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by plainOldText 5y ago
Yeah, it wasn’t obvious why one should avoid |> case. I also think it looks pleasing, plus it’s easy to read and it avoids allocating a new variable compared to the alternative example given.
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by plainOldText 5y ago
I have have been introduced to many of Alexander’s ideas through this series of lectures on architecture and urbanism by Nikos Salingaros [1]. Mind bending stuff. [1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLre1SQJb-jSXex1MlLFlGr
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by plainOldText 6y ago
Too bad HN doesn’t have double votes. Also, self organization is an important feature of a complex system.
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by plainOldText 6y ago
In case it helps anyone: I remember when I upgraded to Catalina, macOS wouldn’t allow me to vertically rotate my two external displays anymore (as per my pre-upgrade setup). Then I remembered Apple introduced Sidecar, which I decided to tur
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by plainOldText 6y ago
That was a good read. Thanks for sharing!
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by plainOldText 6y ago
I haven’t tried Linear, but while browsing the site I couldn’t help but notice what an exquisite job the designer did with the Linear site. It’s consistent, lightweight, it has pleasant proportions, a nice color theme, etc. It’s also sprink
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by plainOldText 6y ago
I love Thomas Sowell. It’s extraordinarily impressive that while Dr. Sowell is 90 years old, he’s still sharp as an arrow. As a matter of fact he’s about to release a new book. Also, from what I could gather from Twitter, it appears that re
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by plainOldText 6y ago
Absolute numbers vary with each machine, to the point they’re irrelevant in isolation. However, in terms of relative performance the async version was 10x to 20x better. Bear in mind it was a simple hello world benchmark. I also disabled ke
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by plainOldText 6y ago
I actually benchmarked it yesterday and I would like to point out that the async branch of Rocket will get you improved performance, as the current stable implementation v0.4.4 appears to be synchronous. I think Rocket v0.5 will change th
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by plainOldText 6y ago
I beg to differ. The comment was perfectly reasonable in my view. I also learned about someone new, namely George Friedman.
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by plainOldText 6y ago
I'm currently reading Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World by Peter Zeihan. [1] The book discusses the upcoming world order from a geopolitical perspective and gives original insight into potential develop
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by plainOldText 6y ago
I have auto-hiding menu bar turn on, thus I cannot click on it once Presentify is activated. I was thinking of an exit button next to the eraser/color picker.
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by plainOldText 6y ago
Nice presentation website. I've also just tried your app. I think it needs an exit button. It's not obvious how to exit it (unless you know the shortcut) once you activate it.
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by plainOldText 6y ago
It could be. I don't know who designs the iPhones these days, although Jony Ive is claimed to still count Apple as a client of his new company. I don't know if his heart is. One thing is certain to me, the black front makes the wh
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by plainOldText 6y ago
I was wondering the same thing. I’m glad I’m not the only one. Plus, the white front would have made it look much more elegant IMO.
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by plainOldText 7y ago
> On the flip side, decentralizing makes coordination harder. Perhaps technology could help in this regard, at least to some degree. Bitcoin has proven coordination in a low trust environment is possible. Imagine if we could make coordin
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by plainOldText 7y ago
I guess it depends on who you follow on Twitter.
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by plainOldText 7y ago
> It’s not like every local organization can marshal expertise on every issue. In order to be efficient decision makers, local organizations should be concerned with acquiring expertise related to local issues, and then, through cooperat
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by plainOldText 7y ago
Anyone following the social media and the news would’ve called the pandemic weeks ago. I hope this will make people realize that we need to abolish centralized institutions in our highly complex world. They are single points of failure whic
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by plainOldText 7y ago
Trader Joe’s is my favorite grocery store. Its size is not too small as to feel claustrophobic, nor too big as to feel overwhelming. But most important, they have a great selection of high quality and reasonably priced items. I wish more
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by plainOldText 7y ago
If you really want to learn Elixir, you should learn enough Erlang prior, to get a better understanding of how Erlang/OTP all fits together. Thus, I would recommend the following structure: 1. Read Joe Armstrong's Book: Programmi
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by plainOldText 7y ago
I find calendar versioning virtually useless. It reveals the freshness of one's project over much more important information such as maturity, as revealed by semantic versioning. Imagine researching some libraries and having to decide
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by plainOldText 7y ago
You recognize von Neumann's superior intellect, and yet, when it comes to his politics you find his views repulsive (your comment below) and believe that he was the one with poor judgment. Hmm! Perhaps you’re passing judgement selectiv
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by plainOldText 7y ago
Have someone else – who is on your side – hold you accountable (a friend or family member). It's hard not to fall into the trap of chasing perfection when you're the only stakeholder, especially when you're also the creator.
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by plainOldText 7y ago
I have started reading the first two chapters of your book and I really like it. It's well written and easy to understand. If it continues to be this wonderful for the remaining chapters I will buy it as well. Thanks for writing it.
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How to Create Conflict(walterewilliams.com)
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by plainOldText 7y ago
Stability rates vary over time. But in the context of this discussion, I meant stable relative to other social arrangements. Thus relative to the current divorce rates, I would wager that “divorce” rates among friends and other social struc
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I don’t know if it’s optimal, but it sure is intimate and stable. Your spouse will never move to another city for a new job w/o you. Your kids won’t leave the nucleus, at least not until they’re college ready. Unlike family, different
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I think I was reading microservices but I was imagining services and that's why it seemed like a lot. I guess it depends on the granularity of the decomposition. I agree, scale and automation are two important factors when decompos
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> We run one of the largest microservices deployments in the world, with thousands of services that perform billions of requests per second. Thousands? Does one truly need that many microservices, even if you are the size of Facebook? Th

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