zaksingh

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by zaksingh 9mo ago
Miniswap | Founding Engineer | Full-time | ONSITE (hybrid) San Francisco | No visa sponsorships Miniswap is a marketplace for complex hobbies, starting with Warhammer. We're backed by Y Combinator and have just closed our seed funding
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by zaksingh 10mo ago
Congrats on the launch! I think this has a lot of potential in eliminating context-switching. DevTools has always felt unintuitive/unfamiliar coming from an IDE, so just bringing the IDE UX and vim keybindings over is already a big imp
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by zaksingh 2y ago
On the efficiency angle, I think a big difficulty here that isn’t often discussed is that many optimization strategies relevant to incremental compilation slow down batch compilation, and vice versa. For example, arena allocation strategies
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How Computers Work(cl.cam.ac.uk)
1 points by zaksingh 3y ago|0 comments
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What makes a good standard library?
4 points by zaksingh 4y ago|3 comments
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Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer Night at the Roxbury(youtube.com)
5 points by zaksingh 4y ago|1 comments
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by zaksingh 4y ago
I'm inclined to agree, especially as there are free alternatives for all major web browsers (although I can see that isn't the full feature set, I imagine its 90% of the use case for most people). $25 feels like the max I'd c
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The SQLite Code of Ethics(sqlite.org)
306 points by zaksingh 4y ago|379 comments
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by zaksingh 5y ago
A big challenge with the React ecosystem is that it's the first technology many new developers work with. They don't have a frame of reference for what alternative approaches exist, and therefore 'best practices' are tak
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by zaksingh 5y ago
Asking for email after sign-in with Apple is against their TOS. At some point when you release an update they'll notice and require you to change this. (It happened to me ~6mo after we launched!)
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by zaksingh 5y ago
So from what I can tell this is conceptually similar to the LiveView model, except that the problem is approached from the perspective of the SPA/client stack instead of the SSR stack. It’s a refreshing idea that I’ve never seen execut
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by zaksingh 5y ago
I've rarely seen alert() used in the past few years outside of as a means of harassing users on malware sites (have you ever accidentally clicked on a malicious ad on a mobile phone and struggled to escape the site due to alert() spam
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by zaksingh 5y ago
This book was one of the best parts of my CS degree. It's the only textbook which I read cover-to-cover because the writing and narrative were so cohesive. Highly recommend.
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Ask HN: How do you run your customers' apps?
2 points by zaksingh 6y ago|1 comments
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by zaksingh 6y ago
The biggest challenge I see with federated systems is the discovery process for finding a node you want to be associated with. This is a hard choice - will this server still be running in 6 months? How is it funded? Is it being actively mai
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Ask HN: How to Scale an API Globally?
1 points by zaksingh 6y ago|1 comments
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by zaksingh 6y ago
One nice moderation trick I've done for my company is building a slack integration that posts new reports into a dedicated channel, each of which has a "ban user" button. This way onboarding new moderators is as simple as add
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Ask HN: Is “No Code” the future of web/app dev?
47 points by zaksingh 6y ago|36 comments
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by zaksingh 6y ago
If you aren't already, I strongly recommend using union types for query results with inline fragments in your queries themselves. This handles both your auth/unauth case as well as error handling. This pattern isn't discussed
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by zaksingh 6y ago
That's not totally true, either. You can only use Stripe as an option if the service being paid for is delivered outside of the app (I.e. Uber, Ecommerce, etc). Any purely digital content must be paid for via in-app purchase and take t
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by zaksingh 6y ago
Was your CTO in prison? Very intrigued by this
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Ask HN: Do you use a mood tracker / journalling app? Why/why not?
2 points by zaksingh 6y ago|3 comments