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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
ReasonReact has been used in production for 3 years now, with billions of page views a day. I'd still call it immature in many^[1] regards :D The particular point of this project was to prove that each successive simplification that my
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Yeah I bet once you get the stack up and running, as well as smooth out the inevitable early adopter bugs of lit-html, you'll have a great experience. The subtext of this was my friend constantly telling me easy and simple it'
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
What I like about the Joel Test is that it's not a test about whether your company has good working environments. Good is extremely subjective. Good depends on what you want. The Joel Test is a test about whether your company has adequ
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
My friend and I decided to start a project. This friend and I have had discussions where he espoused how libraries like Webpack, React, Redux, etc. just overcomplicate the web. I decided to humor him and do a "simple" stack of lit
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Tooling is such a huge factor. I'd love a functional language that had build tools as nice as rustup and cargo. Indeed I'd place Rust as an example of a language that got it right. Sure, Rust isn't functional, but it's c
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
I kinda viewed it as a "the grass is grayer on the other side". Like he tried the other side, realized it wasn't that great either and went back.
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Pretty cool idea. I get a lot of movie recommendations from Criterion closet videos where filmmakers come and pick out movies to take. Barry Jenkins' video got me to watch the Apu Trilogy for instance: https://www.youtube.co
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Man, I just read through the memoir (it's a pretty engrossing read) and it's a ride. I really want a sequel though. Why/how did he end up back in academia? What do the other parties, e.g. Dawson, Margo, etc. think of these re
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
I've thought that Ruby's syntax would map nicely to HTML elements: div class: "language-javascript" do a href: "index.html" { img style: "height:2em", src: "pic.png"; "⇦&quot
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Oh yeah you could definitely implement this with some nice config. But that's the problem: only insane people like fiddling with configuration that much. I know my gateway to emacs was spacemacs. Except spacemacs, when I used it, was s
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
I've done the "look ma no mouse" thing where you just use your keyboard. Heck, I used to have an emacs config where scrolling would scroll through my undo/redo tree^[1], which lemme tell you, confuses the hell out of oth
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
This is a super dumb example, but I hate that scrolling is tied to cursor. Like if I'm gasp using the mouse to scroll through a file in emacs, the cursor has to stay in the viewport. If I scroll past the viewport, the cursor moves to
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Ben Taub has been putting out some fantastic work, especially for someone so young. His article on Iraq's post ISIS policies was incredibly sad but very informative.
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Get good sleep. Eat well. Don't drink and expect to be productive. See a therapist. Exercise. Get fresh air. Take allergy medication if you need it. There's a lot of wonderful techniques and software out there but the most importa
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Gabrielle Hamilton had a good op-ed about this topic as well: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/magazine/closing-prune-re... As Hamilton notes, even before coronavirus restaurants were facing increasing
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
A lot of people here are being rather unsympathetic. Even if it's not the end of the world, it still sucks. Hopefully you can save some money from not having to move to the Bay Area.
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Yeah...I should probably use that. But does it work on mangled WASM? Part of the issue was that my compiler wasn't producing valid WASM
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Loving the tooling around wasm getting better. I've been debugging my compiler output with hexl-mode and reading the binary format and while it's not that bad, it'd be nice to do more advanced debugging with a text format.
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Man I'd love to have a two semester course where I could work on a project and get advice from Brian Kernighan . I hope all the Princeton CS students understand how lucky they are
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Some of the TC39 proposals might be worth looking at. The ES spec too. If you really want to go all out, you could write a simple JS interpreter. Probably don't want to go full spec compliant but you could implement a decent subset. Es
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
> Why draw the line arbitrarily at affirmative action? Why not housing as well? Maybe a quota on high-paying jobs? Uhh yeah I actually totally think programs to give underrepresented minorities opportunities for better housing would be g
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
It's funny. We're very similar. I'm also interested in PL (albeit a little less theory-oriented than you). I'm also Asian American. I also didn't get into the schools that I wanted to attend. If you go to Stuyvesant
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
I mean, perhaps we should ask the people who enslaved black people, or redlined districts specifically and solely for white anglo-saxon protestants, or segregated schools, or destroyed prosperous black communities—perhaps we should ask them
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Asian American itself is an interesting (and quite arbitrary) category. It perpetually fascinates me what is considered "Asian". East Asians are undeniably lumped in. You'd be hard pressed to find someone who considers Chines
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Interesting counterpoint. I kind of agree that these books will be lost on people (although I believe I got something out of them and I'm early into my career). But I'm also thinking of it as providing early exposure so that if th
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
I've advocated for a "canon" of books for software engineering and computer science that could be taught in school. The canon would accomplish several goals: it'd inform students about the less technical but profoundly i
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
New York isn't as bad as say, Houston or SE Asia, but the subway platforms can get pretty bad: https://ny.curbed.com/2018/8/10/17674900/nyc-subway-summer-h... Compare this to Seattle where I could w
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
I'm a native New Yorker with all the chauvinism that comes with it, but I didn't find Seattle that bad! The weather is no worse than New York's brutal humidity in the summer. The food isn't that bad. Sure the Asian food
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Likewise this is a pretty useful chain of inclusions: commutative rings ⊃ integral domains ⊃ integrally closed domains ⊃ GCD domains ⊃ unique factorization domains ⊃ principal ideal domains ⊃ Euclidean domains ⊃ fields ⊃ finite fields
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by _hardwaregeek 6y ago
Some other good projects: * Lambda calculus evaluator * Hindley Milner typechecker for lambda calculus * Stack based calculator (extend with variables) * Play around with macros * Work through Crafting Interpreters But really in my experien

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