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You don’t need to know about integration to make a platformer. That’s an absurd thing to say. I think this is called gatekeeping. “You couldn’t possibly participate in X without fi…

There’s a 90’s style browser in Haskell here for demo purposes. Lacks JS. https://github.com/chrisdone/vado

I’ve seen this message over and over again because I have a hacker news RSS feed of the word “spreadsheet”. I’ve flagged this post because it feels like Groundhog Day with this spa…

How do you plan to make money? Consulting?

I guess I can add Notion to my list of companies that ignore its customers unless shamed on social media. One to avoid.

You shouldn’t have to publicly shame a company on hacker news to make them be baseline level good to their customers. But many tech companies are like that once they scale up.

Having no say in having to use any piece of software is a straightforward way to make people hate it.

I do think of tests as a kind of double accounting.

How do you plan to make money and sustain vitality from this open source offering? Open source has a lot of overhead, and if you offer “enterprise” versions, others will compete wi…

I liked the part where they talked about the blocks with the blocks and the block blocks and how they all block together. I thought the reference to field pioneers was a bit much, …

Would you like to set permissions per column? Read-write-modify?

What in particular did you not like about their API?

Bubble sort was perfectly natural to me before I learned about algorithms. I think your “fairly strong collection of evidence” is weak. We teach it because it’s a study in how not …

Similar things said of Drupal.

Why moving away from AirTable? Pricing or feature set?

As someone developing essentially a competitor to Excel-and-PowerQuery/M, I find all this very interesting. My language is strict and statically typed. However, after arrays (table…

How many rows does this support in a table before it starts becoming too slow? The cloud version. What’s the practical upper limit? 10k, 100k, 1million?

You can also read The Economist as a report for middle class and above capitalists with disposal income to track where world events and trends are going in order to make good inves…

UK has higher standards for livestock than EU, esp. related to well being and roaming space; which is partly why it is very difficult for UK farmers to compete with almost anywhere…

Your link contradicts you. Says such a deal with Swiss will do little to reverse the exodus to Paris and Amsterdam, some 96% moved straight to EU on day of Brexit, and regulations …

Dave Chang has a small scene in one of his Ugly Delicious (great show, by the way) episodes where he gets a group of non-Asian Americans, who claim to be MSG-allergic, to come and …

I'm very happy with Stripe's API; it's one of their best selling points. I'm very unhappy with their support, which is automated by bots and I've gone around in circles with such a…

Instagram and YouTube are examples of algorithms optimizing the wrong thing. Whatever you like, it gives you more of it. More moreness, to the point people find themselves in dark …

Rust is not running in the context of JavaScript. It's running on WebAssembly, which has no garbage collector.

I've also read both books. It's a good exploration into the minds of spiders and octopuses, if given "uplift". A recent study I read about shows that spider intelligence is ill-stu…