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Cheap Ornament and Status Games

worksinprogress.co
1 points·by judicious·6 months ago·0 comments

Euergetism

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3 points·by judicious·6 months ago·0 comments

Build Systems Are Spreadsheets

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1 points·by judicious·7 months ago·0 comments

Rain: A key-value store for Strava's scale

medium.com
2 points·by judicious·9 months ago·0 comments

The Weird Concept of Branchless Programming

sanixdk.xyz
170 points·by judicious·10 months ago·90 comments

I learned to stop worrying and love the debt

worksinprogress.co
1 points·by judicious·10 months ago·1 comments

What if Humanity forgot how to make CPUs? [video]

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2 points·by judicious·10 months ago·0 comments

Class Based Programming Sucks

loup-vaillant.fr
4 points·by judicious·2 years ago·1 comments

Snapshot Testing for the Masses

tigerbeetle.com
2 points·by judicious·2 years ago·1 comments

Increasing velocity by modernizing a Python codebase

engineering.ramp.com
1 points·by judicious·2 years ago·0 comments

Every Simple Configuration Language Will Eventually End Up Turing Complete

solutionspace.blog
4 points·by judicious·2 years ago·0 comments

The Dynamics of Network Effects

a16z.com
1 points·by judicious·3 years ago·0 comments

Why we decided to write our real-time market gateway in Rust

databento.com
1 points·by judicious·3 years ago·0 comments

Elixir at Ramp

engineering.ramp.com
175 points·by judicious·3 years ago·57 comments

Intern Spotlight: 2023 Software Engineering Summer Projects

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1 points·by judicious·3 years ago·0 comments

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judicious
·10 months ago·discuss
I’m by no means an expert on this topic, but what about using predefined hash map of value to function call/closure unless that also yields branched programming underneath? Additionally, maybe you want to use macros of some kind to generate the “magic” function you’re looking for, where it constructs a single branchless statement up to N terms, whether it’s procedural macros in Rust or C macros.
judicious
·2 years ago·discuss
Something like this occurs cross-linguistically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidentiality

Turkish has some evidentiality.
judicious
·2 years ago·discuss
Here's a link to their library in GitHub: https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/blob/588123f219f1...
judicious
·2 years ago·discuss
That's incredibly clever, generators are underrated. I once challenged my friend to do leetcode problems with only expressions. Here's levenshtein distance, however it's incredibly clunky.

  levenshtein_distance = lambda s1, s2: [matrix := [[0] * (len(s2) + 1) for _ in 
  range(len(s1) + 1)], [
          [
              (matrix[i].__setitem__(j, min(matrix[i-1][j] + 1, matrix[i][j-1] + 
  1, matrix[i-1][j-1] + (0 if s1[i-1] == s2[j-1] else 1))), matrix[i][-1])[1]
              for j in range(1, len(s2) + 1)
         ]
         for i in range(1, len(s1) + 1)
     ], matrix[-1][-1]][-1]
judicious
·2 years ago·discuss
I guess for most purposes, OrderedDicts are then obsolete, but I believe there are some extra convenience methods that they have, but I've only really needed to preserve order.

Makes you think what other parts of Python have become obsolete.
judicious
·2 years ago·discuss
I find converting things from map objects or filter objects back to lists to be a bit clunky. Not to mention chaining operations makes it even more clunky. Some syntatic sugar would go a long way.
judicious
·2 years ago·discuss
Dictionary comprehensions can be very elegant. List and dictionary comprehensions are very powerful and expressive abstractions. In fact, while not good practice you can pretty much write all Python code inside comprehensions including stuff regarding mutation.

This is valid(as in it will run, but highly unidiomatic) code:

quicksort = lambda arr: [pivot:=arr[0], left:= [x for x in arr[1:] if x < pivot], right := [x for x in arr[1:] if x >= pivot], quicksort(left) + [pivot] + quicksort(right)][-1] if len(arr) > 1 else arr

print(quicksort([1, 33, -4, -2, 110, 5, 88]))
judicious
·2 years ago·discuss
There in lies another reason why OrderedDicts are still useful even in 3.12
judicious
·2 years ago·discuss
I work with different versions of Python3 (and 2 unfortunately) and some code is still in 3.6, hence I used OrderedDicts.
judicious
·2 years ago·discuss
I find defaultdict, OrderedDict, namedtuple among other data structures/classes in the collections module to be incredibly useful.

Another module that's packaged with the stdlib that's immensely useful is itertools. I especially find takewhile, cycle, and chain to be incredibly useful building blocks for list-related functions. I highly recommend a quick read.

EDIT: functools is also great! Fantastic module for higher-order functions on callable objects.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html
judicious
·2 years ago·discuss
Definitely very excited to see this be a thing. Genuinely liked the approach to make function calls strongly typed and rely on functional programming principles.

During my senior year, I worked on a research project very similar to this and I’m glad to see this out there for everyone. I’d love to connect with the team if possible!
judicious
·3 years ago·discuss
I’m always amazed by the level of the discussions on Signals and Threads. I especially enjoyed hearing about the challenges with performance engineering in OCaml versus C++. The work on unboxed types is very promising.
judicious
·3 years ago·discuss
This is unironically my plan/playbook with ideas I have for startups. Start with Python, node, or whatever. Then go to Rust once product-market fit has been established.

Rust really hits that sweet spot with memory-management, programming paradigm flexibility, and speed. It’s precisely great for what I need because it’s essentially an ML with good imperative constructs.
judicious
·3 years ago·discuss
I loved reading the “making of” post. I’m very interested in getting into technical writing and your post, really helped me understand your thought process behind “Elixir at Ramp”.
judicious
·3 years ago·discuss
Totally agree, when is everything is functions and data, it makes life a lot easier. I especially find it useful when refactoring code while trying to keep an existing function signature.
judicious
·3 years ago·discuss
Kotlin, definitely an interesting choice for backend development. But I love to see idiosyncratic language choices being made.
judicious
·3 years ago·discuss
Do you foresee a larger scale migration to Elixir in the future?

Or would you say that Elixir lends itself to some services and Python others?
judicious
·3 years ago·discuss
Yeah, I’m definitely curious too. From what I know Ramp is primarily a Python shop on the backend.

I just love to see functional programming being used in industry and seeing the thought process behind it.

Also, I agree. I’m a big fan of Pablo’s posts.