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by kbd 11y ago
Thanks for the link! Would you mind summarizing a few relevant points from the hour and a half long video? ;)
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by kbd 11y ago
I interviewed at Google twice in Mountain View after getting through the whole phone interview and coding process each time, but failed in person. I was way too nervous and performed poorly, but did well enough that they wanted me to come b
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by kbd 11y ago
Another reason everyone should get comfortable with using y'all as a real/acceptable word in English.
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by kbd 11y ago
The most iconic feature of "material design" to me is the "create" button in the lower right-hand corner. Except if you're in landscape in, say, Gmail, it's in the center bottom since it's a part of the me
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by kbd 11y ago
The font is so huge on mobile. I get about three words to a line, which makes the site very hard to read.
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by kbd 11y ago
(2012) I really wish people would get in the habit of including the date in their submitted titles for non-current links. Older links are fine if they're still of interest, but since this is Hacker News after all, things that aren&#x
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by kbd 11y ago
Very impressive that PyPy's JIT with Pycket out-performed Racket's language-specific JIT, and that it supports tail calls and continuations, both of which are impractical to implement on say, the JVM (see Clojure).
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by kbd 11y ago
Raymond Chen - 2007
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by kbd 11y ago
> so I'd see a lot of (new) engineers select the text with their mouse What did the more experienced engineers do differently?
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by kbd 11y ago
It's a small thing, but I'm so glad they renamed it to "Nim". Its prior name carries such a negative connotation, while just shortening that gave a name that's cute and simple.
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by kbd 11y ago
(2011)
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by kbd 12y ago
The article mentions stackless Python. My understanding is Guido didn't want to merge it because it would break backwards compatibility with extensions. That was a long time ago when Python's userbase was much smaller. I wonder
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by kbd 12y ago
Just associate .txt files with Sublime Text and then you can type 'open -t {file}' or 'open -t {directory}' to open in Sublime Text. I'll often do 'open -t .' to open the current directory, then CMD+P to o
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by kbd 12y ago
> it inevitably dies because i forget about charging it ever How is that possible? It gives you ample low battery alerts.
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by kbd 12y ago
I like the idea. I like that you even round-trip comments. I suppose that doesn't add too much complexity to the implementation? Have you ever been bitten by the dwimmy typing of numeric and true/false/null data?
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by kbd 12y ago
This sounds similar to 'z', except z remembers your common directories automatically. https://github.com/rupa/z
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by kbd 12y ago
Great to see the IPython notebook being used by languages other than Python! I've been wanting to read The Haskell School of Music[1]. I'm hopeful this would be a useful environment for working through it. [1] http://ha
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by kbd 12y ago
I'm annoyed that there's still no way to underline in markdown.
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by kbd 12y ago
> At least camcelCase keeps me from reaching for the _ as much... Among the many reasons I prefer Dvorak is that dash/underscore is on the home row.
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by kbd 12y ago
This post is from August of last year, and there was already a post about it at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8143905
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by kbd 12y ago
That is pretty impressive if it can really get 8 months on a battery while maintaining a bluetooth connection! Of course, this is quite a different category of product as it doesn't have a screen and just has normal watch hands. Still,
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by kbd 12y ago
> I guess the minus would be its harder to read in the dark. There is a backlight when you want it. And the plus side is that it's readable always, not just when you activate the screen.
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by kbd 12y ago
> Metal and sapphire crystal is much more robust and functional than these cheap materials. The screen is Gorilla Glass and the bezel is stainless steel!
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by kbd 12y ago
> I think I'll hold off until the battery life ... (lasts a few months on a single charge?) You'll be waiting a very long time. > Considering my Kindle lasts over a month on a single charge Your Kindle isn't maintaining
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by kbd 12y ago
You say bland, I say functional. Since my Casio data bank watch in the 90s I didn't wear a watch until I got my Pebble. To me a watch is a tool, not a fashion accessory. I understand not everyone looks at it that way, but really I don&
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by kbd 12y ago
Congrats to the PyPy team on what sounds like a pretty big release! Something in the release notes caught my eye: > The past months have seen pypy mature and grow, as rpython becomes the goto solution for writing fast dynamic language in
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by kbd 12y ago
The lack of a testing story for Meteor was what really stalled my side project with it. Since then, Velocity has become the official testing framework but I haven't gotten the chance to dig into it. I'm disappointed to hear you&#x
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by kbd 12y ago
I think you misunderstand how PyPy works, not to mention making baseless claims (it'll be too slow), which is why you've been downvoted.
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by kbd 12y ago
Something I've wondered for a while: why was the decision made to write yet another dynamic language VM+JIT (MoarVM) instead of taking advantage of all the work the PyPy folks have done and using PyPy for Perl 6? Was PyPy even evaluate
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by kbd 12y ago
Yes. It's better than the alternative of having a bunch of URLs pasted inline making the rest harder to read. I mean I've read books where the majority of some pages consisted of footnotes, so I don't get the hostility.

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