xmlblog | 5 months ago | on: Doing Rails Wrong
The comments are pretty convincing evidence that most people see only everyone else's complexity while slowly boiling in their own.
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xmlblog | 2 years ago | on: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
Rent-seeking, anyone?
xmlblog | 2 years ago | on: Datomic is Free
> "small-ish backoffice systems that never has to be web scale".
Doesn't production use of Datomic by Nubank and Netflix (to mention just two examples) belie this assertion?
xmlblog | 2 years ago | on: Datomic is Free
> If you have 10s or 100s of app servers that has the exact same working set in memory, it's probably not worth it.
The introduction of intelligent application-level partitioning [1] and routing schemes can help one balance cost and performance.
[1] https://blog.datomic.com/2023/04/implicit-partitions.html
xmlblog | 2 years ago | on: Datomic is Free
Having the working set present on app servers means they don't put load on a precious centralized resource which becomes a bottleneck for reads. The peer model allows app servers to service reads directly, avoiding the cost of contention and an additional network hop, allowing for massive read scale.
xmlblog | 2 years ago | on: Datomic is Free
Newer releases have improved significantly in this area. It's now possible to understand perf implications with the addition of io-stats[1] and query-stats[2].
[1] https://docs.datomic.com/pro/api/io-stats.html [2] https://docs.datomic.com/pro/api/query-stats.html
xmlblog | 2 years ago | on: Datomic is Free
Free beer binaries are not mutually exclusive of Enterprise support agreements featuring all those things you mentioned above _for people that need that_.
xmlblog | 2 years ago | on: Datomic is Free
Netflix, Facebook (Meta), Nubank, and many others.
xmlblog | 2 years ago | on: Datomic is Free
Attending https://2023.clojure-conj.org/schedule/
xmlblog | 3 years ago | on: Databricks counts being laid off as “red flag”
A company that wastes its own money and its candidates' time by failing to screen out any of its red flags as soon as they are known is a red flag.
xmlblog | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is Clojure Dead?
I mean...
1. https://clojure.org/news/news
2. https://ask.clojure.org/
3. https://groups.google.com/g/clojure
4. http://planet.clojure.in/
5. https://twitter.com/i/communities/1494013093059432451
...make it seem as though reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated.
xmlblog | 5 years ago | on: Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents
Only teenagers?
xmlblog | 5 years ago | on: Nubank acquires Cognitect
> Who is really going to be interested in building on top of tech owned by a (new, unknown, regional) bank?
As opposed to building on top of tech "owned" by a small software consultancy? Perhaps I simply lack imagination, but how is this worse?
xmlblog | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?
Reify Health | Software Engineer in Test | Full-time, 100% Remote | https://www.reifyhealth.com/
At Reify Health, we are building a more creative healthcare system. We envision a world where every potential therapy, if safe and effective, is available to the patients who can benefit. We are well-funded and backed by Tier-1 venture capital firms. Our healthcare system relies on clinical trials to develop new (potentially life-saving) treatments for patients, but clinical trials continue to be slow, unpredictable, and expensive. Reify Health’s products help both the companies driving new clinical trials and the doctors, nurses, and researchers who care for patient participants.
https://jobs.lever.co/reifyhealth/1a973a22-8beb-4237-876f-0f...
No recruiters, please.
xmlblog | 7 years ago | on: Entrepreneurism Is Overrated
s/corrections/connections/
xmlblog | 7 years ago | on: Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group
> then I remembered that historically hackers have been phenomenally bad people to give any kind of real power to.
As opposed to the paragons of virtue who wield power now.
xmlblog | 7 years ago | on: Engineered microbe may be key to producing plastic from plants
Would be nice to find the microbe that converts plastic to plants.
xmlblog | 7 years ago | on: Poor-quality relationships linked to greater distress than too few relationships
Confirmation of the old Spanish proverb: "es mejor estar solo que mal acompañado." https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/es%20mejor%20estar%20s...
xmlblog | 7 years ago | on: Short Gitlab tutorial for curious people
Whether you're affiliated with Gitlab or not, it's kind of shitty to use someone's platform to push a competitor. Nothing in the terms of service forbids it of course and you're absolutely free to do so, but it just feels more ethical and grown up to extoll Gitlab's virtues by using Gitlab to host the content and link to it from HN. Putting it on Github is at least a tacit implication of its superiority along some axis, which—to my eye anyway—undermines your message.
xmlblog | 7 years ago | on: Short Gitlab tutorial for curious people
Getting the word out is what the HN post is for. That's orthogonal to where the content is hosted. In addition to the confidence comment, I think it's kind of shitty.
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