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by fouric 5y ago
Chromium seems consistently faster than Firefox to me, and I'm pretty sure that many other people have noticed this, too. The Chromium development team intentionally optimizes for speed (at the expense of higher memory usage) more than
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by fouric 5y ago
The amount of complexity, bugs, and security vulnerabilities in modern software is already at a staggering level purely due to non-easter-eggs. Not only will allowing the developers to occasionally have some fun help them to be more engag
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by fouric 5y ago
Can you give an example of this? I can't think of any myself - generators also raise a StopIteration exception, for instance, so they could use the same value.
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by fouric 5y ago
I don't think that you have a sleep disorder, and so your anecdote isn't even usable as anecdata for those of us who do (including the top-level comment, which reads "I struggled with sleeping for 20+ years" - this isn&#
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by fouric 5y ago
Couldn't the runtime just allocate a specific Python object representing the case where the iterator is complete? Make that object implementation-specific, hide it as best as you can, write documentation stating that users should not u
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by fouric 5y ago
I think that implies that either "exceptions" are misnamed in Python (as in every other language with that name, they're meant to be exactly that - exceptional - so whatever Python calls "exceptions" isn't the
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by fouric 5y ago
Um, it actually does, if you have a circadian rhythm sleep disorder (for which one of the treatments is light therapy, aka getting sunlight in your eyes[1]). Conversely, I'm not aware of any sleep disorders that are treated by drinking
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by fouric 5y ago
It's always tricky when people talk about emotions "being wrong", especially because there are at least three different things that one can mean: (a) they're not feeling that emotion, (b) they shouldn't feel that
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by fouric 5y ago
I find the first code example easier to read and process. However, that's because I've written a fair bit of C code, and so when my brain goes into "C mode", the symbols &, =, ~, <<, etc. all have clear and una
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by fouric 5y ago
I think the parent comment is aimed at people who have trouble waking up because they didn't get enough sleep , not just because they're sleepy.
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by fouric 5y ago
> The for loop in python is a try/except catching StopIteration in a trench coat. That's...horrifying, both from a computational efficiency perspective (due to the overhead of exceptions) and from a "beauty" perspec
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by fouric 5y ago
I don't think dismissal 1 applies anyway - even if RefTerm didn't implement, say, variable-width fonts - you could just build a terminal that uses RefTerm's fast algorithms for the common case, then falls back to the Window
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by fouric 5y ago
Can you explain how screen reader support could possibly have a noticeable performance cost? The screen reader code should be doing absolutely nothing if it's not enabled - and even if it is, I can't imagine how it could affect
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by fouric 5y ago
Because it's such an improbable edge case, it seems like it's not relevant to the more general discussion of "does refterm's speed and features actually show that the rendering problem is far easier than the Microsoft de
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by fouric 5y ago
People will downvote you for any number of reasons - some good, mostly bad. Ignore it, don't comment on it - "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." Inqui
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by fouric 5y ago
I also want static type-checking in my programs. However, reluctant to give up CL, I've been using type annotations, which SBCL will check at compile-time. Is there a particular reason you're not doing this?
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by fouric 5y ago
I'd like to add nuance: tradition seems to oftentimes be a mix between actual solutions to problems, and legacy cruft that can be safely removed without undoing the fix to the problem. Large, active codebases have to be occasionally
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by fouric 5y ago
"Push" and "pull" in this context refer to the initiation of a session. The user is pulling, because they start streaming. Netflix does absolutely nothing by itself - it doesn't randomly start delivering data to you
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by fouric 5y ago
This is a really interesting project. It's also incomplete - but, in fairness, building a HN client that most people would consider "complete" is a massive undertaking (HN login, themes, customizable keyboard shortcuts, mouse
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by fouric 5y ago
I would extend "file browser" to be the more general "tree navigation" - for instance, Miller Columns[1] (which I believe is an accurate characterization of Haxplore's interface) are used in the Pharo environment[2]
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by fouric 5y ago
There seem to be many separate ideas in this article. > I want to surround myself with tools that help me perform my daily tasks That describes the OXO cork-puller, to some extent > or beautiful objects that are frivolous but nice to
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by fouric 5y ago
There are a lot of comments about technical issues with previous iterations of the Fairphone - but, to be Fair, you can also find a lot of comments about technical issues with any technology (even if it's open-source!) on the inter
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by fouric 5y ago
> Meta comments that disparage the HN community are so weird. I think I can provide an explanation for their increasing popularity: people have figured out that it gives a cheap boost to the "legitimacy" of their comment withou
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by fouric 5y ago
> Big mistake in the article to claim that a single engineer could build Amazon, Facebook, or Google. The article does not claim that. You misread it. Right there, in the quote you included: > A software developer could write a simpl
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by fouric 5y ago
I see a detrimental incentive here. Let me explain, and then someone please show me what I'm not getting. We're trying to incentivize public over private transit because the former emits less carbon (in general). However, public t
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by fouric 5y ago
You not only failed to "quote the sentences that explicitly call for racism" that I asked you to (while continuing to baselessly assert your original claim), but you also inserted more emotional manipulation ("I'm surpri
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by fouric 5y ago
> for whatever reason purely functional languages are the only ones that elude me That's because all of the languages you listed are really similar conceptually. PHP, Ruby, Go, C, and Python (and others you didn't list: Java, C
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by fouric 5y ago
If it's written in Haskell, it's highly likely that it'll be far harder to modify than something written in, well, not-Haskell. Haskell might be easy when you get the hang of it, but the vast majority of programmers haven&#x2
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by fouric 5y ago
You're factually wrong. Neither of the parent comments are calling for race discrimination - you're pulling that out of thin air in an attempt to incite conflict, or silence their legitimate points that you don't agree with.
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by fouric 5y ago
This is whataboutism. "The US does bad thing x, therefore you can't complain about China doing bad thing y." Not valid. Moreover, IP theft is not remotely comparable to diplomacy or sanctions. The latter are normal ways of do

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