> The package-lock.json file is not only useful for ensuring deterministically reproducible builds. We also lean on it to track and store package metadata, saving considerably on package.json reads and requests to the registry. Since the yarn.lock file is so limited, it doesn’t have the metadata that we need to load on a regular basis.
So I guess there are some performance benefits with npm 7 compared to Yarn 1?
I just made one of those online speed tests and it came up at ~45mb/s. Not sure if that's representative, but the important answer is that it's good enough that I never feel it's a bottleneck.
As for price, I've got 3 mobile lines with infinite data plus my home wifi at 600mbps and the whole thing costs 100€/month.
Hi HN! It's been 6 months since I started working on this project. It was just a side project for a while but it quickly became my main work. I'm Imed Adel, 21, a CS college student[1] from Tunisia[2].
Centige is a collaborative website and web app builder. There is no need for learning programming and I'm trying to keep the interface simple (and magical) so that you don't even need to know CSS to get it to work. You can export HTML and React though, although code export is not my main focus right now.
As more companies are going remote and many brick-and-mortar businesses are going online, I am sure that Centige will have a huge role to play in helping those teams communicate, build, and grow.
I got the idea for project while working at my last internship. The company had a hard time updating projects and moving from the old chaotic code and infrastructure to a newer and cheaper alternative.
There are still many moving parts right now, but I wanted to follow PG's and Michael advice to "just launch". Expanding the editor and the components is my top priority, followed closely by adding memberships and a collaborative CMS.
I would love to hear all of your feedback on the product so far and what should my next focus be. Feel free to DM me or email me at any time :)
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[1]: TBH, I skipped most classes to work on my side projects. Now that I think about it, my classes are actually my side projects
[2]: That's a country in North Africa. It's on the other of the Mediterranean, facing Italy.
I was a bit hesitant about applying since it's remote (thus less opportunity to build connections when you're outside the US), but it seems that the last remote batch was more than successful. Are there any S20 participants who'd like to share their experience? :)
I was in S20 and also W10, so I did a remote batch and a non-remote batch ten years apart. Overall, it was indeed more work to get to know your batchmates, and the serendipity was gone a little. However, on the flip side, all the structured pieces were very on-point -- e.g. weekly talks, written materials, office hours, and advice.
With few exceptions, I would recommend YC to anyone on the fence.
- Pro: The YC partners and staff went out of their way to make the remote experience as good as the in-person experience. We're in Singapore and the partners would make time whenever we needed it on our schedule/timezone - even though it was late/early for them
- Pro: The tooling is awesome. I didn't know this before the batch, but YC has a whole software team building tooling. They have some amazing systems in place, and as this article points out they are constantly improving it.
- Pro: Fundraising was better/easier (at least for us). This isn't particular to YC I guess, but because everything is on Zoom you can line up the meetings back-to-back, instead of commuting around the Bay instead of in-person meetings. This may be personal preference, but I find commuting exhausting and don't mind pitching over zoom.
- Pro: even though it's remote, you still get many of the things that make YC great - the brand, the network, the internal forums, the knowledge base, accelerator deals, advisors etc
- Con: Timezones. This is only relevant if you're living in a timezone that isn't handy to ET. Since we're in Singapore at the moment, most of the batch talks ("YC dinners") were midnight-2am. This is understandable - they chose a timezone which is best for the majority of the batch, and it would be tough to cater for everyone
- Con: It's harder to make connections with your batchmates.
Overall it's a strong recommendation from me - definitely worth doing.
Tho very rare, why would you use a database that is at risk to be erased completely, and with a limited set of queries as the main DB? Honest question.
My concern was the performance of Postgres when it's receiving thousands of writes per second. I assumed that such a task would be more suited for Redis, then the data could be filtered and sent to Postgres for longer storage (or some storage solution such as S3).
It should be noted though that Rome is not a project by Facebook. It's by Sebastian McKenzie (@sebmck), who started working on it as a side project while working in Facebook. But he's working in Discord now. And the project is totally owned by him.
Concerning the spelling reform, is there any language that recently underwent a successful spelling reform? And by recent, I mean in the last 10 years.
The thing is that with the widespread usage of the internet it seems harder to successfully reform the orthography of a language. Every language is, nowadays, in one way or another decentralized and uncontrolled by language authorities.
Not 10 years, but yeah, German was completely reformed some 24 years ago. It is still pretty major as several countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland and others with german-speaking minorities) had to coordinate and consent.
I as a child started learning the old orthography in school, was taught the "new" one later on and had to use it and even the "new new" one (there was basically a version 2.1 minor update). To this day I am confused about how to correctly spell and write words, and I always end up mixing old/new orthography. The fact that almost all major newspapers refuse to fully adhere to the new orthography and use custom deviations every here and there does not exactly help.
I learned German in high school so I knew a bit about the reform. Compared to French, learning how to read German didn't take more than an hour.
French is another one, however, the transition to the new orthography is still incomplete around the world. I think Frank lately enforced it at schools.
Other examples include the Berber language in Morocco and Algeria. Most people ignore spelling reforms and just pick the spelling they like most. This is mostly because the standardization of Berber came after the introduction of the internet and the proliferation of informal spelling standards.
I was in school during this time as well and before the reform had an entire grade point deducted from most exams because of my bad spelling. The new spelling immediately made sense to me and the issue went away. So much less learning of exceptions that made only historical sense.
But then I'm also the kind of person who thinks we should embrace the positivist calendar and agree on a single language.
> even the "new new" one (there was basically a version 2.1 minor update)
As far as I remember, the update to the update was only about allowing some old forms as valid alternates. Which I like very much. I'm mostly on board with the new style (partly based on upbringing, partly because it makes much more sense), but you'll never see me write "Portmonee".
Portuguese has frequent spelling reforms, with over 10 reforms since 1911. The most recent one started in 2009 and had a transition period that ended in 2016.
Most of exUSSR countries de facto making transition from russian language to their own. Some parts of these languages wasn't used in many fields (science, street language, popular music) for 50-70 years and only exists in the books. Push is mostly centralized by government or people who pay them. Correct me if I'm wrong, russian speaking population lost about 50 millions speakers in last 10-20 years. Most of these users made switch to languages that before was almost lost. Also some countries changed Cyrillic letters to latin.
I dont want to attack you personally, but idea that languages are uncontrolled is quite opposite. It is centralized more than many things. I think McDonald's is less centralized than this.
That's why I specified the last 10 years only. An example that I cited above is that of the Berber languages in Morocco and Algeria. There is the official spelling, the spelling used by renowned writers and publishers, and the "standard" used by people in their everyday life and online. No matter how many reforms are pushed, no one really cares.
If the reforms you mentioned were pushed in the last 10 years, maybe they were strictly enforced (plus, the limited free speech rights)?
> The package-lock.json file is not only useful for ensuring deterministically reproducible builds. We also lean on it to track and store package metadata, saving considerably on package.json reads and requests to the registry. Since the yarn.lock file is so limited, it doesn’t have the metadata that we need to load on a regular basis.
So I guess there are some performance benefits with npm 7 compared to Yarn 1?