tenaciousDaniel

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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
Every time I try to understand the 4th+ dimension, my brain just completely breaks and I'm left feeling angry. I'm a highly visual thinker so it's difficult for me to grasp concepts like that. Someone once told me that in the
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
The marketing page claims to offer "up to a 160x" perf improvement to Python. No idea how though.
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
Noob question. What does it mean to say that a language is "python-based"? Python is itself a language. Does it mean the parser/compiler is written in Python?
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
It's funny, I learned about currying back when I was first learning Javascript and programming in general. That was 10 years ago, and not once in my 10 years as a professional programmer have I ever needed to curry. Maybe I've b
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
A good iteration on this would be to include examples of each principle in action. For instance, I know that AirBnB's guidelines have visual demos. Shouldn't be hard to pull those and drop them onto this site.
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
I've been looking for an alternative to Skia so this looks interesting. Why Nim though? I've never heard of it before.
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
lol exactly. I've discussed this incident before on HN and had the same kind of "well tough luck but you deserved it" responses. They seem not to understand how off-putting it is to newcomers or students, to basically say &qu
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
> From your comment Pretty stupid to just assume that I "didn't even bother" to answer their questions. I'm not going to write a novel explaining every minutia of my interactions with AWS. > letting it go is on you
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
Ah yeah, I remember now. You could turn off the DB, but there was some other kind of scaffolding thing that I was still getting charged for. It seemed like an RDS-specific thing. They had to point me to a tutorial for turning that piece off
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
Yep. I'm a novice at AWS. Last year I heard about RDS, and tried playing around with it. I thought I had shut it down because I clicked some button that looked like it was the turn-off button. I let it go on for a few months, only to
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
Disheartening for sure. I'm not sure if this is something that's particular to STEM fields, but there seems to be a far-too-large subset of people who think they're too smart for optimism. Like they've lost the ability t
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
Meh, I'm still not seeing what make it propaganda, instead of just a terrible argument.
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
I never miss an opportunity to share this eulogy I found a few years back, written way back in the 19th century: https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/MDH/EulogyoftheDog.pdf
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
Touch grass, as they say
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
I've been in the process of designing exactly such a language. It's nowhere near ready, but my goal is to create a design tool that can edit this language either using a figma/sketch like GUI or by editing the code directly.
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
My comment is general enough to be easily interpreted as a question. If you have an as to how this proposal is a necessary addition to WebGPU and WebGL, why not go with that, instead of snarky condescension?
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
Not only WebGL, but WebGPU is also in the works. I simply don't understand this proposal.
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
Yep exactly. I've found that to be the case as well.
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
I find the no-low-code trend really interesting, because it shines a light on the difference in perspective between programmers and non-programmers. It's generally assumed that "code is complex", and therefore that's whe
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
Yep, svg + react = declarative graphics. I love it. I used it to replace D3 in a project I worked on last year and no regrets at all.
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
This is great, do you use anything under the hood? D3/ThreeJS?
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
I played Dreams on the PS4 before I had heard of Roblox, and when I first heard about it I thought "oh wow it's probably like Dreams but for PC!" I was sorely disappointed - I'm as perplexed as you are how they became so
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
Every project I've inherited has done this, and every time I go through the tedious process of separating UI logic from business logic. If done the right way, a component-oriented approach can be very nice. But yes, if a dev thinks tha
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
My first thought was what it would be like to get fired by a wide-eyed, partially smiling cartoon character. Half hilarious, half dystopian.
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
Ah nice, I see. Any particular reason for Rust being used? Just curious, because I would (naively) expect to see similar projects with Golang, C++ etc but I really only see Rust.
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
So I'm familiar with WebGPU, but I'm not really sure why there would be a native (non-web) implementation of it. What are the practical uses of this, as opposed to just using something like Vulkan?
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
Interesting, I'd be fascinated to hear what tech you use, because I've always had a really hard time with migrations.
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
So I've seen both sides of the "unpopularity" issue. On the one hand, the other comments about pushing too fast for new features are valid. On the other hand, it very much depends on the developer in question. I'd say
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
Hard to describe, but it feels like it makes much, much more sense. I think it's because the divide between html/css/js is supposed to be one of concerns, but in reality the concerns are interwoven in many ways, and leads t
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by tenaciousDaniel 5y ago
I've always been curious about video game pricing. The car dealership comparison was perfect, really shows how wild the market is.

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