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Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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Post by Balgair »

jl2718 wrote: post #561
Balgair wrote: post #103

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Oh man, I used to research in OCT for deep brain stimulation! It's pretty cool tech, that is for sure. It's got a huge market for bio applications and certain industrials. That said, optics is a super finicky field. You can come in and get a Nobel for 5 hours work, or you can spend 50 years in a dark room trying to get things together. Alignment is crazy difficult, thought it seems it shouldn't be. Anyone that wants…

Alignment should be done system-wide by orders of magnitude. If you are on a breadboard, get everything to within a cm of final location, then everything within a mm, etc. Don’t ever spend more than 1 minute at a time on any component. This stuff was not in the textbooks.

It's especially hard with OCT as it's in the IR spectrum. You just have to go on your meters alone. It takes forever.

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Post by radarsat1 »

Animats wrote: post #366
typon wrote: post #295

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can you explain why you think that?

Things like "It is the programmer's responsibility to ensure that std::string_view does not outlive the pointed-to character array." "string_view" is a borrow of a slice of a string. Since C++ doesn't have a borrow checker, it's possible to have a dangling string_view if the string_view outlives the underlying string. This is a memory safety error. Rust has educated people to recognize this situation. Now it's standa…

Wow. I hadn't read up much on string_view but I guess I assumed it required a shared_ptr to the string. Odd decision not to.

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Post by machinesbuddy »

machinesbuddy wrote: post #603

About [4]: The dumbest idea I've ever seen is to provide a platform to build software without writing code. You make the job 1000x harder to prevent a few lines of code! Just make the coding part easier.

Take PlantUML sequence diagrams for example. Which one is easier? Drag-drop, fix, etc or just few lines?

https://plantuml.com/sequence-diagram

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Post by XCSme »

sdan wrote: post #33
rmason wrote: post #2

1. Cloudflare Workers, I don't have the bandwidth to experiment with it right now but it interests me greatly. https://workers.cloudflare.com/ 2. Rust - definitely will be the next language I learn. Sadly the coronavirus cancelled a series of meetings in Michigan promising to give a gentle introduction to Rust. https://www.rust-lang.org/learn

Utilized workers to create one of the fastest website analytics tool after Google Analytics: https://rapidanalytics.io (still in development).

Fast, as in what sense? The tracking code loads fast? The tracking requests are sent fast to the server? The dashboards load fast?

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Post by carterklein13 »

prrls wrote: post #235

Oxide Computer Company https://oxide.computer/ “True rack-scale design, bringing cloud hyperscale innovations around density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security to everyone running on-premises compute infrastructure.” Corey Quinn interviewed the founders on his podcast "Screaming in the Cloud", where they explain the need for innovation in that space. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre…

Wow, I had never heard of Oxide before this. I work at a huge company that is nearly finished their cloud transformation, which was frankly largely a way to differentiate themselves form their competition more than anything, and a huge cost sink.

This probably would've accomplished the same goal, with a lot less overhead.

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Post by anotheryou »

skosch wrote: post #580
anotheryou wrote: post #440

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the other thing is https://roamresearch.com/ It's a text based wiki or outliner (collapsible text) thought a step further, with auto backlinks etc. Feels to me like a weaker org-mode, online with better cross-links/embeds (something that is indeed uncool in org. things can't live in two places at once)

There is org-roam, and it's getting better by the day: https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam

Yea, have to try that some time.

I'll need to switch from one biiiig file to multiple than though. I think my biggest hindrance is setting up the refile targeting :)

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Post by iameoghan »

stickfigure wrote: post #365
rmason wrote: post #2

1. Cloudflare Workers, I don't have the bandwidth to experiment with it right now but it interests me greatly. https://workers.cloudflare.com/ 2. Rust - definitely will be the next language I learn. Sadly the coronavirus cancelled a series of meetings in Michigan promising to give a gentle introduction to Rust. https://www.rust-lang.org/learn

I've done a couple neat (IMO) things with CF workers. - I use imgix to manipulate images in my app, but some of my users don't want anyone to be able to discover (and steal) the source images. Imgix can't do this natively; all image manipulation instructions are in the URL. So I put a CF worker in front of imgix; my app encrypts the url, the worker decrypts it and proxies. - A year ago, intercom.io didn't support per…

>These are both trivial, stateless 5-line scripts

Would it be possible to share these scripts? I would love to see them, they sound really helpful/useful

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Post by gramakri »

lostmsu wrote: post #167
gramakri wrote: post #49

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There's a cloudron 1-click image on Digital Ocean

Which, as a regular user, I don't understand when I see it. Hell, I am a dev, and I still did not know that will let me create one quickly.

Agreed. Do you have any suggestions to improve the initial onboarding?

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Post by iameoghan »

leke wrote: post #595

The one that has me most excited on OP's list is Strapi. It's the only one that I see myself using in the very near future.

I really like it.

My one criticism is that the docs are always slightly out of date. I would love more flexibility in the queries i.e. being able to do advanced queries on multiple collections, rather than having to resort to raw SQL. It'll get there I'm sure.

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