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New comment by hood_syntax in "New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components"

hood_syntax — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 19:48:50 +0000

This would be a real game changer for me, from an internal marketing perspective and for personal use.

New comment by hood_syntax in "Ask HN: How should a programming language accommodate disabled programmers?"

hood_syntax — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 20:59:38 +0000

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Indentation#Explicit_c...

Probably the simplest good example, gives rules for translating between styles

New comment by hood_syntax in "Ask HN: How should a programming language accommodate disabled programmers?"

hood_syntax — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 15:29:23 +0000

Just want to note that in Haskell, whitespace syntax _is_ syntactic sugar for brackets etc. I don't recall that being the case for python. Interesting tidbit, some of the big names in the Haskell community have very idiosyncratic coding styles that use the bracket look.

New comment by hood_syntax in "How to Make a Roguelike"

hood_syntax — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 17:02:51 +0000

One of the few roguelikes I use tiles on, and my first roguelike ever.

New comment by hood_syntax in "How to Make a Roguelike"

hood_syntax — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 17:00:07 +0000

The recent popular ones (edit: assuming I am reading correctly which games you refer to) are all pretty much spinoff genres that borrow heavily from traditional roguelikes, but break from the classic design attributes in very important ways. Many of them are excellent games, but I don't think it's being nitpicky to distinguish them. Note I make this objection without wanting to wade into the tedious war over terminology.

New comment by hood_syntax in "Ask HN: How do I come up with a name for programming language?"

hood_syntax — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 18:11:25 +0000

Typic

New comment by hood_syntax in "Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem"

hood_syntax — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:27:06 +0000

If you are a video game enthusiast, particularly of a niche genre, /vg/ can be a good place. I'm really into roguelikes, so I visit the '/rlg/' thread around once a week to see what's going on and potentially get some advice if I'm at a tricky part in a run or need to make a decision about where to take my character.

Standard disclaimer applies about 4chan. If you're thin-skinned, you may find it not worth the trouble. Just don't engage with the trolls and you'll be fine.

New comment by hood_syntax in "DarkPulsar"

hood_syntax — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:31:32 +0000

> checks and balances

I tried not to smile at that, and I failed. Pretty sure nothing is 'checking' them from collecting data on every U.S. citizen.

New comment by hood_syntax in "Ask HN: What's was the hardest part about starting to code?"

hood_syntax — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 19:22:40 +0000

Listed in no particular order:

* Learning tools (they get in the way of solving the problem at the beginning imo)

* Incomplete/inaccurate documentation

* Not knowing what things are possible (both in code a la standard libraries or language features and working with tools like debuggers)

* Not knowing simple best practices until you're bit by something and find them out through a slow, painful discovery process

New comment by hood_syntax in "What you can't say (2004)"

hood_syntax — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 17:25:01 +0000

Fully agree, with the minor exception that I'd say it's good for them to trigger a mental alarm. Lots of spin out there...

New comment by hood_syntax in "Failure Rates in Introductory Programming (2007) [pdf]"

hood_syntax — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 14:56:55 +0000

I was one of the people who didn't want to learn SQL/database stuff. What do you know, after a few years in the industry my interests lay heavily in serverside. I'd kick the old me if I could.

New comment by hood_syntax in "Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?"

hood_syntax — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:28:59 +0000

There is, but this recommendation is specific to the triangle area: the rural trends just don't apply.

New comment by hood_syntax in "Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?"

hood_syntax — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 14:26:51 +0000

I lived in Durham from 10 to when I started college (travelling back during breaks etc), and I loved it. I agree with you on every point, the triangle is fantastic. Just to reiterate: great food, great music, real diversity.

New comment by hood_syntax in "C++ Core Coroutines Proposal [pdf]"

hood_syntax — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 17:05:50 +0000

With dependent types you can. I'm not aware of whether that proof is possible in Haskell, however.

Besides, that's not what I was saying. What I was saying it that + in Haskell means more than an overloaded operator. It means the type has access to additional methods. This gives you more information.

New comment by hood_syntax in "C++ Core Coroutines Proposal [pdf]"

hood_syntax — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 15:12:11 +0000

I think so, since you can also count on that type to implement the other required methods of Num.

New comment by hood_syntax in "Ask HN: What was the one book that you read and it actually changed your life?"

hood_syntax — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 13:04:37 +0000

Although I'm not as religious as I used to be, I still highly regard 'The Screwtape Letters'. CS Lewis is an excellent writer.

New comment by hood_syntax in "An Empirical Study of Programmers’ Acquisition of New Programming Languages [pdf]"

hood_syntax — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:41:18 +0000

There's a big push towards the Language Server Protocol type tooling, I think that makes a noticeable difference in supporting personal preferences.

New comment by hood_syntax in "Ask HN: What can we learn from TempleOS?"

hood_syntax — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 13:37:01 +0000

> There is nothing on this Earth worth doing which requires the processing power we now possess in our pockets. If you can't do it in 64Kb, I assure you, it isn't worth doing.

BS. Applications in scientific research easily blow that ridiculous limit out of the water. Your point about single vs multi user is good, but you do yourself no favors by starting off with a bad premise. And lest you say you're talking about personal OS only, that's not what you wrote at all.

New comment by hood_syntax in "The Tools I Use to Write Books"

hood_syntax — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 12:41:09 +0000

I do think obsessing about trivial things is harmful, but finding an editor you really like working with is very valuable. I was exposed to vim and had a really hard time working with it, but I saw the value that lay beneath the arcane surface. I knew how much of a pain it was for me to copy/paste/rename/switch between windows when editing; it took me out of my flow. Becoming minimally proficient (I don't use any of vim's really advanced features) was a huge boost in comfort, translating to increased productivity for my attention-deficit brain. This feeling was compounded even more when I started using a tiling window manager: now my hands never needed to leave my keyboard during a programming session unless I was looking something up (I played around with vimperator or the like for a while, never 100% clicked for me).

Of course, that's the ideal. I can't use my preferred setup when I'm working on our legacy Windows codebase. I also won't pretend that I'm immune to chasing the new shiny thing to distract me from doing real work, it happens with some frequency. I just think that editors (and perhaps a good tiling window manager) are the exception(s) to the rule.

New comment by hood_syntax in "California’s strict net neutrality bill is close to final passage"

hood_syntax — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:16:41 +0000

My goodness, that is exciting. I can't believe I haven't heard that yet. That is (to use my most hated business speak) a true paradigm shift.