cmbothwell

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by cmbothwell 7mo ago
The irony of the agentic/mimetic interview question is not lost on me. I wonder if it is on the hypothetical interviewees? Answering “agentic” is the most “mimetic” answer you could give. The most “agentic” response is probably “Fuck y
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by cmbothwell 1y ago
I’ve come to believe a more depressing take: they _want_ to believe it, and therefore do. No disclaimer is gonna change that.
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by cmbothwell 2y ago
This hits at the true nature of the problem which has _nothing_ to do with Redis at all (which is a fine piece of technology written by a thoughtful and conscientious creator) and has everything to do with the fact that our industry at larg
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by cmbothwell 2y ago
What was it about Elixir that you found dissatisfactory? I am currently evaluating Clojure vs. Elixir for a new project.
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by cmbothwell 2y ago
Feel free to contradict me with personal experience, but I actually posit that (like many interesting phenomena in life), the truth is exactly the opposite. The number of people in a team expands to fill the budget allocated. That budget fl
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Chasing the Myth of Zero-Overhead Memory Safety(verdagon.dev)
1 points by cmbothwell 2y ago|0 comments
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by cmbothwell 2y ago
> If you can't isolate and articulate the problem without referencing your tech stack and tooling, or your explanation gets all muddy and convoluted, you haven't actually identified the essential complexity of a problem 100%.
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by cmbothwell 2y ago
This rings so true. I noticed a consistent level-up in my abilities once I started to seek the essence of the problem. I ask myself: “I start with this information. The desired output is X. What is the essence of the data transformation tha
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by cmbothwell 3y ago
I am also hacking my own tool together for exactly this reason - multi-currency is one of those things that is absolutely essential if you need it, but is often ignored by a lot of these solutions. Check out this amazing article that helped
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by cmbothwell 3y ago
I would also posit that this inclination towards individuals over institutions in the US extends to Central and South America.
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by cmbothwell 3y ago
This is a very incisive and insightful take and really distills some large cultural differences between Americans and Europeans down to its essence. Can I ask if you are American or European? How did you come about this insight?
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by cmbothwell 3y ago
I tend to agree. OP, if your motivations are largely economical, you're probably best off leveraging your existing skillset and experience. Sales is a very valuable skill, and engineering/tech, while valuable in isolation, truly s
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Norwegian: Bokmål vs. Nynorsk(sprakradet.no)
152 points by cmbothwell 3y ago|159 comments
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by cmbothwell 3y ago
Looks like a great tool. Thanks for sharing. Might consider using it if I start freelancing more, as I much prefer to support other small creators than big corporate software. Also the cat is nice. Edit: Care to share your stack?
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by cmbothwell 3y ago
The proposition of replacing the layered morass of node-based tooling (node, ts-node nodemon, tsc, jest, ts-jest, webpack, BABEL, 2 incompatible module specs, UMD insanity, 3 package managers!) and the Cambrian explosion of config files tha
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by cmbothwell 3y ago
Not sure why you’re being downvoted, this is a very interesting history.
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by cmbothwell 3y ago
You might like Odin, it has a similar philosophy to Zig and supports swizzling: https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#swizzle-operations Matrix types are also built in: https://odin-lang.org/docs&#x
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by cmbothwell 4y ago
From a quick glance this could be the missing piece for going all in on SQLite for small apps. Most plug-in admins only work with remotely accesible databases like Postgres. How would that work, does Outerbase run locally on my server insta
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by cmbothwell 4y ago
This is a really nice stack and what I’m using together with a colleague right now. Do you use the serverless functions available with Vercel/Supabase? If so, I’m curious how you choose when to go with each provider.