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by mdtusz 5y ago
I may be biased from my past experience, but graphql tends to make codebases a nightmare if you aren't the one that initially set up the system and abstractions - it's (IMO) unnecessarily complex and blurs so many boundaries with
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by mdtusz 5y ago
AON3D (YC W17)| Montreal or Remote within N.A. | Full-Time | https://www.aon3d.com AON3D is a Montreal-based additive manufacturing hardware, software, and materials research company focussed on solving the hardest problems in 3
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by mdtusz 5y ago
The presence of a keel isn't necessary - just righting moment. If you look at most very large sailing ships, their keel isn't a large protruding fin keel like on racing boats like you're imagining. A cargo ship has enormous r
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by mdtusz 5y ago
I think your comment emphasises the importance of good function and variable naming. I've read some incredibly clear and obvious C code and some incredibly hard to understand Python code that both do the same thing - it basically all c
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by mdtusz 5y ago
What happens when you buy a used laptop? There's inherent risk in buying a device from a third party that you may not fully trust, but that risk is in the hands of the buyer to assess, and to mitigate as appropriate. When the average p
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by mdtusz 5y ago
Wherever you have a firehose of data that needs to be processed. I've heard of it being used as a sort of message queue for application level events before, but that sounds like a nightmare of trying to reinvent the actor model with 10
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by mdtusz 5y ago
Congrats on the release folks! I'm always impressed by how far the library has come while remaining _so stable_, and it's always the thing I point to when talking about backwards compatible and stable JavaScript API's. I bet
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by mdtusz 5y ago
Rather than centralizing on GitHub, this seems like something that could be well suited as a `.well-known` url websites/companies could use, then anyone/everyone could aggregate or just inspect what is being used.
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by mdtusz 5y ago
I hear this argument a lot, but the reality is that most devices that need realtime support will either be using the rt patched kernel, or be using application specific mcu's that handle real-time constraints while the Linux system jus
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by mdtusz 5y ago
Check out tide. It's still very early days for it, but is in my opinion the easiest to use and I'm betting in the long term will win out as the "express" of the rust world. It has very straightforward routing and middlew
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by mdtusz 5y ago
I sometimes look back in awe and wonder at how good bonzi buddy was for it's time as a _piece of software_. It was objectively ridiculous and borderline a piece of malware, but it's burned into my memory and it's functionalit
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by mdtusz 5y ago
A similar thing I've noticed a trend of recently in frontend react codebases is overuse of memoization. It seems as though people don't realize how it works and that it is often _less_ performant than just doing some low cost comp
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by mdtusz 5y ago
RAF is still imprecise for audio use. For audio in the browser, you usually want to defer all timing events that must be precise to a scheduler that uses either the webAudio context time or even more ideally, use a lookahead scheduler to sc
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by mdtusz 5y ago
I've always liked an asymmetric layout when working with two monitors such that I have one "main" monitor in front used for my main task (e.g. my terminal for work) then a secondary to the side that is used for supporting win
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by mdtusz 5y ago
I have the same experience. I was given a MacBook pro at my last job and had to request a ThinkPad after a few weeks - the lack of function keys alone was enough to drive me mad, but countless issues with docker and even homebrew pushed me
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by mdtusz 5y ago
It appears to be using an 1/4" patch cord, not an XLR cable! XLR is the cable (and connector) with 3 pins as is used with microphones and carries a balanced signal - 1 leg is ground, then the other two are inverted signals to mini
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by mdtusz 5y ago
This seems like a particularly strange reason to not try their service and to me is akin to saying "I won't use CarRentalCompany because they require a credit card. What if I'm new to driving and total the car by wrapping it
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by mdtusz 5y ago
This seems quite interesting and powerful for what most server-side rendered websites need from javascript, however the _usage_ seems fairly klunky to me at this stage. I could see this being a joy to work with though if a well determined u
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by mdtusz 5y ago
Yes, but also no. More granular browser API permissions would be fantastic, but the current interface for grant/deny in all the major browsers is annoying enough as is. The prompts need to be moved to a less in-your-face place, or at l
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by mdtusz 6y ago
And both methods are bad. Whiteboard tests aren't inherently bad, but the sorts of algorithm questions that are asked at some interviews are absurd and do practically nothing to determine whether the candidate would be a good employee.
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by mdtusz 6y ago
The "pro" models exist - they're just not Pi's. Industrial IoT does use Pi's a fair bit, but this is IMO a misuse (I'm guilty of it too) and in the long term can be a disservice. The Pi is a great platform for
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by mdtusz 6y ago
Pollen seems so incredibly cool and powerful, but every time I have tried to play around with it, I get distracted by small quirks and areas that I wish were documented more clearly, or in a more organized format. My daydream is to make a _
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by mdtusz 6y ago
Solvespace is incredible for those with a more programmer-y mind and workflow, however it lacks more "advanced" features that sadly don't seem to have any momentum for implementation (at least last I checked) like chamfers&#x
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by mdtusz 6y ago
It's not a bad thing for these to get posted. If anything, it highlights how technically illiterate the powers that be really are. It's all too easy to assume that everyone knows what http requests are and how a browser works when
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by mdtusz 6y ago
Especially with additive manufacturing, SDF's are far superior but still not widely used (but I predict this will change very soon). As others have said, many operations are much easier when working with SDF's, but specifically fo
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by mdtusz 6y ago
It really isn't all that complicated though, and just takes money to fix the urban planning mistakes that have been made in many metropolitan cities. Montreal is probably the most livable "big" city in North America, and it&#
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by mdtusz 6y ago
USD price does fluctuate and inflate over time yes, but the difference is that this is essentially an invisible effect on day to day life for anyone that is not doing forex trading. The reason the US dollar is "stable" is partiall
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by mdtusz 6y ago
While typescript typing is extremely powerful and expressive, I sometimes find that code written with it overuses some of the features in order to make types and interfaces align, rather than rethinking the design altogether. Especially wit
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by mdtusz 6y ago
The way I always see it is that `null` is for known unknowns, and `undefined` is for unknown unknowns. Explicitly defining something as `undefined` is paradoxical and IMO should never be done. I've tried to explain this concept to some
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by mdtusz 6y ago
The subreddit has ~65,000 weekly active users (ignoring this week), and the screenshots of "big" positions aren't that common, and often from the same accounts. It's a bit disingenuous for people to make it seem like the

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