allknowingfrog

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by allknowingfrog 10mo ago
The article actually addresses these questions. It's way more than just a donation announcement. It lays out the various reasons that Zig is the language of choice for TigerBeetle.
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by allknowingfrog 11mo ago
The first paragraph labels me a "social media poster who identifies as a reader", based on my reading preferences.
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by allknowingfrog 11mo ago
Do what makes you happy, but don't pretend that reading "difficult" books makes you morally-superior to the rest of us. I read fiction for fun, and non-fiction for personal growth.
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by allknowingfrog 11mo ago
That...actually seems economically sound, but it's also a strong argument for the idea that pennies are effectively worthless.
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by allknowingfrog 11mo ago
Helix is great if you just want something fast that gets out of your way. If you want plugins and integrations and other magic, it's probably not for you. I used Vim for the past decade, because it fits the way my brain works. Helix ca
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by allknowingfrog 11mo ago
I switched from Qwerty to Dvorak in my 20s, and now from Vim to Helix in my 30s. Both transitions were rough for a couple of weeks, but honestly less difficult than expected. Neither choice turned me into a 10x developer, but neither one ha
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by allknowingfrog 1y ago
XKCD 1053 is a way of life. I think about it all the time, and it has made me a better human being.
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by allknowingfrog 1y ago
Culture is subjective. Art is entertainment. Maybe the English-speaking world wishes our governments would solve infrastructure problems instead of distracting us with pretty things to look at.
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by allknowingfrog 1y ago
If the problem is that you get interrupted all day, how does waiting for tomorrow help?
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by allknowingfrog 1y ago
This is actually my favorite kind of HN discussion. I think the added context is really interesting, despite maybe being a bit of a tangent. English is full of "orphaned" words and phrases that no longer make sense in general usag
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by allknowingfrog 1y ago
Ads are only easy to block because they load from centralized, third-party domains. Physical print publishers don't leave blanks in their newspapers and send them off to advertisers to fill in. They approve and print the ads, just like
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by allknowingfrog 1y ago
Do we have a term for this phenomenon yet? Airbnb is a great example. Uber is another. Regulatory loopholes are the way that these companies actually make money, but they call it "technology" and everyone kind of shrugs.
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by allknowingfrog 1y ago
I've been exploring PeerJS ( https://peerjs.com/ ) recently. This seems like a similar concept. Would it give me anything that PeerJS doesn't?
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by allknowingfrog 1y ago
I'm essentially in a TLM position currently. We're a small company, with a small codebase. I oversee three junior to mid-level developers, and I represent the team in our product/roadmap planning process. I also write a lot o
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by allknowingfrog 1y ago
I became an old man well before I reached my 30's. :)
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by allknowingfrog 1y ago
The author mentioned that he doesn't want to make suggestions that don't actually work. That seems like a pretty valid reason to run the code.
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by allknowingfrog 1y ago
I worry about the digestive health of people who use phones in the bathroom. I go in there for a specific job, which I focus on until completion. I never get bored enough to start looking for other things to do.
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by allknowingfrog 1y ago
I'm no expert, but it seems like the value add is the firmware they wrote to turn this into a more accessible platform. Hardware is always composed of other hardware, so "included" is not inherently the wrong word, though it
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by allknowingfrog 1y ago
I stand corrected. That makes the current terminology make a whole lot more sense.
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by allknowingfrog 1y ago
Did "duct" tape become the standard nomenclature at some point? I learned many years ago that "duck" really is the correct term, because the tape was originally made of cotton duck cloth. Lots of people assume that &quot
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by allknowingfrog 1y ago
Kind of meta, but you deserve recognition for this demonstration of self-awareness. You expressed skepticism politely , then asked specific questions instead of making assumptions. Sometimes HN gives me hope for the rest of the internet.
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
I haven't done anything with RubyUI, but I've been using Phlex for the past couple of months and I never want to go back. It's everything I wanted HAML or Slim to be. Everything is code. You create classes and functions inste
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
To be fair, some of this "innovation" is just a lack of environmental regulations and human safety standards.
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
It may be less bad, but I don't think there's a right way to retroactively add a type system to a dynamic language. I generally like working in JavaScript, but I have no desire to ever see TypeScript again.
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
We already had "_1", "_2", etc., for inline block arguments. Adding "it" increases the surface area of the language without adding any new functionality. I think the underscored names are actually better for re
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
I agree that `it` is unnecessary, but I'm really confused by the push for a type system. It adds a lot of clutter to a language that optimizes for expressiveness. I would prefer to work in something like Go, which is designed to have t
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
This is a bit of a tangent, but this is how I would actually solve the problem in Ruby: #!/usr/bin/env ruby require "csv" puts CSV.foreach(ARGV[0], headers: true).sum { _1[1].to_f }.round(2)
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
Does anyone know of a good tutorial for getting starting with Tcl/Tk that still makes sense in 2024? I'm really intrigued by the idea of building and shipping simple, cross-platform GUIs, but I'm completely overwhelmed by all
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
I used Zulip at a previous job some years ago and was pretty happy with it. I honestly don't remember whether it had a better strategy for DMs in particular, but the general policy of "everything is a thread" seemed to solve
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
When I have this problem, it's usually via a private Slack message. I'm happy to direct people to the appropriate channel, but there's really no good way to link to the original question, even if I wanted to be "warmer&q

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