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by tluyben2 5y ago
> Myself I have an unusual genetic condition, so I unlike normal people, I do a colonoscopy every year. I stay awake and watch the monitor, because I actually want to see what I look like inside. At the end when you reach the small intes
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by tluyben2 5y ago
Freshmeat and Slashdot were the sites then to predict stock prices; by the news that appeared, you could simply know the stocks would go up; anything with ‘Linux’ made companies skyrocket or crash. I was in NL so I got up, read the news, pl
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by tluyben2 5y ago
It is very easy to build languages, dsls and compilers in. A lot of language writers at least build a first version or prototype in it. I like it because in my head, all programming is just moving data from one type to another and although
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by tluyben2 5y ago
I meant it to mean, indeed in a vague way, what we call human intelligence or beyond; the parent says to make a neural network that can predict what someone will think/feel in the future, which seems the same or at least indistinguisha
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by tluyben2 5y ago
If I understand you correctly, we are very far away from that example as that is AGI and then some. You will not see that in your lifetime so ‘we can still’ seems an interesting (overly optimistic?) take on it.
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by tluyben2 5y ago
5 years if you keep up with the framework bizarre churn of adding and changing things. If you did not, there is a fair chance that you run an update in a year and things are broken or unsupported or at least deprecated/unused by other
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by tluyben2 5y ago
I ran Celery in many projects in production over the past 10 years; I would not recommend it. It is mostly a constant fight even though it is the first thing most people grab when they have a Django stack.
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by tluyben2 5y ago
I really like big screen because I read mostly papers. And I need to write in the margin for that.
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by tluyben2 5y ago
Not civilisation ending war; what's the use of being paid for that?
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by tluyben2 5y ago
Why do you think our current (weak) stance will avoid it? A lot of people are really not convinced of that, including Gary but also many military experts.
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by tluyben2 5y ago
Yep. One of our most used products is a Django site and it’s been on a 2gb server with MySQL and celery since 2013. No problems at all. Also 0 downtime, literally. Sometimes you get lucky!
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by tluyben2 5y ago
Second the Boox; unfortunately there are gpl violations which is a shame, but I got an A4 sized one before I knew that and I use Pocket to read online stuff offline and use the built in reader to read books and work on papers (the dual note
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by tluyben2 5y ago
> Unless startups start investing their entire series A into hardware and colocation contracts, Most startups can run on a $10/mo vps. Probably many fully grown companies can get away with not much more. The ‘everything cloud’ thing
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by tluyben2 5y ago
I guess, like you, that it happens, but I haven’t seen it in the smallest startups to very large enterprises. They all say, like everyone on HN, that they do all of this, but it is more a wish than reality as far as I have ever seen (30+ ye
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by tluyben2 5y ago
This is absolutely true for me, but for me it is somewhat of a difference between improving the product (donations) or having to answer actual support emails (paid product). The former I do for fun, the latter I really need people for becau
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by tluyben2 5y ago
I think for mostly the same reasons as already mentioned; if I ask money, it is a job. Unless it is donations, asking money creates obligations. I have asked money for side projects in the past and it worked but they became actual jobs. Tha
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by tluyben2 5y ago
Most people are allergic for lisp likes. Not sure why but it has since always been blocked. I even did a lispy but with <> instead 20 years ago and that was OK (it was the xml for everything hype) while with () it was rejected. I had
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by tluyben2 5y ago
> So the author is correct: don't write a programming language unless you are prepared to be marked and scarred for life. I write and wrote internal languages mostly; a bunch of them made it to production inside larger (for my count
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by tluyben2 5y ago
The Netherlands (my birth country as well) should indeed do this but basically every other country has more and cheaper space to house them. I worked with people (100s) from the UA for the last 30 years and I think this is good for the EU e
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by tluyben2 5y ago
Excellent news; I live in PT and already offered my house to UA friends but they were worried how to stay here longer term. There we go. Unfortunately most of my former colleagues cannot leave; they are men under 60 so they have to stay; th
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by tluyben2 5y ago
When I was younger, decades ago, I always wondered why investors keep saying we need to have customers and revenue first before plonking down millions; why would I need investors when I have paying customers?? Then we got paying customers,
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by tluyben2 5y ago
As a user of both and others (we have legacy couchdb applications for instance), I agree with some others here; Postgres is not handy for querying. Maybe some extension will be made for that in the future, but for now I see them for differe
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by tluyben2 5y ago
That would be very nice. We ‘solve’ this now with custom ducktape triggers and stored procs. Work in banking.
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by tluyben2 5y ago
Yes, binary size, deployment size, deployment time, LoC, source code zipped size, number of directories in GitHub, number of repositories in GitHub. I have heard all kind of VC metrics to increase ‘success’ of being believable by partners,
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by tluyben2 5y ago
Well done! Maybe this will kick me to make a game I have been wanting to make for several years already.
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by tluyben2 5y ago
Shame it’s not OSS but I get that. The ‘no lock-in’ statement on the site; if we would see speedups in both dev and execution performance by using this and develop everything on it from that point to improve working with data easier across
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by tluyben2 5y ago
Sure, but that gave all the ‘less than good’ employees still about a decade to fill up for the coming dip and the next shiny thing. Also; most ‘black box’ solutions still are not that friendly.
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by tluyben2 5y ago
Unfortunately there are a shitload of ML ‘experts’ out there who do not know what they are doing but still get results that are good enough to not get fired and receive copious amounts of money every year. These tools help doing that; compa
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by tluyben2 5y ago
I have the same thing; I can focus and just ignore the cold or the heat. I guess practicing focus and lucid dreaming (both require mental discipline I think) where good for something.
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by tluyben2 5y ago
I have multiple crypto trader acquaintances who send me pictures of complex dashboards showing the ‘moon’ predictions for FLURPCOIN2 and going ‘all in’. When the market slips down, they pop over a meme with something something HODLING diamo

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