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by vbsteven 5y ago
He is also the creator of Cascalog (Hadoop query dsl in Clojure) and the Lambda architecture pattern. Not lambda as we know it now popularised by AWS, but an architecture for stream processing where batch views from expensive and slow batch
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by vbsteven 5y ago
Yes, and this is where statically typed languages shine (in my opinion). I like programming in a style that makes heavy use of the type system to enforce this. For example when writing an api endpoint to create a task I would typically dese
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by vbsteven 5y ago
I was talking about the bill splitting apps that are used in situations where the same group of people frequently orders food together.
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by vbsteven 5y ago
For my personal use cases (visible or invisible) push messages are the major missing feature for replacing native with web apps. And I doubt it’s possible to do without platform support. Twilio or other SMS based services aren’t a solution
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by vbsteven 5y ago
I’ll add one more comment as a person who once worked on something similar to this. It looks like lots of people were working on “location based tweeting” around 10 years ago. It makes sense as around that time Twitter was growing fast and
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by vbsteven 5y ago
I’ve seen these apps used at almost every company I’ve worked at that orders food delivery once or a few times per week.
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by vbsteven 5y ago
Crazy indeed. Although I assume at that point they already had large parts of the SDK implemented for native internal apps and much of those 3-6 months have been spent on public documentation, signing infrastructure etc.
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by vbsteven 5y ago
It’s not that different from regular Linux distros. A container built from a distro base image (like Debian or alpine in the first part of this article) is just a packaged version of that distro + your app. Distro maintainers apply patches
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by vbsteven 5y ago
Why wouldn’t it be legal? As long as the fork complies with all software licenses. This happens all the time by large and small companies, orgs and individuals: Amazons FireOS is an Android fork, Amazons opensearch distro is an elasticsearc
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by vbsteven 5y ago
For local development I run the full environment including the database in docker compose. For production some of these projects run alongside each other on the same host and share the database service. Sometimes the database is on another
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by vbsteven 5y ago
I suppose vim emulation also works if the emulation plugin is good. The point is to make the switch and stick to it even though you will be slower for a while. And spend the time to look for better approaches when you feel like you are repe
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by vbsteven 5y ago
I’m not the parent but I’ll pitch in on this as I have a few client projects using docker compose for production. No downtime deployments: I don’t bother for these projects. A minute of downtime in off-peak hours for a restart is fine. Data
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by vbsteven 5y ago
In my opinion the only way to learn vim is to fully commit to it: Use it as your only editor and every time you hit a wall, spend the time to learn and unblock yourself. Productivity will take a serious hit for weeks, likely months. I did t
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by vbsteven 5y ago
500MB per ip or per device?
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by vbsteven 5y ago
It’s a tool in a developers toolbox. Some use it, some don’t. Similar to the debugger vs printf debate. These apps can be useful for testing, developing and exploring APIs and they can function as GUI for services that don’t have one. For e
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by vbsteven 5y ago
I’m currently prototyping a little database+api+cli todo app and I want identifiers that can be abbreviated in the same way as partial git commit hashes can be used on the command line. What should I use? I was thinking of generating random
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by vbsteven 5y ago
A little anecdata: I was halfway reading this comment thread in my iOS DuckDuckGo browser when I switched to the YouTube app and refreshed a couple times to see what ads I got: some mobile games, an online car dealership, a shower head and.
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by vbsteven 5y ago
Requirements are still a bit vague but I would probably start with a simple python script to process the text file and output the result. That can already be used on computers on the command line. Then you could wrap it up in a website usin
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by vbsteven 5y ago
1) I love containers when I’m researching/prototyping potential solutions for a problem. Using containers I can quickly spin up an isolated version of the software without having to mess with build systems, package managers, dependenci
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by vbsteven 5y ago
That last one is an interesting idea. I learned English as a 10yo with access to a PSX and FF7. Maybe it’s time to replay the same game now in French or Italian. FF7 is my favourite videogame and I know it well. That context might help when
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by vbsteven 5y ago
Refuse to choose by Barbara Sher is an interesting book about this phenomenon. It talks about different types of “Scanners”, some switch topics every few years, others weeks, days or even minutes. The books main advice is to not fight these
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by vbsteven 5y ago
I interpreted the original question to be concerned about phone home telemetry in the git binary.
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by vbsteven 5y ago
No, OpenTelemetry is focussed on gathering metrics in distributed systems. Metrics, log aggregation and tracing of requests from the entrypoint (load balancer) all the way to the backend services and data stores. Take a look at the Jaeger a
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by vbsteven 5y ago
> I mean not that anyone has a native Facebook or Instagram app on their device, but just to name an example. The M1 is used in the iPad Pro so your example is definitely possible. (or your comment was sarcasm in which case: woosh to mys
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by vbsteven 5y ago
IntelliJ Idea + Ideavim plug-in and my heavily customised keybindings and F1-F12 keys. The same UI and keybindings for all my programming languages. I live in this program for 80% of my computer time. Tmux+Zsh+fzf+bat+exa for terminals and
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by vbsteven 5y ago
There is a project called Slate that is inspired by this and is able to generate similar API docs from Markdown. It’s written in Ruby. https://github.com/slatedocs/slate
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by vbsteven 5y ago
+1 for Meditations, and also Enchiridion and Letters to Lucilius by Seneca.
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by vbsteven 5y ago
What is interesting about Fuchsia is how Google first created Flutter and made it popular for Android/iOS and to a lesser extent the web. And now they start releasing Fuchsia OS/devices and developing apps/software for it wil
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by vbsteven 5y ago
Disc brakes have their use on road bikes in bad weather conditions. Descending at 90km/h on wet roads with rim brakes is not fun, especially on full carbon rims. I wish I had them in my race days.
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by vbsteven 5y ago
Is it a good idea to use a completely different compiler toolchain for dev vs prod? I don't know enough about their internals but that seems like a recipe for weird behavior in production.

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