Hacker News: 0x264

New comment by 0x264 in "Cuis: The Modern Smalltalk-80"

0x264 — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:55:17 +0000

When using so called OOP languages I specifically avoid inheritance, and in fact I think it's the worst aspect of it. In any case, I tend not to include inheritance into the definition of object orientation.

New comment by 0x264 in "SDF Public Access Unix System"

0x264 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:10:32 +0000

Thank you for mentioning those! I saw both Robotech and Macross Plus (in French) when I was a teenager. I still think about the SDF more often I would admit and the soundtrack is a regular occurrence in my work playlist :)

New comment by 0x264 in "Dating: A mysterious constellation of facts"

0x264 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 09:55:59 +0000

The secretary problem is a bad way to formalise the problem of dating and the stopping rule doesn't work in that context, for a very simple reason.

The secretary problem is a solution to the problem of having to make repeated choices. In essence it's a solution to the problem of having to choose a secretary every morning for the day. You can even say it's a solution to the problem of a computer process spending a few seconds consuming an infinite stream at the top of every hour for the next hour. It's not a solution to the problem of making a (hopefully) unique choice.

New comment by 0x264 in "GHC now runs in the browser"

0x264 — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 17:20:21 +0000

Teaching

New comment by 0x264 in "S.A.R.C.A.S.M: Slightly Annoying Rubik's Cube Automatic Solving Machine"

0x264 — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 07:23:51 +0000

> I don’t know really how ppl that solve it fast accomplish getting to that level

Just like everything else in life, they do it really slow and with lots and lots and lots of errors at first, but (and this is where the magic happens) keep doing it, training hours a day or their entire week ends, for years.

New comment by 0x264 in "Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time"

0x264 — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 11:28:48 +0000

On your CV ? Has any recruiter or hiring manager ever commented on it, or said the mention gave you an advantage ?

New comment by 0x264 in "Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time"

0x264 — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 11:26:04 +0000

You can definitively play like that if you want to. At day 2n (n > 0) you do the puzzle of day n.

New comment by 0x264 in "Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?"

0x264 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:55:22 +0000

JavaScript code and Haskell code ultimately both get turned into instructions for a microprocessor, so there really isn't much of a difference between both.

New comment by 0x264 in "Show HN: Lingo – A linguistic database in Rust with nanosecond-level performance"

0x264 — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 09:30:42 +0000

Yep, another developer enthusiastically proposing mmap as an "easy win" for database design, when in reality it often causes hard-to-debug correctness and performance problems.

New comment by 0x264 in "Show HN: Amber – better Beeper, a modern all-in-one messenger"

0x264 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 19:27:30 +0000

Yes, pictures of the user interface will help a lot. Thanks!

New comment by 0x264 in "An engineer's perspective on hiring"

0x264 — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 10:41:14 +0000

The situation is not going to improve as long as business stakeholders and engineering managers (some closer to MBAs than actual engineers) think of software engineers as construction workers. They think we are fungible, they don't understand the craft of programming etc, and have very short term mindsets. Took me a while but then I realised that I needed to interview my prospective employers as much as they were interviewing me, and to just ignore those not worth working for.

New comment by 0x264 in "VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in"

0x264 — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 06:56:24 +0000

No they can't. Myself, and quite a few other people, need it for work.

New comment by 0x264 in "Creepy Study Suggests AI Is the Reason We've Never Found Aliens"

0x264 — Sun, 12 May 2024 18:55:01 +0000

I would imagine that the alien civilisations would also make that kind of studies, and pre-emptively prevent the extinction scenario from happening.

New comment by 0x264 in "Data structures as topological spaces (2002) [pdf]"

0x264 — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:07:31 +0000

That's correct. It's (and they are) French.

New comment by 0x264 in "Advent of Code 2023 is nigh"

0x264 — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 20:25:16 +0000

> like chores by the 10th problem or so and I drop out

That they get so involved is the reason I participate (despite also working at the same time). I love the fact that the difficulty starts low and then goes up to levels where I feel really challenged. It's a month (well, 25 days) commitment which pays off the entire 11 other months for me :)

New comment by 0x264 in "MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names"

0x264 — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 20:00:41 +0000

Set of related trades.

New comment by 0x264 in "Functions are vectors"

0x264 — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 10:16:59 +0000

Hi thaumasiotes, Mathematician here, and somewhow interested in this discussion. I am curious of your definition of full_sqrt, what would be the value of full_sqrt(-3) ?

New comment by 0x264 in "From Swiping to Sexting: The Gender Divide in American Dating and Relationships"

0x264 — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 11:04:27 +0000

It's a completely factual statement, and relevant in the context of the article. It doesn't claim that the same cannot be observed, or doesn't happen, somewhere else.

New comment by 0x264 in "[dead]"

0x264 — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 05:47:10 +0000

As somebody currently learning Rust, I totally echo this sentiment.

New comment by 0x264 in "Cheat sheet for if I'm gone"

0x264 — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 09:14:08 +0000

Have an electronic version of it (the main version)

1. Update it every year or so, and 2. Everytime you update it you print a copy version and distribute that as needed.