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by tdfirth 8mo ago
Great post! I've worked on a few query generating systems of varying degrees of complexity, and SQL is pretty rough as a compilation target. I've spent more time than I'd have liked wrestling with queries as comparably ungodl
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by tdfirth 9mo ago
No rename symbol? What am I missing? It seems like a no brainer.
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by tdfirth 9mo ago
If you do backend web development in 99% of software companies then being very good at whatever your RDBMS is is a superpower. It's definitely worth learning SQL very well, but you also need to learn the data structures your RDBMS uses
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by tdfirth 9mo ago
Ha! I had not intended to imply that one is better than the other, but I am glad that it made you feel good :). I also came "from above".
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by tdfirth 9mo ago
I don’t think this is confusing to the vast majority of people writing Go. In my experience, the average programmer isn’t even aware of the stack vs heap distinction these days. If you learned to write code in something like Python then com
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by tdfirth 9mo ago
American hegemony, and all that.
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by tdfirth 9mo ago
I believe they change color to express emotion.
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by tdfirth 9mo ago
You're right. How naive of me.
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by tdfirth 9mo ago
Google kills Gemini cloud services is the best one. I can't believe I haven't seen that joke until today.
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by tdfirth 10mo ago
In my experience (I've put hundreds of billions of tokens through structured outputs over the last 18 months), I think the answer is yes, but only in edge cases. It generally happens when the grammar is highly constrained, for example
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Ask HN: Are LLMs an Acceptable Lisp?
6 points by tdfirth 1y ago|2 comments
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by tdfirth 2y ago
It should have always worked this way. Without this feature you take the algebra out of relational algebra. That's the root of most of the composition issues in SQL. Sadly it's a few decades too late though, and sadly this just fr
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by tdfirth 2y ago
The best strategy is to write a helper function in the console to click for you. Then invest heavily in the DVDs, DVD bounce rate, stimulation per bounce, and general SPS increases. I reached several quintillion stimulation, at which point
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by tdfirth 2y ago
This is a beautiful comment, and I couldn't agree more. There is only one standard of accomplishment and it's set by people like Mozart. Accepting that is humbling, but it's required to know yourself and grow. My contribution
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by tdfirth 2y ago
You're right that I didn't mean to communicate that, but it's a good point. I agree with you entirely that this is the big downside of YC and frankly all VC backed entrepreneurship. It is not the path of highest expected retu
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by tdfirth 2y ago
This is the process. They want people with high agency, a bias to action, and who make progress in the face of uncertainty.
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by tdfirth 2y ago
This was not my experience. I have no degree, I'm not American, and I applied back in October 2021 about 3 hours before the dead line and filmed my application video from a coffee shop. I didn't have a good network. I didn't
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Show HN: Nasty, a cross-warehouse, type-checked, unit-testable analytics library(getnasty.dev)
47 points by tdfirth 3y ago|6 comments
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by tdfirth 3y ago
I'm in the UK (Oxfordshire) and have a 1gb symmetrical connection at home. It's provided by Gigaclear - there's a handful of other similar operators that do fibre in more "rural" areas. It costs £79 a month, so it&#
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by tdfirth 3y ago
Don't overthink it, just get out there and talk to people. The more the better. In my experience, the limiting factor on day 1 is a lack of information, so your job is to learn until it's fairly obvious what to do. Thinking doesn&
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Cotera (YC W22) Is Hiring Engineers(ycombinator.com)
1 points by tdfirth 4y ago
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by tdfirth 5y ago
Congrats on the launch! It's a bit early for me to try out something like this but I'm keen on exploring a usage based pricing model for my product... I'll come knocking when the time is right :).
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by tdfirth 5y ago
This is similar to what I do (although I use esbuild), however like an idiot I just run tsc manually so obviously I forget sometimes and it takes 10 minutes to realise the build failed. Not great... I'm ashamed but it's just me on
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by tdfirth 5y ago
It's an alternative to the X window system: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/ Appreciate where you're coming from re the detail. It can be hard to know where to draw the line when explaining projects and it depends
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by tdfirth 5y ago
Cool, thanks for the reply! I hadn't considered the blueshifting part, that makes a lot of sense though. I also hadn't heard of Hubble's constant, which I am now learning about :). Very mysterious indeed.
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by tdfirth 5y ago
This is probably really dumb but I'm interested to hear people's reactions to yet another amateur dark energy theory. Could the observation that the universe is expanding actually be the result of a sort of gravitational lensing a
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by tdfirth 5y ago
Hope this is not off-topic but I just want to say that Kyriakos (the OP) is a great guy. He gave up some of his time earlier this week to help me and my co-founder prep for our YC interview. We didn't know him before this so I can only
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by tdfirth 5y ago
This isn't a criticism - I'm just curious to hear people's thoughts on this. When I look at this code, one of my initial reactions is that it does not seem to be very thoroughly tested. Sure, certain modules have been tested
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by tdfirth 5y ago
Hi, I'm Tom. I'm based in the UK (Oxford). I'm open to a remote co-founder but I'd prefer someone in the UK so we'd be able to meet in person and get to know each other. I've got a mixed background, I used to w
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by tdfirth 5y ago
I always go for a simple lisp interpreter. I think this covers a good range of techniques and gives you a pretty good feel for what is/isn't ergonomic in the language. I don't generally bother with features like macros etc, I

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