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by pbiggar 7y ago
We combine version control, deployment and feature flags, with the intention of simplifying the three concepts into one. The idea is that you use feature flags to manage versions (my video on the blog post goes through that workflow). We ha
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by pbiggar 7y ago
Thanks Steve!
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by pbiggar 7y ago
Thanks Austen, that's so kind!
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by pbiggar 7y ago
Hey folks, excited to finally unveil Dark and show you what we’ve been working on! We haven’t publicly shown how Dark works before, what code is like, or how deployless works. We hope you like it. We’re not fully publicly available yet (we
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by pbiggar 7y ago
Hey folks, excited to finally unveil Dark and show you what we’ve been working on! We haven’t publicly shown how Dark works before, what code is like, or how deployless works. We hope you like it. We’re not fully publicly available yet (we
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Show HN: Darklang(medium.com)
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by pbiggar 7y ago
Hey folks, apologies that there's not much on the web site. You can read more at https://medium.com/darklang . We're also launching on Monday, so there'll be much more information up then!
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by pbiggar 7y ago
I got to see early versions of this, and it's really awesome. Every tool out there has cool features that deserve to be part of our workflow, and its great to see the potential of how we _could_ be building software. I recommend anyone
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by pbiggar 7y ago
We've been positioning around the deploy a bit recently cause people got really excited by it, but that's not really what Dark is about. Dark is about removing all accidental complexity from coding, starting with backends. That&#x
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by pbiggar 7y ago
Soon! Releasing some videos on Sep 16th, and release party at Strangeloop on Sep 13th.
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by pbiggar 7y ago
That's also the pitch for Dark ( https://darklang.com )! Great minds think alike
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by pbiggar 7y ago
I'm frustrated that there isn't work being done on what I'm convinced is the only option: sales people dialing companies for dollars to support open source. I wrote up how it would work imo: https://medium.com&#x2F
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by pbiggar 7y ago
I haven't seen anything to like in Clojure spec. Maybe I don't get it, but i really dont get it.
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by pbiggar 7y ago
Thanks for posting, happened to catch this in new. Anything I can tell people about Dark? (You'll generally find more info in https://medium.com/darklang , though we're redoing the site now).
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by pbiggar 7y ago
Hmm, I think it's more that types make it possible to refactor without fear, both at the prototyping phase (when you refactor so much, I had 800 lines of python before that that I was afraid to touch) and later.
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by pbiggar 7y ago
Ah, sorry about that. The blog is better at the moment ( https://medium.com/darklang ) but we're updating the site in the very near future. OCaml was because I had experience with Haskell and didn't like it, and wit
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by pbiggar 7y ago
My previous startup (CircleCI) was written in Clojure, my current one (Darklang) is written in OCaml. I decided not to use Clojure again because it's not statically typed, and my number one frustration when I coded in the CircleCI code
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by pbiggar 7y ago
Investments goes through "due diligence" between signing a term sheet and closing. During this time, the VC gets to look at the company's financials, legal liabilities, and all the other stuff that they don't get to look
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by pbiggar 7y ago
For a recent search "report amex card stolen", google showed a phone number for a scam who asked for a social security number as soon as you called.
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by pbiggar 7y ago
There's a whole slew of home ownership startups recently; I was recently buying a house and checked them out. Board ( https://board.live ) lets you make a cash offer instead of a Zerodown ( https://zerodown.com ) an
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by pbiggar 7y ago
I'd love to see cities roll out docks for the scooters, where they could charge while parked.
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by pbiggar 7y ago
We're building a new tool which makes it really easy to build backends, and MVPs are particularly easy. We literally built someone's product with them during a one hour onboarding earlier. https://darklang.com (or emai
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by pbiggar 7y ago
> And if you don't have plans to provide that sort of thing you'll be missing out on most of the market Realistically, we're not going to have all those things at launch, but we will have them later. I don't think yo
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by pbiggar 7y ago
I think that what you're calling an experiment framework is what we call feature flags.
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by pbiggar 7y ago
We'll be showing it off in September (come to the launch: https://darklang.com/launch ), and the only way before that is to get onboarded into the alpha. But if you don't know why you need it, it's probably no
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by pbiggar 7y ago
> this will be close to auto-published on save, and the first person to try the code will delete all entries from a live table/collection. Ah, that's not how it works. I think you're thinking that you edit code in your edi
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by pbiggar 7y ago
Thanks!
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by pbiggar 7y ago
Dark provides the infra, so you pay us for how much compute, storage and traffic you have (pricing is planned to be cheap, think close to AWS prices)
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by pbiggar 7y ago
Thanks! If you want to use all that stuff, you can do that today. You can use GitHub and Go and Phabricator and Prometheus and whatever you want. People who want to a take a conservative approach have a million different options. Honestly,
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by pbiggar 7y ago
Unfortunately when you do press, you're at the mercy of whatever gets quoted and sometimes things that are kinda irrelevant get picked up. That's definitely not the thing we wanted as the lead. Our blog post on it was different:

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