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by merlinsbrain 7y ago
Unsure what this is contributing to the conversation. It’s similar to a bunch of naive HN commenters trivializing work our peers do by suggesting they can build out every startup in a weekend. The creators of the product have responded in a
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by merlinsbrain 7y ago
I think it’s more equivalent to making a new distro - still a lot of work.
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by merlinsbrain 7y ago
I love that they have problems you can solve as well at the end of (almost) every chapter. This IS a lot of math (1,962 pages) and it’s missing a preface/introduction which would have been helpful to understand if I need to go linear o
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by merlinsbrain 7y ago
I think you’ll enjoy this piece titled “Bayesian Networks without Tears”. https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Bayes/Charniak_91.pdf The author of this paper/article attempts to make Judea Pearl’s concepts digestib
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by merlinsbrain 7y ago
Your arguments assume best of intentions and a lot of present and past knowledge of the calendar team. I want to believe you, I like the story you are telling. Unfortunately you like it too and are not being objective.
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Horizontal Attack Profile Comparison (Docker vs. GVisor vs. Nabla)(blog.hansenpartnership.com)
5 points by merlinsbrain 7y ago|0 comments
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by merlinsbrain 8y ago
I don’t know of a single non-trivial situation where you can ASSUME that 2 implementations of the same spec will behave exactly the same in all possible scenarios. It’s possible your error budget accounts for this potential difference, the
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by merlinsbrain 8y ago
I read this based on some HN comments, I found it to be pretty motivational but not much else. Was there anything else you gained from it that I may have skipped?
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by merlinsbrain 8y ago
It matters to some people, the same way art matters to some people as a way to be proud of what they’ve done, and have something “tangible” to show for it. Programming can be an extremely creative endeavor, and not having something to hang
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by merlinsbrain 8y ago
Regardless of your opinion your comment is not particularly helpful. It’s clear OP is asking for advice and may be amenable to ideas on how to coach themselves, if convinced they “are the problem”.
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by merlinsbrain 8y ago
I’ve never understood why people are willing to give all their data to Facebook or any other hosted product which collects data, but are unhappy when open source projects collect anonymized metrics to improve the product. In this case there
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by merlinsbrain 8y ago
People used to pay a lot of money for desktop apps on windows - a lot of businesses used “enterprise software” since web apps were not a thing. There are still companies / labs across the world that are clinging to older windows versi
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Growing My First App to Profitability with No Marketing Experience(indiehackers.com)
4 points by merlinsbrain 8y ago|0 comments
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by merlinsbrain 8y ago
Heh, I did not know about either of these. How did you discover them? It’s kinda like the “tap the clock to scroll to the top” feature, I think I discovered it by accident one day.
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Kubernetes integration for LXC/LXD(github.com)
2 points by merlinsbrain 8y ago|0 comments
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by merlinsbrain 8y ago
I’m not sure this is a great benchmark (detailed in a comment above), but I think it’s undair to criticize a web framework for comparing itself to Django, node/express, Elixir/Phoenix. While dynamic languages, there’s billions of
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by merlinsbrain 8y ago
> We were pleasently surprised to see Vapor coming in first as being asynchronous does not really help with plaintext benchmarks. Plaintext benchmarks are really only good at testing how fast a web framework is capable of parsing and ser
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Growing My Side Project to Profitability Despite a Three-Hour Commute(indiehackers.com)
1 points by merlinsbrain 8y ago|0 comments
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by merlinsbrain 8y ago
I’m facing the same issue with the 8 plus, I’ve never had a phone in this condition in 3x the time I’ve owned this one.
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Containers, Security and Echo chambers(blog.jessfraz.com)
20 points by merlinsbrain 8y ago|3 comments
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by merlinsbrain 8y ago
It’s an open source project with bold text saying not to use it for work since it’s incomplete and may be buggy. The authors goals may not align with yours, and their decision of what they want to do on their free time might not align with
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by merlinsbrain 9y ago
Nice, I really like this!
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by merlinsbrain 9y ago
I was wondering about the interesting choice of an obscure language as the first language to roll out with luxe, but it seems really interesting [1] I am definitely biased once I realized the primary author of the language (Wren) is Bob Nys
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by merlinsbrain 9y ago
You’re right they have the infrastructure almost all in place. I wish they did care about the community especially when communities like Go really are thriving. I do not have any experiences with how the Swift project is run, hoping someone
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by merlinsbrain 9y ago
I see, and this was your original point. I guess the only threat there (that I can see) is that the install script can be malicious, but your point was that you’re trusting the owners of the website anyway by downloading their binary and ex
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by merlinsbrain 9y ago
Completely agree that they should understand what’s going on however: It’s sometimes easy to forget that there are various reasons people are less informed. For people early in the career for example, reading security advice on HN and belie
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by merlinsbrain 9y ago
I agree with the point you’re making and you clearly know what you’re talking about but: I would caution you to use the phrase “no way in which” when discussing security - the less informed may read this and believe it. While an edge case a
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by merlinsbrain 9y ago
I tried to contribute to a couple of official Dart web projects. It was extremely poorly handled by the Angular Dart team and I learned the hard way that the “source code open to public” != “open source, contributions welcome”. I really wan
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by merlinsbrain 9y ago
Specifically with respect to the hiring advantage it’s a little disingenuous to not explicitly state that the creator/designer of the language works there. That’s a significant enough reason to pick one shop over another and also a rea
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by merlinsbrain 9y ago
[2017] Marking it with the year is extremely relevant for me since I’ve been doing a lot of reading on NixOS and was hoping this was a new article. As it is, it’s an interesting recap of someone discovering Nix.

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