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by wiremine 7y ago
You can be cynical about this, and a healthy amount of skepticism is warranted given the authorship. That said, it would be interesting (healthy?) to discuss/debate the merits of the actual statements: * Delivering value to our custome
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by wiremine 7y ago
> I'd rather pick a standard solution over a library. This. Rust can be complex enough for engineers new to the language. This sort of feature really requires a standard approach.
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by wiremine 7y ago
Not sure the down-line developer community is the audience for the post (or at least, likely not the primary audience). They took $100M in D round funding in last 2018 [1], so it's likely a victory lap to validate their investment, and
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by wiremine 7y ago
This is really cool. I'm the adoptive father of an Ethiopian daughter, and we've come to love the country. It's a physically beautiful place, really excited to see them continue to move forward in the climate change front.
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by wiremine 7y ago
"There Is No Me Without You" is another good book. It's a bit more personal and looks at the AIDS situation in Ethiopia, but an excellent read: https://www.amazon.com/There-No-Me-Without-You/dp/15969
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by wiremine 7y ago
Looks like a great outline for an important topic! A few thoughts: 1. Given the title, I was expecting a more traditional Cookbook style book. I.e., "How do I..." followed by one or more recipes to answer the question. 2. The blue
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by wiremine 7y ago
I'm not a researcher, but it seems your logic goes the other way, too: if you walk and your health improves, then there seems to be a positive correlation between health and walking. And, I think we can control for the health decline.
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by wiremine 7y ago
Thanks for following up! Here's some of things that tripped me up: 1. The lack of in depth docs. 2. The set up and usage of metrics was focusing. This was the main use case I was hoping Metabase could help me with, and it felt like an
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by wiremine 7y ago
Curious if anyone has used Metabase for serious work and can comment on it. I tried setting it up and got frustrated pretty quickly with the UX. It looks slick, but the mental model was confusing...
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by wiremine 7y ago
You misunderstand. Relational isn't going away, it just isn't a solid fit for all forms of knowledge. Google's knowledge graph is a good example of a what I'm talking about, and that's about around 2012. It's u
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by wiremine 7y ago
Some background: I spent 6 years building customer Django sites; for the last 3.5 years I've been doing IoT. For many organizations, a headless CMS are going to be more and more of a requirement, as more content is delivered to non-web
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by wiremine 7y ago
> A redesigned WebAssembly, with richer types for memory and function pointers [23], might be able to perform some of these checks at compile time, but that could complicate the implementation of compilers that produce WebAssembly. Great
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by wiremine 7y ago
How much of this performance gap is due to the inherent limitations of the WebAssembly technology, and how much is due to it being relatively new? I.e., do we expect to see performance improvements similar to what we've seen in JavaScr
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by wiremine 7y ago
> The SDK and sample code is so incredibly bare bones, it is almost laughable. This is why I held off ordering a few. I took an hour looking through the docs and concluded the overall offering isn't fully baked yet. The hardware loo
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by wiremine 7y ago
I have the pleasure of seeing him and Larry present _years_ ago on Perl 6's evolution. Their styles were polar opposites, but the comradery was fun to watch. I often wonder where we'd be today if Perl 6 had got "finished&quot
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by wiremine 7y ago
Those are great concrete comparisons.
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by wiremine 7y ago
I'm not a full time Rust developer, so your milage will vary: Rust is a more modern language, so there are a number of modern approaches that Rust uses that C++ can't due to backwards compatibility. And Rust isn't fundamental
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by wiremine 7y ago
This is slightly off topic, but I read write ups like this and wonder how flight simulators like this work. Do they have to program in the details of the accident, or is it just a standard Max 737 simulator?
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by wiremine 7y ago
I've been meaning to kick the tires on Crystal, but haven't find the right project yet. Would be curious to hear how people like using it.
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by wiremine 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work in an IoT-focused consultancy and work with Fortune 500s in their IoT strategy. This is a _great_ idea. Not sure the implementation is perfect, but giving consumers more control/visibility over their devices is going
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by wiremine 8y ago
Does anyone have any good links to comparisons between Fuchsia and Linux (or other OSs?)
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by wiremine 8y ago
That's impressive. A few follow up questions: 1. Was this your first NES emulator? 2. Your first project in Rust?
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by wiremine 8y ago
I appreciate the lengths you went to attempt to articulate your position, but I don't think we'll arrive at a good spot in comments on HN. The "hate speech" analogy is very incendiary. The only comment I would add is cla
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by wiremine 8y ago
> Of course, it's definitely possible to overdo this -- then you get Perl. 100% agree. I actually really like Perl, but in practice this makes Perl programs more difficult to maintain than they should be. Also: seems like this XKCD
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by wiremine 8y ago
> Your goal, when launching a product, is to build a product that solves a problem for your users. Not build the fanciest deployment pipelines, or multi-zone, multi-region, multi-cloud Nuclear Winter proof high availability setup. I agre
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by wiremine 8y ago
Python is indeed getting better and better, but I personally wouldn't include optional typing... yet. Mostly because the optional typing in Python is just for tooling, not for the run compiler or run time [1]. Python is one of my go-to
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by wiremine 8y ago
> Does it make sense to consider Python an old language if it's still a living language? Python, I'd argue, is very much a living language. It was introduced in 1990, so it's 29 years old. Last release was 5 days ago as I
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by wiremine 8y ago
For context: I'm VP of a software consultancy responsible for delivering software on time and on budget. My take is that older programmers who maintain their skills on new technology are worth their weight in gold. The financial trick
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by wiremine 8y ago
+1 on your positive approach to the negative comments. It looks like a great project: just remember not to loose your focus. :-)
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by wiremine 8y ago
At my consultancy we recently streamlined our interview process: 1. Phone screen which takes 15 or 20 minutes. 2. The candidate fills out an essay, including showing us some code they're proud of. 3. If the essay ticks the boxes we con

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