Hacker News: janislaw

New comment by janislaw in "Project Euler"

janislaw — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:07:06 +0000

This will become a practice of implementing bignums in your language of choice, which is a valuable exercise itself.

New comment by janislaw in "Dead Framework Theory"

janislaw — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:38:15 +0000

The LLM owners also don't like to burn the knowledge into model weights or prompts, sharing some concerns of the post, e.g. freshness. RAG is the new hotness.

New comment by janislaw in "Nobody cares"

janislaw — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 06:57:35 +0000

Reading the original article I reflected: "I can totally see how this can happen, but for some reason it doesn't happen where I live"

I moved to Switzerland 9y ago. People care. I believe this is due to high trust society which evolved not that long ago from small, poor, tightly woven communities.

New comment by janislaw in "99 Bottles of OOP now available in Python"

janislaw — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 13:28:33 +0000

I have the book and don't speak Ruby at all. Nevertheless, is so we'll written, that you can take the lessons and apply them in any language with virtual polymorphism. A Python version of the book means bigger audience, to the benefit of the trade.

New comment by janislaw in "Duolingo Sucks, Now What?"

janislaw — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 19:44:45 +0000

That's their official mobile client and main source of revenue, isn't it?

New comment by janislaw in "The D Programming Language Conference '23"

janislaw — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 06:45:02 +0000

Having two competing standard libraries didn't help with the adoption.

New comment by janislaw in "Railway Oriented Programming"

janislaw — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 07:28:26 +0000

This is exactly how LabVIEW implements error handling.

New comment by janislaw in "Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)"

janislaw — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 06:13:56 +0000

Can anybody explain the existence of all*.cpp files which include other source files?