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Ask HN: How to study for system design that doesn't include front end/back end?
38 points by 3a2d29 2y ago|24 comments
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Ask HN: System Design Resources espcially for unusual system design?
2 points by 3a2d29 2y ago|2 comments
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by 3a2d29 2y ago
This is the common arguement used by people defending languages with tons of footguns. If this is true, why not write everything in C++? Javscript includes so many footguns that people know are bad (see the billion of examples of different
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by 3a2d29 2y ago
Thats a good argument in a vacuum. But the world has determined "I was just following orders" is not a good defense. We know the crimes against humanity are bad and subordinates are guilty if they do them. We don;t just let ever
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by 3a2d29 2y ago
I will admit, there were a lot of people saying ridiculous things about crypto in 2021. Many of those people were very wrong, but still rewarded with bitcoin hitting 100k. Those same people say it will hit 200k inevitably. I think all the
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by 3a2d29 2y ago
I remember a post on Blind where someone was passionately arguing that if we put house ownership on the blockchain, 2008 wouldn't have happened because a big part of it was not knowing who owned what homes.
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Ask HN: Favorite scripting language? (non-Python)
5 points by 3a2d29 2y ago|4 comments
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by 3a2d29 2y ago
Only the CEO or everyone that works there?
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by 3a2d29 2y ago
Might I suggest a purple logo, since its half Go (blue) and half rust (reddish). Lol This fills a pretty good niche. There are several backend APIs that I want to use rust for, but ends up adding so much upkeep and complexity to deal with,
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by 3a2d29 2y ago
The key (and way easier said then done) is to take a small amount of money out, accept that its likely all going to be gone, and try to milk it slowly so all the free drinks you get are worth the money. I like in NYC, so achieving the typic
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by 3a2d29 3y ago
> I'm pretty sure no company in their right mind today start a new product in C++ I say this as someone who loves rust and zig, but these types of statements make me feel like HN is way out of touch with the industry. New products
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by 3a2d29 3y ago
Yeah agree with this, will be interesting to see. I assume the more unsafe rust used, the more the CVE numbers will appear like C and C++. People like to say unsafe means "I checked this and this is fine, compiler" and isn't
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by 3a2d29 4y ago
Compiler checking is always better than programmer checking. As someone who uses rust, I assume you would prefer the former absolutely.
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by 3a2d29 4y ago
> the draft is slavery and immoral I agree with this, but I also think this is such a “peace time” opinion. If, for example, the nazis were at risk of invading the American homeland, would you want to wait until they are here and volunte
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by 3a2d29 4y ago
Right which is why I am saying jury nullification is bad. These situations happen because of it.
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by 3a2d29 4y ago
Right but isn't the whole issue we have with white people walking free after crimes while black people face the actual punishment all because of this exact issue? White college girl has weed, jury nullifies. Black unemployed guy has w
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by 3a2d29 4y ago
So you would be pro a situation like this: White college kid is caught with intent-to-distribute amount of weed, jury allows them to walk away even though they are guilty. Black kid is caught with intent-to-distribute amount of weed, jury d
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by 3a2d29 4y ago
> a jury decides randomly in every single trial whether they want to enforce something. Isn't that jury nullification? That's the exact thing I am saying, shouldn't happen.
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by 3a2d29 4y ago
Not being able to talk about jury nullification does not mean all judges are crooks. The reason people try to discourage “jury nullification” is because if a law is unjust, it should be removed, not be in place for certain juries to give _s
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by 3a2d29 4y ago
I know this is hammered to death on HN, but you could definitely argue memory safety is a reason not to use systems languages for anything else. Granted though it means what you meant by "it". I read that as "a systems progr
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by 3a2d29 4y ago
I agree, but what people prefer vs what companies do are very different. Companies rarely pay for totally rewrites. Nim compiles to C and offers safety that can work on top of codebases without a re-write.
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by 3a2d29 4y ago
> Though I have to say - are there really that many scenarios in 2022 where a GC is unacceptable? There are more systems programming jobs (where GC is not usable) today than there was years ago. The percentage of all programming jobs th
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by 3a2d29 4y ago
question: How do unit tests stay green when you rewrite in another language? Are your tests an external API you call?
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Ask HN: Signs that app you are starting will not be successful?
6 points by 3a2d29 4y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: What are some signs that an early startup is gonna fail?
1 points by 3a2d29 4y ago|2 comments
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by 3a2d29 4y ago
It’s not about crashing, it’s about exposing memory that could lead to security vulnerabilities. And FFI? As in the Unix extensions? That’s the operating systems calls, not the language. By that logic, python is as dangerous as C++. It’s c
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by 3a2d29 4y ago
Right but if you imported one of those crates, then your “safe” rust would have memory safety issues. So bam, you just introduced memory safety issues into your web API. This is like a C++ dev using C++ and causing memory issues unnecessar
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by 3a2d29 4y ago
Right but to my knowledge (and I could be wrong) that unsafe tag does to prevent it in the crates. Many memory safety violations have been discovered in rust crates: https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/11/rudra-ru
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by 3a2d29 4y ago
Are you gonna argue that no GC language exists that is more safe than rust? There were over 200 memory safety violations discovered in rust crates: https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/11/rudra-rust-safety/ E
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by 3a2d29 4y ago
I don’t why people keep finding one GC language that has unsafe, then declaring my argument wrong. My point is you can find a safe GC language with all the benefits of rust.

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