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by merlinsbrain 5y ago
There are guidelines for what Show HN is supposed to be. This site pretty much fits the bill. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html > Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users
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by merlinsbrain 6y ago
Another interesting quote: “ Following this approach, in our model we consider the message encryption scheme used in MTProto 2.0 as a robust authenticated-encryption scheme, abstracting from its actual implementation.” So yeah, they’re abst
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by merlinsbrain 6y ago
I’m not very vested in a solution at the moment, but if I had a set of users < 500, the flat pricing of Magic Link kind of makes more sense to me, I don’t want to be worrying about how many times they sign in. That being said, I can imag
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by merlinsbrain 6y ago
What would your pricing be? Starter pack at $35/month for 500 users sounds like $35/month and I outsource auth to a company that is also on the hook for “enterprise” security :) I think it’s awesome you’re building an alternative
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by merlinsbrain 6y ago
Theoretically, ReScript will support ReasonML syntax, and theoretically ReasonML can still be used for native development. The messaging isn't clear on ReasonML's future at ALL though. Is it essentially deprecated until the full s
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by merlinsbrain 6y ago
At that point it’s just a license to use. MIT isn’t going to fly anymore if the intention is to make money off of that.
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How to Learn Cryptography as a Programmer(soatok.blog)
3 points by merlinsbrain 6y ago|0 comments
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by merlinsbrain 6y ago
Hard disagree. I’d encourage you to reflect on your startup’s culture and figure out what distinguishes a good engineer from a good engineer who can convince you about their passion. Usually, it’s when startups want employees to work longer
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by merlinsbrain 6y ago
Whiteboarding algorithm puzzles with code really does not define the greatness of an engineer. If people are practicing questions to be able to think along those lines and that is proven to work, maybe it really isn’t a test of greatness an
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by merlinsbrain 6y ago
If Wapnick’s work resonates with you, you might enjoy Barbara Sher’s Refuse to Choose. [0] Sher is the author who “coined“ the “scanner” term. [0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/287818.Refuse_to_Choose_
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by merlinsbrain 6y ago
Also, I can really see the appeal of electron now (from a development standpoint). It really is Qt vs Electron if you want to ship a product that makes money - something I am paying for is expected to have a lot of these "features&quot
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by merlinsbrain 6y ago
Yeah, I guess the key is the last part of your last sentence, heh > the most well financed..
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by merlinsbrain 6y ago
I have been playing with Dear Imgui lately, and while its super easy to get up and running, I realized it doesn't have support for zoom (cmd +) and accessibility (unless I missed something). It seems like those features are out of scop
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by merlinsbrain 6y ago
Looks cool! I wonder how this compares to Dear Imgui in terms of features. (I understand this may not be an immediate mode toolkit, so not really discussing that side of things) Would the usual competitor to this be JUCE?
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by merlinsbrain 6y ago
This isn’t too compelling a story on its own, I’m assuming this is someone who wrote a collection for themselves and made it public on their blog. Glad they wrote their collection, but not something I’m excited about. In general I’d love to
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by merlinsbrain 6y ago
Thank you dang, you've been an amazing steward for this community and the technology that powers it. Keeping something the way it is, is super hard in tons of ways a lot of us probably don't understand. We appreciate you.
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by merlinsbrain 6y ago
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. Scaling systems at companies with a lot of money is very different from designing system to be reliable and performant and with reducing spend being a real goal. Some companies need to take a much harder
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by merlinsbrain 6y ago
Written in X can definitely be a value proposition. If you are evaluating a tool/lib/etc that moves at a fast pace and your whole shop is extremely fluent in language X there's huge value add to being able to dive in without
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by merlinsbrain 6y ago
> Why start if you have no intention to see it through The author had a threshold of good feedback they needed from the community in a certain amount of time. They got the feedback they needed - people aren't interested in it, proba
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by merlinsbrain 6y ago
Are you looking for the log module, but with a UI on top of it (something like splunk, but for local development)?
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Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2016)(bottomupcs.com)
618 points by merlinsbrain 7y ago|76 comments
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by merlinsbrain 7y ago
The comparison of pay between what PhD students get in the US vs other countries is plain silly. It’s apples to oranges, the cost of living can be an order of magnitude different, which is not mentioned even once, favoring the absolute numb
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by merlinsbrain 7y ago
That is a potential reason. What is certain is your passive-aggressive shot at another users reading choices that doesn’t contribute much value.
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by merlinsbrain 7y ago
If you’re willing to pay, why not rent from the iTunes Store / Amazon Prime? Pick one, they’ve had all the movies / TV shows I wanted to watch, which are not all mainstream. If there’s an exception and there’s something you don’t
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by merlinsbrain 7y ago
Are you in school or publishing while in the industry? Always wondered how to do the latter without a PhD and working with a Big N in their research org.
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Computer Science from the Bottom Up(bottomupcs.com)
1 points by merlinsbrain 7y ago|0 comments
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by merlinsbrain 7y ago
I’ll concur with this thought. It’s inspiring but there’s nothing really to take forward from there. It’s like a talk from a motivational speaker - it’ll get you into that desirable state of mind for a little bit, but won’t help you change
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by merlinsbrain 7y ago
The link doesn’t work, I’m interested to read it though.
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by merlinsbrain 7y ago
There’s a pretty clear distinction between slack and telegram - telegram offers a secure messenger channel with private messages. Slack does not do this, and publicly does not plan on doing this. The parent comment is requesting that an ex
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by merlinsbrain 7y ago
Seems like a bold move to me regardless if the engineers are 20 or 50 or 90.

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