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by pbiggar 7y ago
OK, so it's got double the battery and weighs 10lbs more.
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by pbiggar 7y ago
$1300? What the fuck! The birds in SF are just the Xiaomi scooter which costs $450. https://www.amazon.com/Xiaomi-Electric-Long-range-Fold-n-Car...
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by pbiggar 7y ago
I think we need to rethink what we mean by debugger. In Dark ( https://darklang.com ), we don't have a debugger. Instead we combine the editor with the language, and then when you're editing code you have available at al
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by pbiggar 7y ago
Dark | Infrastructure Engineer | Early Stage | Full-time | San Francisco | Onsite We're making coding 100x easier, allowing you to build scalable backend services in minutes/hours rather than weeks/months. We do this by remov
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by pbiggar 7y ago
I was always looking to make a business, though I really enjoy the creation and product side of things. It turned into a business pretty quick, though: we had customers within 3 months and paying customers within 6. 18 months later we had $
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by pbiggar 8y ago
When we started CircleCI, there were at least 3 other things that were pretty much the same. In addition, two similar services had died, and one had pivoted to be a PaaS. There was also Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo, and lots of other alternati
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by pbiggar 8y ago
I've been doing this system for nearly 5 years, and have sent it to dozens of people who have email issues. It hasn't been perfect, but it's the closest thing I've found.
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by pbiggar 8y ago
More than you'd think. I did some analysis (in 2008 mind you, long time ago, PHP4/PHP5). I think I found that half the packages on sourceforge (sourceforge!) had a use of a dynamic construct. When I looked into it, it wasn't
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by pbiggar 8y ago
That's how we handled it in phc, for exactly that reason. Turns out was also useful for simple things like "what is the value of this float" which changed between different versions. Also gets you the standard library. Detail
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by pbiggar 8y ago
phc is dead, so there's that :) Apart from that, it seems to be following a similar path, but is a little bit earlier down it. Could probably look at the code we generated and copy some of the solutions. PHC was also designed to suppor
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Show HN: Tablecloth – a new standard library for OCaml and ReasonML(github.com)
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Does anyone know why is it that seemingly every major city is having an affordability crisis at the same time?
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by pbiggar 8y ago
I had hoped to use Haskell for my company, but found it much too complicated. OCaml skips a great deal of the complexity of Haskell, while still having the advantages of a static functional language. I find it exceptionally practical.
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by pbiggar 8y ago
I'm talking about using 3rdparty APIs, like Twilio or Stripe or something, that we don't have control over and that we need to handle. So we want it to feel like calling functions, though in practice it needs to be able to handle
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Gotcha. Yeah, we're planning on allowing users to tweak their performance by providing this sort of constraint to the system, and allowing the system optimize it. We are far from that, but that's where we're aiming for.
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Great! That got us our first two customers, and it allowed us prioritize really effectively for what they actually needed. And it cost us almost nothing, like $15k total - a great investment :) Would you read a blog post on this?
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Dark | Infrastructure + Frontend Engineers | Early Stage | Full-time | San Francisco | Onsite We're making coding 100x easier, allowing you to build scalable backend services in minutes/hours rather than weeks/months. We do t
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by pbiggar 8y ago
I don't think it's really similar to Eve at all, except that it's an outside the box look at how we code. We're extremely focused on the backend coding use case, and solving known problems. I think Eve was on the path of
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Who says Dark isn't optimistic? It makes me happy whenever I see it :)
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by pbiggar 8y ago
> mostly a concern for folks who already know how to code, who wouldn't necessarily use it anyway if that specific blocker were removed Yes, I think that's right. There's a lot of folks who have strong feelings about this
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Our goal is making it super easy to build and run backends, and so if the first step was "install kubernetes" I don't think we'd have realized our goal. We don't have a goal of running these apps elsewhere. However,
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Good questions! We haven't decided on transactional consistency yet - if there are particular goals there, I'd love to hear them. Ostensibly, we want to allow users to design the right distributed system for themselves, and provid
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Thanks Alex! We operate the infra, so we charge for it like aws, firebase, etc. We plan to be pretty cheap, charge for usage, and have a generous free tier.
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Oh, if you join the alpha ( https://ellen-mailinglist.builtwithdark.com ) you get to see it sooner
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Probably September, though no promises. We're still redoing some core metaphors. Codewise, you can expect it to look similar to Elm/OCaml - functional/imperative language with structured error handling and no null.
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Author here - would love to answer any questions people have!
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Can you say how this affects the classes and ids you add? I'm guessing you use classes and IDs a lot less because you don't need things to match the css against?
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Porque no los dos?
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Balkans were not part of the EU when that conflict happened in the 90s. The EU was a necessary prerequisite of the peace process in northern Ireland, as is being brought into sharp focus now With Brexit.
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by pbiggar 8y ago
> But, from a non-European perspective, Europe doesn’t seem to be doing well? It seems the EU is slowly disintegrating, and the monetary union isn’t working. Also the political landscape seems to be in turmoil as well. The purpose of the

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