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A Critique of the Cap'n Proto Schema Language (2019)

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Re: A Critique of the Cap'n Proto Schema Language (2019)

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Post by signa11 »

jiggawatts wrote: post #66
eviks wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what's the best modern alternative that is designed in this way?

gRPC ticks most of the checkboxes. Unfortunately these are lessons that have to be learned over and over. Anything based on JSON is generally suspect. If you see the terms "quick" or "simple" in some marketing splash-page, assume the author has not thought about the hard problems like security and long-term interoperability. Similarly, if you find yourself hand-rolling RPC client code and calling methods on something…

> gRPC ticks most of the checkboxes.

huh :) ! gRPC is a 'r-p-c' framework, and uses protobuf for serialization. you should be comparing protobuf to cap'nproto.

Re: A Critique of the Cap'n Proto Schema Language (2019)

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Post by eesmith »

orhmeh09 wrote: post #69
eesmith wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a long-established convention to include the year if the article is a year and a bit old. See dang, one of the moderators, affirm this multiple times at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... , most recently 17 days ago.

The guidelines are here. It's unreasonable to expect people to search for them in a comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Guidelines are not strict rules, as Captain Barbossa pointed out, but let's assume they are.

Since moderators have promoted this practice for at least a decade, it's much more likely your interpretation of the guidelines which is wrong.

Any moderately good rules lawyer would point out the guideline is "please use the original title" not "please use only the original title" nor the even stronger "use only the original title", which turns the polite request into a requirement.

Adding the year is not editorializing. Nor is adding "[video]" or "[pdf]", nor even adding the conference name and year as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37216895 did 11 hours ago.

Since there appears to be a conflict between your understanding of the guidelines and that of the moderators, you should take it up with them at hn@ycombinator.com in hopes of resolving the issue.

After all, the guidelines say "If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data." ;)

Re: A Critique of the Cap'n Proto Schema Language (2019)

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Post by eesmith »

orhmeh09 wrote: post #68
eesmith wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does not. You can see dang, one of the moderators, write: "It's the convention on HN to add the year to a title when the article isn't from this year." at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27867435 , write "On HN, it's the convention to add the year when a story is more than a year and a bit old." at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16306830 and write "It's just the convention to add the year in parens (and…

The guidelines are here. It's unreasonable to expect people to search for them in a comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

As this is identical to orhmeh09's comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37215578 I point to my response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37221400 .
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