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by vendiddy 2y ago
Seems like just FUD without anything to back up your claims. From what I understood they plan to open source the full Mojo programming language.
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by vendiddy 2y ago
My response was to the "FP is dead" comment. It's not dead. IMO React was a lot simpler to reason about than any of the competing frameworks at the time. It's a function that takes data and outputs a UI. If the data chan
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by vendiddy 2y ago
I'm surprised the spreadsheet never got turned into a bit more of a programming environment. You end up with these giant spaghetti formulas with no easy way to decompose them into smaller functions. Spreadsheets could have been a gatew
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by vendiddy 2y ago
It took me a long time to realize that, in the field of math, people come up with abstractions in the same way you might think of an abstraction in software engineering. I was confused as a kid. Why create imaginary numbers? What is the poi
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by vendiddy 2y ago
Maybe a quick website that allowed folks to upload a PDF and get back an anonymous PDF would be great. That way folks don't have to be proficient in command line!
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by vendiddy 2y ago
React is a functional pattern and is pretty popular.
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by vendiddy 2y ago
Yeah seriously. I feel like these kinds of concepts I to hear a few concrete examples, then generalize. These analogies usually don't click with me.
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by vendiddy 2y ago
For something like OpenAPI+JSON REST API, does anyone have recommendations on tooling that would make my life easier? I am also over GraphQL but I really like the api explorers, code completion, type safety, etc.
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by vendiddy 2y ago
Anyone have a good reference on how write the interpreter itself? I'm looking to write a really basic one in javascript except using plain arrays. No parsing or tokenizing for me.
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by vendiddy 2y ago
I am an outsider to the space, but I feel this sentiment. It appears that a lot of breakthroughs came from further understanding how the brain works but we are just trying to brute-force our way to do harder things. (And our brains also do
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by vendiddy 2y ago
I'm in a different generation as well. What was special about hypercard? I do remember VB and Macromedia tools and feel like today's tools are harder to use!
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by vendiddy 2y ago
Any recommended further reading on how this effects are handled in Haskell?
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by vendiddy 2y ago
Want to give this a try later but just wanted to say the artistic style is beautiful. Good work!
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by vendiddy 2y ago
I would love something like this where to write a function with side effects I'd have to annotate it as such. Then the compiler could recursively understand whether any given function is pure.
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by vendiddy 2y ago
I want to use this as a chance to bring attention to a GitHub issue that I think would help reduce friction for Neon: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/4989 If the Neon driver were to allow us to ea
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by vendiddy 2y ago
We use NeonDB in production and I the use of the term "branching" intuitive. We can branch off the main database to test things out, and periodically reset the branch to its parent. There are some points where the analogy doesn&#x
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Pretty neat! "Clustering of files by similarity using a similarity hash function" does anyone have an intuition of how similarity hashes work?
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Yep exactly. If we're talking about a cutting-edge app, I get the sluggishness. But IRC used to respond instantly. Feels like apps are doing roughly the same thing but more slowly despite having computers that are orders of magnitude f
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by vendiddy 3y ago
I would expect some overhead, but none of the features you describe seem to justify performance hit apps have taken.
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by vendiddy 3y ago
While your take makes sense, I feel like even general purpose programming frameworks should be orders of magnitude faster for what they are doing.
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by vendiddy 3y ago
I'm an outsider to the ML space and recently started watching videos from Andrej Karpathy. His videos really helped me build an intuition of how LLMs work. What I like is that he builds very simple versions of things that are easier to
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Does anyone have a concrete example of this to help me understand this better? I found the article a hard to understand because it was abstract with X and Y. Would be nice to see an example with X/Y filled in!
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by vendiddy 3y ago
I'm interested in applying Elm principles but in a standard React and Typescript app. Anyone have experience doing this? It looks like redux has some inspiration from Elm, but I think the way effects are handled in Redux isn't as
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by vendiddy 3y ago
I'm not too familiar with the causes of the rising cost of housing. Is it right to assume that lack of supply is the main factor? If so, what should US/CA be doing to address this? What are they currently doing now that makes the
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by vendiddy 3y ago
While I don't agree with the conclusion of the article, I still wonder if there's an alternative to SQL that is: - declarative - easy to understand - scales well with the complexity of the query Perhaps it could look and feel like
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by vendiddy 3y ago
I agree with you. Changing SQL to a description of how you'll get the data would make a query incomprehensible to me.
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by vendiddy 3y ago
I wonder if how it's done matters. Like if you are genuinely curious and non judgemental it might not come across as creepy. Of course depends on the circumstances.
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Thanks for this breakdown. I think I tend to do more #2 and sometimes will stumble onto #3. I ought to try it more!
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Where is most of this spent?
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by vendiddy 3y ago
I'm inspired to slim down my own app. Any good tools or techniques out there to identify what's causing bloat?

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