mr_luc

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by mr_luc 10y ago
You can write NIFs in Rust (which is made even simpler by supporting libraries like Rustler). scrogson, for instance, is using this to fiddle with lower-overhead json. Re: supervising external processes, an easy hack if you're writing
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by mr_luc 10y ago
Wow, rvirding! Thank you for everything. Distributed software is actually a pleasure to write thanks in large part to your the many years of work. The rocket analogy is a good one, too. What Erlang accomplishes is massive, and Elixir uses a
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by mr_luc 10y ago
I remember this from the Field Guide to Understanding Human Error . Making recovering from human error a well-understood process is important, and as you point out, that process will work best if people aren't distracted by butt-cover
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by mr_luc 10y ago
Factor was a big name in 'modern stack-based languages,' but of course it's pretty dynamic. I gave Factor a couple of dives a few years ago (after walking through jonesforth prior) and it felt surprisingly complete/matur
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by mr_luc 10y ago
> there's usually one central thing that is Rc'd, Right. In my case, I was using the nphysics library, which for unsurprising reasons uses Rc for entity handles. Similarly, in my app's code, I used nphysics' proximity
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by mr_luc 10y ago
For those of us who are getting to the party 3 years late, thank you. Just my 2p for others learning: for me, Rc::RefCell was what I was missing, even after I thought I was up to speed. I was fine using Channels for inter-thread communicati
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by mr_luc 10y ago
Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines
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by mr_luc 10y ago
MIT's PDF of the Minsky book was given the HN hug of death for a while.
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by mr_luc 10y ago
Oh. Wow. The web is supposed to be a platform, and AMP is supposed to be an open standard ... but the end result of this is that Google Search will modify your web application with their own navigation UI? Yikes. I mean, injecting your stuf
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by mr_luc 10y ago
Neither of those points are much of a defense. By that same token, one could defend e.g. Microsoft's aggressive misuse of their market dominance in the 90's: 'Windows survived because of its obvious value; MS is just making e
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by mr_luc 10y ago
Yeah - that's really, really shocking to me. I paid attention to the AMP project early on, felt like I had absorbed its value proposition, and made a mental note to check on it from time to time. I wasn't expecting the examples of
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by mr_luc 10y ago
I don't compare Flynn with Heroku or Dokku. I compare it with Kubernetes. When it comes to dev UX, I'd agree that Flynn's is better, though both are easy to use. But I'd point to Convox for great dev UX in something that
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by mr_luc 10y ago
As someone who uses both stacks regularly, on different projects: More people should consider using Angular 2 for some kinds of projects. Now, I have professional projects in both Angular 2 and React/Redux ecosystems, and frankly I enj
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by mr_luc 10y ago
In my experience, I haven't been coming to k8s because I particularly like the developer experience (despite their efforts to focus heavily on it), but because it cleanly supported some things that I need. For instance, with k8s, out o
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by mr_luc 10y ago
I can second the "more time for subconscious to noodle around" benefit. I spent 7 years working remotely part of the year while living in coastal South America, and I've been transitioning to a 3-day week now that I moved bac
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by mr_luc 10y ago
I would like to second this -- they have a rather neat distribution that shows areas arranged in terms of leave-to-remain ratio. So as some results come in, they point out where that area was predicted to come, and whether or not the result
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by mr_luc 10y ago
All of the emails Facebook sends are in a folder called "SpammySaaS," together with all of sales reps trying to cut me sweet deals on their company's CI/CD.
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by mr_luc 10y ago
Yeah, and I believe that it's the only game in town for storing really large amounts of electricity.
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by mr_luc 11y ago
That's an interesting point, thank you. I find myself agreeing with sama on this (if the facts are at all how he presented them, that is). But ... I agree for moral reasons, not legal reasons. And despite the relative moral high ground
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by mr_luc 11y ago
Huh. I'm going to say thanks to HN, and this comment chain, for bringing this to light. That seems kind of insane.
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by mr_luc 11y ago
Yeah -- "force multiplier," and talk of how programmers can obsolete other jobs, is at least partly an argument that programmers 'deserve' their salaries, because they make society permanently more efficient. That discus
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by mr_luc 11y ago
> That being said, "right" is very different from pg's "powerful"... > Lisp is "powerful" in that it lets you express > anything quickly and easily in a way that makes sense > to you. That do
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by mr_luc 11y ago
I don't think you have to reach for "economics won't exist" to see the serious problem that schemes like Basic Income would hope to address. > our whole economy is based around the idea that each person specializes in
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by mr_luc 11y ago
I'm sorry -- "if encryption becomes widespread and providers/individuals start using it correctly" is what everyone technical agrees should happen. The spread should be as wide and as comprehensive as possible. To sugges
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by mr_luc 11y ago
As an outsider, I'd love to read more about this.
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by mr_luc 11y ago
Possibly because it inconvenienced them: by delaying their flight, or by making them feel social anxiety if they were asked to move or moved away from. Or they may have felt sympathy with others inconvenienced, like the flight crew and pass
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by mr_luc 11y ago
That's just silly. The "pedestal," as you call it, that they're defending is a non-insane interpretation of writs. If the government wants to go past that, pass a law , and hope it doesn't run afoul of the Constitu
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by mr_luc 11y ago
It's a demand for invention, and the legal precedent it sets is that the government can just tell a private company "we tell you what you have to invent, because the law says you have to turn over all information we need." Ex
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by mr_luc 11y ago
I worked with someone whose approach was very interesting: he committed the .git directory of a newly initialized repo to a separate, newly initialized repo. And then watched what changed when he added a file, changed things, branched, etc,
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by mr_luc 11y ago
Which is pretty plausible, right? (Becoming co-dominant with google). The other thing to consider is the competitive/strategic landscape. It's not so much that the market 'assumes' that Facebook will invent new ways of m

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