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by ludamad 7y ago
Plenty of devs that don't do any sort of file streaming, say those who started with Game Maker or another specialized domain
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by ludamad 7y ago
Enumerating those limits and doing a boring risk benefit analysis of approaches to remove them. Sure microservices could fit in, but you need to get things pretty clean to split off a chunk in the first place
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by ludamad 7y ago
Yet they aren't doing that, they are laying people off. When you need to reduce personnel, losing out on an information silo is definitely a concern
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by ludamad 7y ago
It is indeed risky to give people with non-business allegiances product ownership - and as you say, it is all too tempting to lean into such passion. However, I believe the author has an infectious drive that I find an intangible benefit th
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by ludamad 7y ago
I found it informative as a data point about the industry. The joy of Hacker News is comments from people with incredible passion/talent - this is just a long-form version.
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by ludamad 7y ago
Dependent type systems certainly are!
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by ludamad 7y ago
I hated DynamoDB. What good is there about it other than convenience?
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by ludamad 7y ago
The code was already written without exceptions in this case, it was more mysterious compiler behaviour apparently. As for which is faster, people writing games don't tend to spend a lot of time validating data in real time, and thus h
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by ludamad 7y ago
Then you find out about some guy in Japan accessing the web form via fax. What people don't often talk about old stuff is the long tail ecosystems compatible with it
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by ludamad 7y ago
Huge pet peeve 'why think about this when humans are starving out there?'. Mainly because it's applicable in any situation (similar "Why do this instead of training useful job skills?")
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by ludamad 7y ago
Has anyone found Alexa way too easy to trigger? As someone who frequently talks about people with a similar name, I'm amazed at how often Alexa chimes in. I think 'OK Google' is at a sweet spot (although my parents for ages w
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by ludamad 7y ago
I don't think a collision with the anime industry bodes the best, though. I've heard it is a burn-out field
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by ludamad 7y ago
Right, open source, like all software, has a variety of vectors of usability and suitability. Purposefully leaving out features weakens it along some vectors - especially the "I want to modify software I run in production" vector.
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by ludamad 7y ago
Any sort of static analysis to argue this doesn't have undefined behaviour bugs? It's cool, I just don't know a lot of cases where I would want/need an HTTP server and wouldn't want something more weathered
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by ludamad 7y ago
Right, if we consider O(n) "ideal" (for many domains, this is true), we can consider processing per item as a more convenient metric. If you go above, say, O(log n) processing per item, you're in trouble proportionate to the
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by ludamad 7y ago
Thanks so much!
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by ludamad 7y ago
One thing that has got me thinking in the past was another kind of formula,`f(f(x)) = g(x)`, where `g` is given. It bothered me that far from a general algorithm being known, individual cases were stumping (e.g., `f(f(x)) = e^x`). Any insig
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by ludamad 7y ago
My thesis was working on top of ConcreteTypeScript, which supports runtime checks https://github.com/ludamad/LocusTypeScript . My contribution was adding the ability to define types inline with code, and check those usi
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by ludamad 7y ago
A common way to extend a language is to standardize what people are doing in practice. It seems niche, but you have to remember what C++'s niche is. Linux kernel etc use hints like this extensively
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by ludamad 7y ago
I mean, if tricky usage of auto_ptr is stopping you, you could probably use a drop-in replacement. But the 'and this adds to the sprint tasks how?' question still isn't answered in a good way
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by ludamad 7y ago
Right, originally I read 1% and was surprised, but that's massive usage
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by ludamad 7y ago
I think it is a matter of critical mass. Crawl had so few instances of "you need to be spoiled or try random stuff to get this" that pressure got them removed (although always controversial). Nethack lives and breathes it, and it
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by ludamad 7y ago
I just took my husky for the rounds around a hospital. She's incredibly aloof and will sometimes pay attention to the people around her, yet the love they felt for her brightened their day. I think pets in the right circumstances have
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Now that is an ergonomic API.
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"If your apple looks a little banged up, eat an orange"
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by ludamad 7y ago
Yeah, low level and rare isn't the same as "bizarrely ripped from the design of another language"
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Is that guaranteed to catch all valid cases?
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Cool stuff. I wonder if and when it will target webassembly
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At least the whole Hearthstone subreddit is ablaze about it, that's more than 1%
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by ludamad 7y ago
That's almost comically underspecified. One big concern that comes to mind, is the string a complete view of the object (and thus suitable for serialization) or not? Or is it more succinct and suitable for a print statement?

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