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   by vvpan 2y ago

   I feel like Elixir has a split personality: on the one hand you have libraries for anybody to use out-of-the-box with their specialty syntax and all (Phoenix, et. al.) but on the other hand Erlang/BEAM are heavy-weight backend developm
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   by vvpan 2y ago

   I do not write Elixir/Erlang programmers. But I do think that the actor model and BEAM solve a few issues that I face when writing complex backends, which I do. For example I have not found a language whose error handling I like - Go a
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   by vvpan 2y ago

   Wanted to add to the usual "why is BEAM not more popular" conversation that there is also Gleam [1], which is an up and coming typed language on top of BEAM. It has the more common C-like syntax and a growing ecosystem of librarie
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   by vvpan 2y ago

   Thanks for the feedback. What kind of product are you using it for? Any issues with library compatibility?
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   by vvpan 2y ago

   So, anybody using Bun? Does it live up to hype?
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   by vvpan 2y ago

   The article is not very well written imho but I love it when conversations about free markets come up because I certainly do not understand the free market ideology. Some people really love free markets and blame regulations for their ineff
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   by vvpan 2y ago

   Well put. The title and the points made do not seem to align. It suggests that it questions the validity of Amazon's ruthlessness but it does not.
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   by vvpan 2y ago

   Clever! I like it.
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   by vvpan 2y ago

   There is an article called "The man that killed X" for every X.
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    by vvpan 2y ago

    Yeah, Coinbase is really killing it.
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    by vvpan 2y ago

    Peter Gregory.
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    by vvpan 2y ago

    What's wrong with coinbase?
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    by vvpan 2y ago

    As as ipaddr points out it seems this got promoted by an algorithm. But that aside I always felt like Django's music aged quiet poorly. A few country/blues/jazz and related styles from the first half of 20th century have. Big
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    by vvpan 3y ago

    Here is a list of journalists killed in the conflict: https://cpj.org/2024/04/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-...
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    by vvpan 3y ago

    Brett Scott is a great public money intellectual. Happened to be listening to this podcast with him yesterday. I know it has "blockchain" in the name but that actually provokes Scott to answer some interesting hypothetical questio
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    by vvpan 3y ago

    Yes. Why?
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    by vvpan 3y ago

    That's a pretty short list.
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    by vvpan 3y ago

    I loved the book but the story imo has not aged well. Too much of white savior going on and too much colonialism. I would not describe myself as "woke", I can see why the teenage me loved it, yet my adult self cringes too hard. Pa
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    by vvpan 3y ago

    Yeah usual overdone Hollywood stuff. Yet another superhero movie basically.
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    by vvpan 3y ago

    What I find most upsetting is the return of "great leader" - some overconfident old man who loves power. Putin, Jinping, Trump, Orban, Modi, Netanyahu etc. are detestable phenomena that won't lead to no good. How did we get h
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    by vvpan 3y ago

    Stripe also follows similar conventions - very convenient.
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    by vvpan 3y ago

    To those who are thinking about waterway travel I recommend the book "The Unlikely Voyage of Jack De Crow: A Mirror Odyssey from North Wales to the Black Sea".
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    by vvpan 3y ago

    A search of whois for that website brings up an address in Iceland that a Google search (Kagi actually) seems to connect to scam websites? EDIT: and well the author's account is a few minutes old.
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    by vvpan 3y ago

    Perhaps this is an opportunity to ask somebody who might know about BSON performance. As a POC/stress test for work I added two multi-GB datasets to Postgres (as JSONB) and to Mongo (BSON). While trying to query approximately a hundred
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    by vvpan 3y ago

    Whether it is a function, class, module, application or service I think there is one word for it - encapsulation.
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    by vvpan 3y ago

    Absolutely agree that "cloud native everything" pendulum needs to swing and it seems like it is. But wondering how you connect it to the interest free money?
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    by vvpan 3y ago

    It does not matter if you are "well rounded". If you can schedule something with a line of code then that is objectively faster to develop and maintain than to (for GCP for example): - setup cloud cron job - setup pubsub channel -
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    by vvpan 3y ago

    It's not an option if you have more than one machine and you want the machines to be uniform. If they are not uniform means it's back to square one - bespoke setups. And then I want reproducibility across environments and environm
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    by vvpan 3y ago

    I am a lead on a small startup team and one of the biggest pain points is dealing with infrastructure. We have no dedicated devops person and much of that work falls on me and other people who would be better writing code. I think the cloud
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    by vvpan 3y ago

    But then you need to set it up. On small fast moving teams having something that just works from the code is a massive win and I'd rather not cross the infra/code barrier.