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by lewisjoe 4y ago
Can somebody eli5 what this really means? Specifically, how is code without dynamic allocation bring about predictability?
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by lewisjoe 4y ago
I usually use Rich Hickey's phrase when dealing with arguments over solutions: "Don't confuse familiarity with simplicity" It's such an insightful phrase.
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by lewisjoe 4y ago
Workdrive comes with support for a Google Docs alternative (with full parity and even more features) - https://writer.zoho.com Note: I'm part of the team that makes Writer. Please feel free to reach out to support or write
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by lewisjoe 4y ago
Hello, Jed I work for Zoho and I'm part of the team that makes Zoho Writer. Thanks for the detailed write-up of your experience. We'll try to address the parts that could be improved. If I'm understanding correctly, the deal-
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by lewisjoe 4y ago
This boils down to simple economics. Most softwares built by startups run over the cloud (which incur recurring costs to the startup) and most softwares are not just a one-time delivered unit like a physical object. They need patches and co
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by lewisjoe 4y ago
This great, but how would we handle dynamic calls to other servers that are part of my web-app? Maybe a NPM package that needs to downloaded from an external registry or an authentication service that needs to speak to Auth0? Isn't thi
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by lewisjoe 4y ago
I've been thinking about this problem and this is my thought process: 1. A tool like grammarly is super helpful for the majority of non-english speaking population. So, this is not something like Facebook that we can just ignore and bo
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by lewisjoe 4y ago
Not to undermine the effort that has been put into, but it's interesting that we used to churn out such redesigns across multiple webpages & logo, within a matter of weeks and mostly as a single developer taking help / feedbac
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Why modern word-processors might kill Notion(twitter.com)
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by lewisjoe 4y ago
I like how the ecosystem around Kotlin has approached the problem. 1. The language itself has a way of introducing compiler plugins that lets you express your own tree structures in a succint syntax (comparable to macros in Rust I guess) 2.
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by lewisjoe 4y ago
Checkout this project - https://github.com/joelewis/readmelater I used to have a hosted version at https://closetab.email - I'll have to re-host the app again. But it should solve the "bookmarks g
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by lewisjoe 4y ago
Thanks for the pointer. This is an impressive job - reducing a grammar correcting model to as much as 20MB. Theoretically this could even be shipped to browsers and if we are able to wrap it in an extension that works everywhere, this could
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by lewisjoe 4y ago
On a similar note, how hard is it to bring a grammar checker offline. Today most folks rely on grammarly or similar services which are basically keyloggers. Is there an open source initiative aimed at bringing grammar checking to the edge?
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Building future facing front-end architectures(frontendmastery.com)
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by lewisjoe 4y ago
She was in the same state of mind. We both left it to the doctor to decide. And that turned out to be a poor choice.
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by lewisjoe 4y ago
I regret not asking for a c-section explicitly. Coming from a traditional south-indian background I hesitated electing a c-section beforehand, trusting the doctor will take the best decisions based on the situation. I was wrong. The doctor
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Starting today, all G-Suite free edition accounts will be billed or suspended(deseret.com)
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by lewisjoe 4y ago
I'm in the business of building a word processor. Besides OpenOffice, there is generally reduced downloads of both OpenOffice and LibreOffice. This is not surprising. The world is moving past system-installed, standalone editors, savin
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by lewisjoe 4y ago
You don't need to migrate. QuillJS is enough for almost 98% of rich-text editing usecases out there. These options just improve over the document model and relevant document manipulation APIs - which won't be a requirement until y
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Sridhar Vembu and The Story of Zoho(foundingfuel.com)
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by lewisjoe 4y ago
Apart from a philosophical standpoint, I found even Roger Penrose (senior theoretical physicist who worked along with hawkings in the paper on black holes) - seems to share the same hypothesis: consciousness is not really a computational pr
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Software Engineering: The Soft Parts(addyosmani.com)
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The Cost of Convenience(surma.dev)
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by lewisjoe 4y ago
redbean as an electron alternative is mind-blowing! I had the same question as the op, and this perspective does put me in fascinating directions. Like, this could be the most light-weight electron alternative, with the server acting as a e
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by lewisjoe 4y ago
In my curious search for lighter Electron alternatives to implement Zoho Writer's ( https://writer.zoho.com ) desktop app: I found Sciter[1] It supports multiplatform app development with HTML/JS/CSS and the entire
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by lewisjoe 4y ago
Google actually managed to ship a grammar checker that works entirely locally on its devices. Here's a technical blog on how it's done: https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/10/grammar-correction-as-you-...
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Guidelines for folks who are beginning their 30s(docs.google.com)
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by lewisjoe 4y ago
While it seems natural to assume CRDTs as foundational tech for local-first softwares, do keep in mind designing CRDTs for your app's state may not be an easy job. It's easy if all your app does is append to lists or keep a counte
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by lewisjoe 4y ago
I am a front-end developer and a Javascript veteran. While I do hate the "hate" against JS, even I think using JS on the server for rendering to HTML is a terrible idea. It doesn't scale, it isn't natural; it's jus
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by lewisjoe 4y ago
Hi, Great job. I was almost about to build such a thing before I realized the crazy amount of crawling and transcriptions that I have to index. How exactly did you solve/approach the problem? 1. How did you crawl across those millions

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