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by vendiddy 3y ago
I think a lot of complexity from optimizing databases would go away if incrementally computed materialized views were widely available.
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by vendiddy 3y ago
I love the innovation coming out of Supabase and want use it, but I feel like the team ought to focus on polishing what is already there before investing so much in R&D. Make the platform SDKs to feature parity, make RLS easier to use,
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by vendiddy 3y ago
I mean it in the broadest sense. So any rote task I could explain to an assistant. For example: - Backup all these files to Google Drive and share them with Susan - Take a look at all of these links , summarize in a few sentences what each
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Open to it, but we don't have much demand since we mostly work with startups!
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Perhaps a well-designed debugger could do much better than print statements. Let me visualize the changes of variables over time and what code caused those changes. Or one click in the gutter to add "log points" vs having to type
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by vendiddy 3y ago
If print statements outperform debuggers at debugging, it might point to a design flaw in debuggers. Why are print statements better? Could a debugger, designed considering this, beat print statements?
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by vendiddy 3y ago
If Apple built a good copilot to help automate tasks on my Mac, I'd pay for a subscription. Kind of like a successor to Mac Automator but smarter and powered by AI. I suppose it'd have to make use of the accessibility features t
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Relevant quote from the book "A Philosophy of Software Design" Complexity is what a developer experiences at a particular point in time when trying to achieve a particular goal. It doesn’t necessarily relate to the overall size or
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Plugging a service I helped create: match.dev Typical rates are $40-$60/h and many work part time. We vet everyone by paying them to create a small project for us.
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by vendiddy 3y ago
They had a pretty balanced take in the article.
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by vendiddy 3y ago
I will on occasion email an OSS maintainer offering to pay for some improvement or consulting. But I don't do this often because of the friction. In other I can't even find their email, but then it feels awkward to publicly post t
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by vendiddy 3y ago
This exactly. I want a solution to my problem. If an AI can help me, great. But it's not even close to a human level of service yet. So I'll always try to get to a human ASAP knowing the AI will just waste my time.
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by vendiddy 3y ago
I use zod but it's a workaround. I use non standard syntax to define types. If typescript emitted type information, we'd be able to automatically get runtime validation at the boundaries of our apps.
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by vendiddy 3y ago
I feel like we have computers 10x faster with software 10x slower. And our day to day experience isn't that different. I have an app bar, desktop icons, a window manager, search, and a web browser. It's a bit prettier but I don&
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by vendiddy 3y ago
Had no idea, thanks for the clarification
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by vendiddy 3y ago
What is motivating companies like Lego to bring manufacturing back home?
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by vendiddy 4y ago
Comments like this are the reason I love HN. Learned something new today!
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by vendiddy 4y ago
Never trust an abstract principle by itself. Come up with your own concrete examples. Tinker with these examples to improve your understanding of underlying factors of the principle. Look for examples that might contradict the principle and
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by vendiddy 4y ago
To clarify, I'm referring to folks who just need to write single page apps, but don't benefit from SSR. (I didn't find disabling SSR straightforward.) I wonder if Vercel is underestimating the size of the market that just wa
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by vendiddy 4y ago
What I love about Next.js is not having to think about hosting, webpack, hosting, typescript, scss, and so on. It just works. I initially fought to get SSR working, fixing hydration errors and making sure our code was isomorphic. I later r
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by vendiddy 4y ago
I can second this. We were evaluating moving off Heroku and to Fly.io, but we didn't need all of the edge compute stuff. We just want a better Heroku without having to think about infrastructure and having to think about edge compute j
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by vendiddy 4y ago
There are a lot of comments saying that we can't avoid mutable state and dismiss this paper entirely. I find a practical interpretation of this paper is: - Favor pure functions over impure functions - Reduce mutable state and be delibe
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by vendiddy 4y ago
This is one of my favorite books on software development. It focuses on timeless principles, but uses concrete examples to ground everything he teaches.
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by vendiddy 4y ago
Years ago I was working on an architecture where multiple threads were processing data in parallel. But there were dependencies. I spent several weeks trying to figure out how to coordinate these processes. That is until someone suggested I
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by vendiddy 4y ago
While I agree that FP doesn't solve all problems, I've personally found it to remove a large class of complexity regarding state. For example, separating deterministic pure logic increases the percentage of your codebase that&#x27
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by vendiddy 4y ago
How do you know if a product will last a long time ahead purchasing it? Is Consumer Reports your goto? So many products these days break down within a few years :/
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by vendiddy 4y ago
I wish libraries would go digital and rent out ebooks to people. They could pay authors based on reads.
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by vendiddy 4y ago
Are there languages out there that have done both?
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by vendiddy 4y ago
What makes contracting tax efficient in Poland?
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by vendiddy 4y ago
I switched to Android because I use a lot of Google products: GMail, Google Calendar, Google Fi, Google Maps. The deeper integration with my phone makes my life easier and, while there used to be a large gap in quality, I find iOS/Andr

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