nathcd

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by nathcd 5y ago
All formats do indeed suck, but not equally (YAML does suck equally, though). Your point about HTML is the best argument for XML though, since every client needs an 8 million LOC HTML parser anyway. It was probably a mistake to resurrect th
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by nathcd 5y ago
Nice, good to know. Do you know if many common clients support it?
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by nathcd 5y ago
> I don't want everything every day. Yeah! I'm with you. Although I don't use it, I really like some of the features of https://fraidyc.at/ . For the majority of feeds I follow, I don't need to keep tr
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by nathcd 5y ago
> These are the fault of broken RSS feed generators. The RSS feed should contain a textual summary of the article. "Should" indeed. But a standard that isn't followed isn't exactly helpful to me. > This is working
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by nathcd 5y ago
I'm a very happy daily RSS user, but we ought to be upfront about its ginormous deficiencies: - every day I deal with broken links and broken images because my feed reader doesn't know from which URL it should resolve relative lin
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by nathcd 5y ago
I wonder if they've ever had to enforce "Be not drowsy" or "Be in dread of hell".
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by nathcd 5y ago
I mean, if your compiler does TCO and you can make your function tail recursive, it's usable in the real world, right? That's not all recursive functions, but "useless" seems a little extreme. I write plenty of recursive
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by nathcd 5y ago
Ah that's my mistake, I read more into your comment than you wrote. Sorry! It's a good point about edge cases in diffing. Dynamic value diffing in dynamically-typed languages is an interesting problem to think about.
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by nathcd 5y ago
Yeah, it's just a single function that recurses. So the limit will be your VM's call stack limit.
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by nathcd 5y ago
But vnodes have a predefined shape, whereas this library is for diffing (relatively) arbitrary objects, right? If your data isn't arbitrarily shaped, I would assume you'd get much better performance by just implementing a simple d
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by nathcd 5y ago
The article touches on this: > Some pairings are simply volume. There are a lot of nurses and teachers, so they show up on top of the list often.
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by nathcd 5y ago
Looks like its own website is built with Soupault: https://github.com/dmbaturin/soupault-website The main repository also has directories called 'sample-site' and 'examples': https://gith
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by nathcd 5y ago
`navigator.storage.persist()` will prompt the user to allow persistent storage for your site, so data won't be evicted under storage pressure (for IndexedDB, service worker registrations, localStorage, sessionStorage, etc.) https:&#x2
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Experiences with Effects in OCaml [video](watch.ocaml.org)
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by nathcd 5y ago
Agreed. I was initially pretty turned off by the app-iness of Discourse, but after using it for awhile I've come around and actually enjoy it quite a bit now.
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by nathcd 5y ago
The story says the fines fell to her heirs - her husband and son. It says their bank accounts were frozen and the bailiffs took her husband's car to settle part of the fine.
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by nathcd 5y ago
I think the original formulation is "make illegal states unrepresentable" from Yaron Minsky: https://blog.janestreet.com/effective-ml/ and https://blog.janestreet.com/effective-ml-revisited&#x
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by nathcd 5y ago
Per the HN guidelines: > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.c
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by nathcd 5y ago
> I wonder if anyone has compiled QuickJS to WASM and run it in the browser. Fabrice Bellard actually did it himself here: http://numcalc.com/
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by nathcd 5y ago
> is there a set of syntax/language/compilers that will allow me to have one codebase, one syntax, and run the server as native code (possibly with nodejs as an option) - and use same language for the front-end? You can use the
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by nathcd 5y ago
On the uBO popup, if you click "More" on the bottom left a few times, you eventually get a uMatrix-ish grid on the left side of the popup. (Not 100% sure if that's what you're looking for.) I agree with other commenters
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by nathcd 5y ago
> The only working alternative (editing if I stand corrected!) using buttons is to make them form buttons. Now otherwise intuitive behaviors (e.g. forward/back, refresh) are laden with "you're about to resend data!" w
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by nathcd 6y ago
(2017) There was a large discussion (948 points, 267 comments) at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13421608
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by nathcd 6y ago
Perhaps it's just my wimpy laptop, but last time I tried tridactyl it was pretty slow. Vimium ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/ ) has been a bit better for me, although I thi
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by nathcd 6y ago
Here is a plaintext version of Nayuki's results, via the link they posted above: https://www.nayuki.io/res/computing-wikipedias-internal-page... Geographic coordinate system is first.
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by nathcd 6y ago
I remember wondering about exactly this a couple years ago, but I couldn't figure out the answer (I didn't look all that closely into it). Now I want to come up with an excuse to try it out on something. Thanks for mentioning this
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by nathcd 6y ago
There's also a general purpose regex based redirector if there are other sites you'd like to redirect: https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector
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by nathcd 6y ago
I certainly wish you luck - I don't think there's any shortage of people who want tax preparation to be less awful. But am I understanding correctly that you feel you've already got the tech, the money, and the ability to put
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by nathcd 6y ago
Do you have any expertise in the tax system? If this can be made in 2 months by one person, why hasn't this already been done before? How will $50,000 help you? Your HN profile says that you're an investor - why can't you fun
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by nathcd 6y ago
Agreed that this is a cool idea, but I really hope they don't add voting. Leave the upvote/downvote noise on social media.

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