solidninja

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by solidninja 2y ago
Dioxus is the only web-platform technology toolkit that I see having the ability to be cross-platform and use Javascript as little as possible - glad to see their native WGPU rendering stack progress (check out the videos by Nico Burns on B
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by solidninja 2y ago
> CHOP isn't just the future, it's the present. And if you're not using it, you're starting to fall behind the ones who are. Be that as it may, the reason I got into software development as a kid was because I wanted
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by solidninja 2y ago
Thank you for writing this - it is more detailed that I could come up with! I would like to add that I feel like functional approaches are more the "future" of programming than trying to iterate over imperative ones to make them a
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by solidninja 2y ago
It's a balance but IMO there should be no realistic concept of "winning the market". If it gets to that point then sure the company is probably making a lot of money but they also have the power to squeeze as much as they can
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by solidninja 2y ago
> a “if you were on an elevator with Marc Andreessen” question Were they looking for a nice local newspaper story about a misdemeanor assault?
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by solidninja 2y ago
This resonates very strongly with me - I am happy there are other people writing about this. It may not change the course of society but we need to fight for things worth fighting for and not give in to the system.
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by solidninja 2y ago
The only winning move is not to play :)
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by solidninja 2y ago
Unless of course the only corporations allowed to exercise free speech rights were collectives of workers :)
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by solidninja 2y ago
There's a quantity argument to be made here - before, it used to be hard to generate large amounts of plausible but incorrect text. Now it easy. Similar to surveillance before/after smartphones + the internet - you had to have a p
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by solidninja 2y ago
They lost a lawsuit as far as I can see: https://infosec.exchange/@SteamDB/113208423939527370 so they pretty much had to change it.
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by solidninja 2y ago
Ah words hardly mean anything these days. It very clearly is terrorism but you won't ever hear any politician in the west calling it that.
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by solidninja 2y ago
In my experience, using tools that do not support the "Go To Implementation" shortcut makes it hard. In IntelliJ, Ctrl+Shift+Click will take you to the possible implementors of an interface. Concrete example from work today - we h
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by solidninja 2y ago
The problem is manual wiring (as always). It is fairly convenient to declare the source of your dependencies (somewhere around main) and have them be automatically wired in the sub-component graph, all without having to write out the chains
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by solidninja 2y ago
I'm always fascinated by the amount of comments that devalue separating concerns and reducing coupling by using traits and modules. Maybe if you're exclusively writing serverless functions you don't need much code anyway, but
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by solidninja 2y ago
No, it exists because of all must bow to the deity of increasing shareholder value. Remember that good product is not necessarily equal or even a subset of the easy to sell product. Only once the incentives are aligned towards building qual
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by solidninja 2y ago
Is there a study of "smooth"/"stable" "AI" algorithms - i.e. if you feed them input that is "close" then then the output is also "close"? (smooth as in smoothly differentiable/stab
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by solidninja 2y ago
That still needs discipline though - or you end up with N half-finished Confluence pages describing the intention behind the design, all of which are now out of date (and naturally in completely different places). The best way I've see
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by solidninja 2y ago
What are the significant downsides of the first approach in your experience?
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by solidninja 2y ago
Probably a lot of that is to do with the short-term profit mindset. There is tons of software that is far from optimal, breaks frequently and has a massive impact on human lives (think: medical record systems, mainframes at banks, etc.). No
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by solidninja 2y ago
It comes back to the work itself being interesting and whether you actually care about the field that you are working in. I would not like to live in a world where you have to put in 80 hours a week to get a decent salary as an expert. It&#
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by solidninja 2y ago
I think the target here is low-power peripherals rather than speedy peripherals, and the price is very nice for that :)
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by solidninja 2y ago
Well maybe "taking over the market" is also a monopolistic and anti-competitive practice and if we had say, working regulation that forbade the existence of these behemoth companies then the landscape of value would look a little
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by solidninja 2y ago
Ah the "move fast and break things" philosophy gets a demonstration.
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by solidninja 2y ago
The parallels with abstracting over the effect type and Free(r) monads are really apparent if you've had exposure to that style of programming. As you said, the benefit is that you can separate the business logic (what you want to do)
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by solidninja 2y ago
Full-Time or Contract Location: UK Remote: Yes or Hybrid (London) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Spark, SQL, Postgres, Kafka, Protobuf, Arrow, Linux, Scala, Rust, C#, .NET Core, AWS, GCP LinkedIn: https://www
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by solidninja 2y ago
This reminds me of the excellent talk "Constraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqmsQeSzMdw that is more about doing the programming rather than planning it as in the article, but
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by solidninja 2y ago
Full-Time or Contract Location: UK Remote: Yes or Hybrid (London) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Spark, SQL, Postgres, Kafka, Protobuf, Arrow, Linux, Scala, Rust, C#, .NET Core, AWS, GCP LinkedIn: https://www.li
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by solidninja 2y ago
Indeed - I do not think it is a coincidence that a lot of production experiments in effect systems are happening in Scala right now - the language is very flexible to conduct them. https://github.com/getkyo/kyo in part
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by solidninja 3y ago
Location: United Kingdom Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Scala, Rust, Java; Kafka, gRPC, NATS; PostgreSQL, Snowflake, BigQuery; AWS, GCP Email: vladimir+hn AT solidninja DOT is LinkedIn: https://ww
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by solidninja 3y ago
Static typing can replace input validation though - if you make illegal states unrepresentable. That way you bake validation into your types e.g. using refined types: https://blog.rockthejvm.com/refined-types/ in Scala

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