thejvexperience

Re:Goodbye Etcd, Hello PostgreSQL: Running Kubernetes with an SQL Data... on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @12:40PM (#36589104)

+1. Seems like one of those things that makes for a nice hot take but doesn’t actually stand up to a rigorous technical analysis.

Re:What the hell is Forth? (2019) on Friday January 13, 2023 @08:26PM (#34376275)

Along similar lines, i once watched this guy on YouTube implement a Python-based Forth _compiler_ (not interpreter) and optimize the crap out of it. It was a great video, if anyone’s interested it was called “Porth” and i think his GitHub page has a link to the video.

Where do you find fellow collaborators in a given field of expertise?

Posted by thejvexperience on Monday June 22, 2020 @02:55PM
from the self-post dept.

I am working on a couple projects related to databases and blockchain-esque data structures, and as such have been searching for some other folks with overlapping interests to work with me on these projects. Of course it's not really appropriate work for someone fairly new to engineering -- I'm looking for people that can work with me on product development in addition to technology, people who...

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Re:Nim 0.19 on Saturday September 29, 2018 @02:05PM (#18101812)

I'm feeling old. This is really at the top of a HN thread?

Since you self-describe as "coming from Python," you maybe haven't yet really gotten that deep into the internals of computers and what kind of stuff you might wanna do that isn't well supported by higher-level languages. This is especially relevant when we get to talking about performance guarantees, wherein very little can get "guaranteed" about a garbage-collected system, by definition. So while it is a pain to deal with "low-level concepts" like in Rust, it is also well worth it depending on what kind of tech you need to make.

Re:Tally raises $15M for app to make credit cards less expensive, easi... on Thursday May 19, 2016 @05:56PM (#11734188)

I built the core financial engineering stack at Tally and absolutely love our product! The stuff I worked on was cool (lots of highly non convex optimizations, cool statistical methods, all Scala stack, very FP-oriented, etc.) but mainly the experience we deliver to consumers is incredibly powerful. The biggest challenge was probably getting this very complex, very real-time concept to work on an antiquated financial system. We're proud to say we have. Sign up now! You won't regret it!

Also, PM if interested in anything on the "Careers" page. What do you all think?

Cheers!

Re:Visual Studio Code 1.0 on Thursday April 14, 2016 @05:16PM (#11500409)

At work I write Scala and the IntelliJ Scala support is simply unbeatable. It's refactoring engine etc. is fully Scalafied -- when you paste Java code, there's even a "translate to Scala" function offered. I use a "vim mode" plugin that allows me to hope around with 25j and such.

For my personal project (which is in Rust) I use Atom, which is new for me, but I find to be really impressive. Both its plugin system (which allow for all the extensibility and in my case Rust support) is fantastic, and I don't know where the complaints about speed come from (it's far lighter than IntelliJ, obviously).

I've really been enjoying Atom when I do use it, and don't see why I'd switch to VSCode unless it had better support for Rust. But perhaps I'm missing something.