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by westoncb 5y ago
https://symbolflux.com/projects The site itself isn't much, but I think there's probably a bit of something for everyone in the projects ;)
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by westoncb 5y ago
Hey Zach, while I think your post is well-intentioned, the contemporary default level of trust around tech companies and data privacy is just very low. As a new entrant to the field, you inherit the default valuation—people have no other in
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by westoncb 5y ago
I developed a habit of building these kinds of 'dashboards' from my time in game development, and ended up working on software to generalize the visualization and program data monitoring aspects of them so they could be more easil
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by westoncb 5y ago
For general linguistics I've enjoyed a couple small books by Frank Palmer: "Grammar" and "Semantics".
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by westoncb 5y ago
Just fyi, there is no need to use Redux just because you're using React. If it's a pretty simple case, you can use the built in `useReducer`[0]. Or if you want something that'll scale but that's much more lightweight tha
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by westoncb 5y ago
I'd like to try this but it seems just about impossible to locate actual high quality green tea online. Basically every green tea product on amazon, even those in the price range of $50 for a standard quantity, has loads of reviews tal
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by westoncb 5y ago
The input prompts are just one example, it's what it's an example of that's actually exciting.
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by westoncb 5y ago
There's a pretty solid case for the brain being responsible just because breaking it in various ways also breaks memory-storing in various ways.
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by westoncb 5y ago
Out of curiosity, why did you fall out of love with SDF? Also curious why BREP is represented through a language rather than e.g. a tree or graph (or maybe this is just a language shortcut, and the idea is that the language is used to spec
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Show HN: Simple Lambda Calculus Visualizer
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by westoncb 5y ago
> You’re the one extrapolating that they are saying ALL SPAs are bad This was not my extrapolation. But if you skim over a comment you're likely to perceive it as falling into one broad camp or another whether that's the case o
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by westoncb 5y ago
I excerpted and replied to something specific from your comment which read to me as essentially "even the cases that seem to need it probably don't" which matches both the tenor of (many of) the replies and the title of the a
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by westoncb 5y ago
I get that that's the biggest problem, but there are plenty of people in the thread talking about how they're a bad idea in general (including the comment I was replying to)—which incidentally lines up with the (apparently) clickb
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by westoncb 5y ago
> but for all but the most cosmetic of purposes you're going to have to replicate that state on the backend anyway, to enforce business and security requirements. This really just comes down to what you're writing, how app-like
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by westoncb 5y ago
Not intrinsically difficult to use, I mean that the problems involved in implementing some ui concept may be intrinsically difficult or not (this can happen even when from the user's perspective the UI is simple/elegant). When
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by westoncb 5y ago
I mean, am I mistaken? Is the UI more complex than it looks or something? I'm just basing my comment off what I've been able to find through your reference. If there is some new system that's a genuine improvement over React
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by westoncb 5y ago
What I can find on "Hey" so far looks extremely basic as far as UI goes. And by all means, if what you're building only requires a very basic UI—absolutely go for it. My argument is that when you're faced with is an intr
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by westoncb 5y ago
I suppose one might arise if I were claiming those were the only two options. But on a closer re-reading you'll easily find that's not the case.
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by westoncb 5y ago
If my argument were that the new version of Gmail was better than the old one, and if the old version being "far superior" had some objective grounding—then you might be on to something. But that wasn't my argument at all. Gm
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by westoncb 5y ago
> do you really need all this to make a UI This only makes sense for a very narrow conception of the range of UI problems. If your UI is just a basic form or trivially reflecting database structure in a CRUD app, then you would have litt
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by westoncb 5y ago
> from mixins, to HOCs, to render props, and finally to hooks. While each item in the series is "more functional" in some sense, the progression itself is not something reflective of some kind of standard progression of concept
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by westoncb 5y ago
In my program we could do either compilers, OSes, or networks. That does sound like a fun project though—if I wanted to learn more in the area, building a toy shell is definitely the direction I'd go.
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by westoncb 5y ago
Very cool project! > the bottleneck in performance turns out to be the React frontend. It is the time taken by the React frontend to render execution updates that dictates the fastest possible execution speed. Why have React re-render ea
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by westoncb 5y ago
Yep, I did, though I didn't take an OS class. What's significant about the article (imo) is in pedagogy. I've never been particularly interested in OS implementation details or shell programming, but just because it's ar
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by westoncb 5y ago
It's kind of incredible that after ~20 years of programming I'd never come across anything illuminating this breakdown: > The terminal emulator is a graphical application whose role it is to interpret data coming from the shell
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by westoncb 5y ago
> that expressiveness is what’s really enjoyable, and pretty much impossible to find elsewhere. I've often thought it's because CSS is lower-level, more like a tool for creating UI libraries (similar to writing e.g. OpenGL dire
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by westoncb 5y ago
I genuinely hated using CSS each time I tried prior to ~2015. The point where that started changing for me was the introduction of Flexbox; the previously available layout models seemed to have no real coherence or logic behind them, depend
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by westoncb 5y ago
> Your analogy is a great demonstration why reasoning-by-analogy fails It's a matter of understanding what the analogy is giving you. In many cases, as above, it's merely a foothold, a way of getting started understanding what
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by westoncb 5y ago
Might check out Gravity Sketch: https://www.gravitysketch.com/ At first brush it appears more like these other VR "sketching" apps than a serious CAD tool, but it's actually pretty feature rich in that direct
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by westoncb 5y ago
> ... but similar durations of high-intensity cardio (45 minutes+) heavily improve my sleep I should definitely give this a try. I do long walks and strength training, but have been missing cardio. Thanks for the tip.

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