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by stephen 10y ago
Question for TypeScript and specifically Angular 2: does Angular 2 being written in TypeScript mean that webapps based on Angular 2 that are also written in TypeScript, are basically 100% type-safe (e.g. all app-to-Angular library calls, or
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by stephen 10y ago
Just curious, but does anyone who pays attention to this space/technology know if eye tracking (with commodity-ish hardware) has gotten to the point of "replacing the mouse"? E.g. at the OS level, the pointer basically follow
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by stephen 11y ago
Makes sense (other than the awkward "Defangs" word in the title; I guess using "Makes" was too clear and boring). Reminds me a bit (just in terms of having an explicit process) of Andy Grove's Ideal Decision Model:
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by stephen 11y ago
The trackpoint is the primary reason why I've bought ~5 Thinkpads over the last 15 years.
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by stephen 11y ago
I read the FVP post [1]...I'm slightly incredulous: it's just a list. That you scan and pick things from. I'm not sure if I should be impressed or underwhelmed at the simplicity. There are no categories, no contexts, no marke
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by stephen 11y ago
Huh; yep, the commit to relicense it as Eclipse/EPL was 18 days ago: https://github.com/codenvy/che/commit/db5b0bc2a1e2b4f3d7a7a2...
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by stephen 11y ago
> dynamic languages offer cleaner syntax Solely for syntax, my assertion is that this is just because dynamic languages evolve faster. Because they are easier to build. E.g. one person can buy the dragon book(s), use parser/lexer li
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by stephen 11y ago
We had looked at Asgard, but didn't use it because it used dedicated load balancers (e.g. separate ec2 instances) instead of ELBs (IIRC). Our deployments were already using ELBs and we wanted to stay with that. Does anyone know if this
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by stephen 11y ago
For people getting into Java 8, jOOL is a great, small library with a "Seq" class that fills in the gaps missing in j.u.stream.Stream: https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOL E.g. if you're coming from groovy/
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by stephen 11y ago
> We used to use GWT which is no longer maintained I understand where you're coming from, but FWIW this is incorrect: Google has a team of ~4-5 engineers still actively making changes to GWT, and even currently prepping/testing
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by stephen 11y ago
I'm cautiously optimistic about Singular; they've "gone dark" and are implementing it internally, which is kind of disappointing. But for someone (e.g. me) who: a) thinks the skill set reuse of React Native is genius (re
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by stephen 11y ago
I really liked BrowserID. I don't understand why Google/Mozilla/Microsoft wouldn't all get behind it, because it doesn't seem worth fragmenting on...
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by stephen 11y ago
GCP would probably have been better off if the "AWS marketplace" had worked out... E.g. instead of "GCP runs machines + offers PaaS databases/caches/etc." and "AWS runs machines + offers PaaS databases&#x2
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by stephen 11y ago
> what if it was trivially easy? Yes, in theory that would be awesome...I think in practice, the limitations would be: - Cross-provider latency for micro-services that are interdependent (e.g. right now we assume everything is in the sam
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by stephen 11y ago
> if anything I had a bit of geek pride in my voice :-) Cool. It is impressive to beat AWS at a game that everyone assumes they are the best at. > Things you'd want to know? This is kind of weird...but no, not really...for my tea
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by stephen 11y ago
Wow. Kind of surprised such a borderline-desperate sounding post was allowed on the official Google blog. I basically read this as "we're so technically superior in several ways ... wtf is everyone still using AWS instead of us?&q
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by stephen 11y ago
Charlie Munger has mentioned the same "use theirs first" approach: "The imported oil is not your enemy, it's your friend. Every barrel that you use up that comes from somebody else is a barrel of your precious oil which
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by stephen 11y ago
Interesting. At first I was thinking this might be part of their cross-platform (iOS/Android/web) architecture that they use for Inbox, Sheets, and a few other things. E.g. they assert that, despite having pure-native views (e.g.
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by stephen 11y ago
I'd enjoy trying some of these alternative keyboards, but I'm addicted to TrackPoint. Even for my desktop, I bought a "looks like just like my laptop" ThinkPad USB keyboard with a TrackPoint stick on it. FWIW, I use vi b
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by stephen 11y ago
As a kid, we went on a field trip to a place that had a cannulated cow and they let us put a (gloved) hand in to feel what it was like. ...I forget if I actually did it, I remember it being warm and bumpy, but I might also be projecting mem
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by stephen 11y ago
Interesting; I didn't know that Kafka had order-of-magnitude-better latency. Thanks for the data point. I wonder if this is something inherent to Kinesis's design, or if Amazon will magically make it faster at some point in the fu
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by stephen 11y ago
Generally 10s of seconds to low minutes. Two caveats: 1) we batch/queue writes on the producer side, and 2) our systems are more near-line than true low-latency, e.g. we scale the cluster up/down instead of keeping machines runnin
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by stephen 11y ago
Perhaps obvious/naive, but Amazon Kinesis is a great "no sysadmin required" Kafka clone that we've had a lot of success with. Per Zookeeper, I'm sure it's better than each system trying to rebuild consensus on
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by stephen 11y ago
I was thinking the same thing; the difference is that Buffet & Munger bought existing companies that were already financially strong/had proven business models, and tried to leave their existing management (with a proven track reco
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by stephen 11y ago
I vaguely know (or assume) that GitHub employs some of the Git core committers, which is great. But this makes me wonder if any of the founders have written Linus a check to show their thanks. Or maybe after they IPO. :-) (Obviously they&#x
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by stephen 11y ago
Do you think CloudWatch will ever be "good enough" to replace your custom stack/Atlas?
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by stephen 11y ago
Interesting; so, boxfuse is one of these (..."micro" kernels? What's the name, of when you run in a hypervisor without a real OS, so no user isolation, no process isolation, etc.) OS/image-creation tools... I didn't
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by stephen 11y ago
> But it doesn't seem like you do have anything concrete, just a concern about _process_ Yes, just for clarification, that was my point. You're certainly having to defend yourself a lot in the other comments, so I don't wa
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by stephen 11y ago
Given you're a language designer, I'm really surprised you have not looked at Scala enough to know how it handles constructors. Scala is also your biggest competitor (IMO) on the JVM, which makes it even more odd that you seem to
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by stephen 11y ago
It will be interesting to see what happens to the Blaze clones, Buck and Pants, now that Google got around to open sourcing the original (ish?, not sure how much they've forked from Blaze) as Bazel. My naive understanding is that they

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