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by jph 2y ago
If anyone here is involved in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, dementia, or similar conditions, then I would love to hear from you. I'm creating open source accessibility software to help people who have these conditions, and their
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by jph 2y ago
I'm in your target market, and in my opinion you have an opportunity to rephrase your tagline "The first open-source Infrastructure-as-Code framework" because your tagline makes me think you're ancient and retro-- think
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by jph 2y ago
Queueing theory refresher for software developers: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory This can help put the article in context. The author writes "wanted to freshen up my queuing theory a bit&q
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by jph 2y ago
Nice work! It would help me understand each result better if you show more details per repo, such as the star count, or commit count, or similar. Here's a search for "architecture decision record" that takes 2 seconds and ret
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by jph 2y ago
Just a typo. It's meant to be `c` which is defined on the previous line.
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by jph 2y ago
This Quadra method stems from the "Eisenhower Decision Principle". Tasks are evaluated using the criteria important/unimportant and urgent/not urgent, and then placed in quadrants in an Eisenhower Matrix. - Important&#x2
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by jph 2y ago
Great article. PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections) and similar disorders such as MCAS (Mast Cell Activation Syndrome) are terrifying for parents and children. Too many doctors do
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by jph 2y ago
Exactly right. You're making my point for me. :-) Oracle can now say it has one solution, whereas with IBM the attention is split between Terraform and OpenTofu. If you're an enterprise customer, do you want your enterprise deplo
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by jph 2y ago
"Oracle’s move seems like a straightforward decision to ensure it is using the most permissive underlying IaC tool without having to worry about downstream license complications, no more and no less." Oracle wins a big competitive
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by jph 2y ago
It's even better when you see the logo is made of 8 switches. In other words, 8 bits that make a byte. I'm a former Sun employee and loved that logo so much.
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by jph 2y ago
If you want a small stepping stone toward Versus, you can add Rust debug_assert for preconditions and postconditions; the Rust compiler strips these out of production builds by default. Example from the Versus tutorial with verification:
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Show HN: ASCII Separated Values (ASV) to Unicode Separated Values (USV)(crates.io)
2 points by jph 3y ago|1 comments
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by jph 3y ago
You're describing a team, owner, discussion list, and end users. It turns out your post is much like a RACI matrix: - Responsible: People who do the work. They must complete the task or objective or make the decision. Several people ca
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by jph 3y ago
Sure does look horrific. :-) That's because it's the same code from 2008, long before Ruby had the Unicode handlers. In fact it's the same code as for many other programming languages, all the way back to Perl in the mid-1990
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by jph 3y ago
If you try to build "Simple, Lovable, Complete" then you're likely taking too long to ship. Success with MVP looks like this: "Frank in accounting says he hates it, and thinks it's ugly, but says he'll use it b
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by jph 3y ago
Normalizing can help with search. For example for Ruby I maintain this gem: https://rubygems.org/gems/sixarm_ruby_unaccent
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Show HN: Microsoft Excel (XLSX) to Unicode Separated Values (USV)(crates.io)
3 points by jph 3y ago|0 comments
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by jph 3y ago
USV defaults to UTF-8, which prevents the issue of Unicode buffer overflow-- presuming you mean the typical kind where Unicode flows into ASCII. The primary USV library implementation uses Rust, which is notably good at UTF-8 and conversion
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by jph 3y ago
Yes, the next release adds custom delimiters, e.t.a. one week.
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by jph 3y ago
Good catch! I just fixed csv-to-usv so it prints newlines now. You're right, Parquet and Avro are both great, for use with schemas.
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by jph 3y ago
Good connection to BoldContacts.org :-) Screen readers handle these well. If someone wants to create a font with big bold separators, that would be awesome.
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by jph 3y ago
Good point. I'm adding automatic record separator newlines to the crate now.
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by jph 3y ago
Yes you're right. That's a long term goal.
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by jph 3y ago
Thank you for the feedback. Your perspective makes sense to me for most people. I've added this to the "criticisms" page.
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by jph 3y ago
Thank you, I'll add a todo to compare SML.
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by jph 3y ago
You're directionally correct. :-) USV terminology is units, records, groups, files. Spreadsheet equivalents are cells, lines, sheets, folios. Database equivalents are fields, rows, tables, schemas. The USV Rust crate provides iterators
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by jph 3y ago
Thank you. I added a comparison to RSV.
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by jph 3y ago
Good catch, thank you. An accidental omission. Fixed now in the repo. Fixed in the next IETF Internet Draft.
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by jph 3y ago
Yes you're exactly right.
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by jph 3y ago
Good points. I dropped SYN now because of feedback here. Thanks for the digraph vi info. Thanks to you, I added a vi-specific page in the repo for your tip.

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