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Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?

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Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?

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Post by crystalPalace »

jtmarmon wrote: post #26

haskell on rails. the amazing static typing, binary compilation, etc of haskell, with a large ecosystem and monolith framework (like rails) behind it. haskell's community's focus on challenging, technical, scientific or mathematical problems has left normal web developers plainly not using it. but as our rails codebase has grown, it's hard to identify refactoring issues outside of obessive and overlapping unit tests.…

Yesod(http://www.yesodweb.com/) may be the web framework of your dreams. Yesod is great for building web apps and APIs. The biggest downside is the long compile time which leads to issues with cheap VPS instances since you need to compile on another machine since the instance doesn't have enough RAM.

Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?

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Post by Yxven »

jtmarmon wrote: post #26

haskell on rails. the amazing static typing, binary compilation, etc of haskell, with a large ecosystem and monolith framework (like rails) behind it. haskell's community's focus on challenging, technical, scientific or mathematical problems has left normal web developers plainly not using it. but as our rails codebase has grown, it's hard to identify refactoring issues outside of obessive and overlapping unit tests.…

I'm with you.

Haskell's Yesod framework is pretty feature competitive with rails/django, but it doesn't have 1/10th of the community.

I'd love to see Haskell gain wide popularity, but I don't think it's realistically going to happen. People generally travel the path of least resistance, and learning Haskell requires a lot of time and effort before you can be competitively productive with it. Individuals will choose to make that investment, but the masses won't unless they are forced.

I think the closest thing to what we want right now is node with typescript.

Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?

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Post by soulbadguy »

1 - A better laptop : 14 inch, borderless screen like the xps 13, Keyboard of a think pad or dell latitude and battery life of a mac book pro

2 - A better linux distro : basically the polish, convience, drivers and apps support of windows/macos but running the linux kernel

Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?

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Post by webwarrior »

jtolmar wrote: post #117

An easy to use parsing library with some sort of way to import sub-trees (ie: everything between these parentheses uses this other parser) and good default parsers for obvious things like C-style math and JSON objects.

Any parser combinator library. Many of them come with toy examples like JSON and simple arithmetic expression parser.

Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?

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Post by jotux »

digler999 wrote: post #81

I'd like to see a "local cloud" computing system. Where CPUs/GPUs are stored in a rack on site and at each workstation is only a KVM + monitor plus a high bandwidth (say fiber optic) video link back to the cabinet. This would be almost a regression back to mainframe days, but it could give everyone the power of a high-end workstation as well as save energy since most scenarios wont' have a 100% load factor. An office…

Isn't this just thin clients?

Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?

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Post by digler999 »

jotux wrote: post #137
digler999 wrote: post #81

I'd like to see a "local cloud" computing system. Where CPUs/GPUs are stored in a rack on site and at each workstation is only a KVM + monitor plus a high bandwidth (say fiber optic) video link back to the cabinet. This would be almost a regression back to mainframe days, but it could give everyone the power of a high-end workstation as well as save energy since most scenarios wont' have a 100% load factor. An office…

Isn't this just thin clients?

I suppose. But I'd say take it further and capitalize on advancements in VM technology so as to make it indistinguishable in performance from an attached workstation.
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