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by fmjrey 4d ago
Your arguments make sense but I also understand how the OP may have such allergic reaction. I also have seen my share of young devs claiming this new thing is the best thing since sliced bread and that everyone shoud use it. This may be a n
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by fmjrey 8d ago
A project to watch in that space is Rama from Red Planet Labs [0]. It pushes further the trend of destructuring databases into a very flexible streaming engine and database. It has no query engine, instead the platform offers powerful primi
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by fmjrey 19d ago
I had first-hand experience with the way java developers avoid XML config. In my early days I wrote some javabean mapper framework but it wasn't liked by my peers becaused it was driven by XML. Back then EJB, Struts, and many web/
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by fmjrey 20d ago
I wonder how much of this is actually tied to the very partial clojure support for java annotations. Most other popular JVM languages have a much better integration story for annotations but they also embrace the OO approach. Can, and most
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by fmjrey 23d ago
I would imagine their intelligence is directly proportional to the so many degrees of freedom the arms have for grasping, but don't ask which one came first, chicken or egg?
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by fmjrey 6mo ago
Translation: more alignment with Microsoft practices
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by fmjrey 7mo ago
Nice write up, but wondering now what nix proposes in that space. I've never used nix or nixos but a quick search led me to nixops, and then realized v4 is entirely being rewritten in rust. I'm surprised they chose rust for glue c
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by fmjrey 9mo ago
Sharding of data and compute is precisely what makes Rama [0] able to handle Internet scale topologies to create materialized views (PStates). Only one topology can write to a PState, and each PState has its own partitioning. And yes, a d
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by fmjrey 9mo ago
I would not dismiss this as crank science so quickly, first and foremost because it's not claiming to be science, not theoretically at least. It's observation of likely correlation. Also I would not say tides are "quite well
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by fmjrey 9mo ago
Jeanne Rousseau, who passed away in 2012, asked in an interview [1]: Why are the syzygy tidal coefficients equal when the quadrature tidal coefficients are at opposite extremes? Why are the syzygy coefficients at opposite extremes when the
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by fmjrey 10mo ago
OOP certainly has some early roots in trying to be more efficient with code reuse, organization, and clarity of intent. Later on Java tried to alleviate serious productivity and security issues with garbage collection and cross platform por
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by fmjrey 10mo ago
Here is an example of a 2006 rant that qualifies: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo... OO conflates many different aspects that are often orthogonal but have been conflated together oppo
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by fmjrey 10mo ago
OO fatigue is a healthy symptom of readiness to move to clojure, where data and functions are free to live without encapsulation. No king of nouns, no king of execution!
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by fmjrey 1y ago
The article reads like a story of trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, discussing pros and cons of cutting the square corners vs using a bigger hole. At some point one needs to realize we're using the wrong kind of primitives to
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by fmjrey 1y ago
So many comments are based on different understanding of local-first. For some it means no data on the server, allowing some claim it's better for data privacy (but what about tracking?). For others it means it works offline but data i
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by fmjrey 3y ago
I get your point and would reformulate as: over time a beginner's environment is mostly the top layer of the tech stack and leaving that state of beginner is a lot more challenging. In the 80s I was dabbling in Basic on Amstrad CPC com
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by fmjrey 3y ago
A good alternative to jira and other tools used in application lifecycle management is tuleap [1]. The PM/agile part is very configurable and it is also offering integrated wiki, gitolite, and hooks to integrate with some CI/CD. A
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by fmjrey 4y ago
Unless it's my tiny phone screen I'm surprised this video did not surface yet https://youtu.be/ShEez0JkOFw (Tim Ewald - Clojure: Programming with Hand Tools)
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by fmjrey 5y ago
The topic of star forts is very very interesting, though it raises more questions than satisfying answers. For example, central Asia has many such forts in the middle of nowhere ([1] [2] [3] [4] [5]), some barely noticeable except from abov
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by fmjrey 5y ago
Would you be able to share your recipe? I've seen many variants on the net. Using ripe/full yellow fruits I did many soaks in water, boiled the fruits and even the boiling juice had to be discarded due to bitterness. After that pr
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by fmjrey 6y ago
The tree does own itself in the sense it is a free living being just like birds singing on its branches who could care less about human affairs until it affects their own space and freedom. The fact is the human species has invaded the whol
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by fmjrey 6y ago
Reminds me of what clojure spec is trying to do: create data specifications that can be named and reused via a registry. The metadata is just data on the shape of the data so it can serve as doc, validation, data generation, property testin
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by fmjrey 6y ago
Not necessarily, it's most likely a reference to the popular article from 2013: https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...
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by fmjrey 6y ago
Nope, I have nothing to do with that guy. I'm just intrigued by all the questions being raised in these videos. Perhaps you would have preferred a link to single video instead of all of them. Hard to single one out, but I'll try:
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by fmjrey 6y ago
Thanks for that reference to Fomenko, I wonder how that relates to the questions being asked by JonLevi on youtube [0]. Not sure what to believe, but I have to admit the questions the guy is asking while showing satellite pictures and old p
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by fmjrey 6y ago
https://originstamp.org/
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by fmjrey 6y ago
A bogus test would explain a lot of oddities such as a high number of asymptomatic cases and testing positive again after recovery. It would help to know what is being tested exactly: are we sure we isolated that virus, how specific is the
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by fmjrey 6y ago
Again people not on the front line criticise those who are. If you get infected, would you take it, or would you wait and see the result of the full study? Now imagine having to take that decision not just for your life, but for your patien
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by fmjrey 6y ago
There are reasons to be skeptical of everyone!
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by fmjrey 6y ago
Reminds me of the recent interview of Pr Raoult who's been using chloroquine to treat covid-19 in France. Here's a google translated extract: To those who say that we need thirty multicenter studies and a thousand patients include

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