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by joeatwork 11mo ago
It will run locally in a web browser, it’s open source and if I recall correctly the authors provide a downloadable way to serve it from your local machine.
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by joeatwork 1y ago
The page doesn’t say it, but this is why adding redundant safety systems and defense in depth stops working after a while - such systems end up running with (acceptable, unobserved) “holes” after a while - the more complex the system, the h
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by joeatwork 1y ago
Even if you’re not interested in making your own music with Strudel, this site is worth a visit for the showcase. A lot of folks are making a lot of interesting music with it!
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by joeatwork 2y ago
I think this is part of a lighter weight Kubernetes alternative.
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by joeatwork 2y ago
Palladium magazine is published by The American Governance Foundation. I couldn’t find out much about it by Googling, does anybody know what its deal is?
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by joeatwork 2y ago
UXN / Varvara (a project by these folks) is something really special https://100r.co/site/uxn.html - an approach to creating intelligible software by applying strict complexity constraints, sort of like Viewpoint
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by joeatwork 2y ago
I ran the interview team for TripleByte FastTrack early on (I’m not part of or in touch with the otherbranch folks) and I’m excited to see something like it return! The program was good at uncovering different sorts of engineering excellenc
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by joeatwork 2y ago
Software tools backed by businesses that target enterprises have very strong pressures towards obscurity, complexity, and generally optimizing for institutional goals and away from development experience and effectiveness. As tools that get
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by joeatwork 2y ago
Something this article leaves out is that mostly, when people are given better tools, they don’t just produce more widgets per unit time: often instead they build different (more complex, better) widgets. When I was in school I read a study
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by joeatwork 2y ago
This movie is a lot of fun, and a great window into its moment.
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by joeatwork 2y ago
I have managed to make a lot of these mistakes, and they’re lead to scary outages and bummers. This is a pretty great article.
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by joeatwork 2y ago
Getting recursive functions into ALGOL turns out to have been a controversial move that made for a fun story: https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/how-recursion-got-...
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by joeatwork 2y ago
An alternative query language for PostgreSQL would be a wonderful thing! But it isn’t clear that’s what this is.
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by joeatwork 3y ago
This isn’t an open source project (which isn’t a bad thing! Just a non-obvious thing if you don’t scroll down their whole readme)
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by joeatwork 3y ago
If I’m reading this correctly, the Frink language has similar features (and also seems darn useful!) https://frinklang.org/
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by joeatwork 3y ago
There are a bunch of common workloads (including i’m guessing HN itself) where the trade offs for distributed databases make them a lot harder to use well, or where distributed databases don’t make sense.
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by joeatwork 3y ago
I’m not seeing “require” in this document. It looks like the document is proposing education and funding for memory safe projects here.
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by joeatwork 3y ago
slow clap
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Rotatingsandwiches.com Wins the Tiny Awards(twitter.com)
2 points by joeatwork 3y ago|0 comments
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by joeatwork 3y ago
I think the poster means that adding null is a big, substantial change to the interface - if you have a function that used to not make sense with a null argument, and then it suddenly does make sense with a null, then the function has chang
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by joeatwork 3y ago
_why offered a vision of computing, art and delight that we could maybe use more of nowadays. For more reference see “This Hack Was Not Properly Planned” here: https://web.archive.org/web/20080512050317/http:/
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Ask HN: How do I get Good at Cable Management?
9 points by joeatwork 3y ago|8 comments
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by joeatwork 3y ago
You should read this if you’re a programmer or someone who makes things. It’s fun and silly, but also makes an important point - the stuff you build is giving somebody power, and if that somebody isn’t some form of everybody, then maybe y
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by joeatwork 3y ago
If this project interests you but is a bit more minimal than you need, the Janet language is a slightly-less but still pretty lightweight embeddable Lisp with a strong library and community: https://janet-lang.org/
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by joeatwork 3y ago
This one, in Italian, is really exciting! Thank you so much for making it!
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by joeatwork 3y ago
This is magical! Thank you!
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by joeatwork 3y ago
I think it checks every box except “minimize the number of functions exposed”. Also, if your reasons for minimizing number of functions is about usability and complexity, then many functions that are all easily understood at once (and easy
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by joeatwork 3y ago
I wish there were more books in this mold (reimplementing interesting or foundational systems in ways intended for humans to read and understand). I feel the like systems that would admit this sort of thing are important systems. I’d love t
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by joeatwork 3y ago
I know it isn’t really appropriate to the spirit of the article, but it seems like in this case there is a right answer, and it’s “Fully separate object types” - it’s explicit, prevents errors, is complete, and while it requires a lot of ty
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by joeatwork 3y ago
I’ve been messing with Janet for a few (maybe 10?) days and I’ve already found a few uses for sh/$ scripts and peg grammar- it hasn’t quite replaced awk for me yet but it’s getting there.

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