vmsp

9 дней назадdiscuss

  Location: Portugal
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Rails, Django, Postgres, React, Node, Next.js, Go, Postgres, Redis, KDB+
  Résumé/CV: https://0x1.pt/Vitor_Sousa_Pereira_CV.pdf
  Email: [email protected]

I was founding and lead engineer at a London-based startup that got sold last year. Since then, I've been enjoying a career break, trading some options and working on some projects.

vmsp

17 дней назадdiscuss

Hasn't Node been able to run TypeScript for a couple of versions? Why's the transpiler needed?

vmsp

в прошлом месяцеdiscuss

  Location: Portugal
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Rails, Django, Postgres, React, Node, Next.js, Go, Postgres, Redis, KDB+
  Résumé/CV: https://0x1.pt/Vitor_Sousa_Pereira_CV.pdf
  Email: [email protected]

I was founding and lead engineer at a London-based startup that got sold last year. Since then, I've been enjoying a career break, trading some options and working on some projects.

vmsp

в прошлом месяцеdiscuss

I didn't know I was part of a trend, that's pretty cool. I've been buying originals related to the Portuguese Estado Novo and Carnation Revolution for some years. A ton of ad-hoc, clearly political, publishers spawned right after the revolution and I've been thinking of digitizing some of the stuff I have for historical purposes.

vmsp

в прошлом месяцеdiscuss

With the kind of press it’s getting, I bet this model will outsell all others made in the last 10y. I don’t remember the last time a Ferrari was on the news.

vmsp

2 месяца назадdiscuss

Is anyone actually using agent swarms for anything real?

vmsp

2 месяца назадdiscuss

That wasn't a value judgment on the acquisition. I was just pointing out that it made the project more sustainable.

vmsp

2 месяца назадdiscuss

I wonder how Deno's faring.

Node's the stable solution and will be with us forever. You can now use TypeScript with it and, soon enough, you'll be able to build your app to a single executable -- including native deps.

Bun's chaotic but, nonetheless, it's _fast_ and it's taking an interesting approach by including everything in the stdlib. Plus, bought by Anthropic.

Deno had an awesome story with the sandbox and ease of import for third-party dependencies. Sandboxes feel pretty commoditized now and I'm not sure the import mechanism ended up being that much nicer than a `npm add`.

vmsp

2 месяца назадdiscuss

Everyone prefers real problems. It's something you already know how to do instead of something you explicitly have to train for.

It doesn't change the fact that the real work could be an hour's exercise or longer remunerated work. This isn't an either/or scenario like you put it. Plus, for a fact, companies will happily have you doing both the leetcode and the take-home test.

vmsp

2 месяца назадdiscuss

Some companies do this and pay the candidate for their time, regardless of outcome. I don't think there's much to comment there. Some don't pay the candidate. In that case, it's just a predatory practice to take advantage of the tough job market.

vmsp

2 месяца назадdiscuss

It's cool to see Nim in the wild, you don't hear about it often

vmsp

2 месяца назадdiscuss

Reminds me of Litestack for Rails. Eventually, it was abandoned because Rails itself started going all out on SQLite.

https://github.com/oldmoe/litestack

vmsp

3 месяца назадdiscuss

Wouldn't this kind of architecture yield a slower compiler, regardless of output quality? Conceptually, trying to implement the least-amount of passes with each doing as much work as possible would make more sense to me.

vmsp

3 месяца назадdiscuss

Interesting lib. Sort of like Hotwire Native

https://native.hotwired.dev/

vmsp

3 месяца назадdiscuss

How does one learn about designing chips, ISAs and the manufacturing process? I feel like it’s hard info to got or, at least, to know how to get started.

Terrific initiative, either way. Open-source chips must be the way.

vmsp

4 месяца назадdiscuss

True. Google was even thinking of switching TensorFlow from Python to Swift.

https://github.com/tensorflow/swift

vmsp

4 месяца назадdiscuss

As a Portuguese I have a more nuanced view of these type of takes.

We invested _heavily_ and prematurely in renewable energies -- see my comment from a couple of years ago [0]. Since then, our energy prices were high for a while and now they're not much lower than the EU's average because all that investment needs to be amortized [1]. Two years ago, we ran a whole month on renewables [2]. Despite this, our increase in energy prices since the Iran war started has been dramatic and the price of everything has been going up significantly. I can't help but think about the ROI on all those renewables if they can't help make our lives easier at a time like this. I'd much rather we go nuclear.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37719568

[1]: https://eco.sapo.pt/2026/03/11/precos-da-eletricidade-e-gas-...

[2]: https://www.portugalglobal.pt/en/news/2024/april/renewable-e...

vmsp

4 месяца назадdiscuss

Not directly related to the post but what does OpenUI do? I'm finding it interesting but hard to understand. Is it an intermediate layer that makes LLMs generate better UI?

vmsp

5 месяцев назадdiscuss

Is doing stuff like constant folding pre-execution really worth it? I mean, won't the engine itself (V8, JSC, MozJS) be doing it anyway? I know that Google's Closure Compiler — probably still the most advanced JS optimized — also does it but I can't help but think it's probably pointless.

vmsp

5 месяцев назадdiscuss

I'm guessing this is a fork of Facebook's abandoned library? https://github.com/facebookincubator/CG-SQL

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