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Ask HN: Have you made any use of IndexedDB?
4 points by kizer 6y ago|4 comments
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by kizer 6y ago
Good for you! At 14 I was hooked, and knew that this - programming, IT, technology - was for me. I can see myself in your shoes some day. The "outside world" just doesn't get the allure sometimes ;). As a twenty-something, I&
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by kizer 6y ago
Really interesting but poorly written (for a scientific publication). Had a few sentences that were like “big leaps” logically. I’m no scientist but this read differently from most papers I’ve come across.
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by kizer 6y ago
I share some of the sentiment, but only demand and necessity will drive “building”. An energized or optimistic citizenry surely helps, but to kick innovation into high gear we need a Cold War or something. A crisis where we can go outside a
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by kizer 6y ago
How should I represent Unicode in memory?! UTF8? 16? 32bit integers? I keep hearing pros and cons of all the previous three. Is there a consensus? In cases where you don’t need a full blown Unicode lib.
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A Toolkit for Language and Grammar (2005)(languagemachine.sourceforge.net)
2 points by kizer 7y ago|0 comments
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by kizer 7y ago
So the language itself is the limiting factor, being dynamically typed. I imagine sometimes what we’d get if typescript were natively supported. People could still write JS, or add the type information which would then allow higher performa
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by kizer 7y ago
You seem to have more familiarity than me with Java :). So I guess V8 JITs some kind of p-code then? If V8 allowed full AOT comp. to the internal bytecode, then the perf would theoretically be around Java’s avg perf?
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by kizer 7y ago
I mean to say the bytecode is the input to the JIT.
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by kizer 7y ago
Java’s bytecode is JITted, which is a subtle distinction since there is an AOT translation step capabale of optimizations etc.
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by kizer 7y ago
I mean they could always go the stuxnet route so to speak and nab it that way. Anyhow GNU people, looks like a nice opportunity for a LibreDome?
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by kizer 7y ago
Will it be able to learn the universal Turing machine? We could "train" a compiler & runtime into existence. Probably too much of a correctness constraint (since the output has to be the exact result of computing the encoded p
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by kizer 7y ago
Stop looking at your reflection - in the mirror, in panes of glass... anywhere. Seriously. Obviously, if you have to for some reason, do it but minimally. Has other benefits as well.
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by kizer 7y ago
You can still do all that in JS, novel syntactic sugar aside.
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by kizer 7y ago
Full disclosure: work there. I’d say that’s an exaggeration - trying to take an objective perspective. Some users may not know a better option exists. The beige notification bar isn’t intrusive and can be closed. A significant question is w
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by kizer 7y ago
There's a balance, as is often [always?] the case in inversely related factors like code "cleanliness" (hard to talk about since it's a little vague of a word) and developer "velocity": pristine code can go awr
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WebDAV(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by kizer 7y ago|0 comments
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by kizer 7y ago
You're right. Lean will work (maybe) for all the boring, safe money-making schemes. May be a great way to start to learn how to run a business. But the fun is in the "bending"; creating a new type of business, maybe a new con
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Ask HN: Commonly mentioned, but: what tips do you have for learning discipline?
12 points by kizer 7y ago|10 comments
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by kizer 7y ago
I've wondered why operating systems, aside from hypervisors, are overwhelmingly the first abstraction - I know the obvious benefits, or rather necessities (processor sharing, security, file system, etc etc) - but in ultra-specialized p
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by kizer 7y ago
Richard, I swear to carry on you’re cause!
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Ask HN: Could domain-specific/business logic code be clearer without strings?
4 points by kizer 7y ago|3 comments
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by kizer 7y ago
I love the SQLite guy. His own version control, his own DB engine; you can tell from the site that he’s an individualist!
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by kizer 7y ago
Holy shit... what?! People have been stalking their partners using hidden apps? Is jealousy this powerful? WTF - that legitimately sounds crazy to me.
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by kizer 7y ago
Just a slice of my stream of consciousness.
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by kizer 7y ago
Mozilla won't quit - I love it. We need a third browser engine in the game and that should be sufficient as I've determined arbitrarily. There should be an open source browser that's a little more amateur and "democratic
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by kizer 7y ago
Aside from lowering latency, a big "edge footprint" also naturally load-balances and allows for more specialized localization, from what I can think of off the top of my head. I don't have much practical experience here so co
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by kizer 7y ago
Geez, chill out. I can't stand profanity.
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by kizer 7y ago
So where’s the spec
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by kizer 7y ago
Why aren’t they a well made match? Isn’t WASM “containerized”? Quotes are not sarcasm.

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