vincentdm

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by vincentdm 2y ago
We ( https://basil.net ) are not new and not a startup, but our main language is Clojure and each new project is written in it. Very satisfied with our choice.
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by vincentdm 2y ago
I don't like the prefix idea: besides the duplication of information, it also becomes a liability if you ever rename things. Imagine you prefix all customer IDs with `cus_`, but at some point decide to rename Customer to Organization i
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by vincentdm 4y ago
Here's a relevant article about it: https://www.economist.com/business/2023/02/20/global-firms-a... Some quotes: "under a weighty combination of commercial and political pressure, foreign compa
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by vincentdm 4y ago
I see some Clojure examples in the article. We use Clojure almost exclusively and this would be a great replacement for line-based Git diffs, providing much more insight in actual changes. Is there any chance such an alternative differ coul
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by vincentdm 4y ago
We adopted it in 2017 and got rid of it in 2021. It introduced a lot of complexity, while still leaving a lot of issues up to us to figure out. E.g. deployment strategies. Also: our main reason to adopt Kubernetes was to stay cloud-agnostic
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by vincentdm 5y ago
Cool! We built something similar for on-premise data sources, in Clojure. https://basil.net
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by vincentdm 6y ago
No they are a genuine lab with scientists; but I agree that the homepage is misleading.
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What if CEOs’ memos were clear and honest?(economist.com)
2 points by vincentdm 6y ago|0 comments
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by vincentdm 6y ago
I started a website for charitable gift vouchers where the recipient can choose from a very large and varied list of causes to donate to. It turns the receiver into an active participant. The nice thing is that both giver and receiver are l
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by vincentdm 6y ago
HN could allow the submitter to optionally configure up to 3 multiple choice questions about the article. A user would need to answer all of them correctly before being able to comment. An incorrect answer would add a delay of ~1h before th
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by vincentdm 7y ago
Thanks for sharing this, I had no idea about the existence of these things!
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by vincentdm 7y ago
Something I never understand when defence spending is compared: how do they account for differences in PPP and different levels of grease/corruption? E.g if the US spends twice as much as X on fighter planes, but they are built in an u
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Data API for Amazon Aurora Serverless(aws.amazon.com)
83 points by vincentdm 7y ago|19 comments
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by vincentdm 7y ago
This obituary turns an anonymous "Muslim victim" into the portrait of an admirable, wholesome human being, whom I can eerily relate to, despite being an atheist who is weary of Islam. I applaud that The Economist wrote this weekly
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by vincentdm 8y ago
As a Clojure user I very much agree with Rich's careful way of designing software. But in case of the Clojure language itself, I'd personally prefer a big-bang version 2.0 with significant backwards-incopatible changes to clear up
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by vincentdm 8y ago
Rich Hickey made a similar (but more clear) case against semantic versioning in his Spec-ulation keynote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk He advocates talking about "breakage" and "accretion"
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PEAR server is down(pear.php.net)
1 points by vincentdm 8y ago|0 comments
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by vincentdm 8y ago
Yes, I understand that, but it doesn't account for all the moving parts of the Lambda service (like container re-use, warmup time, deployment steps...) that have no local equivalent AFAIK. But maybe I'm overestimating their import
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by vincentdm 8y ago
Can someone explain the benefits of Datomic Ions? What problems is it supposed to solve and how does it compare to existing solutions? Also, what is the story regarding local development? (I also have this concern about AWS Lambda; it seems
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by vincentdm 8y ago
DocSolver | Clojure(Script) developer | 100% remote | full-time Check our vacancy for details and instructions to apply: https://www.docsolver.com/vacancy.html
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by vincentdm 8y ago
My experience is the reverse: I started a company with my 10+ years best friend, and it has been great. We even hauled another friend on board (he bought some shares, but we still have most of them). Most people I know complain that they do
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by vincentdm 8y ago
We're developing "boring" business applications intended for long (~10y) use: - Kubernetes: provides a good abstraction for running multiple apps and services in a cloud, without vendor lock-in. - Postgres: proven reliability
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by vincentdm 9y ago
Here's a great movie illustrating how the grid is balanced when a popular tv show ends and millions of people want a cup of hot tea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slDAvewWfrA
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by vincentdm 9y ago
We found a great remote developer using Github. For a while I had been keeping track of high quality repos which mentioned that the author was for hire. When we finally needed to hire a developer, I reached out to the first guy on the list,
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by vincentdm 9y ago
Funny thing is that they publicly own up to their performance problems in an unusual way: in their comparison with GitHub ( https://about.gitlab.com/comparison/ ) they list "Fast page load" as a feature that Gi
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by vincentdm 9y ago
Nice. Does anyone know their policy about following major new versions of Postgres? I want to launch an app using the new partitioning features of Postgres 10. I hope Aurora Postgres won't be indefinitely tied to a specific major versi
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by vincentdm 9y ago
Interesting article. I used to market such a CIS system to utilities, and indeed we considered them to be the most conservative of all. Nevertheless, their needs are very similar to those of energy utilities, but we found out how much the
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by vincentdm 10y ago
Mine is also Arq > Amazon Cloud Drive for online, but I also use Arq for backup to external drive. Online backup is hourly, HDD backup once every day.
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by vincentdm 10y ago
We built our (niche B2B) app on Bootstrap and keep getting compliments from customers about how good it looks. I don't mind that lots of graphic designers hate it; Bootstrap has provided tremendous value for us. I bought the templates
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by vincentdm 10y ago
I really like this addition. We store a lot of data for different customers, and most of our queries are only about data from a single customer. If I understand it correctly, if we would partition by customer_id, once the query planner is a

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