Hacker News: Tideflat

New comment by Tideflat in "You can choose tools that make you happy"

Tideflat — Mon, 26 May 2025 01:05:40 +0000

Letting software engineers use their favourite tools, even if those tools are suboptimal, is a way to make your engineers happier without paying them anymore.

it may cost you more in slower development times.

Compile time regular expression in C++

Tideflat — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 23:00:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/hanickadot/compile-time-regular-expressions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37489801

Points: 72

# Comments: 29

MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer

Tideflat — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 00:53:14 +0000

Article URL: https://ephtracy.github.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18721555

Points: 293

# Comments: 64

How to contact CBC anonymously

Tideflat — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 12:38:36 +0000

Article URL: https://securedrop.cbc.ca/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17557771

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Telepathy

Tideflat — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 03:01:38 +0000

Article URL: https://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17511866

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Telnet mapscii.me

Tideflat — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 05:55:04 +0000

Article URL: https://asciinema.org/a/118386

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16435430

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Yik Yak shuts down and sells off engineers for $1M

Tideflat — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 18:55:18 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/28/15480052/yik-yak-shut-down-anonymous-messaging-app-square

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14228113

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by Tideflat in "Impossible Java"

Tideflat — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 17:23:12 +0000

I, for one, can see what he posts and they aren't hidden in any way.

Todo.txt: Future-proof task tracking in a file you control

Tideflat — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 04:16:28 +0000

Article URL: http://todotxt.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13836330

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Trantor: the Big Town

Tideflat — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 17:33:12 +0000

Article URL: http://www.rocketpunk-manifesto.com/2017/01/trantor-big-town.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13419349

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Tideflat in "The P programming language"

Tideflat — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 03:54:09 +0000

In vanilla C, exceptions do not exist. Thus goto is the standard (at least for the Linux kernel) statement for handling exceptions.

New comment by Tideflat in "500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format"

Tideflat — Sun, 04 Sep 2016 04:57:24 +0000

Inkscape is defiantly software where reading the manual is a good idea. I tried to use it with out doing so, and found it unusable.

New comment by Tideflat in "Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay"

Tideflat — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 01:03:05 +0000

Not all markets are superstar markets. Some places the 100th best worker is about just as good as the best worker, like for janitors.

New comment by Tideflat in "Is cursive handwriting making a comeback?"

Tideflat — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 00:54:14 +0000

Use boustrophedon for equality!

New comment by Tideflat in "What is the roundest country?"

Tideflat — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 02:54:45 +0000

Many countries are irregular polygons like Chile. Thus a square is very close to a circle, relative to the other shapes.

New comment by Tideflat in "ROI on a college degree depends what you study, not where"

Tideflat — Wed, 04 May 2016 14:12:04 +0000

Less well known languages like Japanese tend to have higher returns on investment than common ones like Spanish. IIRC Spanish has a return on investment of about 3%.

New comment by Tideflat in "Leaked documents show strong business support for raising the minimum wage"

Tideflat — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 16:20:28 +0000

This only works when there are economies of scale. If there are significant dis-economies of scale smaller firms can out-compete the large firms.

The large firm can't just buy up all the small firms either because new firms are started all the time, and if every person who starts a small firm is rewarded with a buyout, the industry will attract more and more new firms until the large firm can no longer afford to buy out new firms. --------------- Examples of industries that not dominated by three or four large companies: mining, farming, house cleaning, and being a land lord.

New comment by Tideflat in "Leaked documents show strong business support for raising the minimum wage"

Tideflat — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 16:09:42 +0000

Job training by employers doesn't work great, because the worker can get training at an employer that gives training and then switch to one who pays more because that employer doesn't have to do training.

Though possibly that could be fixed with proper regulation.

New comment by Tideflat in "Leaked documents show strong business support for raising the minimum wage"

Tideflat — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 15:57:52 +0000

The business owner also doesn't have the training to account for the actions of all the other businesses. The economics professor does.

New comment by Tideflat in "Leaked documents show strong business support for raising the minimum wage"

Tideflat — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 15:47:22 +0000

Some employers dislike tipping because they can't control what percentage of the price of food goes towards paying the wait staff.