msvan

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Ask HN: What features would your ideal programming language have?
11 points by msvan 7y ago|16 comments
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by msvan 7y ago
Languages like Haskell and Go already have multicore GCs. How does OCaml's multicore GC compare? Is the work taking a long time because it is doing something brand new in the design space, or is it simply hard to integrate it with a ma
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by msvan 7y ago
If you're running macOS, remember that built-in bash is from 2007 and won't support all the fancy stuff like ${VAR^}.
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by msvan 7y ago
I think it's just not gonna fly in many organizations. You need the people who are going to be working with it and maintaining it to buy into it, and you also need to convince whoever is in charge of technology choices that it's a
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by msvan 7y ago
I look at go and I see an admission of defeat in programming language design. The central idea of go is that the way to have a language that is productive in the large is to impair it as much as possible. Unfortunately this idea seems to ha
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by msvan 7y ago
The problem is that revenue from paying subscribers is not enough. For most newspapers, ads are needed to run a profitable digital business. Ads cannot be removed for paying subscribers, since paying subscribers are precisely who advertiser
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Ask HN: Why does Europe not have any big tech companies?
9 points by msvan 7y ago|17 comments
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Talking to my mother about Hong Kong(supchina.com)
2 points by msvan 7y ago|0 comments
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by msvan 7y ago
So Apple made a decent MacBook Pro again. Good. But they still haven't made things right for the lemon they sold me. My keyboard is still not working, even after I handed it in for repair twice. Now I'm expected to shell out a few
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Ask HN: What shiny new tech would you want to try?
1 points by msvan 7y ago|0 comments
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by msvan 7y ago
This was announced on the Future of Coding Slack [1] not long ago. I encourage people who are into things like structured/projectional editors, visual programming and other wild re-imaginations of programming to join. [1]: https:&#x2F
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by msvan 7y ago
None of my colleagues or friends are using Sublime anymore. I think that there's a chart somewhere at Sublime HQ that looks like a ski slope.
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by msvan 7y ago
The flip side of the story is that Sublime died. I know they have had some updates recently, but for years it was completely stagnant. The hole that was left by Sublime was filled by VS Code. Maybe Sublime would've survived with a subs
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by msvan 7y ago
I think this is really cool. I love that they're writing a projectional editor and trying to make that work, because it's such an obviously good idea that should be more widespread. You can make major DX improvements by tightly in
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by msvan 7y ago
So that they can make money by tracking you. Curl does not give money to Medium.
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by msvan 7y ago
The sum forms a necessary but not sufficient condition for being within a certain Levenshtein distance. In your example, the inequality I gave above does not apply since |c1-c2| = 0. You would have to calculate the Levenshtein distance. In
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by msvan 7y ago
Not sure how it's supposed to be solved, but I thought of a cute hack in the special case where the character set of the strings is limited, e.g. lowercase ASCII only. Let A be the alphabet used. Precompute the "letter sum" o
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by msvan 7y ago
Does this say something broader about the supply/demand of engineering talent, or is it mostly just a reflection of Uber's troubles?
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by msvan 7y ago
Ultimately, China owns Hong Kong and will subsume Hong Kong sooner or later. What leverage does HK have besides taking to the streets every few years? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Hong_Kong_protests )
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by msvan 7y ago
I've been seeing this meme recently that object-oriented programming is not what we think it is, but rather that it's some other ethereal quality which does not exist as a paradigm in modern languages. Isn't it fair to say th
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by msvan 7y ago
1) I don't mind paying for games. I just don't want the game mechanics to be designed to divert me towards spending more money on the game. 2) It's 12 games to start with. I'm sure there could be more later on.
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by msvan 7y ago
I think it's cool. I'm not that old, but games these days mostly seem to be about squeezing every last dollar out of the consumer through shady means. I think this is part of why I don't play video games anymore. It's ni
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by msvan 7y ago
Same issue here.
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by msvan 7y ago
I will agree and add a data point here. My 2017 MBP has had chronic keyboard issues, despite being in for repair twice and having had the entire top case replaced. Seriously disappointed in this computer considering the price I paid. I am p
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by msvan 7y ago
Esy ( https://esy.sh/ ) has completely solved the first problem, fwiw.
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by msvan 7y ago
Multicore OCaml is actually making promising progress, but I agree that the standard library situation is a little bit unfortunate.
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by msvan 7y ago
I wonder how many Rust users really want linear types and borrow checking, instead of the other stuff Rust brings to the table: modern language design, large and friendly community, nice type system, native compilation, good package ecosyst
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by msvan 7y ago
It is really crazy that we go through these massive hoops to simulate what would be trivial to do in an AST editor. I recently read through some of the literature on projectional editors, and while they have historically had some usability
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Ask HN: What is the business model for desktop software in 2019?
1 points by msvan 7y ago|4 comments
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by msvan 7y ago
> of a juicy acquisition OpenAI is a non-profit. They are not looking to get acquired.

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