vdijkbas

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by vdijkbas 4y ago
> This is why Nix is really just a front for bash. For all of its faults, at least bash is Turing-complete. Nix is Turing-complete. This was even sometimes considered a problem because it makes the language too powerful: https:/&#x
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Benchmarks: GHCJS (Reflex, Miso) and Purescript (Pux, Thermite, Halogen)(medium.com)
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by vdijkbas 9y ago
I wrote a PR[1] for NixOS that adds a postage service. Just add the following to your configuration.nix to enable a postage web server: { services.postage = { enable = true; connections = { "local" = "
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by vdijkbas 9y ago
Haxl is a powerful abstraction with IMHO a beatifuly simple implementation. However for our use case at LumiGuide (reading and writing registers of modbus devices) it wasn't simple enough. We just needed an abstraction for batching and
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by vdijkbas 9y ago
The nice thing about having many cyclists is that there's a high demand for cycle parking spaces which means you can run a good business guiding cyclists to available space. This is what we do at LumiGuide. See: https://bicy
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by vdijkbas 11y ago
At LumiGuide we use NixOS on our development machines as well as on all our production servers. I used ansible before but NixOS is on a whole different level. See the following for a story about a system we just deployed which uses NixOS:
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by vdijkbas 11y ago
That's me and my laptop :-) As I mentioned in the reddit comments we're using Haskell for most parts of the system (frontend via GHCJS, web application servers, protocol implementations). For dev-ops we use the Nix ecosystem: NixO
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by vdijkbas 11y ago
(I'm the CTO of LumiGuide who developed this system). We're currently not using the system for video surveillance. Images from the cameras are only stored in memory for a short period of time while being processed by our CV algori
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by vdijkbas 12y ago
Also see the slides of Simon's talk at ZuriHac 2014 last weekend: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/ZuriHac2014#Talk_by_Simon...