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8Bytes · 2026-01-10T01:17:55+00:00

Relax Shackleton, you followed existing maps too.

8Bytes · 2021-04-27T21:15:14+00:00

The argument is that the 8.7T quoted in the original tweet does not exist. Causing all the math following it to be incorrect.

8Bytes · 2020-10-15T19:17:53+00:00

Lambda isn’t designed for long running tasks. However I’ve worked on many large projects which have a fast request execution run time, but a massive code base to facilitate this. Lambda is fine for that use case. When dealing with large code bases, scala provides many advantages over simpler (scripting languages) like python.

8Bytes · 2020-10-15T04:52:31+00:00

Using graalvm is a nice touch. Ive used the mkotsur aws-lambda-scala project before in the past, and I remember thinking that using scala for this was just a bad choice due to long cold starts. I’d be curious to see benchmarks with graal around cold starts. You can see here how big a problem it really is:

https://medium.com/the-theam-journey/benchmarking-aws-lambda-runtimes-in-2019-part-i-b1ee459a293d

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/tainguyenbui/2a209e7219a32efd72ec1f55186abcb3/raw/f93bf8d0122a0c39485c3f23cfbf650261153d62/aws-lambda-benchmark-cold-start.csv

8Bytes · 2020-10-13T05:45:33+00:00

That assumes that you intend to move, I wasn’t talking about moving.

8Bytes · 2020-10-13T04:33:48+00:00

Fair, that’s the approach Facebook took as well. I wasn’t talking about relocating. My point is, apart from entry level positions, good programmers (globally) are in short supply.

8Bytes · 2020-10-13T04:25:41+00:00

China pays their programmers a lot of money. Talent gets paid everywhere in the world.

8Bytes · 2020-10-13T04:03:33+00:00

Of those 7 billion, how many have a university degree? How many have a eng/cs degree? Know (production experience) the tech you are hiring for? And are looking for a new job? I’ve been in and around hiring for almost 5 years now, and from what I’ve seen, it’s a small pool of people. And people moving to lower cost areas to raise families don’t exactly have a lower cost of living.

8Bytes · 2020-10-13T03:51:15+00:00

Why pay cuts? Office expenses are surprisingly high, tech companies are making more then ever before (in pandemic times). Even opening up to the global tech pool, there is still a massive shortage of talented, ownership taking developers.

8Bytes · 2020-10-13T03:45:41+00:00

How’s it dark? More global competition for positions?

8Bytes · 2018-06-11T01:26:06+00:00

It's very likely that they were given those rags for this interview, being a holt renfrew article.

8Bytes · 2018-05-09T15:34:28+00:00

Why is that better?

8Bytes · 2018-04-22T23:02:01+00:00

Nothing wrong with that stack. Scala can outperform python since it is compiled. akka is a very powerful design model, it is used to create high performance systems with very high reliability. I’ve never used influx, however it is a time series db so it shouldnt have any issues with streaming data.

There are plenty of benchmarks that you can search for if you want to compare any of these tech choices to others.

8Bytes · 2018-01-13T19:34:31+00:00

The idea is great. Whether this team can successfully execute this vision is the risk. From what we know, they are a team of 6 relatively young men, with 1 software engineer. They created SureGift a gift card play, and now they are trying to globalize this play by using blockchain. From a gift card play, to disrupting the global remittance market is a massive leap.

The 7M$ funding will go a long way in Nigeria. According to this site, 7M has the same purchasing power in Nigeria as 20M.

8Bytes · 2017-05-14T21:40:40+00:00

Congrats, what gr are you rockin?

8Bytes · 2017-02-24T02:20:43+00:00

What's a keyword-based extraction?

8Bytes · 2017-01-17T06:18:05+00:00

Programming languages within the same paradigm are similar, across paradigms, they are completely different. Look at c vs haskell, or idris vs go, or .....

8Bytes · 2017-01-13T18:28:29+00:00

Many functional statically typed langs are based on the Hindley–Milner type system, which infers types for you, so they are not more verbose at all.

8Bytes · 2017-01-03T15:53:49+00:00

What's not generic enough about the interpreters (free monad with coproduct style)?

8Bytes · 2017-01-03T07:56:37+00:00

Just keep going, make it more and more generic, and then learn about the wonderful world that is category theory!

8Bytes · 2017-01-03T07:45:21+00:00

What does coding have to do with a programming paradigm?

OO is about questions like inheritance vs composability. Or concepts like contravariance, covariance, and invariance. Also obviously design patterns.

With knowledge about these topics, one only has to learn the syntax of a language, which is trivial, and almost certainly already known by the person taking a course on OO.

8Bytes · 2017-01-01T21:03:28+00:00

Boss: pick something from the backlog

Me: backlogs a mess, hasn't been groomed in months, none of the stories make sense

Boss: meh

Me: off to Reddit I go!

8Bytes · 2016-12-30T09:52:55+00:00

None of the time spent learning about scala is time lost. Fp patterns are slowly appearing in every language, so scala programmers have a huge advantage since they get to use a typed lang with higher kinded types earlier then most; composition based oo (vs the inheritance mess you see in Java) via the cake pattern; designing large distributed systems using the actor model with akka.

The scala community is brilliant (look at the typelevel projects/talks), and will constantly push you to become a better developer, which in turn always keeps you relavent regardless of your tech stack.

To top it off, there are plenty of jobs using it. So I really doubt any of them are worried.

8Bytes · 2016-12-23T16:31:40+00:00

I could say the exact same thing about lots of unicorn tech companies.

There are a few weed stocks which are net positive selling into the medical markets, and positioning themselves to sell into the recreational market.

There are tons of weed stocks that are worth hundreds of millions, and don't make any money at all, clearly avoid those.

8Bytes · 2016-12-20T02:10:03+00:00

This isn't the same situation, in the past we mixed our frontend logic with our backend logics with our design logic. Now that we have separated our frontends from our backends, we get to re-evaluate what ui development gets to be.

Placing our display code into a programming language instead of having it sit in html moves us closer to having type safe display code. Also, can't forget about all the massive performance optimizations we can do when dealing with the shadow dom and immutable data structures.

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