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by bem 5y ago
This post from fly.io [1] has a pretty comprehensive survey of the tech available for running users' code safely. It's a good read. I've been investigating something similar for a feature I want to launch. I'm currently
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by bem 5y ago
The daily newsletter (/commentary) from Messari is a great way to stay casually updated on what's happening in crypto: https://messari.io/newsletter If you're looking for something more technical, the Week in
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by bem 5y ago
One powerful way to deal with these problems is event sourcing. It's a reasonably elegant way to materialize a single application-specific cache based on many different data sources. Two great resources: https://engineering.
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by bem 5y ago
Makes sense. Why do you think Google and Amazon didn't pursue that approach for services like Cloud Functions and Lambda? Is there a trade-off or is it a matter of complexity?
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by bem 5y ago
Makes sense – Google Sheets is a great tool. No problem!
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by bem 5y ago
Looks interesting! I’ve been looking at setting up gVisor to enable running users’ code. How does/will Kwarantine compare to gVisor?
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by bem 5y ago
I personally love the vibes around Replit. Check out their Twitter as an example: https://twitter.com/replit
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by bem 5y ago
Looks like a useful product! I think it's neat how you built it directly on Google Sheets. I'd love to hear more about why you made that decision (versus building an independent tool). Some feedback on the landing page: - Would be
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by bem 5y ago
Last year I read Masters of Doom by David Kushner after someone mentioned it on Hacker News. It was the best book I had read in a long time. It won't improve your skills, but I think it will motivate and inspire you to immerse yourse
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by bem 5y ago
I think you could find some inspiration in cryptocurrency exchanges. Most of them expose public websockets for prices, order books, trades, etc. They're high volume with lots of subscribers. For example, check out the docs for the Bina
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by bem 5y ago
If you like GraphQL and don't mind managed services: - Fauna ( http://fauna.com ) or Hasura ( https://hasura.io ) for the backend - Vercel ( http://vercel.com ) or Netlify ( https://www.netlify.c
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An app store for Apple TV?(bnjmn.org)
1 points by bem 14y ago|0 comments
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A general-purpose equivelant of AirPlay(bnjmn.org)
1 points by bem 14y ago|0 comments
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by bem 14y ago
Facebook is one of few online services where programmers are not programmers. Alas, probably not worth it.
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by bem 15y ago
Checking for null on every method call certainly sounds nuts to me. Furthermore I would argue that doing so decreases consistence in your program. For example, in Objective-C I can count on nil being returned every time I call a method on
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by bem 15y ago
Certainly. Hopefully my post will help them judge whether they are part of that minority or not.
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by bem 15y ago
Which is exactly why it goes on Hacker News. I would never in a lifetime recommend it to my mother.
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by bem 15y ago
I guess I should elaborate on my statement about Wordpress because it came out wrong. I realize Wordpress is powerful, extremely powerful. What I meant was that this comes at an expense. This power means one has to deal with a very extensiv
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Blogging: The Hacker Way(bnjmn.org)
70 points by bem 15y ago|37 comments