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by ttymck 4y ago
Monolith looks awesome! I love the name -- I too am embracing and championing the "monolith-first" approach. You've given me some inspiration for my own starter-kit built on FastAPI (trying to capture the magic of Django): h
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Bionic Office (2003)(joelonsoftware.com)
1 points by ttymck 4y ago|0 comments
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by ttymck 4y ago
That is helpful clarification, thank you. > We've thought about allowing users to spin that app up separately but it's not a focus right now; instead we're trying to ensure that the system is as easy to use for data scient
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by ttymck 4y ago
Could you clarify what you mean by "collapsing under the weight"? Will a project be abandoned because users are pointing out ways to improve it? Does work stop at some point because "we can't get to every issue"? Su
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by ttymck 4y ago
Forgive me, I don't mean this flippantly, but it sounds like you implemented queuing and multiprocessing consumers on a Starlette webserver. "micro batching" is a feature enabled by the queueing. The GPU/CPU abstraction
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by ttymck 4y ago
> perennial labor shortages unless the pace of change slows sufficiently This frames it as a one-way cause and effect ("unless"). I wonder if the "dropout of fast learners" that _causes_ the labor shortage will in tur
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by ttymck 4y ago
Ender's Game, at around age 13, made me realize books could be just as gripping and thrilling as movies.
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Compatlib or: what not to do in Python(tylerkontra.com)
3 points by ttymck 4y ago|0 comments
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by ttymck 4y ago
Thanks for sharing, and thanks especially for the accompanying write-up. I love seeing this kind of "envelope pushing" in python -- things that make you stop and think "just because we can, does that mean we _should_?" I
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by ttymck 4y ago
This is important. Consider the impact if we _collectively_ begin to hold companies to higher standards for interviews. Leetcode interviews prevail because we let them. Are you interviewing at Google? Or, if not, will they pay you the same
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by ttymck 4y ago
As a favor to yourself, me, and all other developers, you should not accept another interview round. 6 rounds, one unplanned, is embarrassing. Where does it end? Personally, if they can't get their interviews right (they forgot to test
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by ttymck 4y ago
I appreciate your response, and I know many share your perspective. I want to clarify that I am not claiming all startups founders will _lie_ to you. What I am saying is that while their statements may be true now, it is highly unlikely wha
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by ttymck 4y ago
Knowledgeable about their job != knowledge about corporate equity. There's a large share of capable engineers who are still wide-eyed over startup equity. Folks I know personally and greatly respect. Startups have had no trouble duping
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by ttymck 4y ago
It's important to note that, unless I'm terribly mistaken, the articles of incorporation are subject to change. By a board vote, I presume. So your compensation is controlled, at the end of the day, by the investors. And any acqui
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by ttymck 4y ago
Alternatively, don't join startups for the equity. Even if you genuinely believe the person answering your questions genuinely believes the answers they are giving , there's perilously little evidence to suggest their answers wil
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by ttymck 4y ago
I share your exact concerns. I would love for FastAPI to one day be as productive as Django for "full stack" apps. I do think it has the potential, and I've started working on a boilerplate/template toward that end [1],
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by ttymck 4y ago
I appreciate the point you are making, so I ask this genuinely: how confident are we in the census count? How confident are we usually, and how did that change given the hurdles the pandemic introduced?
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by ttymck 4y ago
I've stayed at the periphery of front end tech. I am comfortable with react, but often eschew it for the impedance mismatch with the server. With the rise of server side front end practices, it dawns on me that there may be opportuniti
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by ttymck 4y ago
I really enjoyed your comment. Nevertheless, I have to ask: what is a person if not their ideas? Their actions?
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by ttymck 4y ago
Surely the answer is yes, but the question is: will "regular startup" now be more selective for founders with higher risk-appetite (paying the opportunity cost to forgo 200k salary) or higher self-delusion (to think they can repla
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by ttymck 4y ago
> They go find a problem and start finding customers This is easier said than done, no?
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by ttymck 4y ago
Did you speak French before the move? And did you have a job/sponsorship lined up as well?
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by ttymck 4y ago
Look there's a lot of good, long winded comments here. If anyone is like me and scrolls for an easily digestible one: here's the TLDR. Eventually you'll get fed up with not knowing what type each argument to an API call needs
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by ttymck 4y ago
Thanks, it sounds like we are in agreement. The "share some bits between client and server code" screams unnecessary coupling and failure to separate concerns between backend and frontend. That's what I've seen in practi
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by ttymck 4y ago
Thanks. Unfortunately I'm skeptical of the article: what I've heard from employees at Uber suggests much of the backend was python, and they have more recently mandated Golang-everywhere for backend services. The other ones are mo
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by ttymck 4y ago
I use alpine, but I see it as a "callback manager". It updates html when I update a JS variable. All the Javascript within my alpine "components" is vanilla. So far the clunkiest thing I've had to do was routing (qu
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by ttymck 4y ago
I suppose I'll ask here: are there examples of node being used in large scale projects at reputable companies? By comparison, we all know how common it is to hear of successful companies who got started with ruby on rails. I see many j
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by ttymck 5y ago
Fair enough. I recognize the formalism approach is tantamount to cargo culting. I guess what you are saying is: broach the ideas in the context of the problem. "The foobar intermediary service will help us transition safer and faster t
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by ttymck 5y ago
I enjoy reading things like this. It formalizes a lot of intuition and provides a precise vocabulary. The issue I have is when your superiors (tech lead) seems to lack this intuition, let alone awareness of these formalized concepts. How do
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by ttymck 5y ago
> The await literally blocks the current thread I thought "async io" was supposed to be superior to "blocking the thread". The unit of computation is "smaller" than an os thread, right? It's cooperative

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