This will affect nearly every industry in terms of economics, some sectors potentially catastrophically like long distance transportation, but the biggest effect will be degree to which we will become able to empathize with others arou

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