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by lewisjoe 6y ago
A lot of problems stated are characteristic of any ORM not just Django. People pick ORMs specifically for trading convenience and tooling with loss of control. Any escape hatches that the ORM provides is by definition hacky. These days when
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by lewisjoe 6y ago
At first look, I could use this as an interactive documentation for JS modules in my codebase.
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by lewisjoe 6y ago
I used to have this weird thought experiment: what if a front-end is just additional "views" (think of SQL views) of application data, but scoped by say a user or org. UI event handlers are just a way of mutating application data
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by lewisjoe 6y ago
Yes, unlike other softwares office suite is too complicated a problem to pursue. Zoho's cloud office suite is the only thing that comes close to Microsoft's offerings. And Zoho does offers a spreadsheet software as part of its sui
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by lewisjoe 6y ago
Brings back memories of those huge monitors with the turtle on the screen ;) They were magical back then.
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by lewisjoe 6y ago
This. Adding up, front-end engineering has an identity crisis now. A friend of mine is a web dev who started back in the days when Javascript was for form validation. When JS frameworks and SPAs took over the web, he adapted himself. But
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by lewisjoe 6y ago
Nice analogy. Here's somethine new. Rust is not just a sports car, but an eco-friendly electric one at that. One topic OP hasn't touched upon is the disadvantage of "pushing client side to the server" . JS is terrible
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by lewisjoe 6y ago
I've worked for both types of companies. It's surprising that both cultures work in their own context. At the startup I worked where the dev process was zero, we were able to flesh out pivots and products at a pace that was able t
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by lewisjoe 6y ago
I work at Zoho. Would like to recommend checking out Zoho One [0]. Zoho One gives everything a business needs (Mail, Office Suite, Accounting, CRM, Chat and more! It's a huge list.) for 30$/user/month. Zoho realized this prob
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by lewisjoe 7y ago
When a technology wraps over another technology with its own opinions - doesn't it always end up bad? Especially when the wrapper decides to take away the escape hatches, locking people into its opinions without considering genuinely v
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Ask HN: Are we looking at a recession ahead?
81 points by lewisjoe 7y ago|86 comments
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by lewisjoe 7y ago
Learning complicated stuff is a compound process. There’s no framework as such. It takes slow, methodical, frequent look-ups, trying out, dead-ends and everything inconvenient at first. But once we get past a certain stage, it’s more about
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by lewisjoe 7y ago
SAP always is an interesting case. It gets close to zero love from HN, yet the platform has some interesting engineering. For example, they had their own language that abstracts and operates directly over a database. They had their own drag
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by lewisjoe 7y ago
Cloud word processors like Zoho Writer & Google Docs already have version comparison features. But this idea of a sliding time traveler for documents is very intuitive! Also Zoho Writer has a combine feature, that lets you upload a docx
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by lewisjoe 7y ago
A must-read piece for people trying to understand language design theoretics. The paper clearly talks about all the perspectives around the word type , and then discusses the ambiguity in the usage of the term. Was very helpful to decrypt
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by lewisjoe 7y ago
“Smart-work” > “Hard work” is BS. If you want to get things done, train yourself to do focussed work over a period of time. In developer lingo, be in the zone as much as possible. There’s no smart-work or any other shortcut.
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by lewisjoe 7y ago
Yes, but it can send commands to construct and manipulate DOM. See - https://github.com/yewstack/yew
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by lewisjoe 7y ago
This looks like a great piece of article. Kudos to the people who wrote it because the most sure-shot problem in SSR is running to scaling issues and this is a much needed one. But here's an unpopular opinion: Server side rendering sho
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by lewisjoe 7y ago
Thanks. Fixed the links.
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Type systems and the future of programming languages(docs.google.com)
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by lewisjoe 7y ago
I like how the author acknowledges the problem with the very word "type" - https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/stephen-kell/in-s... The word "Type" is such an overloaded term,
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by lewisjoe 7y ago
Folks interested in compiler design: here's a list of resources I put together for building compilers - http://hexopress.com/@joe/blog/2019/04/14/awesome-compiler-r...
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Reality Distortion Field, by Andy Hertzfeld (1981)(folklore.org)
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by lewisjoe 7y ago
Yes, "Workflow" has to be one of the most abused word in the industry. People seem to use workflow for all of these things: #1 Business process modeling and automating platforms - Camunda, BPMN, jBPM etc. #2 Assembling together so
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by lewisjoe 7y ago
While I agree with this, I don’t want to discourage OP. You don’t have to spend 10 years learning the basics before calling yourself a web dev. Learning web dev(or programming in general) is very much like how babies learn to speak. You don
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by lewisjoe 7y ago
We use JavaScript for sharing code between devices(iOS & Android), browser as well as the server. Surprisingly, we haven't faced any of the problems, that Dropbox claims to have faced ( https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech
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by lewisjoe 7y ago
Unpopular opinion: Domain driven stack. We have been living in the golden era of software industry, thanks to Moore's law. We were able to afford RISC (= general purpose CPU arch), general purpose operating systems, general purpose lan
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by lewisjoe 7y ago
Richard Gabriel’s famous essay “Worse is better” ( https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html ) is an interesting perspective on why Lisp lost to C. In a way, the same arguments (simplicity vs consistency vs correctnes
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by lewisjoe 7y ago
The first thing I do with a new wallet is to put a piece of paper in it containing my name and phone number. It stays there forever useless, until it gets lost. I stole the idea from a reddit thread.
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by lewisjoe 7y ago
Remember "Worse is Better" by Gabriel? Lisp was a correct, consistent and complete system, prioritizing these over simplicity. C, on the other hand, was a simple system but not nearly as much complete, consistent or correct as

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