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New comment by bytelane in "Origins of J"

bytelane — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 20:01:51 +0000

> what people often don’t realize is just how fast one can pick up atwc style, and how hard it is to ever go back :)

For my own amusement I tried this a couple months ago and I 100% agree. I found my code to be more engaging to develop and understand (function names encoded into 3 chars, structure names encoded into 4 chars, primitive types are a capital letter, etc).

It is like a game you play with your brain to recall how your code works. And, it reminded me about studying 6809 assembly in college, where it was easy to memorize every instruction mnemonic and what it meant.

I just don’t know if I would show it to someone at work, but for my own prototypes and experiments, I like it.

New comment by bytelane in "Ask HN: Are you a bad software engineer if you don't have strong opinions?"

bytelane — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:12:10 +0000

My $0.02 -- be yourself. Allow yourself to be a human. Humans have strong opinions sometimes. Sometimes they don't. Don't place too much value on micro-characteristics like "this awesome software engineer always uses gdb" or "this magnificent coder only debugs with printf". The reality is that always using debuggers or never using debuggers is probably not what makes these people magnificently awesome in your opinion.

Keep an open mind. Learn from others do and adopt the practices you like. It's fine if you develop strong opinions as you go along, but don't be an ass about it.

New comment by bytelane in "Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software"

bytelane — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 16:23:38 +0000

Thanks for clarifying! I got excited that maybe there was a corporate subscription in place.

New comment by bytelane in "Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software"

bytelane — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 15:52:36 +0000

This concept seems great, and I work for a very large company shown in the "trusted by" section. I also noticed that you have a quote from an engineer at my company who does not exist in the company directory or on LinkedIn. I cannot find any information about a subscription on our intranet. Are the companies shown in the "trusted by" section actually subscribers, or are these placeholders for now?

OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful

bytelane — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 05:39:31 +0000

Article URL: https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29196603

Points: 4

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New comment by bytelane in "Johnny.Decimal"

bytelane — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 20:55:30 +0000

Thank you for this! I have been working at the same company for 8+ years, and I have accumulated a lot of stuff over the years. I have trouble finding anything these days. The stuff I /can/ find is because I have multiple copies sprinkled in different directories.

After reading this post, I have started to organize my documents and projects according to the description. I feel like this is going to be helpful not only so that I can find what I'm looking for, but so that I don't have 4 copies of every giant source code repo taking up my disk space.

I do have one question: in the examples, the category shows "40-49 BlahBlah", but the subcategory goes "41 Taxes, 42 Expenses, etc." Is there a reason why X0 is skipped? Is this so you have room for something you might have forgotten?

New comment by bytelane in "Low carb diet leads to “clinical remission” in 3 cases of type 1 diabetes"

bytelane — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 21:21:56 +0000

Just curious, which manufacturer did you call, Eli Lilly or Novo Nordisk? I think the details of how you were able to get a discount would be beneficial to others. I am a type 1 and I recently heard of another type 1 who recently died at age 40 because he lost his job+insurance and was rationing insulin.

New comment by bytelane in "#Script Lisp"

bytelane — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:04:45 +0000

Not to be confused with SCE-MI [1].

[1] https://accellera.org/downloads/standards/sce-mi