eviluncle

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by eviluncle 1mo ago
My guy, I am bummed that such a powerful and readable language isn't more popular. I don't need to grow past anything. Being bummed about stuff is part of life. The reasons it isn't more well adopted are many. The conclusion
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by eviluncle 1mo ago
Would evaluating the reason(s) (a futile endeavor, if you ask me) replace my sadness? Hardly. It's a beautiful language I enjoy working with, and I'm saddened it isn't used and adopted by more people.
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by eviluncle 1mo ago
Reading the utopian sentiment she exudes describing this vision (which, to me, seems very dystopian), it makes me wonder if the discrepancy can be explained simply by an age gap. I'm trying to remember if I was as much a tech-optimist
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by eviluncle 1mo ago
This is way too funny. Thank you.
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by eviluncle 2mo ago
Very cool, I love Scala and am quite sad that it isn't getting the interest and popularity it should.
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by eviluncle 2mo ago
Interesting. This seems similar to (though using different methods/techniques) what q.ai (that was sold to Apple for $2b) is developing. See this hn thread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46816228
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Professional Cognitive Surrenderer(unlike.ly)
2 points by eviluncle 4mo ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Software engineers who enjoy working with LLMs?
3 points by eviluncle 5mo ago|2 comments
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by eviluncle 7mo ago
Not sure there's anything to be sorry for, he literally wrote about it a few weeks ago: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
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by eviluncle 11mo ago
"hypeless growth"
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by eviluncle 1y ago
Yes. He mentions that in passing that saying people will accuse him of hating on it because he didn't profit from it. I think his point of view is that his company's attempt was smaller scale and not part of the $10B+ waste? In a
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by eviluncle 1y ago
Working on a side project that I hope to launch in the near future, I can relate. At first I tried sharing with friends/family but noticed how disinterested anybody who isn't working on it themselves are. I personally thrive on co
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by eviluncle 1y ago
So nice to see modern open source being built with rails. it's the ultimate productivity framework
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by eviluncle 3y ago
Virtualzing (or windowing, as it is sometimes called) is definitely one way to tackle this problem. However, it's not a silver bullet. The more complex the UI/rendering is, the more optimizations you will need. The demo you link s
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by eviluncle 3y ago
what kind of codebases were you working on? I've had the pleasure of working on 2 big companies using rails, each with well over 50 engineers and the code base was so relatively easy to jump into. The beauty of rails is that if you fol
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by eviluncle 6y ago
You can see it here: https://www.lucirahealth.com/
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MIT Building 20 – The Vision of Technology WeWork Was Missing(medium.com)
6 points by eviluncle 7y ago|0 comments
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by eviluncle 7y ago
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Octopuses Do Something Really Strange to Their Genes(theatlantic.com)
4 points by eviluncle 9y ago|0 comments
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How I Found Myself Accused of Stealing Code from WordPress(medium.com)
27 points by eviluncle 10y ago|2 comments
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Build Software for Humans – Physical Product Design(medium.com)
2 points by eviluncle 10y ago|0 comments
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by eviluncle 11y ago
I know of these two projects that offer some guidance to combining RoR with React: https://github.com/shakacode/react_on_rails https://github.com/netguru/react_webpack_rails Basically, you introdu
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Boom Speed: Ways to Improve Your Site's Performance(blog.dapulse.com)
5 points by eviluncle 11y ago|0 comments
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Here’s What We Learned and You Can Learn from Ben Rubin and the Meerkat Founders(aleph.vc)
1 points by eviluncle 12y ago|0 comments
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by eviluncle 12y ago
I'd like to be as optimistic as you are about this act by balanced, but I can't help but suspect there was some kind of deal between the two companies. After all, this will bring new business to stripe...
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by eviluncle 12y ago
Really? That's really interesting. Do you have any more info/background how it came to be that he wrote them (and only them?)
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How to get your team to adopt new technology in 3 easy steps(pinterest.com)
2 points by eviluncle 12y ago|0 comments
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The Story Behind daPulse’s Best Looking Feature Yet(blog.dapulse.com)
1 points by eviluncle 13y ago|0 comments
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by eviluncle 13y ago
it's getting HN hammered, there are ~600 players concurrently playing right now.
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by eviluncle 13y ago
that's pretty awesome, thanks!

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