Hacker News: endeavour

New comment by endeavour in "A dot a day keeps the clutter away"

endeavour — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:30:19 +0000

Brilliant. So now you have no clutter but your office looks like it has chicken pox.

New comment by endeavour in "Hiew Hex Editor"

endeavour — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 19:14:52 +0000

Very excited to give this a try!

New comment by endeavour in "Why do cats love boxes so much?"

endeavour — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 10:59:01 +0000

A house is just a big box really. Why do humans love boxes so much?

New comment by endeavour in "CT scans of coffee-making equipment"

endeavour — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 10:31:47 +0000

The technique is called volume rendering. I'm not sure what library they specifically use but a popular one is VTK.

New comment by endeavour in "Excite: A terminal-based citation generator"

endeavour — Mon, 30 May 2022 23:26:32 +0000

Wish this was around when I was a student!

Show HN: Browser-based WireGuard config generator

endeavour — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 22:22:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wireguardconfig.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22894173

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by endeavour in "Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming"

endeavour — Tue, 08 May 2018 10:40:53 +0000

I also mentally started thinking about integral solutions. I wonder if it's also because of the variable names... a,b,c tend to be used to represent integers (e.g. Fermat's Last Theorem, Euclid's algorithm etc).

x and y are more commmonly used to represent real numbers.

New comment by endeavour in "Bargain Travel Sites May No Longer Be Bargains"

endeavour — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 12:35:05 +0000

Google Flights also tells you when a particular flight is often subject to delays. Very handy.

New comment by endeavour in "Monte Carlo estimation of Pi"

endeavour — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:31:54 +0000

F# version that fits in a tweet:

  let r,n=Random(),1e7
  let d()=(r.NextDouble()-0.5)**2.0
  [0.0..n]
  |>Seq.sumBy(function _ when d()+d()<0.25->4.0/n|_->0.0)
  |>printfn "%f"

New comment by endeavour in "UK scientists dropped from EU projects because of post-Brexit funding fears"

endeavour — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:33:20 +0000

If.

New comment by endeavour in "UK scientists dropped from EU projects because of post-Brexit funding fears"

endeavour — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:10:27 +0000

No, I was just giving some examples. If you follow your logic the UK needn't worry about not having a trade deal with the EU.

New comment by endeavour in "UK scientists dropped from EU projects because of post-Brexit funding fears"

endeavour — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 15:49:49 +0000

I happen to agree we should have an election, but I would point out:

1) Unlike EU commissioners, people can vote Theresa May out at the next general election. 2) The UK has a parliamentary democracy. It is not a presidential system. Theresa May was elected by her constituents. 3) Of the 14 prime ministers since the end of the Second World War, half of them (including Theresa May) assumed office between elections.

New comment by endeavour in "UK scientists dropped from EU projects because of post-Brexit funding fears"

endeavour — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 15:40:36 +0000

Ok but the numbers you quoted assumed a linear relationship.

In no way is it "almost certain" that investment in the UK will decrease. The evidence currently suggests the complete opposite. Look at the performance of the FTSE100 since the referendum to see the flood of foreign investment coming into the UK listed companies thanks to the weaker currency.

I'd also point out that decreasing tax rates is the exact opposite of what the chancellor said he would do before the referendum.

New comment by endeavour in "UK scientists dropped from EU projects because of post-Brexit funding fears"

endeavour — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 15:24:23 +0000

Chile, Switzerland and Iceland all have free trade agreements with China. The EU doesn't.

New comment by endeavour in "UK scientists dropped from EU projects because of post-Brexit funding fears"

endeavour — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:36:15 +0000

It isn't that simple. There isn't a linear relationship between the tax % and the revenue to the treasury. Lower taxes encourage more companies to set up in the UK.

We saw this recently in the UK when the top rate of income tax was raised to 50% and the income to the treasury actually fell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve

New comment by endeavour in "UK scientists dropped from EU projects because of post-Brexit funding fears"

endeavour — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:20:44 +0000

See how far you have to scroll down the list to find an university inside the EU (excluding the UK).

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankin...

New comment by endeavour in "UK scientists dropped from EU projects because of post-Brexit funding fears"

endeavour — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:18:41 +0000

EU money doesn't come out of thin air. It comes from taxpayers. The UK is a net contributor to the EU so the UK government could choose to fund all current commitments and still be better off.

New comment by endeavour in "Ask HN: What programming languauges does the High Frequency Trading Firms use?"

endeavour — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 15:56:18 +0000

Haskell has many great attributes but predictable performance isn't amongst them (laziness makes it difficult to reason about) so I doubt it is used for HFT.

New comment by endeavour in "BeOS Demo Video (1998) [video]"

endeavour — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 13:42:39 +0000

I remember being impressed that the BeOS media player could play audio CDs backwards in real-time. Not really sure why you'd want to but it was quite a good party trick.

New comment by endeavour in "Ask HN: Isn't networking usually a waste of time?"

endeavour — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:40:24 +0000

Off-by-one error :P