jtwaleson

Yes, Postgres, will check it out, thank you!

I'm building a simple version with horizontally scalable app servers that each use LISTEN/NOTIFY on the database. The article says this will lead to problems and you'll need PubSub serv…

So cool! I bought the same kit last year and recently bought a esp32 game controller with a tiny display: https://github.com/01studio-lab/pyController When I have some time I…

Salesforce would like a word...

I was very confused by the complex structure of Pascal (in Delphi). I think everyone has their own way of struggling with their first language. I have doubts whether the gradual language is confusing …

I don't care about appearing stronger, it's just not very nice to say "have you been living under a rock". We tend to do better than that on HN. I wasn't saying that AI is not…

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

I agree that localization might not be the biggest hurdle, but that's also not the biggest selling point of the language. It's a gradual language (the syntax grows which each level), it'…

Hedy is designed for use in classrooms, and reaches many kids who otherwise would not have tried programming at all. See it as a stepping stone towards programming rather than a great language. Discla…

Well I'm not sure about forbidding heap allocations, that would severely limit what you can do with a function. In low level languages like Rust or C it would be difficult to keep track of the to…

Interesting! Do you have examples of what you have in mind?

Ok so basically they are introducing annotations so that the compiler can reason about the code and warn the programmer for non-realtime usage. When you think about it, it's a lot like a type sys…

I really enjoy Rust so far. I've been writing a relatively simple web app on Loco.rs with it, backed by a very fast multi-threaded git history parser. It's super fast and safe and catches mo…

I don't think notebooks are very similar to be honest. The notebooks still emit code (typically python) which is then interpreted as usual.

Same! I think we need to free "code" from files, characters, tabs/spaces and variable names. Put millions of ASTs in a database. Imagine how much cheaper and better AI code assistants c…

Stick with T, P or X series.

ThinkPads are timeless square black boxes with a red trackpoint. Having the same design since 1992 definitely makes them iconic, and this probably helped in creating a large fanbase. Realistically you…

Friendly reminder to fans of the genre that you can visit the film set of the cemetery in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly near Burgos, Spain. It's free and I the middle of nowhere. I went this sum…

Not sure if you are trolling, but in that case you're a criminal and you'll have a problem with tax authorities.

This is the big question about abiogenesis. If it was easy then life in the universe could be very common. If it is exceedingly difficult, we might be alone. What is the smallest set of molecules need…

CTOs come in all shapes or sizes. Some can (still) build things, others are very hands-off. Some fractionals are hired to actually design and build the first part of the system.

Yes they are, but I think the blog post is meant to educate the companies that they don't have to mentally multiply the price again. What you see is what you pay.

In NL, UK and probably Germany there is a plague of "freelance" developers and indeed also physicians that work full-time for the same companies for multiple years. In my opinion, it's …

I've never seen one marketing themselves as that or a part-time position advertised as fractional. In my 2 year experience as a fractional CTO it's only "Head of" and C-level. Happ…

They pay a higher hourly wage. As an entrepreneur you typically you see "monthly salary of employee is X" and translate that to "actual cost is X*1.4". With fractionals you don…

Fractionals are typically senior++ that work part-time for a company. "Part time" can be any seniority level so it gives less information.

I'm a Fractional CTO in NL. We're quite a bit more expensive than regular employees or even freelancers (per hour), so I think they mention the lack of payroll taxes, bonuses etc to persuade…

Agreed!

To be honest I didn't think about the price changes. Having been in the medical devices industry I'm just curious if the regulations are actually going to change.

The device itself probably cost $50 to manufacture, but it's a medical device which is strictly regulated. You're also paying for the additional quality control, the regulatory approval, the…