louisvgchi

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by louisvgchi 5y ago
You don’t need to know about integration to make a platformer. That’s an absurd thing to say. I think this is called gatekeeping. “You couldn’t possibly participate in X without first having these credentials that I specify.”
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by louisvgchi 5y ago
There’s a 90’s style browser in Haskell here for demo purposes. Lacks JS. https://github.com/chrisdone/vado
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by louisvgchi 5y ago
I’ve seen this message over and over again because I have a hacker news RSS feed of the word “spreadsheet”. I’ve flagged this post because it feels like Groundhog Day with this spam. Stop please!
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by louisvgchi 5y ago
How do you plan to make money? Consulting?
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by louisvgchi 5y ago
I guess I can add Notion to my list of companies that ignore its customers unless shamed on social media. One to avoid.
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by louisvgchi 5y ago
You shouldn’t have to publicly shame a company on hacker news to make them be baseline level good to their customers. But many tech companies are like that once they scale up.
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by louisvgchi 5y ago
Having no say in having to use any piece of software is a straightforward way to make people hate it.
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by louisvgchi 5y ago
I do think of tests as a kind of double accounting.
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by louisvgchi 5y ago
How do you plan to make money and sustain vitality from this open source offering? Open source has a lot of overhead, and if you offer “enterprise” versions, others will compete with you, or worse, Amazon may offer your service for free as
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by louisvgchi 5y ago
I liked the part where they talked about the blocks with the blocks and the block blocks and how they all block together. I thought the reference to field pioneers was a bit much, I wouldn’t have the blocks to do that with a straight face.
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by louisvgchi 5y ago
Would you like to set permissions per column? Read-write-modify?
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by louisvgchi 5y ago
What in particular did you not like about their API?
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by louisvgchi 5y ago
Bubble sort was perfectly natural to me before I learned about algorithms. I think your “fairly strong collection of evidence” is weak. We teach it because it’s a study in how not to sort, most of the time.
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by louisvgchi 5y ago
Similar things said of Drupal.
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by louisvgchi 5y ago
Why moving away from AirTable? Pricing or feature set?
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by louisvgchi 5y ago
As someone developing essentially a competitor to Excel-and-PowerQuery/M, I find all this very interesting. My language is strict and statically typed. However, after arrays (tables are arrays of records conceptually) exceed a certain
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by louisvgchi 5y ago
How many rows does this support in a table before it starts becoming too slow? The cloud version. What’s the practical upper limit? 10k, 100k, 1million?
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by louisvgchi 5y ago
You can also read The Economist as a report for middle class and above capitalists with disposal income to track where world events and trends are going in order to make good investments and business decisions. At the end of the newspaper i
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by louisvgchi 6y ago
UK has higher standards for livestock than EU, esp. related to well being and roaming space; which is partly why it is very difficult for UK farmers to compete with almost anywhere else. I think you mischaracterize the disparity of standard
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by louisvgchi 6y ago
Your link contradicts you. Says such a deal with Swiss will do little to reverse the exodus to Paris and Amsterdam, some 96% moved straight to EU on day of Brexit, and regulations will probably make it prohibitive to manage financial assets
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by louisvgchi 6y ago
Dave Chang has a small scene in one of his Ugly Delicious (great show, by the way) episodes where he gets a group of non-Asian Americans, who claim to be MSG-allergic, to come and share their stories of MSG-related symptoms after eating at
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by louisvgchi 6y ago
I'm very happy with Stripe's API; it's one of their best selling points. I'm very unhappy with their support, which is automated by bots and I've gone around in circles with such a bot. Unfortunately their support p
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by louisvgchi 6y ago
Instagram and YouTube are examples of algorithms optimizing the wrong thing. Whatever you like, it gives you more of it. More moreness, to the point people find themselves in dark echo chambers. Eventually you stop seeing contrary opinions
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by louisvgchi 6y ago
Rust is not running in the context of JavaScript. It's running on WebAssembly, which has no garbage collector.
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by louisvgchi 6y ago
I've also read both books. It's a good exploration into the minds of spiders and octopuses, if given "uplift". A recent study I read about shows that spider intelligence is ill-studied but actually holds a wealth of inte