whynotwhynot

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by whynotwhynot 6y ago
Will they be contributing back to FoundationDB(FDB)? I ask this because they had used FDB since 2014 to build the Snowflake metadata store, and they've supposedly advanced FDB in the process, and I assume some of those advances are gen
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by whynotwhynot 6y ago
bluetomcat's statement is in the realm of Relativistic Epistemology. In general, epistemology is about the root of human knowledge, and why some statement of knowledge represents a justified belief, but those roots never terminate beca
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by whynotwhynot 6y ago
"Sean: There was one issue and that was when somebody went to upgrade something and didn’t follow the upgrade instructions. But for the stuff that we built, that was processed at the peak, about 80 million calculations second handling
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by whynotwhynot 6y ago
From a PL design perspective, I'm interested in finding out what new ideas it introduces to an already crowded field? Rust is good example of a PL design that introduces new concepts (around ownership.) Pony is another good example of
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by whynotwhynot 6y ago
Yes From 2017, https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2017/10/why-we-used-pony-to-wr...
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by whynotwhynot 6y ago
I tried getting into Rust, but found its ownership model to be a bit too cumbersome (for me, maybe not for you.) I'm playing with various PLs designed for safe concurrency, including this one called Pony: https://news.ycombi
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by whynotwhynot 6y ago
" - It’s type safe. Really type safe. There’s a mathematical proof and everything. - It’s memory safe. Ok, this comes with type safe, but it’s still interesting. There are no dangling pointers, no buffer overruns, heck, the language do
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Pony: Lock-less, data-race-free concurrency(tutorial.ponylang.io)
13 points by whynotwhynot 6y ago|1 comments
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by whynotwhynot 6y ago
Fair enough. Could you please describe other happy path scenarios? Is there an educational resource (blog post maybe?) that talks in depth about "happy path programming" in the general sense? Same applies to "self healing&quo
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by whynotwhynot 6y ago
So, both of you guys talk about API request handling. How about some computational task where coding only the happy path means accurate calculated results for 80% of the cases? I think my problem is the marketing hype with Elixir around &qu
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by whynotwhynot 6y ago
That is seems to be more about the underlying infra (BEAM) than the language. I thought it was something specific to Elixir. I thought they meant it at the level of program logic, which is why it seemed very confusing. I guess Lisp is about
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by whynotwhynot 6y ago
I'd like to invite you to the Other Side Of The Force, Grant. http://www.petecorey.com/blog/2017/08/07/what-if-elixir-were... It's much more pretty over there. I haven't looked at Elixir b
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by whynotwhynot 6y ago
Great coincidence since I wanted to attract attention of HN crowd earlier today to another BEAM language: Lisp Flavored Erlang (LFE) "[LFE] is the oldest sibling of the many BEAM languages that have been released since its inception (e
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LFE: Lisp Flavored Erlang(lfe.io)
143 points by whynotwhynot 6y ago|31 comments