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Good to know that I'm not alone. I now use it for music recommendations (not so great) and keeping track of restaurants I want to try (really good at this but so are a lot of other apps).
Re:Parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs on Monday March 02, 2026 @07:22PM (#47226214)
This is really cool. Out of curiosity did you know how to do this sort of programming prior to LLMs?
Re:Rari – Rust-powered React framework on Thursday February 12, 2026 @04:05PM (#46995153)
Naming so lit
Re:Oxide raises $200M Series C on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @10:24AM (#46960946)
How much money do you have to raise to buy a decent mic?
Re:My Unhealthy Relationship with Keyboards ⌨ on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @02:29PM (#37679050)
If you type a lot for a work, spending the time and money for better tooling is not only healthy but should be encouraged. Unhealthy, is when you try to track down an after market Key Cult for $2,000 and spend $500 on switches because you feel like you have to try them all.
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Feels more like a Lisa moment than an IPhone moment.
Re:What's special about Erlang and Elixir? on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @04:52PM (#35967615)
You're not missing anything if you can and don't mind building a framework of tools that run long running processes, handle the start up, failure and state of those processes and be able to introspect the status and internal state of those processes in a standard way.

The way isolated processes can be created and managed allows for the "let it crash" ideology in Erlang. For example, when you visit a Phoenix Framework site, you have your own process. If I was visiting the same site and encountered a state that crashed my process your process would be unaffected. The "exception" would only affect me until you ran into the same state that caused the crashed.

If I reported the crash to the developer, the developer could fix the bug and soft start the entire application without affecting your process. This isn't possible because of the language per se but really because of the entire Erlang ecosystem around fault tolerance.

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Re:Reasons the banking crisis isn’t a repeat of 2008 on Friday March 24, 2023 @05:48PM (#35296100)
Just because a cookie doesn't crumble the same way doesn't mean the cookie isn't crumbling.
Unix Mercenary, LLC is brazenly on the nose.
Re:Clever uses of pass, the Unix password manager on Thursday December 16, 2021 @11:12AM (#29579709)
I got stuck at init
Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? on Sunday December 12, 2021 @12:43PM (#29531679)
This is the best response I've seen to the question: "What's the easiest way to get started developing a native Windows app". Better than anything Microsoft has put out.

Isn't WPF getting phased out tho?

Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? on Sunday December 12, 2021 @12:35PM (#29531590)
#1 is the #1 complaint. In 2021, I still don't know what Windows framework I should invest my time in if I want to develop a native Windows app.
Re:Our journey in dropping the ORM in Go on Friday November 26, 2021 @09:59PM (#29356907)
Took me a while to realize that ORMs are fine as long as you don't use them for the "R".
Re:Crazy New Ideas on Thursday May 06, 2021 @12:02PM (#27065261)
It's funny how this context changes the entire the article. I didn't realize that this was related to Mighty and thought it was a good "call to arms" for domain experts in non-tech industries to disrupt their markets.
Re:Why I don't like Tailwind CSS on Thursday March 11, 2021 @03:46PM (#26428813)
The problem that I have with Tailwind is that it's not that different than using inlined styles but adds a lot of bloat without a path to clean abstractions.
Re:Nvidia’s Integration Dreams on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @11:20PM (#24489248)
I hope this is true.
Re:Nvidia’s Integration Dreams on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @02:00PM (#24484413)
Can't Nvidia do this without buying ARM?
Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B on Monday September 14, 2020 @05:50PM (#24475548)
I'm confused. What is it that Nvidia can do by owning ARM that it can't do by just licensing the architecture? Can't they just license and build all the chips people think they'll build without buying the whole thing?
Re:Facebook Campus on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:11PM (#24433641)
Is this an April Fools joke?
Ending the duopoly is easy: create a payment processing system that charges nothing. However, you start peeling the onion on that and you wonder if it's just easier to create a new search engine.
Re:Ask HN: Who regrets choosing Elixir? on Saturday May 23, 2020 @04:08PM (#23285929)
A couple thoughts after using it for a couple years.

1. It actually takes a while to get your head around the fact that the biggest advantage of elixir is having access to the battle tested features in OTP. It takes longer to realize that these benefits don't come for free and elixir might not be the best solution to your problem.

2. The learning curve for writing functional code is different for different people. As a result, it's impossible to figure out before hand how long it will take a team used to writing pythonic code, for example, to start writing functional, elixir code.

3. You're able to emulate something like type checking between pattern matching and ecto schemas but it's not type checking. Be prepared to spend time coming up with best practices for writing tests.

Re:Monoliths Are the Future on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:16PM (#22194396)
I don't think the microservice vs monolith process is as cut and dry as people make it out to be. Microservices are hard because abstractions are hard. I've found working on abstracting code within a monolith usually results in better microservices. Haven't seen a good process for starting a project with a series of microservices.
Re:Installing NextStep OS (OpenStep) in VirtualBox (2018) on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @02:32PM (#22173192)
That GUI has aged well.
Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? on Friday January 03, 2020 @04:44PM (#21950701)
This could happen in the next year.

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