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agundy | 1 year ago | on: Is it better to fail spectacularly?

Boston has two modes of entry, qualifying time or meeting a fundraising goal of something like $5,000. I suspect 5:29 runners are fundraisers.

agundy | 2 years ago | on: Rethinking serverless with FLAME

Looks like a great integrated take on carving out serverless work. Curious to see how it handles the server parts of serverless like environment variables, db connection counts, etc.

One potential gotcha I'm curious if there is a good story for is if it can guard against code that depends on other processes in the local supervision tree. I'm assuming since it's talking about Ecto inserts it brings over and starts the whole apps supervision tree on the function executor but that may or may not be desired for various reasons.

agundy | 2 years ago | on: My favorite Erlang program (2013)

This universal server is a process listening for a message with a function and then it executes that function here the function is just a different infinite server turning a running process into something new. I think it shows off the power of erlang processes and the ability to pass functions to replace running processes with new behavior without changing pids.

agundy | 2 years ago | on: Apple Maps Gradually Winning over Google Maps Users, Report Suggests

Two more things that annoy me about Google Maps

- Related to the routes make more sense, Google seems to prefer side streets to save one minute but then you get dumped back on the main road not at the light and need to cross traffic and might lose your minute back just waiting for a chance to cross. I'd much prefer a main route with a light that guarantees a safe turn.

- Google Maps advertisements on the map. No I don't want to see a Whole Foods with a sale two miles away over other landmarks.

agundy | 3 years ago | on: Signal Introduces Stories

Great context, though from an end user's perspective it was clear why and just left hanging with "find a new SMS messaging". The integration made adoption/integrating new users easier by allowing some to have one messaging app with progressive security for contacts on Signal.

agundy | 3 years ago | on: Signal Introduces Stories

They recently announced they are removing Sms support on Android which feels vastly more useful for the non-tech crowd.

agundy | 3 years ago | on: 5 Years of Pop _OS

It sounds like they are taking a big bet on rewriting large components of the OS custom for Pop OS in Rust. I wish them the best but it sounds like a big commitment and I’m holding my breath for them to succeed.

I’m curious how System76 sees Pop_OS fitting into their business model which is primarily hardware.

agundy | 3 years ago | on: The Trouble with the Segway (2009)

I think that’s an interesting take! Segway’s do seem much less maneuverable than a scooter. You can navigate small gaps that a Segway which is wider than shoulder width couldn’t.

agundy | 4 years ago | on: Why America can’t build quickly anymore

Winter and salt are both hard on roads with lots of freeze thaw cycles putting cracks in the road. So Delaware is an apples and oranges comparison. Delaware is going to have a lot less winter wear on their roads.

agundy | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is Signal Down?

Isn’t Signal just groups and direct messages? Parler was a giant echo chamber where you can tumble down the rabbit hole, signal has no suggested groups or other broadcast to the word. Only broadcast to a channel opting into a conversation. Sure you can use it to coordinate and spread disinformation but it’s got a much lower viral spread.

agundy | 5 years ago | on: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?

This can be so confusing for non-tech literate people too. My mother asked me to help her, saying she was hacked because there was porn in her Google Drive.

It can be really difficult for non-power users to even understand why this is happening or what to do to fix this.

agundy | 7 years ago | on: From Show HN to Series D

The images aren't working for me. Looks like they are embedded straight from Dropbox Paper which is probably is not allowing hot linking.

agundy | 7 years ago | on: Chrome OS: Ready for Web Development [video]

Ran Ubuntu Desktop, nothing fancy, just had it always on and I never even worried about doing dynamic DNS, my internet provider basically never rotated IP's. Experimented with Crouton on the Chromebook but the switching and experience wasn't as great as just using pure ChromeOS. Surprisingly fast development environment for being off the host but college Wifi was reliable and fast and there weren't many hops to my desktop.
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