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by stepbeek 5y ago
CSS frameworks are a great tool for getting started, or building something where you have some flexibility in the design, but my experience has been that it's often harder to fight a framework to fit a particular design than it is to j
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by stepbeek 5y ago
100% agree. I used it for position management software in equities and it fit like a glove. Effectively, we had a stream of transactions coming from upstream that we aggregated into a cache. Being able to replay events, or step through to f
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by stepbeek 5y ago
That internal state is a burden on small teams though - you're efectively implementing the persistence layer twice. I'm totally onboard for SPAs as an option when breaking down an organization, or for solving a particular kind of
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by stepbeek 5y ago
The issue is that Linux isn’t running well enough on the apple silicon to be a viable option (yet).
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by stepbeek 5y ago
The UK has a progressive income tax system (iirc up to 10k is tax-free, then 20% from 10-50k, then 40% from 50-150k and 45% for everything beyond that). This means that spreading tax liability between capital gains and income tax leads to a
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by stepbeek 5y ago
Not the parent, but I’ve found Sandi Metz conference talks to be an amazing resource for learning more about this message focused approach.
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by stepbeek 5y ago
We've been building on top of Spring Boot with nodejs as a part of the build process for front-end assets. It's not as nice as rails, but we love kotlin so it's hard to give up.
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by stepbeek 5y ago
This sounds like it's specific to a particular market (and that market is the USA). My experience has been that being an employee (in the UK) resulted in significantly more taxes than being self-employed. Europeans almost never have co
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by stepbeek 5y ago
Perhaps check out https://hotwired.dev/ I’ve found server rendered apps to be the most productive on small teams or solo projects. Hotwired adds some sprinklings of JS that make this approach slicker.
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by stepbeek 5y ago
Hence “silly trolling.”
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by stepbeek 5y ago
I'm not going to die on that hill, but I will gleefully call an API "RPC-over-HTTP" as a kind of silly trolling when this style of JSON-over-HTTP RESTful is equated with cool.
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by stepbeek 5y ago
This is a false dichotomy. Being a great problem-solver doesn't disqualify one from being a fast typist.
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by stepbeek 5y ago
Does documentation factor into this? If I can touch-type at 120WPM, then I can churn out a great deal more documentation per unit time than another engineer that can only type at 40WPM. It's less burdensome for me to document well, to
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by stepbeek 5y ago
Other than the social hinting that “yes, I am listening and value what you’re saying”, I’ve found this technique to result in uncovering sincere misunderstandings much earlier in conversation which is invaluable. It’s hard to clear the air
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by stepbeek 5y ago
I found the economist a good resource. They have a very explicit bias (free trade is good) and slammed him for the tariffs, but their coverage of the dreamers legislation early on was very informative for a non-American.
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by stepbeek 5y ago
If we substitute Netflix for Microsoft (I’m never sure why Netflix was chosen instead), we can have GAMMA which is my personal favorite.
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by stepbeek 5y ago
11k is nothing to a patent troll like a FAANG (MAANG now?) but quite a lot to the kind of SME that - afaik - doesn’t engage in this behavior to the same extent.
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by stepbeek 5y ago
Why?
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Perhaps by addressing the issues that led to you adopting the framework?
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by stepbeek 5y ago
I made this comment to my wife yesterday. I like an aggressive grill on a car but find it quite funny that it’s becoming more fashionable as air intake is becoming less important.
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by stepbeek 5y ago
Out of curiosity, why do you say that no mainstream examples are a good representation of the relational model?
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by stepbeek 5y ago
My original comment was tongue-in-cheek, but I think the underlying sentiment is a reasonable one. Joining a monastery - from an outsiders view - is fundamentally a pursuit of a higher purpose. Joining a corporation is often anything but. W
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by stepbeek 5y ago
"The first thing to note when discussing the business secrets of the Pharaohs is an acknowledgement that their era was so completely different from our own that almost all cultural, political and, particularly, business parallels we dr
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by stepbeek 5y ago
This sounds like another data point of many in this thread that point towards DDD as a philosophy working very well, while enforcing technical techniques advocated for in the book being hit-or-miss. This makes intuitive sense to me: it’s mu
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by stepbeek 5y ago
I’ve felt like the guardian has gone downhill in the last few years. I first started paying for it because I believed that they would do the right thing in a post-Snowden world. Instead, in the last two years major incidents have happened a
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by stepbeek 5y ago
Anecdotally, I'm always very impressed with the connectivity I see in the US versus my home connection in the UK. I'm fairly certain that the last mile from my suburban home to the cabinet is made of corroded aluminium.
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by stepbeek 5y ago
FYI if using modern hardware then you might not need a specific cable to try this thanks to Auto MDI-X: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-dependent_interface#Aut...
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by stepbeek 5y ago
Encoding logical statement into numbers is foundational, but I do see your point. I don't know of any evidence that says that Gödel was interested in automating computation through his encoding. That being said, I view Gödel's ad
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by stepbeek 5y ago
My FP experience has mainly been with Scala (with haskell on side projects). Is OCaml the ML language de jure?
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by stepbeek 5y ago
I like FRP, but prefer to imitate it in a synchronous manner now - I mainly work on the JVM and I've personally found debugging to be too painful when working asynchronously. If I need async then FRP is definitely the first tool in the

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