jamwt

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by jamwt 4mo ago
It's a surprisingly tricky problem. I know all too well. If you want to minimize drama, it's worth still paying for Dropbox.
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by jamwt 1y ago
Makes sense to me
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by jamwt 2y ago
IME, engineers and "the discourse" when we argue on the Internet often conflate "ease of use" and "ease of learning". When we say "ease of use", we usually mean "ease of learning." If you&#x
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My chatbot builder is over-engineered and I love it(fastmind.ai)
58 points by jamwt 2y ago|13 comments
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by jamwt 2y ago
Agree. If you want a fully reactive database (and not just hierarchy-based reactivity like Firebase) but want to keep your ACID + relational data modeling, check out https://convex.dev . Plug notice: this is my company.
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by jamwt 3y ago
Hi there. Another Convex cofounder here. SiteGuide ( https://siteguide.ai/ ) was the first to do vector embeddings with Convex, built by integrating Convex + Pinecone. This combination has been an increasingly common pattern
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by jamwt 3y ago
Yes, way less effort
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by jamwt 4y ago
> doesn’t explain what the data model it is proposing actually is in concrete terms. Fair enough. The goal of the post wasn't necessarily to comprehensively describe the product–so the specifics of what we provide are found elsewher
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by jamwt 4y ago
Article author here. Agree this is a necessary part of the change. Convex is working on our OSS strategy this year. Thanks for the feedback!
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by jamwt 4y ago
Article author here. It's not new "in the world", but often new to our users, who understand it less intuitively than pessimistic locking. Unless they're using Haskell or probably other very exotic environments with stri
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by jamwt 4y ago
Also, yes, great pickup re: transactional memory. We talk about this internally all the time, this is the inspiration. Haskell: IO -> STM -> (pure) Convex: (The browser / Convex Actions / other effectful environments) ->
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by jamwt 4y ago
Hi there Michael! We continue to love nomad. SQL is the C ABI of querying for sure. BI tools will never adapt to use Convex directly, and nor should they. So... yes, Convex actually had a prototype SQL adapter for the read side of things ba
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by jamwt 4y ago
Folks for whom TypeScript is a big part of their project are going to be the most natural fit for Convex. But no, not necessarily exclusively TypeScript. For example, the existence of the Python client library is due to developer demand. So
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by jamwt 4y ago
Article author here. > It may actually be fine to just require everything to be typescript, but the idea that you'd require your application be written in the same language as your data store, and thus implement a different data sto
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by jamwt 4y ago
Article author here -- DuckDB is indeed cool. Another interesting bit of work in this space is LINQ on the microsoft side of things. And even list comprehensions end up having a scanning/summing language kind of feel to them that would
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by jamwt 4y ago
Article author here, yep, that was the intended point. Agree the wording was unclear, and there's a footnote now clarifying that. Thanks!
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by jamwt 4y ago
Article author, here. Good point -- but the article actually proposes document relational, not hierarchical. Relational is definitely good!
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by jamwt 4y ago
Exercise hard in the morning. At 8:30p: Last big glass of water. Put phone on charger in non-bedroom and don’t touch until 7a. Keep the lights low and warm. Do low stimulation activities like reading fiction or watching semi-boring TV or ch
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by jamwt 4y ago
Yep and every lock is a spinlock. ;-)
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by jamwt 4y ago
(Founder / CEO of Convex here) Hi Shawn. I don't remember you bringing this up when we spoke in person recently, but it's a great question. In our opinion, the very best way to evaluate yourself as a backend developer is how
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by jamwt 4y ago
Convex | https://convex.dev | San Francisco 3/2 hybrid ONSITE| Front-end engineers, full-stack engineers Convex is a rapidly growing startup aiming to change the way the web is built. Specifically, we're creating a Glo
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by jamwt 4y ago
Pretty different approach, but with many application architectures today you can move beyond "hosting" into pure serverless with a stack like Vercel + Convex ( https://convex.dev ) In the news today: https://w
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by jamwt 4y ago
Unregulated capitalism. Regulation limits how much information/expertise disparity can tip the scales. It doesn't prevent it altogether (nor is that a constructive objective), but limits it so the distribution between the winners
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by jamwt 5y ago
As one of those other team members of James's, I'd profess that if it's literally less than 50 lines of code, I'm probably still faster in Python (22 years of programming python). Otherwise, once things hit 200-300 lines
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A Tale of Three Codebases(blog.convex.dev)
24 points by jamwt 5y ago|4 comments
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by jamwt 5y ago
Convex | San Francisco (3/2 hybrid ONSITE) | Full-Time | https://convex.dev We're a rapidly-growing team building a next-generation development platform for dynamic serverless applications. We have a ton of interesting
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Seven Lessons from Ten Outages(downtimeproject.com)
34 points by jamwt 5y ago|2 comments
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by jamwt 5y ago
Zerowatt Inc. | Lead Web Developer / Evangelist | Full-time | San Francisco (3/2 Hybrid ONSITE) We're a brand new startup building a serverless platform--a new kind of "Cloud Operating System", composed of storage +
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by jamwt 5y ago
Heh, and the last time the podcast published an episode about an Auth0 outage, Auth0 had another outage the next day. Now Slack follows shortly after an episode. How eerie!
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by jamwt 5y ago
This is crazy timing -- my co-host and I just released a Podcast episode yesterday sifting through the details about the Auth0 database-related outage from 2018 ( https://downtimeproject.com/ ). I'll be curious to see

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