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Keep in mind that "one zone" has durability implications: > In the unlikely case of the loss or damage to all or part of an AWS Availability Zone, data in a One Zone storage class …

Not to mention large parts of the community using a pointfree, single character variable naming style that's hard to read. If Haskell could consistently be written in a more predic…

This idea of missing something simple really speaks to me. I remember “factorization” not clicking for me for the longest time in public school. My grades slowly got worse, until t…

Quality isn't only sacrificed due to mismanaged loss in the pipeline. It's also at odds with delivery speed, feature breadth, cost, and itself. Quality is at odds with quality, bec…

I once plugged my Linux thinkpad into a projector via HDMI during a programming interview, and my laptop started smelling like it was burning. Never again!

Is Elixir really the general purpose productivity tool that comments here (and on other HN posts) make it out to be? I've loved playing with Erlang and Elixir. The concurrency mode…

Hey antirez, Your work that’s had the most impact on me isn’t Redis but kilo! It taught me how to have fun hacking on C back in university. Me and a couple friends cloned the repo …

Which means “bag” in French

I interpreted it more as a story about aging. I guess both!

It completely changed the way I write Go. This is editor specific though. I use Vim for programming Go and have a few custom scripts built on top of https://github.com/fatih/vim-go…

To add to this, editor commands to quickly switch to your test file, auto generate test boilerplate and run the currently highlighted test are super helpful to speed up this loop.

I’ve often had similar feelings to you. Something that blew my mind recently was using a Lisp repl which was integrated with my text editor. I just wrote out the code I wanted to t…

Yup. I misspoke. We’re both right.

Having unwrap() in your Rust code is like littering your code base with panic(). It’s not appropriate to use in most production code, but is convenient in prototypes, examples and …

> I typically find it very difficult to understand complex functions It seems to me like "complex" and "ability to understand" mean the same thing, so this phrase doesn't have much…

Good point. The article didn’t point out that Docker does have a valuable use case that as you say, can be solved in other ways.

> What is Docker for? You can take your old Python and Ruby and Perl apps and wrap them up in Docker, and thus those old apps can make the transition to the modern world of cloud c…

It's interesting that there's so much resistance to Clojure given it's modern / being used in production a fair bit. I've had a number of great experiences working on toy projects …

And then you get the lovely benefit of not knowing whether someone explicitly passed in zero or didn't specify an option at all. There are a lot of ways around this: Use pointers, …

> I think the smaller differences are also large enough to rule out extraordinary claims, like the ones I’ve read that say writing a compiler in Haskell takes less than half the co…

Does anyone have any links to examples or docs for how the “binding operators” work?

What are your favorite project management related books and resources that will make an individual contributor successful in the new year? I'm starting the year with an overwhelmin…

Conj always makes me so envious. So many good talks. This one, the Rich Hickey one on Maybe, the Stuart Halloway one on REBL. Any other must watches? Hickey: https://youtu.be/YR5Wd…

The Haskell style comma before the next element is soooo nice for adding and removing elements over time. I wish more languages used that style.