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by nicopappl 4y ago
× The Cyberiad (English translation) by Stanisław Lem. It's the most hilarious science fiction I've read. It hits a special note with me, I actually immediately started reading it again from the start as soon as I finished it. × T
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by nicopappl 4y ago
Note that this blog post announces that Code Simplicity is published as a free pdf download by the author. I'd suggest changing the title to "Code Simplicity: now free to download" or something. I can recommend Code Simplicit
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by nicopappl 4y ago
You'd definitively be interested by the ryg[1] series on the graphic pipeline. It goes in details about how bits get to the GPU and how the GPU handle them. The author writes that using a 3D graphics API is a prerequisite. To the contr
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Hello World Under the Microscope(asawicki.info)
91 points by nicopappl 4y ago|14 comments
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by nicopappl 4y ago
Ahah, I'm glad to see you here! I do enjoy the postfinance app, but I recently had to use the service.post.ch website, and it was one of the most unpleasant experience I had with a computer in recent times. I'm so sorry to breach
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Optimizing Blender's Import(aras-p.info)
1 points by nicopappl 4y ago|0 comments
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by nicopappl 5y ago
Remember that even those people you are citing built on someone else's work. Someone's contribution may simply be a tinny layer on top of an already existing massive amount of work. It is difficult to distinguish new work from pre
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by nicopappl 5y ago
I use the "I don't care about cookies" browser extension with "Cookie AutoDelete". Cookies are managed client-side, those banners are redundant. The purpose of open standards is that you can have a user-agent that d
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by nicopappl 5y ago
I'll just put out my list since it's probably what people browse those threads for. I just finished it so I might be biased, but Miller's "A canticle for Leibowitz" is some of the best Sci-fi I've read. Extreme
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by nicopappl 5y ago
I have the privilege of owning a Happy Hacking 2, it has topre keys. I used it for about a year. And I hated it! It's insanely noisy, to the point of distraction. It's so damn loud. But the dealbreaker for me is how heavy and deep
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by nicopappl 5y ago
Two things make serde great: (1) It's format agnostic (2) everyone in the community uses it. My experience with other language ecosystem (I'm thinking Haskell or Scala) is that serialization/deserialization libraries are limi
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by nicopappl 5y ago
Yes, Swiss federal parliamentary elections have a similar system. The name of the other parties your vote goes to if the one you voted for didn’t pass is printed on the voting bulletin. The system is a bit more complex, since it’s for the p
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by nicopappl 5y ago
I can suggest something that was recommended on HN maybe five years ago: Code Simplicity by Kanat-Alexander. It's relatively short and doesn't commit the sin of providing code snippets. It only lays down general rules about softwa
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by nicopappl 6y ago
The point on the unicode to_lowercase is quite interesting. I wonder if the javascript version is faster because it's less safe or because the JIT compiler identifies properly that unicode-awareness is useless and specializes the code.
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by nicopappl 6y ago
Infomaniak is a well known Swiss hosting company that existed for over 20 years. I'm a bit surprised to see this name here in hacker news. I would be surprised if this wasn't a long-term move. Simply because claiming "free fo
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by nicopappl 6y ago
Honestly I think the "val vs var" debate is kind of a misdirection. The real difficulty with mutability comes from interior mutability. The scala standard library has collection.mutable.{List, Map, Set, etc.} and collection.immuta