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by pushtheenvelope 2y ago
Devbox aims to solve this very problem: https://www.jetify.com/devbox
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Upgrade Your Development Environments with Devbox(alan.norbauer.com)
6 points by pushtheenvelope 3y ago|2 comments
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by pushtheenvelope 3y ago
blackr, if you'd allow a small plug: we develop https://jetpack.io/devbox for this very scenario. Devbox will give you the same project environment (packages, env-vars) on your work and home laptop. It leverages nix, a
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by pushtheenvelope 3y ago
yikes! thanks for pointing that out. The blog's renderer is confused too and renders the `#cowsay -- flakes are neat` as a comment. To explain what's happening: - The example above is running `nix run <flake output attribute&g
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by pushtheenvelope 3y ago
idk, someone (moderator?) changed it back ...
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by pushtheenvelope 3y ago
I love the analogy! I think this is a great strength of flakes. Packaging an application can sometimes have nuances that external folks may not be fully aware of and so having the packaging instructions (i.e. flake.nix) defined in the core
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by pushtheenvelope 3y ago
ah, yeah, we have a cheeky workaround for this in Devbox ;-) https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox/blob/main/internal/impl...
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by pushtheenvelope 3y ago
s/adopt/introduce done :)
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by pushtheenvelope 3y ago
Oh, it isn't intended to be provocative. The title is simply literally the question that I was thinking about a few months ago when working on Devbox, and wrote a version of this post internally to answer the question for myself!
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Why did Nix adopt Flakes?(jetpack.io)
121 points by pushtheenvelope 3y ago|67 comments
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by pushtheenvelope 4y ago
would you mind elaborating on the difference?
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by pushtheenvelope 6y ago
+1 in exact same situation
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by pushtheenvelope 7y ago
There is a very good presentation on the Case for Electronic Cash by Jerry Brito of the Coin Center non-profit. I highly recommend people watch it to understand why cash is important to preserve an open, liberal society. https://
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by pushtheenvelope 7y ago
seems like many self-driving car startups follow this model?
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by pushtheenvelope 7y ago
Why is it not sustainable that household wealth is > 500% of GDP? In the parlance of company finances, GDP is like revenue and wealth is the valuation representing the present value of all future profits. So, it seems fine to me that the
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Why Work on Private Crypto Finance(savil.in)
2 points by pushtheenvelope 7y ago|0 comments
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by pushtheenvelope 7y ago
that's a cynical view. Capitalism is the freedom to buy and sell from whoever you choose. If what you choose to sell is something so unique, you'll escape competition.
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by pushtheenvelope 7y ago
sure! lets do this exercise. 1. I did a google search of "site:news.ycombinator.com Foxconn in Wisconsin", and opened the top 3 links. 2. first link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19037625 . The top comment
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by pushtheenvelope 7y ago
I felt it was patronizing because the original article is about manufacturing progress in a country that has been notoriously behind the curve on manufacturing. Making iphones is not what one normally associates as a dirty or polluting indu
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by pushtheenvelope 7y ago
fair point - not sure why you are being downvoted. Lets say SF to Chicago, then? Its about 2000 miles. I was trying to illustrate a more general point that speed isn't necessarily the best or most optimal criteria even for long distanc
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by pushtheenvelope 7y ago
Nope - I don’t think there is, but the parent (to my original comment) seemed to be suggesting so
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by pushtheenvelope 7y ago
Your comment is rather patronising. Every year that goes by where India doesn't raise its standard of living, results in millions of stunted childhoods and lives. India needs all the manufacturing growth it can get. The equivalent to y
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by pushtheenvelope 7y ago
counter-intuitively, bullet trains offer a great alternative that airlines cannot: travelling from SF to NY in about 10-12 hours. 8 hours to sleep on a flat bed, and an hour or two for dinner and breakfast on either end. This would be far s
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by pushtheenvelope 7y ago
thank you thank you! wow, this brings back some childhood memories
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by pushtheenvelope 7y ago
i too love my SE. I used to have a 7, but was always too awkwardly big to hold or to put in my pocket. SE is the perfect size. It also has the benefit of helping me manage screen time -- i don't really wanna get sucked into long conten
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by pushtheenvelope 7y ago
> And I can assure you that however in the world you set up something backed by a fiat, its controlling government can step in and seize your collateral if and when it pleases and then you're screwed. hmm -- the collateral in this c
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by pushtheenvelope 7y ago
the bitcoin viewpoint is that being backed by energy consumption is a Good Thing. Its harder to manipulate than Proof-Of-Stake or other alternative consensus protocols. At a larger societal level, we should definitely be worried about tackl
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by pushtheenvelope 7y ago
this looks super neat! I've been wanting to make a graphql server framework that can run on lambdas, and will perhaps look into integrating with faast.
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by pushtheenvelope 7y ago
ooh that's a good question. I'd think of that on two levels: 1. a meta-level: all designs of systems have tradeoffs. There is no perfect system. So, by decentralizing we may have to tradeoff the ability to halt trading, in exchang
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by pushtheenvelope 7y ago
Your question is very valid and good. i think having it be decentralized is a good way to build trust and transparency. It also protects one against the marketplace-operator acting against the interests of or favoring any one party. Conside

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