tony_landis's comments

tony_landis | 8 months ago | on: What explains the liberal-conservative happiness gap?

Perhaps what they really measured was honesty.

tony_landis | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: All-in-one AI web assistant (open-source)

Any plans for local LLMs?

Thanks for making this!

tony_landis | 2 years ago | on: American Consumer Sentiment Just Logged Its Biggest Jump in Decades

The principle at play may be not to trust the broad sentiment of the crowd as a reliable signal of where things are headed.

tony_landis | 2 years ago | on: Wayfair CEO tells employees to 'work longer hours' in year-end email

Looks like most of it comes from being awarded stock. Founders don’t get more stock generally.

tony_landis | 2 years ago | on: We wrote the OpenAI Wanderlust app in pure Python using Solara

I’m curious what are you thinking the advantages of using an AI only agent for this? For example, compared to Anywhere.com, where human experts are the agents.

tony_landis | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Inquery (YC W23) – Real-time events for Postgres

What are the specific requirements postgres must soppprt? Any extensions or pl language support needed?

tony_landis | 4 years ago | on: Next.js 10.2

I like having the choice, for us immer and context usually is all we need beyond state & props so would not like to be forced into something opinionated. Free to choose just like you decide how to interface with your backend/state. Don’t turn this into a rails or danjo, please :)

tony_landis | 9 years ago | on: Kayak founder Paul English launches a new concierge travel venture

Check out www.anywhere.com. No app needed.

tony_landis | 11 years ago | on: Peru: The Future of Gastronomy

This is no exaggeration. Peruvian is by far my favorite cuisine.

tony_landis | 11 years ago | on: ClojureScript development environment with Vim

Thanks Astashov for the very comprehensive guide.

tony_landis | 11 years ago | on: Fotopedia is shutting down

Does anyone have the owner's contact? If so please put me in touch at tonylandis-at-gmail, I am interested in purchasing.

tony_landis | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: MTailor – Get measured by your iPhone's camera for a custom shirt

Just curious how long delivery takes. I made a test order 7-10 days ago and am holding off going to norstroms.

tony_landis | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Bitfuture – Lock in the Bitcoin exchange rate

Good luck with the project. I suggest getting these details on the front page above the signup.

tony_landis | 12 years ago | on: DataScript – Datomic in ClojureScript

A seamless datomic <-> clojurescript client/service framework is needed. I am just getting started with Om and hope to experiment with some ideas in that space. I don't think REST is the right approach. I would like to abstract everything to an AVET or sequence thereof.

tony_landis | 12 years ago | on: Viber Replaces MongoDB with Couchbase

Couchbase is based on CouchDB, which I have used. I've commented on it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6690607

tony_landis | 12 years ago | on: Poll: How many hours a day are you looking at a screen?

If you are in front of a screen after dark, http://justgetflux.com is invaluable.

tony_landis | 12 years ago | on: MariaDB 10.0 Beta launched

Oh I have, and I like it so much that I feel like mentioning all the time. So I was pleased with my self-restraint here ;)

tony_landis | 12 years ago | on: Datomic Pro Starter Edition

Generally speaking, five year olds should not be choosing databases for anything critical. But I agree that Datomic and company can do better with their marketing and general product description.

Here is one of the better explanations I have seen:

http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/programming/datomic-for-...

tony_landis | 12 years ago | on: MariaDB 10.0 Beta launched

I am pleased to see that the traditional SQL databases are still advancing. Having used various NoSQL databases, I always miss the declarative nature of SQL.

I have to agree that MariaDB's main stronghold being MySQL drop in. The other MySQL drop in out there is MemSQL, which is closed and they really keep pricing under wraps.

TokuDB is a great engine. I don't think Postgres has a storage engine that matches the benefits TokuDB brings, but other than that I don't see many benefits over Postgres for a new project, but haven't compared the replication features closely.

Migrating a big codebase to Postgres from MySQL can be kind of a pain unless everything wrapped everything in an ORM like sqlalchemy. The main pain point for me in a recent migration was how postgres handles mixed case in table/column names. Most of the function differences between the two are fairly easy to resolve.

Can anyone with experience with JSON in both Postgres and MariaDB make a comparison?

tony_landis | 12 years ago | on: Datomic Pro Starter Edition

I really like what the guys at cognitect are doing.