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by pbiggar 6y ago
I found it useful to have cofounders as forcing functions. Also, the end of the previous thing: college->first startup, finishing my PhD->YC startup, being fired->CircleCI, and running out of money->Dark.
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by pbiggar 6y ago
I took Westphalian to refer to the concept of the "nation state", which--at least in the west--is regarded to have been created at the Treaty of Westphalia.
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by pbiggar 6y ago
The main thing is that if Dark is it's own language, that we're freed of the legacy of whatever other language we might use, and can design something that's explicitly for our use case. As an example, Dark has "live valu
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Darklang devlog #2: What next?(dev.to)
2 points by pbiggar 6y ago|2 comments
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by pbiggar 6y ago
Thanks for posting! I’ll be writing a blog post this week to announce it officially!
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Darklang devlog #1: fresh start(dev.to)
3 points by pbiggar 6y ago|0 comments
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by pbiggar 6y ago
No worries, and thanks!
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by pbiggar 6y ago
Yes, we are extending the option exercise windows for 10 years. For folks who haven't hit their 1-yr cliffs, we waived the cliffs and so they vested for the time they were at Dark.
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by pbiggar 6y ago
Thanks for posting (don't love the title though ;)) Startups are hard, and we were trying to grow something that hadn't gotten to product market fit yet. I'm working on getting to PMF, and thinking hard about what's need
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by pbiggar 6y ago
Just wanted to clarify that Dark isn't like Pulumi. The idea with Dark is that there is no configuration, just code.
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New release of Tablecloth, a cross-platform standard library for OCaml(discuss.ocaml.org)
1 points by pbiggar 6y ago|0 comments
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by pbiggar 6y ago
Yeah, I think a bunch of people work like that. We've had the feedback that some people have had to change their workflow to work well with Dark. People generally use what we call "trace-driven development", where they make a
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by pbiggar 6y ago
The code always lives as AST, and the code that you see in the editor is a pretty-print of the AST. We don't go back and forth between AST and text - when you make a change in the editor, we look up the "token" where your cur
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by pbiggar 6y ago
That's not really how Dark works. You're not manipulating text in your editor - you use our editor, and our editor only uses ASTs. So when cutting and pasting, you're cutting and pasting AST, not text. So to answer your quest
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by pbiggar 6y ago
I had to look up whether you were technically accurate (I've a PhD in compilers but parsing's not really my thing), and I think the answer is "it depends, maybe?" To get to the root of the issue though, there is not a pa
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by pbiggar 6y ago
Think I made it more confusing, not less, sorry! Did you watch the video - it's clearer after watching it.
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by pbiggar 6y ago
Sure. You can see it in action at http://darklang.com/launch/demo-video (also, we've gone through our waiting list, so we're pretty much adding new folks who sign up immediately, if you want to try it out). T
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by pbiggar 6y ago
This advice is quite good for certain types of programming language, if you look at the world the same was as he does. We're implementing Dark from a completely different worldview, and from that vantage point, a lot of these aren&#x27
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by pbiggar 7y ago
In a certain sense, everyone in tech is a HN member. It's a community that's much bigger than just the people who post here.
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by pbiggar 7y ago
Look on twitter what people think about HN. The general opinion I hear about "the orange site" is that it's a toxic trash fire (this is also my opinion, which I will not be defending here).
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by pbiggar 7y ago
I wrote a satirical blog post on Docker/k8s in 2015 [1]. At the time, I actually felt docker was the future, but it became clear over the next few years that it was too much. The complexity of docker /infra/devops is overwhel
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by pbiggar 7y ago
> Third, and this is rarer, some funds have made loans or real estate investments using their management fee income as a way to boost the salary returns of the general partners. They what?!?
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by pbiggar 7y ago
Imagine for a second that you were constantly being assumed to be an incorrect gender. And let's further assume that it bothered you. Would you want to spend all your time telling people to not assume your gender (and consider the high
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by pbiggar 7y ago
> Did anybody ask for an opinion on that? Don't be an asshole. Parent misattributed the pronoun, sure. And then they were asked to not do that.
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by pbiggar 7y ago
Yeah, I was mostly influenced by paredit, though I had looked at parinfer and a few others. Question about your approach: what happens if the code is syntactically invalid? Dark prevents code from being syntactically invalid cause it's
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by pbiggar 7y ago
Very cool. We built a structural editor for an OCaml-like language (Darklang). Our first version was very AST-based, with all movement using the AST. The feedback we got was that AST-based editing is hard to grok and that you need line-base
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by pbiggar 7y ago
I was super lucky to be able to go to HOPL 3 in 2007. Amazing conference. These papers are a little less exciting to me, but it sounds awesome all the same.
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by pbiggar 7y ago
> "Facebook Ireland and Facebook’s other foreign affiliates - not Facebook US - led the high-risk, and ultimately successful, international effort to sell Facebook ads,” the company said in a pre-trial memorandum. This is hilarious!
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by pbiggar 7y ago
Ah yes, on-prem software: where instead of having an outage and someone has to go fix it, you have an outage and _you_ have to go fix it.
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by pbiggar 7y ago
All error handling is fundamentally the same. I think this one is as far from exception handling as possible while still being error handling.

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