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by vaughan 3y ago
Vertically, like Github's Pull Request changed files.
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Ask HN: Is there a code editor that shows multiple files in a single pane?
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by vaughan 3y ago
> The slashed '0' is easy to tell apart from 'O' at small sizes Funnily enough, viewing 27" at 140ppi from 1 meter, my brain mistook the slashed '0' for a 6 or 8 when looking at the headings.
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by vaughan 3y ago
It’s because you can only understand why things are structured the way they are, if you go on the journey from scratch yourself. It would probably be easier if there was a video or scrubber/slider to see how the code evolved. So many t
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by vaughan 3y ago
> ever tried going back to your Python/TS project after a few years 100%. It could be a lot better! I'm very bullish on https://bun.sh changing this!
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by vaughan 3y ago
> it's super easy to use the output of one program as the input of another, and to integrate it in bigger scripts This can be done with Python/TypeScript code and it would be much more maintainable and typesafe. I don't kn
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by vaughan 3y ago
The terminal is such a relic. The only thing going for it is that it's always fast. Every single time I use it I would prefer GUI output, and a proper scripting language like Python or JS. For output I want datagrids with search, sort,
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by vaughan 3y ago
We are definitely going to look back on this era and wonder why we stuck to archaic tech for so long. It's clear that the database needs to be more integrated in our applications. SQL is not a good fit for most apps. The reporting&#x2F
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by vaughan 3y ago
Ideally we should write and organize our code such that it is easy to visualize. We shouldn’t write code and then visualize it. And we also shouldn’t think we have to abandon text-based editors when we want to do such. People forget that hi
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by vaughan 3y ago
I recently stopped doing exercise in the morning. I found that it spikes my dopamine too high too soon which makes it harder to work. I wonder if anyone has studied this...
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by vaughan 3y ago
Check out https://pernos.co/ .
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by vaughan 3y ago
Something that gives me hope is that I haven't seen anyone prioritize debuggability in a modern programming language or even a framework. Vale is maybe the first getting close: https://verdagon.dev/blog/perfect-rep
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by vaughan 3y ago
This is the central problem with all programming today. You can think of everything as configuration. Parameters of a function are just configuration for that function. What we need is traceability of every value in a system, not just confi
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by vaughan 3y ago
OO is the king of the contrived example const dog = new Dog dog.woof() Now you see how simple OO is, let's build banking software.
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by vaughan 3y ago
I guess I mean that it's not the first thing people reach for unless they know about it. They have some data and want to write a function to do something. But yeh its probably a too broad statement not worth debating on definitions.
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by vaughan 3y ago
There is definitely an art to it at some point, but I see a lack of tools to be a big problem. We are in the stone-age of programming at the moment. I think the solution is visualization. I want to click on any variable, and see its full da
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by vaughan 3y ago
I've actually started preferring the `action(subject, object)` form of programming which OO in C entails, rather than `subject.action(object)`. The latter is certainly easier for discovery via auto-complete (with most current tooling).
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by vaughan 3y ago
Good idea. As an extension, I would love a directory of all communities online. Something Yahoo-esque. I often have trouble finding the right place to ask a question or discuss a topic.
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by vaughan 3y ago
I'm moving all my scripting to TypeScript using Bun (JS runtime written in Zig). For scripting its a way better choice. `bun:ffi` also makes it trivial to run C or Zig code when you need to.
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by vaughan 3y ago
I want to use terminal, but everytime I type something I get presented with an adjacent form I can alternatively use. A cli command builder gui. Best of both worlds. Also should be web-based. And all output should be a searchable, sortable,
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by vaughan 3y ago
> fs.watch https://facebook.github.io/watchman/ is a good workaround for now.
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by vaughan 3y ago
We need an equivalent Python Mojo for TypeScript. This seems like the most obvious thing yet to be built. I wonder how hard it would be to take an existing systems language and add TS syntax to it. Seeing as they are all built on LLVM. Or m
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by vaughan 3y ago
I had the idea recently to unify all the rendering code for my cli apps and thought this might be a good approach - I also wanted to allow cli app output to be rendered in the browser. It wasn't. I guess it might be good for dynamic ap
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by vaughan 3y ago
Do students respond well? When I was in school, a lot of teachers did a little tidbit of history at the start of topics, but I never latched onto it and found it boring. It was only after my studies that I started to really love going back
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by vaughan 3y ago
For double-entry accounting, Luca Pacioli's Summa. The history of accounting is a bit more complex and unknown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_de_arithmetica
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by vaughan 3y ago
History is such a great way to learn anything. It’s interesting - like a mystery revealed, but also provides the why - why things are the way they are. I was looking into accounting the other day, and you can go back to the first document t
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by vaughan 3y ago
> compile speed and debug-ability I wish people would prioritize this more. With every new langauge that comes out, sure it brings a few interesting features, but it always takes 5+ years for IDE support, a good debugger, and compile spe
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by vaughan 3y ago
It's unfortunate that no one thinks about the debugging experience with anything they build today. It's always a "strap yourself in" experience like in the post. I dream of an IDE that is one-click, full-stack, local deb
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by vaughan 3y ago
That article was a great read. > What is a (somewhat) pure mapping from the model is the data that is displayed in the UI, but not the entire UI. This line was interesting to think about. React added so much complexity and perf issues, a
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by vaughan 3y ago
I was parsing paths into an array of dirs recently. The `/` root dir is quirky. You can’t just do `dirPath.split(‘/‘)`. You have to handle it as a special case. Would be easier if it had a special name. Like `$/dir1/dir2

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