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New comment by RobertJacobson in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

RobertJacobson — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:17:20 +0000

That's really cool!

Since you are using Qt, as I understand it you will need to pay for a Qt license if you intend to distribute your app as closed source.

New comment by RobertJacobson in "Making a Pratt Parser Generator"

RobertJacobson — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 16:07:08 +0000

Matklad follows Norvell's excellent exposition in these two articles pretty closely:

http://www.engr.mun.ca/~theo/Misc/exp_parsing.htm

http://www.engr.mun.ca/~theo/Misc/pratt_parsing.htm

Matklad's stuff is really great. I wish he had cited Norvell, though.

New comment by RobertJacobson in "Making a Pratt Parser Generator"

RobertJacobson — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 16:02:25 +0000

I have easily read more than a dozen articles over the years on this parsing strategy, including Pratt's original paper, and in every case I have read "donation." But you are 100% right! All of my sources actually use denotation. MY MIND IS FREAKING BLOWN.

I am going to go meditate on the subjectivity of my reality. If I am wrong about this, what else am I wrong about?

New comment by RobertJacobson in "Block Comments Are a Bad Idea"

RobertJacobson — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:46:27 +0000

Why do you fault multiline comments and not your code editor?