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by meredydd 8y ago
Transmitting radio waves with a spread-spectrum CPU clock, you say? Here's a project to turn the Raspberry Pi into an FM radio transmitter using this exact trick: http://www.icrobotics.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Tur
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by meredydd 8y ago
Obligatory plug: we've built one! https://anvil.works - it's explicitly modeled on VB6/Delphi. All Python (front and back end, with a simple RPC interface from client to server), and learnable in a lot less than 6
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by meredydd 8y ago
> People think writing DTOs is challenging I don't think this is true. Writing these objects isn't difficult, it's tedious and repetitive . That's why people keep trying to automate it! The problem is that you can&#x
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by meredydd 8y ago
Thanks! And funny you should mention that. We're challenging every layer of that heirarchy simultaneously, by building a development environment for the web and making it as integrated as Delphi or VB were on the desktop: https:/
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by meredydd 8y ago
Web frameworks are churn-y because they are incredibly leaky abstractions covering really awkward impedance mismatches. This means that they are never quite satisfactory - and that just to use one, you need to be capable of building a new o
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by meredydd 8y ago
Granted that current Soyuz is the most reliable human-carrying spacecraft today (not that there's much competition). And granted that the Shuttle was deeply weird and a bad idea. But Wikipedia tells me that the next Soyuz to go up will
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by meredydd 8y ago
The Space Shuttle suffered 2 total losses in 135 missions. Apollo had 1 total loss from a dozen or so flights (plus several heart-stopping near misses). If privately flown Cessna 172s had that kind of fatality rate, I (and many other poster
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by meredydd 8y ago
Just a heads-up - the pixelation used to hide the keys in the final screenshot is not safe! There aren't that many possible characters in each of those 10x10px blocks, and ~256 levels of average brightness is enough to distinguish betw
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by meredydd 8y ago
I think this is a situation where it's easy to see the mote in someone else's eye. I tried to provide a summary using the standard terms for both approaches (in practice, making it clear I preferred a principles-based approach); y
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by meredydd 8y ago
I think you and everyone making similar points in this thread are getting tripped up by the difference between rules-based regulation and principles-based regulation. This is unsurprising, given that the US is so heavily rules-based, bu
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by meredydd 8y ago
Anvil | Cambridge, UK (London OK) | Onsite, Full-time/Part-time/Flexible | https://anvil.works/jobs Anvil is a platform for building full-stack web apps with nothing but Python. We’re looking for a developer with
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by meredydd 8y ago
Neat! I used this API to live-code a mini-portfolio-manager SaaS a couple of months ago: https://anvil.works/blog/live-coding-stock-portfolio It let you pick the stocks yourself, and showed you historical graphs too. I
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by meredydd 8y ago
Hey, can I ask you what prompted you to just go reading nginx code? As pointed out recently, most people - even people who advocate reading source code for its own sake - don't actually read code unless they have to. ( http:/&#x2F
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by meredydd 8y ago
I think there's a third issue you didn't mention: Ecosystem/framework complexity. Writing a device driver in C is complex, sure, but pretty much all that complexity comes from the problem domain. C++ adds a little more incide
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by meredydd 8y ago
You're not misremembering. There was an enormous setback in the usability of GUI programming when the web was invented. The first reason is that the whole platform is built on the jagged rubble of the 90s/2000s platform war. But t
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by meredydd 8y ago
This article would be greatly improved by some case studies, illustrating how prevous 800lb gorillas had been beaten, and how their moats turned out so much shallower than they seemed. The closest he comes to examples are Microsoft Office (
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by meredydd 9y ago
VB.NET is shaped like the CLR, just like C#. (Similarly, Java is shaped like the JVM.) It is possible to mechanically transform VB.NET code into C# code. Heck, I'd bet they both parse to the same AST. They are very, very similar langua
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by meredydd 9y ago
Anvil | Developer at Large | Cambridge, UK | Onsite Anvil is a platform for building full-stack web apps with nothing but Python. We’re looking for a developer with good communications skills to help people build awesome things with Anvil.
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by meredydd 9y ago
With respect, I think you are speaking from the position of someone who has known how to use this technology for so long, he has forgotten what it was like not to know it. Take your "90% go to for web" stack. You'll need to k
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by meredydd 9y ago
Thanks! Yes, that kind of "wrap an API call in 5 minutes" thing is a great way to get started with Anvil :) > The number of tools that try to do something like this keeps growing (Bubble comes to mind, or Appian in a slightly
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by meredydd 9y ago
Yep! It's used by companies so big and secretive we can't mention their name on the open Internet, even :) Drop me a line at meredydd@anvil.works - I'd be happy to give you a proper demo. The on-prem version takes just one &q
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by meredydd 9y ago
> Is there a way to upload documents into Anvil? Absolutely! Check out this fifteen-minute demo, building a document storage/tracking system: https://anvil.works/blog/document-tracking For more advanced proce
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by meredydd 9y ago
> I see no reason why you couldn't combine the two You bet! Although Anvil mostly shields you from the mudbath of the modern web front end, we do have full HTML and JS interop. So you can call into JS from Anvil's Python code
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by meredydd 9y ago
Our customers do include quite a few startups or startup-shaped projects. They're typically either professional developers in a hurry, or "allied trades" [eg data science or sysadmin] who aren't familiar with the full Lo
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by meredydd 9y ago
Thanks! Is there a particular example you'd like to see? Annoyingly, we can't really talk about the details of most of our internal-enterprise-app-type deployments. We do have an anonymised example here: https://anvil.w
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by meredydd 9y ago
Hi there - founder here! Happy to answer questions. By building "imaginary prototypes" of these YC companies in an hour or two, we're not trying to minimise how hard it is to start a business like this. But the hard part of s
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by meredydd 9y ago
They're selling an operational service that their customers can't easily replicate, even with the code. Their product is a globally-distributed monitoring system. Running these systems all over the world, and keeping them running,
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Prototyping Magic (YC W15) in 2.5 Hours(anvil.works)
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Prototyping One YC Startup a Day for Demo Day(anvil.works)
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by meredydd 9y ago
We're trying to move this forward at https://anvil.works - the usability of Visual Basic, with the ease of distribution of the web. Biased I may be, but I'd call that progress :)

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