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Comment #49125122
A replicated SQLite is very cool! One question I would have is why expose that as the storage instead of the platform providing a managed storage API? I guess I might be concerned …
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Comment #39907247
I think that trust needs to be 'pushed deeper' than that so to speak. While this would be an improvement, what happens if there is a malicious actor at Github? This may be unlikely…
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Comment #39698368
What does MSW stand for here? Maybe "Mock Service Worker" https://mswjs.io/ ?
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Comment #38560627
I love dan luu's blog posts. Great examples of principled thinking. Much of their writing on (computer) performance has pushed my own thinking and expectations.
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Comment #38491268
Not just delivery, but also security. Browsers offer a level of isolation and safety that you generally don't get with native desktop apps. Things like iOS do bridge the gap a bit …
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Comment #38491240
> make the browser a full blown VM and just write normal programs that run in it This is actually happening, albeit slowly, with recent efforts around WASM etc. If you want a fun h…
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Comment #38294763
Wrote about something similar a while ago https://hex.tech/blog/a-pragmatic-approach-to-live-collabora... Using a server to tie break and locking has worked pretty well for us
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Comment #38294560
I understand what you are saying here in terms of the difference between using wall-clock or causal ordering to determine who 'wins' for LWW. However, both of these strategies seem…
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Comment #37094604
> This is the same guy who tried to make "effective altruism" part of his image. That was a pretty strong signal that the outcome we all witnessed was highly likely. Why do you thi…
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Comment #35995065
FWIW I'm not sure analogies between intellectual property and actual property really work, since they are pretty fundamentally different if you compare the specifics.
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Comment #35971439
Even better, Jamie Lee Curtis was in both of those movies.
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Comment #33869152
I actually talked to the drifting in space team about our experience implementing multiplayer. Really cool to see their findings! Our team ended up having a similar take away, we w…
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Comment #32268372
I really like how well this bookends with https://hex.tech/blog/long-live-code ! (Disclaimer, I work at Hex but wish more tools would embrace ejecting to code in the same way)
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Comment #31994246
I'm also pretty cynical of most JS rebuild/reinvention projects. I'm very tentatively excited by this one _because_ it looks like all it does is incrementally improve. Having somet…
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Comment #30992752
https://linear.app is pretty great
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Comment #30551347
This sounds really similar to Dutch Blitz! https://www.dutchblitz.com/ surprised I haven't seen anyone else call it that in this thread
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Comment #29912330
That's assuming that these people only contribute to PostgreSQL. I'm betting most of the folks listed here make major contributions on other projects or at work. Your comment feels…
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Comment #29670477
How much time do you spend a month on marketing for placecard?
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Comment #28775781
I really love how reactivity is being utilized across the stack. It's been pretty big on the frontend for a while now (React, etc), but I think data is another space it can really …
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Comment #27715261
If you publish the code anywhere, potentially. You could be (unknowingly) violating the original license if the code was copied verbatim from another source. How much of a concern …