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by peterhunt 4y ago
I think there are two things that are interesting about your point of view. First, I think a mistake the react team made was not exerting more control over the ecosystem. I think a lot of questionable content marketing pieces ended up as “b
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by peterhunt 4y ago
SolidJS also sacrifices expressivity for performance (ie you need to do contortions like this[1] to build dynamic lists), so I prefer React to it. However, I like its approach more than Svelte because there’s less of a DSL to learn. [1] ht
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by peterhunt 4y ago
I'm quoted in this blog post so I figured I'd respond. I'm a former member of the React team but I haven't worked on it in a long time. Largely I agree with everything in this article on a factual basis but I disagree on
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Build a GitHub Support Bot with GPT3, LangChain, and Python(dagster.io)
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Build a GitHub Support Bot with GPT3, LangChain, and Python(dagster.io)
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by peterhunt 4y ago
The real answer is twofold: 1. Lots of batch jobs. Sometimes it's unclear how much value they produce / whether they're still used. 2. Twitter probably made a mistake early on in taking a fanout-on-write approach to populate
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by peterhunt 4y ago
Not in the eyes of its creator https://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypert...
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by peterhunt 4y ago
IMO it’s two things. 1. REST positioned itself in opposition to RPC. The concept of RPC is a negative one in many engineers’ minds. 2. JSON-RPC isn’t that much better than passing your own JSON formatted messages over HTTP. So I don’t thi
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by peterhunt 4y ago
My understanding is that none of the core Microsoft apps like Office were built on MFC. In MFC projects I worked on, generally the simple stuff was built with MFC and anything more complex was built with the win32 API.
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by peterhunt 4y ago
I haven't used QT or BCGSoft, but I for one have very negative memories of MFC. Sure the performance was much better than anything you get on the web, but the UIs were far less complex, didn't handle window resizing well/at a
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by peterhunt 4y ago
I didn’t say they were meaningless, just that they are often overused and can make systems needlessly more complex. How many microservices architectures with dependent webs of async queues emulating distributed transaction semantics could b
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by peterhunt 4y ago
Autocorrect got me! Thanks
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by peterhunt 4y ago
Zero interest rate policies :) Sometimes companies have too much money and they overhire.
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by peterhunt 4y ago
Early react team member here. The popular react/webpack/npm stack is probably what the OP is talking about. It was popularized because the Instagram web team used webpack and npm in 2013 so we recommended it alongside react in the
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by peterhunt 4y ago
If you want to have kids, now is the time. Seems like you’re in a great position to do it right and it will almost certainly fill the hole you’re feeling.
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by peterhunt 4y ago
When you refer to frontend state management, I'm assuming you're talking about libraries like Redux, and are using something like React. Basically, storing state that cuts across the component hierarchy. First of all, I would sugg
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by peterhunt 4y ago
Yes, that's my understanding, but I've never actually used it :)
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by peterhunt 4y ago
I believe this is what WASI is https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/main/docs/...
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by peterhunt 4y ago
I think it's fairly common to swap out your core datastore when you take your prototype / MVP and bring it to production, or the first time your product experiences hypergrowth. At point the codebase, schema and team are still sma
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by peterhunt 4y ago
No one here is answering your question so I will :) Database: I’d use whatever you know and helps you get to market, but abstract it away from the rest of your app so you can swap out later. Lots of good choices here; I’d pick mysql or post
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by peterhunt 4y ago
No, webpack became popular because it was the only bundler that supported commonjs and handled code splitting reasonably well, so we picked it for React. It's critical to run type checking outside of webpack. You should be able to exec
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by peterhunt 4y ago
Why not?
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by peterhunt 4y ago
Yes! I built this for exactly this use case :)
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by peterhunt 4y ago
Ai written summary https://www.summarize.tech/youtu.be/jfPzUgzrOcQ
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Show HN: GPT-3 powered video summarization(summarize.tech)
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A Protocol for Dying(hintjens.com)
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Show HN: We Built Vercel for Data Engineers(twitter.com)
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by peterhunt 4y ago
The answer used to be exclusively San Francisco. These days, I’d say SF, LA, New York and Seattle are equally desirable for what you’re looking for. It also seems to me that there’s a noticeably growing tech scene in Philly, Boston and Lond
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by peterhunt 4y ago
Sketching data structures: count min sketch, hyperloglog, sliding window hyperloglog, t digest Skiplists Locality sensitive hashing Log structured storage (bitcask, lsm)
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by peterhunt 4y ago
I’m trying to understand the current position of the EU commission on data transfers to the US. Based on this plus the recent google analytics decisions, it seems to me that data transfers to the US are going to be prohibited by default und

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