belmarca

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   by belmarca 12d ago

   I would pay for such content. Do you have course notes? Have you written a book? I'd pay to get expert knowledge from... an expert! LLMs are fine, but still not replacing actual human experts IME.
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   by belmarca 2mo ago

   There is a lot of confusion around those words. I personally make a distinction between a "compiler" and a "transpiler". A compiler preserves the semantics - if you compile Scheme to C, you get a real Scheme program in
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   by belmarca 2mo ago

   Gambit Scheme ( https://github.com/gambit/gambit ) is a highly performant Scheme implementation ( https://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/ ). Gerbil ( https://cons.io ) is built on top of
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   by belmarca 3mo ago

   You will need a combination of the two. The filename should contain a compound business identifier, essentially a tuple of appropriate facts, as well as a (truncated) hash of the content. And yes, the reason is auditability but also bare ne
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   by belmarca 3mo ago

   Nice. The book contains a bunch of good information that could already be found elsewhere but collecting it is quite practical. I highly suggest to read Kleppmann's Designing Data-Intensive Applications. The first edition was very good
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   by belmarca 3mo ago

   OK, sure the concepts might be harder than setting up an environment. But setting things up is, by experience, a very real, very annoying and time-consuming blocker. We have students come in with tablets and it "just works"!
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   by belmarca 3mo ago

   We started this project before LLMs were popularized :) And surprisingly enough, experience says a lot of students would get stuck anyway.
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   by belmarca 3mo ago

   Are these first-year undergrad courses? We can't assume students know anything about Docker or can even install packages on their systems. Some of them really have no idea at all, so pointing them to codeBoot saves a lot of time. Docke
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   by belmarca 3mo ago

   Yes, definitely the case. Just imagine a class with 100 students, each with a system that has its own quirks (OS, browser, and a mix of versions, etc). We built codeBoot ( https://codeboot.org ) specifically for this reason!
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    by belmarca 3mo ago

    Hey, this is super interesting! We have been working on a quite similar system over the past few years at Université de Montréal. We develop and use codeBoot ( https://codeboot.org ) to teach introductory programming courses there
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    by belmarca 4mo ago

    This is not typically how Who is Hiring works :) I was CTO/engineer at a FinTech up until last month. You can find my email in my profile.
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    by belmarca 4mo ago

    Location: Montreal Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No unless very strong commitment. Technologies: Python, JavaScript, Scheme, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, compilers, interpreters, foreign function interfaces, FastAPI, Flask, Celery, RabbitMQ,
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    by belmarca 4mo ago

    I would say about 80% of the code was in "production". Obvious hiccups were fixed after a few weeks of running. The platform was collecting, transforming, distributing data as designed without any major issues. The financial cod
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    by belmarca 4mo ago

    My first task at my last job was removing access to an employee being let go. I had just gone through onboarding so I knew every (documented) service we needed to handle. We live tested it on my own accounts, measured the time before I noti
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    by belmarca 4mo ago

    I didn't "do the wrong thing" for 8 months. I built reliable, robust software that did what it was designed for. Would you say calculators rot brains? Did the invention of writing rot the brain?
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    by belmarca 4mo ago

    I don't fully agree with the quote. You can't really outsource thinking nor understanding. You can outsource the generation of streams of tokens that may or may not be appropriate for what you're looking for. But you absolute
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    by belmarca 4mo ago

    I have just stepped down from a CTO job where I built a FinTech's stack from the ground up. I leveraged a Claude Max plan for about 8 months and I can say with absolute certainty I would not have been as productive without it. I have b
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    by belmarca 5mo ago

    Location: Montreal Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No unless very strong client commitment. Technologies: Python, JavaScript, Scheme, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, compilers, interpreters, foreign function interfaces, FastAPI, Flask, Celery, R
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    by belmarca 1y ago

    BTW the team has received a well-deserved ISMM Best Paper award for their work. I just want to say a huge congrats to all of them who I have seen work very hard on this paper!
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    by belmarca 1y ago

    We are thinking about using two domains: codeboot.org for "company" things, and codeboot.app for the actual IDE and user applications. Or vice-versa. We don't want to break the current experience but we need to do a better jo
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    by belmarca 1y ago

    Really glad you appreciate! We use it to teach introductory programing courses and the simplistic UI is purpose-built for that use-case. It really is a joy to program with, but we're struggling a bit to communicate everything it can do
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    by belmarca 1y ago

    You should check out https://codeboot.org . It's a fully client-side Python IDE with single-stepping, a virtual (non-hierarchical) filesystem, an FFI to call JS code and a few other things (see the docs). Sharing apps in Co
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    by belmarca 1y ago

    This really echos our own experience at BLINX [1]. Pr. Marc Feeley's lab develops codeBoot [2], an online IDE to teach students programming (and more!). We created BLINX as a hardware platform for students to go along with our IDE. The
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    by belmarca 1y ago

    Hi :) You should check out Gerbil Scheme ( https://cons.io ). It is built on top of Gambit Scheme ( https://gambitscheme.org ) and has the generics you are looking for.
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    by belmarca 1y ago

    But it's definitely not a compiler! I think "Astra - a new js2exe bundler" is much less ambiguous because it's... a bundler!
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    by belmarca 1y ago

    I clicked on this hoping for an actual compiler. However from what I can see this is a bundler. The name is confusing.
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    by belmarca 1y ago

    BTW I'd love to hear your feedback if you have tried the above examples!
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    by belmarca 1y ago

    Hey, I'm writing this from Pr Feeley's lab :) I understand your comment was tongue-in-cheek, but we certainly have an interest in cross-language interoperability! You can check out our work here: - https://try.gambitsch
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    by belmarca 2y ago

    I'm sorry but that is a very naive and honestly wrong take. An "extra scan" is not just giving anxiety. It raises cancer rates. It can discover underlying relatively bening conditions which affect insurance coverage, for exam
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    by belmarca 2y ago

    Location: Montreal Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Scheme, JavaScript, C, Vagrant, Docker, Ansible, PostgreSQL, VueJS, AWS, OpenBSD, ESP32, DICOM, Healthcare, Compilers, Interpreters, Dynamic languages, Web, Full-s