Hacker News: xmlblog

New comment by xmlblog in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

xmlblog — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:35:28 +0000

This. Maybe there's a market opportunity for people who want to be treated like cattle, but even Spirit couldn't find it.

New comment by xmlblog in "Doing Rails Wrong"

xmlblog — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 23:29:25 +0000

The comments are pretty convincing evidence that most people see only everyone else's complexity while slowly boiling in their own.

New comment by xmlblog in "Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI"

xmlblog — Tue, 16 May 2023 15:25:55 +0000

Rent-seeking, anyone?

Morse, an open-source interactive tool for inspecting Clojure

xmlblog — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 12:31:38 +0000

Article URL: https://clojure.org/news/2023/04/28/introducing-morse

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35740494

Points: 173

# Comments: 37

New comment by xmlblog in "Datomic is Free"

xmlblog — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 22:54:37 +0000

> "small-ish backoffice systems that never has to be web scale". Doesn't production use of Datomic by Nubank and Netflix (to mention just two examples) belie this assertion?

New comment by xmlblog in "Datomic is Free"

xmlblog — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 17:22:01 +0000

> If you have 10s or 100s of app servers that has the exact same working set in memory, it's probably not worth it.

The introduction of intelligent application-level partitioning [1] and routing schemes can help one balance cost and performance.

[1] https://blog.datomic.com/2023/04/implicit-partitions.html

New comment by xmlblog in "Datomic is Free"

xmlblog — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 17:16:54 +0000

Having the working set present on app servers means they don't put load on a precious centralized resource which becomes a bottleneck for reads. The peer model allows app servers to service reads directly, avoiding the cost of contention and an additional network hop, allowing for massive read scale.

New comment by xmlblog in "Datomic is Free"

xmlblog — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 15:26:06 +0000

Newer releases have improved significantly in this area. It's now possible to understand perf implications with the addition of io-stats[1] and query-stats[2].

[1] https://docs.datomic.com/pro/api/io-stats.html [2] https://docs.datomic.com/pro/api/query-stats.html

New comment by xmlblog in "Datomic is Free"

xmlblog — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 15:22:11 +0000

Free beer binaries are not mutually exclusive of Enterprise support agreements featuring all those things you mentioned above _for people that need that_.

New comment by xmlblog in "Datomic is Free"

xmlblog — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 14:27:22 +0000

Netflix, Facebook (Meta), Nubank, and many others.

New comment by xmlblog in "Datomic is Free"

xmlblog — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 13:59:55 +0000

Attending https://2023.clojure-conj.org/schedule/

Datomic is Free

xmlblog — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 13:40:47 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.datomic.com/2023/04/datomic-is-free.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35727967

Points: 1099

# Comments: 368

Datomic Implicit Partitions

xmlblog — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 17:50:00 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.datomic.com/2023/04/implicit-partitions.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35657474

Points: 38

# Comments: 4

New comment by xmlblog in "Databricks counts being laid off as “red flag”"

xmlblog — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 12:56:42 +0000

A company that wastes its own money and its candidates' time by failing to screen out any of its red flags as soon as they are known is a red flag.

New comment by xmlblog in "Ask HN: Is Clojure Dead?"

xmlblog — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 21:39:01 +0000

I mean... 1. https://clojure.org/news/news 2. https://ask.clojure.org/ 3. https://groups.google.com/g/clojure 4. http://planet.clojure.in/ 5. https://twitter.com/i/communities/1494013093059432451 ...make it seem as though reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated.

New comment by xmlblog in "Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents"

xmlblog — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:39:27 +0000

Only teenagers?

New comment by xmlblog in "Nubank acquires Cognitect"

xmlblog — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 14:24:04 +0000

> Who is really going to be interested in building on top of tech owned by a (new, unknown, regional) bank?

As opposed to building on top of tech "owned" by a small software consultancy? Perhaps I simply lack imagination, but how is this worse?

New comment by xmlblog in "Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?"

xmlblog — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 14:51:35 +0000

Reify Health | Software Engineer in Test | Full-time, 100% Remote | https://www.reifyhealth.com/

At Reify Health, we are building a more creative healthcare system. We envision a world where every potential therapy, if safe and effective, is available to the patients who can benefit. We are well-funded and backed by Tier-1 venture capital firms. Our healthcare system relies on clinical trials to develop new (potentially life-saving) treatments for patients, but clinical trials continue to be slow, unpredictable, and expensive. Reify Health’s products help both the companies driving new clinical trials and the doctors, nurses, and researchers who care for patient participants.

https://jobs.lever.co/reifyhealth/1a973a22-8beb-4237-876f-0f...

No recruiters, please.

New comment by xmlblog in "Entrepreneurism Is Overrated"

xmlblog — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 17:21:47 +0000

s/corrections/connections/

New comment by xmlblog in "Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group"

xmlblog — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 17:18:43 +0000

> then I remembered that historically hackers have been phenomenally bad people to give any kind of real power to.

As opposed to the paragons of virtue who wield power now.