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…
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…
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, 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…
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…
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."
Well, one problem is that apt-get's uninstall doesn't undo everything that could have happened during install. It's just like how you need software like Revo Uninstaller on Windows to actually clean up everything: why?…
Half the article is a "but..." of its subtitle. The title even has "can" in it which makes it non-absolute.
The upside of type inference is that making small changes to types upstream doesn't necessary incur changes to code downstream. But the downside of type inference is that it makes reading code harder and you may depend…
I have a hard time believing that you never used or heard of English's ubiquitous gender-neutral pronoun. You certainly weren't using "it" to refer to humans. I'm actually dumbfounded that someone would make this claim.…
We easily treat language as a malleable device. Just look in literature or internet subcultures, but you can see it in day-to-day life if you think about it. You probably do it, too. The idea and exercise of this is so…
> Or do the kids just think that's how it is/has to be these days? I just don't think that's the defining feature of a job for most people, and most people don't care so much. All of my schooling happened in "open…
I still have plenty of reasons to communicate with the drivers. From giving more specific information about where I'd like to be dropped off, asking if they can make a detour, talking to them when they call me because…
Maybe when they are immortal.
Well, you were misinformed that you could learn a language by doing any one thing. Apps like Duolingo are just a method for daily exposure on the long journey of language learning. For example, reading only grammar…
Why not go a step further and pat yourself on the back for completing all the challenges without even navigating to the website?
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…
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…
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, 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…
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…
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."
Well, one problem is that apt-get's uninstall doesn't undo everything that could have happened during install. It's just like how you need software like Revo Uninstaller on Windows to actually clean up everything: why?…
Half the article is a "but..." of its subtitle. The title even has "can" in it which makes it non-absolute.
The upside of type inference is that making small changes to types upstream doesn't necessary incur changes to code downstream. But the downside of type inference is that it makes reading code harder and you may depend…
I have a hard time believing that you never used or heard of English's ubiquitous gender-neutral pronoun. You certainly weren't using "it" to refer to humans. I'm actually dumbfounded that someone would make this claim.…
We easily treat language as a malleable device. Just look in literature or internet subcultures, but you can see it in day-to-day life if you think about it. You probably do it, too. The idea and exercise of this is so…
> Or do the kids just think that's how it is/has to be these days? I just don't think that's the defining feature of a job for most people, and most people don't care so much. All of my schooling happened in "open…
I still have plenty of reasons to communicate with the drivers. From giving more specific information about where I'd like to be dropped off, asking if they can make a detour, talking to them when they call me because…
Maybe when they are immortal.
Well, you were misinformed that you could learn a language by doing any one thing. Apps like Duolingo are just a method for daily exposure on the long journey of language learning. For example, reading only grammar…
Why not go a step further and pat yourself on the back for completing all the challenges without even navigating to the website?