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by pbiggar 5y ago
I was googling about this, and found this which pulls no punches. Seems he's a Thiel-esque hard-Right candidate: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/562508-thiel-ally-blak... > Blake Masters, a top ally
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by pbiggar 5y ago
Completely agree. I've run the gamut and probably used every language out there. I'm 40,000 LOC into F# and I love it.
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by pbiggar 5y ago
It's pretty vibrant on twitter and my Stackoverflow questions have gotten answered as soon as I ask them. I think in terms of actual community they have a discourse but it's dead because it's so hard to sign up for.
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by pbiggar 5y ago
It's really an Extended Grapheme Cluster. In our codebase (Darklang) we abbreviate it to EGC.
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by pbiggar 5y ago
I've heard from investors that it is similar to Darklang. It certainly has the same goals, but dunno if it's the same approach in any way. Will be interesting to see
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by pbiggar 5y ago
> Also, what is Jeff Atwood's and Joel Spolsky's net worth now? This is a fun game. Some assumptions: both founders own equally. Early funding rounds take 20%, late funding rounds take 10%, all rounds make a new option pool (I
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by pbiggar 5y ago
You're not the only one: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/sleeping-on-2000-she...
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by pbiggar 5y ago
As far as sheets go, if money is no object, these are absolutely fantastic: https://www.sferra.com/products/sferra-giza-45-sateen-collec... . Warning, a full set will come to about $10,000 (though they do periodic 20% o
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by pbiggar 5y ago
Both suck. With a debugger, you need to set up a debugger and step through (and often, they don't work quite as well as you hope). With print debugging, you need to add the print statements. In both, you can't retroactively debug
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by pbiggar 6y ago
So I'm creating something that's exactly like the author is describing: https://darklang.com He's right that there's no reason that things shouldn't be fully Serverless, and have instant deployment [1].
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by pbiggar 6y ago
This might be a good read for you: https://charity.wtf/2017/05/11/the-engineer-manager-pendulum...
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by pbiggar 6y ago
> Darklang is going to be more for professionals making backends and doesn't target any user facing audio/visuals whatsoever. It could in the end of course, so I hope it does well as an effort too. That is the plan, might be a
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by pbiggar 6y ago
Thanks! We're very much of the opinion that we got into this mess we're in (gestures broadly) because everything has been incremental to date. That's how you get layers upon layers.
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by pbiggar 6y ago
Dark actually started with a directed graph concept. It worked pretty nicely, but users (developers) hated it. We tried to get them to write a simple fizzbuzz, and it was very challenging, and ultimately we abandoned it.
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by pbiggar 6y ago
> I also hope Facebook won’t claim that this guy “wasn’t working for us at the time,” when everyone knew he was simply operating in stealth mode (as board member Peter Thiel was quoted as saying years later, “I don’t think [he] ever real
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by pbiggar 6y ago
If you believe in the mission of the FSF, then you truly have your head in the sand if you think that resurrecting Stallman is going to help anything. Makes me think this is all culture warriors and nothing at all to do with advancing Free
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by pbiggar 6y ago
Agreed. I recently added my calendly to Dark's contributor docs [1] for people who want to get started. No one has taken me up on it yet, but we'll see how it goes. [1] https://docs.darklang.com/contributing/g
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by pbiggar 6y ago
I stand corrected, thanks for the reference!
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by pbiggar 6y ago
FAANG was originally about companies that paid massive engineering salaries, which is why Netflix was included and Microsoft wasn't.
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by pbiggar 6y ago
This was a formative essay for me. When I look around the software industry, it's completely full of accidental complexity. Consider Kubernetes and the entire Cloud Native world - how much of that is actual business logic that your cus
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by pbiggar 6y ago
In Dark, we label (either manually for stdlib, or automatically for other functions) whether they are pure or not. Pure functions (most of them) do not need their results stored in traces (Dark has an always-on-debugger that uses "trac
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by pbiggar 6y ago
If you read the subsequent messages, there's a strong suggestion that these are shares bough on margin call.
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by pbiggar 6y ago
Looks really cool, nice job!
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by pbiggar 6y ago
Disclaimer: I'm founder of DarkLang, a sorta competitor. While I personally agree that self-hosting is a nightmare, the biggest complaint we've heard about Dark has been related to vendor lock-in. I think this is a pretty good sel
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by pbiggar 6y ago
This is a delicate and nuanced matter that's hard to know the right answer without all the details. I've gone through this 4 times, and also recently talked to 20 people who went through it, specifically about this topic. Feel fre
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by pbiggar 6y ago
Good, I hope they get it. The fact that anyone other than the Niue people get to decide what to do with their domain is ludicrous. The claim of "neo-colonialism" is exactly right.
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by pbiggar 6y ago
It has different goals from them: https://github.com/darklang/tablecloth
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by pbiggar 6y ago
Even if you don't do the course, the first paper they list is a fascinating must-read: Producing Wrong Data Without Doing Anything Obviously Wrong! Todd Mytkowicz, Amer Diwan, Matthias Hauswirth, and Peter F. Sweeney. ASPLOS 2009. htt
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by pbiggar 6y ago
Thanks!
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by pbiggar 6y ago
Fully agree. I'm going to keep your post in mind when I write about the business model of darklang.

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