andremedeiros | 6 months ago | on: ChatGPT's Micro-cap Portfolio: Week 7
Curious to hear about what prompts power this.
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andremedeiros | 1 year ago | on: An ad giant wants to control your next TV's OS
I would 100% vote for you!
andremedeiros | 1 year ago | on: Microsoft TypeSpec
That's totally fair feedback. Particularly optionality having been removed from proto2 to proto3 is confusing.
andremedeiros | 1 year ago | on: Microsoft TypeSpec
The default transport (gRPC) certainly is, but HTTP RPC translation/gateways are easily generated.
andremedeiros | 1 year ago | on: Microsoft TypeSpec
Gotcha. I think this might be where Protobuf falls short because you have to "source" the tooling for all its different outputs, but support for OpenAPI 3.0 spec generation has existed for over a year.
andremedeiros | 1 year ago | on: Microsoft TypeSpec
What does this do that Protobuf doesn't?
andremedeiros | 1 year ago | on: AWS CEO to Step Down
Amazon is great at a lot of things, but AI and Machine Learning aren't it. From what I saw when I worked there, they don't have the talent to produce their own models (which is, I think, what we all expected to see), but the surprising thing is that they haven't partnered yet.
andremedeiros | 2 years ago | on: Online harms bill would create a new hate-crime offence, impose big fines
I lived in Ottawa at the time these protests were going on. These people weren’t there to protest. They were there to antagonize.
andremedeiros | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is the best thing you learnt or got out of Hacker News?
There's an HN post that takes first place on my bookmarks bar, which is an Ask HN about the best paper people read in 2020 [^1]. Every once in a while I'll open it and browse through a ton of amazing papers and research and try to learn something new. Hasn't let me down yet.
andremedeiros | 2 years ago | on: Netflix doesn’t give you an in-app option to disable promotional notifications
Normal and acceptable are two very different things. Another post from earlier mentioned other shady practices from them, so I wanted to bring this up too.
andremedeiros | 2 years ago | on: Netflix doesn’t give you an in-app option to disable promotional notifications
I got tired of getting pings from Netflix, so I finally opened the app and tried looking for the setting to disable them. Apparently they opt you in to these by default, and the only way to disable them, according to the help article, is through the OS’ settings directly.
andremedeiros | 2 years ago | on: Apollo Back end just made public
Keep in mind that this isn’t rooted in any specific best practices. It just felt right.
andremedeiros | 2 years ago | on: Apollo Back end just made public
The Reddit API usage is as efficient as it can be, server wise, although I’d like to be proven wrong by them.
As far as the app goes, an average of ~330 reqs/user/day is pretty good, considering they built the platform budgeting for 86,400.
andremedeiros | 2 years ago | on: Apollo Back end just made public
HN is a whole other beast. A notification server would have to keep track of any replies to any of your comments / submissions in order to determine what to notify you about, purely because they don’t have a notification model.
andremedeiros | 2 years ago | on: Apollo Back end just made public
All the comments in this thread are right. This specific scenario was about providing a consistent experience. All the work that this backend does could be done using iOS’ background updates, but:
1. Those aren’t consistently scheduled 2. They have an extremely tight deadline (and sometimes Reddit can be a bit slow)
Making it server side means we controlled that experience better.
andremedeiros | 2 years ago | on: Apollo Back end just made public
I would demolish a couple hot dogs right about now…
andremedeiros | 2 years ago | on: Apollo Back end just made public
Theoretically it could do it all from the app, but it would have to resort to background updates, which are scheduled at iOS’ discretion. Christian was aiming for consistency, which is why this exists.
andremedeiros | 2 years ago | on: Apollo Back end just made public
This is bang on.
andremedeiros | 2 years ago | on: Apollo Back end just made public
I promise you this is very much what’s running in production.
andremedeiros | 2 years ago | on: Apollo Back end just made public
This is an amazing way to look at it. Thank you for your perspective <3
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