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by pjungwir 8y ago
I've been intrigued by the idea of running databases on EC2 instance storage for a long time. (You couldn't use RDS though, at least not today.) Putting your db on something also called "ephemeral storage" seems risky, b
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by pjungwir 8y ago
Oh wow, this sounds great! I've hit both the long signatures when returning iterators, and also the dereferencing song-and-dance with match, and my Rust projects have been very limited. So I think these are huge improvements that will
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by pjungwir 8y ago
SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a polyglot, full-stack developer with 17 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres and Chef/AWS. I've done several Postgres C extensions for performance and scalability, an
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by pjungwir 8y ago
When I think about treating laws and recipes as code, I think of the difference between absolute machine computation vs a process that collaborates with human judgment. The "stupidity" of computers' literal-mindedness is some
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by pjungwir 9y ago
> If you go to work for a big established company, they won't give you part of it. On the contrary! Just yesterday I got an email from an Amazon recruiter that says: > We also offer: > - Stock Package, free shares given to you
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by pjungwir 9y ago
Every HN conversation about Stack Overflow is full of carping, so I feel obliged to say: I love Stack Overflow. It has saved me days of work, and I've really enjoyed helping people when I could. It was a revolution, and I would hate to
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by pjungwir 9y ago
I haven't read the link yet, but I'm curious if anyone here knows of any research comparing Three-Valued Logic or SQL NULL to Category Theory and Haskell's Maybe monad? They seem very similar to me: like mapping Nothing, the
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by pjungwir 9y ago
The --color-moved feature sounds really nice! Something I've seen in Github but not in Git is how in a red/green line, the individual changed characters are a brighter red/green than the rest. Is it possible to get that in CL
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by pjungwir 9y ago
SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a polyglot, full-stack developer with 17 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres, Chef, and Angular/Vue, although I've done a lot of Java and Python too. (I also keep get
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by pjungwir 9y ago
μὴ εἶναι βασιλικὴν ἀτραπὸν ἐπὶ γεωμετρίαν.
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by pjungwir 9y ago
This looks like a helpful approach to a tricky topic! I'm curious how the post-deploy migrations work when you run all your migrations at once, from the beginning, e.g. in Circle CI or when onboarding a new developer? Also, do you do a
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by pjungwir 9y ago
I agree most programmers are too quick to write before they read, but I'm not sure why it has to be "for fun". Reading code takes effort, just like understanding any new complex thing. The primary virtue here is patience . I
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by pjungwir 9y ago
Hosts (or anyone) can look at your profile to see the reviews about you, but not the reviews you've written. They would have to know the places you've stayed and then search through those reviews to find yours. So I don't t
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by pjungwir 9y ago
I agree with this, but if you have some projects you're proud of, Github lets you include/arrange six "pinned repositories" on your profile page, so that prospective employers/clients see those rather than your mess
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by pjungwir 9y ago
I set up a time-series Postgres 9.6 database last year with traditional table partitioning (based on entity id, not time). I looked at TimescaleDB but it was about a month old at the time so I wasn't comfortable recommending it. Also I
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by pjungwir 9y ago
It seems like Apple's interest in health data is an important part of their unusual concern for user privacy. The less secure the phone, the more problems they'll have with something like HIPAA.
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by pjungwir 9y ago
If people are interested in tech monopolies, innovation, and government, here are some great books: - The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation , by John Gertner: A running theme is how AT&T was motivated to
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by pjungwir 9y ago
SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a polyglot, full-stack developer with 17 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres, Chef, and Angular/Vue, although I've done a lot of Java and Python too. I am reliable, e
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by pjungwir 9y ago
So these devices need real kernel drivers? Windows doesn't provide some kind of emulation through its own drivers? I guess that makes sense although it didn't occur to me. If that's true, will those new drivers also work on a
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by pjungwir 9y ago
When I have to work on a Windows machine the first thing I install is git: https://git-scm.com/downloads It comes with bash and all the standard tools (including ssh IIRC), so I can work on a real command line. Especially a
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by pjungwir 9y ago
I agree: it's only because you need them when you fail over.
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by pjungwir 9y ago
Here are a couple gotchas I've seen on RDS: - If you are running a MultiAZ instance, it is supposed to fail over automatically, but if the problem is in the networking, then you can still effectively lose service. One way around that i
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by pjungwir 9y ago
> are created functions replicated/updated to everything else as well? Yes. Note if those functions have an implementation compiled from C, you do need to install the .so on the standbys though.
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by pjungwir 9y ago
Back in 2010 I wanted to try out Scala. I fired up the REPL and did this: scala> 1+2 res0: Int = 12 Here is a blog post I wrote about it at the time: https://illuminatedcomputing.com/posts/2010/11&#
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JavaScript Daylight Savings Time: One Weird Trick Your Application Hates(illuminatedcomputing.com)
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by pjungwir 9y ago
Ha ha that's nothing. In Google Maps on my Android S3 exits like "4A" go like this: "Take exit four amperes." At first I thought it was a local issue but I was recently traveling for a wedding and it was doing it th
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by pjungwir 9y ago
If this becomes a trend I'm afraid it will hurt business use of all open source software, since companies will never know if their dependencies are going to suddenly start charging money. Even though you can use the old versions, get
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by pjungwir 9y ago
SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote I'm a polyglot, full-stack developer with 17 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres, Chef, and Angular/Vue, although I've done a lot of Java and Python too. I am reliable, e
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by pjungwir 9y ago
Reflecting on this article brings up a lot of contractions in my own past thinking: I wouldn't want to work somewhere with public salaries, because I suspect that like unions they wind up enforcing mediocrity. I'm confident enough
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by pjungwir 9y ago
Thank you for this answer! But then why does the water have to come from comets? Why couldn't the Earth have formed with its own water? Also, we seem to have a lot of water. It's really all from comets, a little here, a little t

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