Hacker News: danellis

New comment by danellis in "Meta and Google are cutting staff"

danellis — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 07:39:04 +0000

Google, Meta and Amazon are still repeatedly reaching out.

New comment by danellis in "Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?"

danellis — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 07:37:45 +0000

Front end: TypeScript, Angular, Apollo, Material Back end: Scala, ZIO, zio-http, Pulsar, Keycloak, Postgres Hosting: Kubernetes on Digital Ocean, GitLab Pages Tools: Hugo, Twilio, Namecheap, Mailgun

New comment by danellis in "Meta and Google are cutting staff"

danellis — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 18:26:32 +0000

It's odd to read about hiring freezes when they're both still actively recruiting.

New comment by danellis in "Meta and Google are cutting staff"

danellis — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 18:25:25 +0000

Presumably also Nest and Fi.

New comment by danellis in "Learn how to unleash the full potential of the type system of TypeScript"

danellis — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 19:35:44 +0000

I'm currently working on a project that uses both Typescript and Scala. The overlap in concepts is rather useful when switching contexts.

New comment by danellis in "Ask HN: How do you switch between programming languages?"

danellis — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 09:51:36 +0000

> it helps that you don't fall into the trap of "one IDE for all programming languages"

I don't see this as a trap at all. I use IntelliJ for practically everything, and switching languages frequently (currently between Typescript and Scala several times a day) has not been difficult. I get way more benefit from developing increased familiarity with my environment.

New comment by danellis in "http://pn./"

danellis — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 02:55:39 +0000

There's no magic. It works the same way any other domain does.

New comment by danellis in "Ask HN: What's the best SDK documentation you’ve ever read?"

danellis — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 22:03:53 +0000

RISC OS Programmer's Reference Manual. It's very well laid out, clearly written and consistent. In fact, I even bought myself a copy all these years later to peruse for nostalgia.

New comment by danellis in "SpaceX, T-Mobile to connect satellites to cellphones in remote areas"

danellis — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 04:49:38 +0000

Interesting. Is there no distance limit? I don't know how 5G works, but in 2G there was a limit of about 30km, since that's as much as the timing advance would allow for (sending the signal early so that it arrives in its timeslot despite the speed-of-light delay).

New comment by danellis in "Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?"

danellis — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 03:53:20 +0000

> It only works in languages where promises/futures/tasks are a first-class citizen. Eg JavaScript.

Why would that be true?

New comment by danellis in "HN is up again"

danellis — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 02:29:12 +0000

Maybe I'm missing something, but what's the point of posting this here? Anyone will already know it's back up before they see this post.

New comment by danellis in "Cell Lang: Why yet another programming language?"

danellis — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 21:02:20 +0000

I don't think I've actually seen anyone refer to it as Lisplang.

New comment by danellis in "Cell Lang: Why yet another programming language?"

danellis — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 21:01:31 +0000

This is true of everything that is named after something, and it wasn't really something people worried about until Go, which is interesting in itself.

New comment by danellis in "Cell Lang: Why yet another programming language?"

danellis — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 18:28:05 +0000

I'm not talking about domain names. I'm talking about people referring to the language itself as, for example, Rustlang.

New comment by danellis in "Cell Lang: Why yet another programming language?"

danellis — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 17:25:53 +0000

What's with people tacking "Lang" on to the end of language names? I can kind of understand it with Go, since Google didn't exactly come up with a very searchable name, but now I'm seeing it spread to other languages like Rust, and now here with Cell.

New comment by danellis in "Wasmer – Universal WebAssembly Runtime"

danellis — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 21:30:03 +0000

Which language do you want to use? You already have a choice.

New comment by danellis in "Google's Subsea Fiber Optics"

danellis — Wed, 18 May 2022 18:56:51 +0000

What would be the correct amount of production?

New comment by danellis in "CSS as the back end – Cascading Server Sheets"

danellis — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 01:41:42 +0000

Separation of concerns. The person writing the HTML should get to decide where the data is rendered in the page, not the person generating the data. What you've done (as far as I can tell) is unnecessarily couple the backend to the structure of the presentation layer.

New comment by danellis in "Anatomy of a terminal emulator (2021)"

danellis — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 19:40:16 +0000

I was surprised by the assumption of ANSI and no mention of $TERM.

New comment by danellis in "JSONiq: JSON Query Language"

danellis — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 10:11:39 +0000

Curious syntax. Why does it require sigils? Why does assignment need both `let` and `:=`?