joeatwork

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by joeatwork 4y ago
The intention is to do all of your development in containers, in whatever environment you choose, and then deploy the containers into production on a Flatcar cluster.
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by joeatwork 4y ago
Indeed - MySQL was fast, freely available, lightweight, and “good enough” (and continually getting better) in an era when the commercial competitors were ultraheavy, evil or broken (and often all three). Pour one out for a real one.
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Amazon opens its ad-hoc Wi-Fi-sipping Sidewalk mesh network(theregister.com)
2 points by joeatwork 4y ago|0 comments
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by joeatwork 4y ago
I wish I could upvote this twice - the folks I know who have cultivated the skill of liking stuff have been some of the most productively creative people I’ve ever known. Learning how to like stuff is a superpower for people who want to mak
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by joeatwork 4y ago
My mother went to a Fabergé exhibit in the 1980’s, and her impression of it was “When you looked at those things, you could tell why they had to have a revolution.”
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A “Cruel but Fair” Minesweeper (2019)(pwmarcz.pl)
4 points by joeatwork 4y ago|1 comments
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by joeatwork 4y ago
“Simple to implement” is an undervalued virtue in most of the systems we use. The internet and industry tend to pull things towards scale and complexity, and there is real value in systems that resist those forces to stay intelligible and h
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by joeatwork 4y ago
Hey,folks who are working with Prolog - what sort of work are you doing?
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An obituary for the man who saved North Carolina from Nuclear Disaster(ncrabbithole.com)
290 points by joeatwork 4y ago|57 comments
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An obituary for the man who saved North Carolina from Nuclear Disaster(ncrabbithole.com)
1 points by joeatwork 4y ago|0 comments
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by joeatwork 4y ago
This is the first time my life has changed from just reading a Hacker News headline.
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by joeatwork 4y ago
This is a really, really good postmortem. It’s frank, it includes what worked along with what didn’t, and I’m likely to refer to it again when I start something new.
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Ask HN: Is Anyone in Industry Using Logic Programming?
5 points by joeatwork 4y ago|4 comments
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by joeatwork 4y ago
Rob Pike’s talk “Systems Software Research is Irrelevant” (given 22 years ago!) provides some nice color here - we kinda just settled on “good enough” in a lot of ways: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2
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Theory of what’s going to happen next at Twitter(twitter.com)
21 points by joeatwork 4y ago|43 comments
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by joeatwork 4y ago
The whole newsletter archive is worth a look. The step-by-step account of engineering in this series is pretty remarkable. The author talks through process and experiment and does the math where you can see it.
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by joeatwork 4y ago
The Glide app, which takes spreadsheets and makes them into full featured apps and websites, fits the bill of one of these ideas. https://www.glideapps.com/
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by joeatwork 5y ago
Interoperating with C libraries can often force you into this sort of thing.
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Proposals for Writing to Uninitialized Memory in Rust(blog.yoshuawuyts.com)
3 points by joeatwork 5y ago|0 comments
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Memcmp requires pointers to fully valid buffers(trust-in-soft.com)
2 points by joeatwork 10y ago|0 comments
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How Technology Helps Creditors Control Debtors(theatlantic.com)
2 points by joeatwork 10y ago|0 comments
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This Hack Was Not Properly Planned (2008)(web.archive.org)
1 points by joeatwork 11y ago|0 comments
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Zippers and Lenses in Haskell(scs.stanford.edu)
2 points by joeatwork 11y ago|0 comments
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List of 284 Things(joe-bowers.com)
4 points by joeatwork 11y ago|1 comments
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New Achewood after 20 months of silence(achewood.com)
10 points by joeatwork 11y ago|0 comments
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Silicon Valley Is Stonewalling Efforts to Amend the Law Imprisoning Hacktivists(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by joeatwork 11y ago|0 comments