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New comment by cel1ne in "Things I Was Wrong About: Types"

cel1ne — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 16:58:38 +0000

"They are not needed anywhere." -> This should have been "They are not needed everywhere."

New comment by cel1ne in "Things I Was Wrong About: Types"

cel1ne — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 09:16:46 +0000

Types are important and necessary.

Can you skip them in a typed language? Yes, just use any, Object or whatever the equivalent.

Can you add them to an untyped language? No.

They are not needed anywhere. But I argue that especially JavaScript module-systems would have benefited greatly from them.

A million lost hours in fixing obscure "undefined is not a function"-errors from output of highly dynamic pluggable build/transpiler-systems like webpack, requirejs, babel, buck etc. could have been avoided.

New comment by cel1ne in "Quarkus 1.8.1 – Kubernetes native Java framework"

cel1ne — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 05:49:25 +0000

JDBI.

New comment by cel1ne in "Ask HN: How do I learn to write better code?"

cel1ne — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:54:18 +0000

1. Try a completely functional language like Haskell once to learn about side-effects.

2. If you do multi threading: Look into Immutability and communicating sequential processes

3. Use static analysis / linters / code checkers for every language you use. They provide a lot of tips. There are linters for bash and Dockerfiles as well.

New comment by cel1ne in "The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017)"

cel1ne — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 04:53:18 +0000

I wrote an autohotkey script for windows to assign alt-* to most shortcuts which would require ctrl-*. Alt is physically where Macs Cmd is, so I had Alt-A for Cmd-A, Alt-F for Cmd-F, Cmd-W and so forth. This made a big difference.

Also I installed EasyWindowSwitcher and assigned it to a shortcut, which gave me window-cycling like in mac.

New comment by cel1ne in "On Browser Tabs"

cel1ne — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 15:43:53 +0000

Have you tried a combination of quick-reading and taking notes.

If it's about train of thoughts: for each tab try formulating and writing down a question that came to your mind while reading it.

That is the creative takeaway and it might ease your mind enough to close the tab.

New comment by cel1ne in "How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web more energy efficient?"

cel1ne — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 06:44:52 +0000

Use CDNs for delivering JavaScript libraries instead of including everything into custom bundles.

React could be transferred ONCE to the browser-cache instead of hundreds of times.

New comment by cel1ne in "What's so hard about PDF text extraction?"

cel1ne — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 05:00:40 +0000

> Copying the text gives: “ch a i r m a n ' s s tat em en t” Reconstructing the original text is a difficult problem to solve generally.

Why not looking for stretches characters with spaces between them, then concatenate, check against a dictionary and if a match is found, remove the spaces.

> “On_April_7,_2013,_the_competent_authorities”

Same here.

New comment by cel1ne in "Britain’s CO2 Emissions Have Fallen to Levels Last Seen in 1890 (2018)"

cel1ne — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 04:47:07 +0000

"Where earlier reductions were largely negated by rising imports, the past decade has seen genuine cuts in the amount of CO2 for which the UK is responsible."

- https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-the-uks-co2-emissio...

New comment by cel1ne in "OpenJDK is now on GitHub"

cel1ne — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 18:23:04 +0000

Not really, since everybody who cloned a repo has a full copy of everything.

Reminds me of the saying that writing git was just a backup strategy for Linus Torvalds: FTP-mirrors were the first step to ensure that the kernel was never lost, git was needed to mirror the source-history as well.

New comment by cel1ne in "How should we build the APIs of tomorrow?"

cel1ne — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 04:53:30 +0000

Use REST for reading, but RPC-style calls for writing. Benefits:

1. Every write-call is a transaction

2. You can have complex filtering and sorting in the read/access side of your API without having to worrying about the update-side of things.

3. You can evolve the read-API, even change semantics and return different objects and again, not worry about transactions.

4. You are not limited to the HTTP-standard.

Here are also some good tips: https://www.vinaysahni.com/best-practices-for-a-pragmatic-re...

New comment by cel1ne in "I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35"

cel1ne — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 04:18:58 +0000

Very well put.

From: Latest, an opinionated Dockerfile linter

cel1ne — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 04:46:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fromlatest.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24268183

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by cel1ne in "GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about"

cel1ne — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 04:46:38 +0000

> The argument is that GPT3 has no understanding of the world, just superficial understanding of words and their relationships.

We don't really know what "understanding of the world" means in humans. We just "see it when it's there".

We might be radically different from GPT-3, or we might not. Our way of learning is different in any way.

Something that came to my mind: Various GPT-3 answers resemble answers given by children: Mostly correct, but having misunderstood some crucial point.

In real human learning and conversation these points are easily corrected by feedback by explanation: "You see, the point is no one wears bathing suites to work".

Which would then be incorporated as new wisdom.

Maybe this feedback-mechanism is what GPT-3 is missing. Maybe we should talk to it.

New comment by cel1ne in "Moreutils – Unix tools that nobody thought to write (2012)"

cel1ne — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 07:09:37 +0000

> sponge

Why not use > file?

> mispipe

In bash there's PIPESTATUS for that.

New comment by cel1ne in "C# .NET Core versus Java fastest programs"

cel1ne — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 04:44:47 +0000

You can call C with Java.

New comment by cel1ne in "Linux from Scratch"

cel1ne — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 20:11:46 +0000

I did this 15 years ago, before I gave gentoo a spin. I compiled my kernel for many years (make menuconfig).

Bottom line: It's not worth it.

I use debian now.

New comment by cel1ne in "Show HN: Say Less – AI summarization tool in the Gmail compose window"

cel1ne — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 04:26:42 +0000

You have to adapt while writing: If I want a "more important" sentence to be read, I put on it's own paragraph.

New comment by cel1ne in "Coding and drawing"

cel1ne — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 04:28:54 +0000

A drawing teacher put it like this: "Draw what's there, not set-pieces". (meaning the reusable furniture components in theaters)

New comment by cel1ne in "Can't you just right click?"

cel1ne — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 02:36:49 +0000

AFAIK, you don't have to ship the source to be GPL-compliant, you just have to provide it upon request.