peterthehacker

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by peterthehacker 5y ago
This title is misleading to me. It’s not about “best practices” but instead about “best tools”.
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When should you be using Web Workers?(surma.dev)
2 points by peterthehacker 5y ago|0 comments
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
There’s no mention of kubernetes persistent volume claims.. it does mention that you can swap out a DATABASE_URL env var here: > Or perhaps you want to use a managed PostgreSQL database in production but run PostgreSQL locally in a conta
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
> Snowflake will eventually fall to something else due it's poor economics. Can you elaborate on this point? What’s wrong with their model?
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
There are integration companies that solve this specific use-case. I’ve used Fivetran [0] and highly recommend it. They will extract-load data from your SaaS to your warehouse and your data scientists can run SQL against the tables. Their m
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Yes! And if it doesn’t fit in RAM, then most businesses will only need an OLAP data warehouse, like Snowflake or Redshift.
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Running docker compose in production is not a good practice from what I understand. The persistence layers, like MySQL or Redis, shouldn’t be managed with local volumes. If you want to do something like this then kubernetes with persistent
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
From your link: > Blocks cannot be modified currently. Once a block is appended as a child of another block, it cannot be updated or deleted. Linking blocks is different than updating.
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Congrats on a successful launch! It’s interesting that this submission is close to beating Airtable’s original Show HN submission from 7 years ago in points [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8373914
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
MkDocs Material is a popular tool for open source python projects. Here are some examples: pydantic - https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/ FastAPI - https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/ Starlette - https:/&#
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
> We're not talking about people who disrespect waitresses Right, we’re not. We’re referring to behavior in the workplace. > There are many well intentioned nerds who try their best to be considerate and kind that can't help
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
The “fierce nerd” sounds a lot like what Reed Hastings (Netflix, Founder) calls “brilliant jerks.” To quote his recent book: > Sometimes really talented people have heard for so long how great they are, they begin to feel they really are
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Essentially eye-contact is the missing ingredient. I believe it! Eye contact is key to a conversation feeling authentic.
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
I’ve never heard of USPs before this article. Stopped reading to google “USPs landing page” which returned links to usps.com, the US mail carrier. CTA is pretty well known though. Regardless, explaining those acronyms would improve clarity.
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Isn’t typescript a superset of javascript so any ts compiler must also run js?
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Great job! Looks like there’s a layout issue on mobile for your homepage. The content is squished to the left side of the screen in portrait mode. Switching to landscape mode fixes it.
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
> why not just use a real warehouse like Snowflake? Cost is the most common reason I’ve seen. An RDS instance is about 1/2 the cost of Redshift per CPU and then Snowflake is slightly more expensive than Redshift (often worth the ext
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Well said! Cloaking a messy human interaction in the guise of math and logic is an effective way to communicate with engineers. Never thought of it that way.
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
This definition is concerning because without strict criteria for what is and isn’t science, we welcome topics like phrenology. Topics like this are, as a whole, not true. While I think psychology is no where near as problematic, the author
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Do you have examples of these standardized processes to measure happiness? The only measures I’ve heard of are not standardized and typically self-reported / survey based measures.
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
The happiness scale is arbitrary because it lacks reproducibility. The metric system is standardized such that every time you measure the length of something in the physical world that measurement is reproducible.
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Categories and abstraction generally is essential for solving a problem. Furthermore, how we categorize disciplines as scientific or pseudoscientific is very important. From the article: > But to claim it is “science” is inaccurate. Actu
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Why psychology isn’t science (2012)(latimes.com)
91 points by peterthehacker 5y ago|120 comments
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Thanks for the thorough response! This helps me understand the motivations behind Smithy. I’m going to dig into the project and keep an eye on it as the tooling develops.
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
How does this compare to Google’s protocol buffers? [0] It looks like smithy has a broader set of applications. [0] https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
I’ve heard this cited by a couple ctos I’ve worked for. It’s a popular metaphor in the engineering department. I think it’s articulating an important message, but in an ineffective way. The name “XY Problem” is too vague and easy to forget.
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
This argument I’m very skeptical of. The pre-Facebook internet was niched. Lots of sites for all sorts of subcultures. Online businesses that were relevant to <=10% of the population would advertise on the sites that cater to their niche
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Has mighty app announced what pricing will look like? I’m assuming that you couldn’t offer something like this for free.
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
This is the first time I’m hearing of Mighty App and, at least at first glance, I wouldn’t categorize it as a “crazy idea,” in fact it seems pretty non-crazy to me - chrome but more efficient. It’s literally a faster horse. I guess the impl
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
I think these comments were the main reason: > “I strongly disagree we live in a white supremacist culture,” Singer said. “I don't believe in a lot of the framing around implicit bias. I think a lot of this is actually racist.”

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