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by mgummelt 5y ago
Author here. I would have fleshed this out more if I knew this was going to reach the front page. Yes, many smart contracts are deployed with distributed upgrade mechanisms, and I mention them briefly at the end of the post. I mostly wrot
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by mgummelt 5y ago
Plato | Founding Full-Stack Engineer | Onsite/Remote | San Francisco | https://plato.io Today's OS's are based on metaphors from the 60s. The web was invented by a physicist to share Sangria recipes. We can do b
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by mgummelt 5y ago
I try to practice the 90m on, 30m off regimen that Huberman advocates, and it's worked well. I can do that all day without burnout.
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by mgummelt 5y ago
There's a big difference between checking Twitter and sitting in silence.
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by mgummelt 5y ago
That's easier than writing a GET request, but the easiest would be never leaving your native application, which AFAIU, RPA lets you do in theory (though practice is a different story).
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by mgummelt 5y ago
Even then, if the YAML files can only be interpreted by Power Apps, then they can't be portably deployed.
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by mgummelt 5y ago
Where are you seeing that it's a standard code format? I've skimmed this: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/what-is-microsoft... and it seems that it's just a simple expression language, n
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by mgummelt 5y ago
Ah, I see. I wouldn't say API orchestration is the "new RPA", though. It's rather the "old BPM", and "current IPaaS". That is, we already have tools for API orchestration. It's nothing new. R
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by mgummelt 5y ago
:) While I have you here, I have to say I still don't understand the connection you're making between PowerFX and compatibility with existing deployment systems. I understand that a low-code platform that spits out an app in some
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by mgummelt 5y ago
None of these terms have widely accepted precise definitions, but there are plenty of platforms considered "low-code" that still require quite a bit of traditional programming. Outsystems, for example. Those that only offer formu
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by mgummelt 5y ago
That's not how I'm thinking about it.
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by mgummelt 5y ago
I'm not saying integrating with UI layer isn't fragile. I'm saying it doesn't offer a "moat".
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by mgummelt 5y ago
Low code just means using visual techniques to replace or augment code, so any WYSIWYG system, including VB or XAML, qualifies.
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by mgummelt 5y ago
Were you creating flows in Power Automate or something else?
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by mgummelt 5y ago
It's interesting that the article's thesis is almost entirely about about PowerFX, but the 140 comments here so far don't even mention it.
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by mgummelt 5y ago
Visual Basic is an overloaded term that can refer to both the language and the RAD IDE. The IDE was certainly low-code.
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by mgummelt 5y ago
How is legacy compatibility a moat? Any RPA engine, certainly Microsoft's is going to cover the same stack. That's one of the consequences of RPA - when you integrate at the UI layer, you get compatibility for free.
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by mgummelt 5y ago
What do you mean "implement this with a service account"? Aren't service accounts just a way to authenticate to APIs?
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by mgummelt 5y ago
If by "this space" you mean RPA, then no. RPA platforms integrate with the target app's UI. Zapier (which typically is considered IPaaS, not RPA) integrates with the target app's API. It provides it's own UI to f
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by mgummelt 5y ago
Can you explain some of the terms you use a bit more? You say that Microsoft's strategy is not about enabling the development of "enterprise applications". Then you say it's about providing tools for "business proc
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by mgummelt 6y ago
http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr1984001_comp_soft.pdf
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by mgummelt 6y ago
"We need to decide if software is a car to be driven or an essay to be written." - Alan Kay He goes on, of course, to argue that the car analogy is the wrong one.
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by mgummelt 6y ago
The novel analogy is the right one, but it works against your point. Everyone needs to write. Few need to write novels. Just like increasingly everyone needs to write software, but few need to be engineers.
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by mgummelt 6y ago
You want to log an integer to the console 100,000 times? Not sure why you would, but you can do that in a React event handler or lifecycle method.
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by mgummelt 6y ago
React still requires you to write HTML and forms.
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by mgummelt 6y ago
Can you give an example of a problem that would take significantly longer solving with React than with DOM manipulation?
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by mgummelt 6y ago
That's not what "rational" means, in economic terms.
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by mgummelt 6y ago
"The only choice we seem able to make anymore is the choice not to make anything." "American manufacturing output is larger than ever" Which is it?
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by mgummelt 6y ago
static types, native builds, cross-platform builds
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by mgummelt 6y ago
> Already with the release of Go 1 it was quite clear that Go has its best fit as a Server language. CLIs as well. Before Go, how did you build a native CLI in a garbage collected language?

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