hboon

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   by hboon 7y ago

   I don't think he speaks very good English (verbally). But from past interviews, he seem to have quite a good command of it. I'm not judging either of them based on 1 interview; just saying language is not the reason his is good or
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   by hboon 7y ago

   Re English. According to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ma : > "Ma attended Hangzhou Teacher's Institute (currently known as Hangzhou Normal University) and graduated in 1988 with a B.A. in En
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   by hboon 7y ago

   I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way.
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   by hboon 7y ago

   Autonomous vehicles replace the drivers, not Uber. The vehicles get told to go from point A to point B and does safely and effectively. Uber still plays the role of interacting with the customers, "booking" a car for them, collect
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   by hboon 7y ago

   > I’d like a command line way to just create a new note in one line that gets stuck somewhere that can be added on or moved around later On the Mac, I wrote an Alfred workflow that lets me type "c this is a note" in Alfred, hit
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   by hboon 7y ago

   Edit and continue/resume
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   by hboon 8y ago

   > Busses and subways have no "first class" or "business class" section There are. For example: the Shenzhen Metro Line 11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_11_(Shenzhen_Metro)
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   by hboon 8y ago

   Creating frictionless markets which players can more easily enter without a gatekeeper (e.g. a monopoly). The trick is to tokenize and write smart contracts representing the entities and relationships. It's a long way to go before achi
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   by hboon 8y ago

   I thought FingerWorks did their own R&D.
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    by hboon 8y ago

    Then the = should be encoded as %23 in the URL and should not be interpreted as #targetText=<encoded target text>
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    by hboon 8y ago

    > Its structure also allowed for automated refactoring at a semantic level (objects knew who their callers were) It isn't quite as magical as that. It's somewhat better than most dynamic languages when refactoring and probably
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    by hboon 8y ago

    What a small world. I read "Over the weekend" and clickthrough to your repo. I was at ETHSingapore the last 2 days (but wouldn't be there on Sunday). Good luck to your presentation tomorrow!
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    by hboon 8y ago

    This is pretty cool. This looks like it'll be useful for my work. Is 4bytes.directory the only source of function signatures?
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    by hboon 8y ago

    Hmm, ok. Check out vim's `diffthis` and https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive if you haven't. It sounds like it does the same thing. I'm suggesting this because you already use MacVim, so you'd get
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    by hboon 8y ago

    Take at least a few weeks off and make arrangements at work that you might respond to work much slower than usual. You might still be able to work, fewer and less predictable hours. I was able to work some time between feedings while the ba
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    by hboon 8y ago

    What's nicer about BBEdit's diff-ing than MacVim's?
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    by hboon 8y ago

    Boggles the mind why companies skim on quality properly-speced laptops.
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    by hboon 8y ago

    When you are ready again, I expect my t-shirt. Will pay again :)
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    by hboon 8y ago

    An anecdote: In a previous job as a presales engineer, I kept notes of prospects and customers in a TiddlyWiki. When I left, I handed the file over to my replacement. He told me after a few years that the "wiki" was of great help
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    by hboon 8y ago

    Post Masters of Doom.
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    Interviews with John Carmack [~1997-2008] [pdf](fabiensanglard.net)

    15 points by hboon 8y ago|3 comments
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    by hboon 8y ago

    git didn't work with it (maybe it does now). But there has been native version control tools in Smalltalk. There was ENVY, and Squeak and Pharo has Monticello, Dolphin had something (can't remember its name). git is great in many
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    by hboon 8y ago

    Code + data + live instances of the code/objects. Like I said, I haven't been tracking how they do it, but I'm guessing that they only track code. If you want to be able to deploy an image directly, you either have to write s
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    by hboon 8y ago

    Smalltalk has a concept of changesets. They can approximate diffs/patches. And while the code is exposed in code browsers (some kind of IDE/text editor window) in the image, and not exposed as text files, they certainly can be. So
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    by hboon 8y ago

    The short answer is it's different and unfamiliar to most newcomers: 1. The image-based paradigm [1] holds it back. Using Smalltalk, there's quite a change in development style, the existing development tools (text editors, versio
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    by hboon 8y ago

    No. I really mean swipe quickly. Try it out :)
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    by hboon 8y ago

    Out of curiosity. How many of us knows that swiping sideways quickly on the volume button changes the volume? Ditto for brightness.
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    by hboon 8y ago

    I've always found it quite painful to do string escaping when using `ruby -e`
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    by hboon 8y ago

    Somewhat related: I've found Departures (Japanese) to be a great movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1069238/
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    by hboon 8y ago

    I wrote about something similar in a comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16322942 It's served me well. I have records from as far back as 2009.