Mobile UI builders can barely generalize over their own domain even when they are just targeting a specific platform. That's not very high praise, to me. Look at all the code you still have to write just creating a…
I always thought it was cool that Stross posts on HN.
I thought it was bad form to advertise your own product on somebody else's Show HN. It's like proposing at someone's wedding: yes, it's a relevant time to do it, but it's specifically someone else's special day, not…
There's nothing you can do to guarantee they are successful. What you can do is expose your kid to a lot of things and help them find something they're passionate about. Ideally something they can use to pay their bills…
Doesn't that simply depend on how often you have to leverage human enforcement? Whether you have to do it <1% of the time vs 100% of the time would drastically change the answer to your question. It's like chargebacks.…
I did the same thing to grind levels in Runescape and I look back with regret, getting <4 hours of sleep during an important developmental stage in my life. My parents didn't even suspect that I'd do such a thing. But…
Agreed. In another comment, someone points out that LoL/Dota2 require a lot of dedication and metagame analysis to be good. Which is true, but doesn't change the fact that I look back at all gaming I did as a massive…
How is the internet "tipping over" going to change what's fundamentally human? Changing the interpretation of what someone said to fit your argument can be seen on the school playground and in Plato's Gorgias. It's not…
I don't see a righteous battle. You mentioned Emacs as a solution which has a Rust plugin that has problems like most other Rust tooling. Yes, Rust's tooling landscape is immature and still a work in progress. Obviously…
Well, that's always an option, so it isn't really advice. It's already what you have to do when the tooling support is bad. It's the poorest when an editor can instead inline its output of static analysis. Integration…
What about the good qualities that websites have, like the ability to link (and deep link) people to specific parts of it? The re-trending of the local application is a step back in this regard. And "when will this…
You could say this about anything though, so it's not very damning criticism of Kickstarter. Also applies to Hacker News and everything, individually, at the grocery store. And all the Amazon boxes piling up on our…
Well, those are GUI toolkits. A lisp doesn't compete with them. Any GUI that you build with a lisp still needs to support that sort of thing. Also, when people praise a feature that RN or Flutter have, they are really…
Looking at your comment history, it's clear that you're a D-fanatic. But let's not use your enthusiasm for D as a point against any language that D competes with. It's impossible to turn that into a real discussion.
I think I have some lasting trauma for the year I was on call. I still have nightmares that I'm getting woken up into a hellish situation to fix code I've never seen at 3am. Or that I'm out on a date or having a beer or…
Nothing is safe from the HN Dismissal. What's the purpose of such flippant negativity?
Doesn't that stop you from accessing it from local clients like psql and pgAdmin?
I hope you can appreciate how fortunate you are. Though 4 Euros ($4.50) is less than half what I pay for most books I want on Amazon. It would be very expensive for me to feed my book-reading habit like that. I couldn't…
The NPM organization could go much further to make these attacks harder. You pitch a really good one: Any time you npm update/install, display ownership changes (especially compared to your prev version). Another one is…
Be specific: what exactly would you do in Elm to pwn someone? It would be a much more limited and a much more visible attack. NPM modules don't even have source code on display. Someone has to download and check the…
If a contributor's end goal is to publish a backdoor, then making them wait 0 or 100 commits to the project before trusting them doesn't change the end result. In fact, if you had the energy to do the attack at all here…
Then let me ask you, how long should have dominic let right9ctrl contribute to the project before trusting him and giving him publish capabilities? With hindsight, we know that right9ctrl is going to publish a backdoor…
This doesn't make sense because Elm is client-side only, and all code that ships is client-side executable. Node, a general purpose language, has a scope that's much, much larger.
There are a few issues with NPM that make this kind of thing especially easy/lucrative: - An ecosystem of massive amounts of transitive dependencies increases the number of people you need to trust. If I wanted to…
The comic is basically "women have harder lives when they have low standards for the man they let knock them up."
Mobile UI builders can barely generalize over their own domain even when they are just targeting a specific platform. That's not very high praise, to me. Look at all the code you still have to write just creating a…
I always thought it was cool that Stross posts on HN.
I thought it was bad form to advertise your own product on somebody else's Show HN. It's like proposing at someone's wedding: yes, it's a relevant time to do it, but it's specifically someone else's special day, not…
There's nothing you can do to guarantee they are successful. What you can do is expose your kid to a lot of things and help them find something they're passionate about. Ideally something they can use to pay their bills…
Doesn't that simply depend on how often you have to leverage human enforcement? Whether you have to do it <1% of the time vs 100% of the time would drastically change the answer to your question. It's like chargebacks.…
I did the same thing to grind levels in Runescape and I look back with regret, getting <4 hours of sleep during an important developmental stage in my life. My parents didn't even suspect that I'd do such a thing. But…
Agreed. In another comment, someone points out that LoL/Dota2 require a lot of dedication and metagame analysis to be good. Which is true, but doesn't change the fact that I look back at all gaming I did as a massive…
How is the internet "tipping over" going to change what's fundamentally human? Changing the interpretation of what someone said to fit your argument can be seen on the school playground and in Plato's Gorgias. It's not…
I don't see a righteous battle. You mentioned Emacs as a solution which has a Rust plugin that has problems like most other Rust tooling. Yes, Rust's tooling landscape is immature and still a work in progress. Obviously…
Well, that's always an option, so it isn't really advice. It's already what you have to do when the tooling support is bad. It's the poorest when an editor can instead inline its output of static analysis. Integration…
What about the good qualities that websites have, like the ability to link (and deep link) people to specific parts of it? The re-trending of the local application is a step back in this regard. And "when will this…
You could say this about anything though, so it's not very damning criticism of Kickstarter. Also applies to Hacker News and everything, individually, at the grocery store. And all the Amazon boxes piling up on our…
Well, those are GUI toolkits. A lisp doesn't compete with them. Any GUI that you build with a lisp still needs to support that sort of thing. Also, when people praise a feature that RN or Flutter have, they are really…
Looking at your comment history, it's clear that you're a D-fanatic. But let's not use your enthusiasm for D as a point against any language that D competes with. It's impossible to turn that into a real discussion.
I think I have some lasting trauma for the year I was on call. I still have nightmares that I'm getting woken up into a hellish situation to fix code I've never seen at 3am. Or that I'm out on a date or having a beer or…
Nothing is safe from the HN Dismissal. What's the purpose of such flippant negativity?
Doesn't that stop you from accessing it from local clients like psql and pgAdmin?
I hope you can appreciate how fortunate you are. Though 4 Euros ($4.50) is less than half what I pay for most books I want on Amazon. It would be very expensive for me to feed my book-reading habit like that. I couldn't…
The NPM organization could go much further to make these attacks harder. You pitch a really good one: Any time you npm update/install, display ownership changes (especially compared to your prev version). Another one is…
Be specific: what exactly would you do in Elm to pwn someone? It would be a much more limited and a much more visible attack. NPM modules don't even have source code on display. Someone has to download and check the…
If a contributor's end goal is to publish a backdoor, then making them wait 0 or 100 commits to the project before trusting them doesn't change the end result. In fact, if you had the energy to do the attack at all here…
Then let me ask you, how long should have dominic let right9ctrl contribute to the project before trusting him and giving him publish capabilities? With hindsight, we know that right9ctrl is going to publish a backdoor…
This doesn't make sense because Elm is client-side only, and all code that ships is client-side executable. Node, a general purpose language, has a scope that's much, much larger.
There are a few issues with NPM that make this kind of thing especially easy/lucrative: - An ecosystem of massive amounts of transitive dependencies increases the number of people you need to trust. If I wanted to…
The comic is basically "women have harder lives when they have low standards for the man they let knock them up."