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by srpablo 3y ago
Hi! Have we met? Elixir has been great for our Authorization server. I really believe in the BEAM for high-uptime cases, and love a lot about Ecto's design as an ORM. That said, I only felt comfortable bringing Elixir to Ramp because I
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by srpablo 3y ago
haha yeah, my comment was mostly a throwback to the genre of articles we saw in the late aughts where people were discovering dynamic programming environments, and would say the line about Ruby/Java but not mention all the cases the Ja
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by srpablo 3y ago
Hey, author here, and generally a fan of your contributions here. I'd love your feedback if you're up for sharing it.
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by srpablo 3y ago
Hi! Author here. This is fair; I can see how you feel this way from the article. That said, "I suspect he didn't know or think much about them" isn't a value judgement on him; just as I didn't care much about his po
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by srpablo 3y ago
Hi! Author here. Maybe it doesn't when applied correctly, but IME whether or not the technologies are a good fit aren't even discussed. At least in technical ("soil") terms; discussion is all about risk aversion in non-t
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What Matters, Suffers (narratives on code quality)(engineering.ramp.com)
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by srpablo 5y ago
Finally! A Lisp that lets me also interop with the Malbolge ecosystem! jk jk, super cool
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by srpablo 6y ago
Note also that a lot of these points, on AI businesses generally, will also apply https://a16z.com/2020/02/16/the-new-business-of-ai-and-how-i...
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by srpablo 6y ago
If I say "only weak people would choose to smoke; and I have never been weak" you don't think pointing out that I was once a smoker is relevant? Who's really making the contortions here?
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by srpablo 6y ago
I think the "gatekeeper" of Macromedia/Adobe is a bit of an overstatement; the proliferation of open SWF player projects shows it wasn't an obfuscated or challenging format. Additionally, they partnered with Mozilla to w
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by srpablo 7y ago
https://morepablo.com Some tech, some culture, some of my life, whatever was interesting to me that day or few days. Have some favorites/highlights on that front page.
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by srpablo 7y ago
Some things I ran into: - How do I run tests? Oh, you can't really dune runtest on executables, only libraries. So how do I run tests on executables? Make a library with the core of the functionality and wrap it, I guess. Wasn't o
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by srpablo 7y ago
While I didn't try to use Docker (though we did use the same pxhere image :-p), I also struggled to get a productive setup of OCaml. Getting a switch running wasn't the hard part, it was making the environment suitable for real pr
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by srpablo 7y ago
Not _quite_ a suffix tree, but a similar structure called a GADDAG is sometimes used in word-generating board games (Scrabble, Words With Friends). GADDAGs are different because they're more like "reversed prefix" trees, but
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by srpablo 7y ago
> Should everybody start building additional backdoors in their software that shuts it down if it detects some sort of "bad" software is being created, or possibly hook it up to a Twitter feed and shut down if people are saying
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by srpablo 7y ago
OTP releases let you build something akin to this, where the runtime and all the dependencies are bundled in; so long as you built it for the right architecture (much like a binary), it's a single command to run your app. This used to
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by srpablo 8y ago
A common fallacy is "if there are two strongly opposing sides, the answer is probably somewhere in the middle" and the related "if there's two strongly opposing sides, there are ways in which they're both right.&quo
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by srpablo 8y ago
lmao, or: it is actually hard to quit these companies even if you're educated, well-informed, and set to do it. Aside from many articles[1] written precisely about this, casual conversations with anyone who tries to exercise their cons
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by srpablo 8y ago
Apathy may be a huge part of it, but that doesn't negate the very real policies that are put in place to prevent people from voting: - Extremely long poll lines, especially in underserved areas or those mostly populated by racial/
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by srpablo 9y ago
Reminds me of this great Gary Bernhardt talk https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world This almost certainly won't catch on because inertia is very hard to overcome, but how amazing would it be to
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by srpablo 9y ago
Pretty sure it's set up by JWZ to redirect on links from HN, not by HN to jwz.org links. He's written pretty extensively (and in my opinion, not wholly incorrectly) about why the types who frequent this community is not one whose
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by srpablo 9y ago
I have a few ideas, but the main one is that: independent of the language/semantics, languages only really take off because of a "killer app" use case where they are required. Once that's in place, tooling is built to ma
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by srpablo 9y ago
Wow there's a ton about this that I'm reacting badly to. * It's a jobs ad; it shouldn't be frontpaged and they're not paying anyone $500k. * Nobody says "I want 100 steaks for 200 dollars and I couldn't fi
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by srpablo 9y ago
It has maps now! This chapter speaks of them being fully supported in future versions, which have since arrived. http://learnyousomeerlang.com/maps And even records are hardly a quirk like the ones I listed for JavaScript:
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by srpablo 9y ago
> Erlang is great but its ecosystem is tiny compared to Node's, and as a programming language it's at least as quirky as JavaScript. I disagree with this; while the syntax is unusual for many, its semantics are extremely simple
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by srpablo 10y ago
> I'm of the opinion that the average software engineer in the USA is already overpaid and underworked with excellent benefits and low incentive to unionize. I happen to agree that, relative to other industries, we're overpaid
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by srpablo 10y ago
Many of us were skeptical when visible HN leadership expressed sentiments over and over like this: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/785769454516916228?lang=en And we, in turn, were criticized for daring to express
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by srpablo 10y ago
While I love Elm, after the recent release that replaced Signals, it's going to take a long time for me to bet anything with money on it. My toy app didn't have many dependencies, but when so much breaks on upgrading the runtime
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by srpablo 10y ago
I'll always be a little bitter about their VODpocalypse and retroactively muting streams with copyrighted music. Software should serve people and they eradicated countless memories/achievements, eliminated a priceless historical r
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by srpablo 11y ago
> Completely irrelevant and not true in my opinion. Hardly, when talking about brash/abusive behavior in the context of an industry where women are underrepresented, I think it's plenty fine to mention that there might be a con

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