rbnsl

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PSA: Stop starting startups on Firestore(engineering.traba.work)
8 points by rbnsl 2y ago|13 comments
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Ask HN: Does anyone actually use data structures/algorithms at work?
6 points by rbnsl 2y ago|12 comments
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by rbnsl 2y ago
“Existing modern languages already provide an excellent developer experience: Go, Swift, Kotlin, Rust, and many more. Developers that can use one of these existing languages should. Unfortunately, the designs of these languages present sign
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by rbnsl 2y ago
Thanks for all the sources! Especially surprised on the Google one, used to work there and remember hearing that considerable parts of Fuchsia ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsia_(operating_system) ) were written i
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by rbnsl 2y ago
Interesting, haven’t heard this viewpoint before of Rust being a drop in replacement for Java. From my limited experience with Rust it felt like the learning curve was way steeper than when I was learning Java for my previous job. Good poin
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by rbnsl 2y ago
The startup I work for is getting off a similar PaaS and evaluating Porter too; we really like the idea of the white glove service they have and flexibility across multiple clouds but was worried about general overhead in someone on the tea
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by rbnsl 2y ago
Yeah it really feels like once your hobby project actually starts making some money, they start charging you insane amounts to compensate the millions of other hobby projects they host that haven’t made a dime yet…
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Ask HN: Why would you ever use C++ for a new project over Rust?
32 points by rbnsl 2y ago|39 comments
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by rbnsl 2y ago
Pretty sure it’s still the case from recent convos I’ve had with friends in crypto, it’s just no one talks about it anymore because crypto is massively unrelevant right now
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by rbnsl 2y ago
What’s the alternative? I feel like the interface is so simple for non infra engineers who just want to get a hobbyist project off the ground. I mean sure it’s not going to have the bells and whistles of something like Porter or just going
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by rbnsl 2y ago
Definitely wild we’re in the timeline you can run a 1.1 bn param model on a raspberry pi, but its still tough to justify because the 1.1 is kinda useless compared to the beefier models. Sick for home builds/hobbyists though I might wan