foodoos

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   by foodoos 3y ago

   Thanks for sharing your experience with Ruby templates and for the links. > I don't think the power/danger tradeoff is worth it. The power/danger tradeoff might not be worth it for the overwhelming majority of programs. F
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   by foodoos 3y ago

   I appreciate and I'm impressed you're gratuitously positive. I think you mean within reasonable programs that's not a metric that matters because most programs solve problems that don't need much autogeneration to be s
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   by foodoos 3y ago

   The author is reaching for a code walker.
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   by foodoos 3y ago

   There's a stronger abstraction than "generalized macros" and the author of this article missed it.
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   by foodoos 3y ago

   Magnets can generate energy.
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   by foodoos 3y ago

   > the power of Lisp macros isn't actually ever worth the responsibility in my experience Expand your experience. > At the very least, you can just write the code the macro would expand into. You can "just" get it wrong
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   by foodoos 3y ago

   > we chose our goal to be achieving multi-master replication with Async consistency. We believe that this approach strikes the best balance of fault tolerance and transaction throughput. "SLOG: Serializable, Low-latency, Geo-replica
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   by foodoos 3y ago

   Emailed in the past and never heard back.
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   by foodoos 3y ago

   I saw a 101 min coding exercise for a position that had a verified 163 applicants. I asked for upfront payment of $101. Received no reply.