Hacker News: NigelTufnel

Show HN: Ebash – AI-Powered Shell

NigelTufnel — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:25:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/alexandershov/ebash

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599915

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by NigelTufnel in "Show HN: Pymash.com – facemash for the most popular Python repos"

NigelTufnel — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 09:28:47 +0000

To find the best Python function ever written!

Show HN: Pymash.com – facemash for the most popular Python repos

NigelTufnel — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:04:57 +0000

Article URL: http://www.pymash.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16476108

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

Show HN: Goslow – Slow HTTP server that responds with errors

NigelTufnel — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 18:55:27 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/alexandershov/goslow

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8682897

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by NigelTufnel in "Cursors"

NigelTufnel — Sun, 19 Oct 2014 19:36:01 +0000

This is so much fun. It's kind of like RPG. There are 3 character classes. 1. Asshole: just goes straight after the green square. 2. Prankster: draws arrows pointing to the wrong exits. 3. Batman: stays on the button and clicks.

I've tried all three characters. Playing prankster is fun (I was a true trickster and sometimes drew the right arrow). Playing asshole is boring. Playing Batman is ok.

My apologies to all the guys/gals who followed the wrong arrow.

Many, many thanks to the author.

Also, I haven't seen so many poorly drawn dicks and swastikas since grade school.

New comment by NigelTufnel in "You Got Your Web Browser in my Compiler"

NigelTufnel — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 08:25:40 +0000

Were it GCC instead of VC++ that wouldn't change much for a lot of people. Fixing bugs in a program with 7 million lines of code is not easy.

Fixing bugs in GCC for an unitiated person is probably super hard.

Java 8 is the biggest thing to happen to Java since Java 7

NigelTufnel — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:50:50 +0000

Article URL: http://codumentary.blogspot.ru/2014/03/java-8-is-biggest-thing-to-happen-to.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7424089

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by NigelTufnel in "Google’s Search Results Ditch Underlined Links, Increase Font Size"

NigelTufnel — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 20:08:19 +0000

Wikipedia doesn't underline links either. They're doing fine.

New comment by NigelTufnel in "New message from Mt. Gox"

NigelTufnel — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:33:27 +0000

This is insane. No declaration? Come on!

New comment by NigelTufnel in "Show HN: A simple IP address API"

NigelTufnel — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:02:47 +0000

I'm getting latitude = 60.0000, longitude = 100.0000 for my IP. Which is about 1000 km away from me.

New comment by NigelTufnel in "Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?"

NigelTufnel — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:24:26 +0000

Personal experience: weird jargon is a good thing. I've read a book on Hadoop once and it didn't use weird jargon - everything was in my native language. It was super hard to read - basically I needed to translate the book from my native language into English in my mind.

New comment by NigelTufnel in "Why Python Runs Slow, Part 1: Data Structures"

NigelTufnel — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:24:52 +0000

I just did. And either a) I'm doing something terribly wrong or b) ctypes.Structure is slower than Python class with __slots__.

I would bet on a) - I've never worked with ctypes before.

EDIT: I bet on a) and I was wrong: ctypes offers no speed advantage.

New comment by NigelTufnel in "Why Python Runs Slow, Part 1: Data Structures"

NigelTufnel — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:42:15 +0000

I did a stupid microbenchmark and it turned out that simple class with __slots__ was the fastest method.

New comment by NigelTufnel in "Mozilla will put ads directly into Firefox"

NigelTufnel — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:21:43 +0000

What was wrong with the honest: "We'll show ads to the first-time Firefox users, so we can make extra money with our free product. We'll show ads only once"?

"User-first" bit is the textbook example of PRspeak.

New comment by NigelTufnel in "Free unlimited rebooting experience from vintage operating systems"

NigelTufnel — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:12:29 +0000

Not just drop downs, but you can click on, e.g, restart and the page will restart. Took me a couple of minutes to get it.

New comment by NigelTufnel in "Flappy Bird Typing Tutor"

NigelTufnel — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:29:45 +0000

Now that's hard.

The next logical step is to type in point-free Haskell programs.

New comment by NigelTufnel in "Ask HN: What should I learn to stay relevant in the next 5 – 10 years?"

NigelTufnel — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 11:57:59 +0000

A slightly paradoxical advice: learn Objective-C. Learning of one thing never stops.

Suppose you're now top 5% iOS developer. 5 years later you'll probably be top 1%. That's cool.

I can see only one hugely improbable risk in doing this. If Apple goes down then Objective-C developers will be as valuable as toilet paper.

New comment by NigelTufnel in "Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I can't take this anymore""

NigelTufnel — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 20:17:32 +0000

He seems to be a normal guy, not a PR genius. But, yeah, "The game with 50,000,000 downloads will be taken off the app stores in the next 22 hours" is brilliant.

New comment by NigelTufnel in "Flappy Bird is proof that no one knows what the audience wants"

NigelTufnel — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 10:31:44 +0000

It's noteworthy because this one became popular. That's how the world works.

New comment by NigelTufnel in "Make the Type System Do the Work"

NigelTufnel — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 10:27:20 +0000

Maybe it's just something I don't understand but I would go with Celsius everywhere with converting to Fahrenheit/Kelvin when showing/grabbing temperature to/from user.