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schonfinkel

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About schonfinkel

https://schonfinkel.github.io/

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    Comment #49158650

    Location: Brazil (UTC-4) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Erlang, F#, Gleam, Nix, NixOS, Linux, OCaml, Python, SQL, AWS, Azure, Bash, PostgreSQL, Docker, DevOps, T…

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    Comment #48749086

    Location: Brazil (UTC-4) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Erlang, F#, Gleam, Nix, NixOS, Linux, OCaml, Python, SQL, AWS, Azure, Bash, PostgreSQL, Docker, DevOps, T…

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    Comment #48539309

    Kinda, you'd have to go through the whole review process and also get your stuff to successfully be part of (at least) an unstable build. What really worries me is that on Nix we h…

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    Comment #48502897

    The premise looks nice, but the project being full of random .tmp-*/.log files does not bring much confidence to it.

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    Comment #48377668

    > I personally find OOP to be the most intuitive for large scale systems design, but that's just me. Once you're more comfortable with it and want to try a typed functional program…

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    Comment #48375394

    or you can throw all of this into the trash and just use Nix.

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    Comment #48368935

    Are you trying to be sane and rational in a market that has turned into a casino? U crazy or something?

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    Comment #48368644

    And this time the boooom has a larger blast radius than all the previous booooms combined.

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    Comment #48368426

    The worst part is that techies can still work around the insanity if they keep their opinions private. For the serious average Joe the AI mandates must be feeling like hell on eart…

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    Comment #48368269

    If you come from a pure FP or embedded systems background you are exposed to a much better version of "sofware engineering" than your average React dev out there. The bar created b…

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    Comment #48368239

    I regret to inform you that, despite your best intentions, you have built an Emacs + Orgmode.

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    Comment #48368206

    I once worked in a project that vendored most of its third-party dependencies, it was a culture shock at first, but damn, after a while it was so nice being able to work just by bu…

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    Comment #48368092

    > But I think we will swing back to using GUIs when we find a performant way of making them I like this new TUI renaissance as well, but if you wanna see what a symbiotic relations…

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    Comment #48368043

    It's all about moving fast and breaking things ;)

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    Comment #48368033

    And it's not just AI, we're riding atop a previous finance + crypto bubble that didn't properly pop up.

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    Comment #48367939

    > Meanwhile, Anthropic is adding ~$10-$15b ARR every month. I'd like to see how creative their accountants are before thrusting any numbers like that.

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    Comment #48367705

    Location: Brazil (UTC-4) Remote: YES Willing to relocate: MAYBE Technologies: Erlang, F#, Gleam, Nix, NixOS, Linux, OCaml, Python, SQL, AWS, Azure, Bash, PostgreSQL, Docker, DevOps…

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    Comment #47873829

    I don't wanna be that guy but... NIX FIXES THIS.

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    Comment #47861407

    It's nice to see that Fable is still around, my old team once did a proof of concept that later turned into a real service that used both Fable + SQL Type Providers. We had levels …

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    Comment #47701582

    There were also some great options revealed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678283

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    Comment #47701542

    Big tech has noticed this a long time ago, which is why they hire a legion of "developer advocates", its inorganic in the beginning, but it works long-term and once certain tools g…

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    Comment #47693399

    > Apple is pressuring Windows from above and now from below with the MacBook Neo > Linux is pressuring Windows from below and from the developer class If Valve actually delivers th…