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by delhanty 9y ago
Each time anything Microsoft Surface I link #nailer's comment from 7 months ago [0]: >One import thing with all Surface laptops that most people don't know: >> Support is limited to the country you purchased the device in
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by delhanty 9y ago
Because of that, for all browsers I'd like a setting to block video auto-play, as I rarely watch the video "content". Firefox has this already - don't think the others do though.
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Then I remember David Lavender joining Parasolid in 1992 - not liking Teddy that much - a little bit of elisp later he had folds working in Emacs. * So folds in Emacs date from at least 1992. * It could occasionally create corrupt folded fi
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by delhanty 9y ago
OT: I'd be interested to know where folding editors first originated? We have org-mode now of course. My first encounter was 28 years ago now - December 1989 - an in-house editor called Teddy written by "Burkhard" that we had
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by delhanty 9y ago
The twitter link needs fixing perhaps: https://twitter.com/thecomp1ler/status/940724783804645376
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by delhanty 9y ago
Randy Mitterling, Nassim Taleb, Chris Cook appear to agree with you. [1] So maybe that's the way it is - Bitcoin futures the biggest crypto ponzi scheme yet? [1] https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/93985249113
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by delhanty 9y ago
Yeah! It's great for mood isn't it! >Just remember to wear sunscreen! I just use extra virgin coconut oil - found a brand that doesn't make my skin go red. Also, I cover up my face and arms (that get too much sun) and str
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by delhanty 9y ago
The mental bit is possibly related to Joel Spolsky's {smart, not-smart} X {gets things done, doesn't} analysis [1] >People who are Smart but don’t Get Things Done often have PhDs and work in big companies where nobody li
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by delhanty 9y ago
>Best way to learn and stay plastic Yeah! That's why I read Nassim Taleb's twitter feed, even though he can be very obnoxious.
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Jay, I just wanted to reach out and say thank you for doing this. Also, thank you for all that you have been doing for years now to bring HN folks together in Tokyo. Last Wednesday's meetup at the Super Deluxe was the best yet!
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by delhanty 9y ago
Hey Victor, thanks for the reply! It was a big event. Jay's promotional post trended on HN. [1] Also, Jay et al launched the Meetup page. Hope to meet you in person at the Super Deluxe sometime - Paul Delhanty. [1] https://n
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by delhanty 9y ago
> or you've got some cool projects for me to undertake, feel free to get in touch (see my profile or the gaisma page) vados@gaisma.co.jp Are you on the Hacker News Tokyo Slack forum? [1] @jason_tko (Jay Winder Make Leaps CEO who run
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by delhanty 9y ago
I've been a long-term customer of them, but I'm continually under-whelmed by them. They admit, if you push them, that they economize on front-line support. I think what you relate is a consequence of that. In a previous thread, I
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>a person with such an idea would be able to present hundreds of pages of alternate designs Arguably, that's much more than just an idea - it's the idea plus the development of the idea, with most of the value being in the de
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>Your idea is not valuable, at all. All value is in the execution. You think you are an exception; you are not. You should not insist on an NDA to talk about it; nobody serious will engage in contract review over an idea, and this will m
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by delhanty 9y ago
>Something like the github list posted by anton_tarasenko[1] but in the menu bar would even suffice fairly well IMO. That would be cool. Also, an automatic chronological list of forthcoming meetups would be nice too.
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by delhanty 9y ago
How about scheduling a HN Meetup submission periodically like "Who's hiring", where everyone could announce there local meetups?
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by delhanty 9y ago
Perhaps the point of Bubbles is product validation for a semi-technical founder without having to hire someone who can code.
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by delhanty 9y ago
Evaluating Vue and React at the moment: From the Vue documentation [1]: >Even if you don’t like the idea of Single-File Components, you can still leverage its hot-reloading and pre-compilation features by separating your JavaScript and C
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by delhanty 9y ago
Evaluating Vue and React at the moment: Another issue with CSS-IN-JS seems to be security - as it opens up another vector for cross-sight scripting attacks - see here for example. [1] If I end up going with React, I'll probably avoid C
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by delhanty 9y ago
Here's a link to that thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15574409
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This. The publishing that they did concerning Snowden was important for journalistic freedom. All that stuff stopped after Katherine Viner became editor in 2015. I do read it occasionally - just have uBlock Origin picker handy each time her
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by delhanty 9y ago
Have no love for Facebook but: The Guardian would publish this wouldn't they? This is a good idea by former editor (1975-95 [1]) Peter Preston: move The Guardian back to Manchester from London and trim the wage bill in the process. [2]
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by delhanty 9y ago
Thank you - that's informative. >99% of the time spent writing a compiler will be elsewhere. Out of interest, has the distribution of labor in that remaining 99% changed at all since you first started out? For example, do things lik
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Succinct! If anyone should know it would be you, so thank you for your verdict.
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Thank you very much - that's all useful - especially the bit about bottom up parser generators being not the best at generating informative error messages.
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Thank you - that's very useful information! I had been wondering how one was meant to provide meaningful error messages for code that failed to parse or failed to lex using the LR approach and looks like maybe the answer is "with
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by delhanty 9y ago
Thank you very much for all that information - much appreciated! The Portable C Compiler was written using Yacc. [1] >I think if you're writing say your first compiler you should try to use lex and yacc. I've actually started w
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by delhanty 9y ago
Thank you very much for your reply. That's helpful and fits in well with my experience so far. I asked the question in the context where self-hosting was required, but I probably don't need it. On the other-hand, more dependencie
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by delhanty 9y ago
Supplementary to that and also a bit more specific I'd be grateful for an answer to the following: Is it considered best practice today to use Flex & Bison for the front-end of (for example) a basic C compiler?

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