Hacker News: japgolly

New comment by japgolly in "Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989"

japgolly — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:37:33 +0000

Scala is painfully slow to compile too

Show HN: ClearConfig for Java – A modern, highly-composable config library

japgolly — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:22:23 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/japgolly/clear-config-java

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47538003

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New comment by japgolly in "Show HN: Lux – Drop-in Redis replacement in Rust. 5.6x faster, ~1MB Docker image"

japgolly — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:52:16 +0000

Good read here - https://www.luxdb.dev/architecture

New comment by japgolly in "Grep.app: search across a half million Git repos"

japgolly — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 10:17:08 +0000

This is amazing!! Super fast, I can actually enter symbols, search case-sensitively, I love it!

New comment by japgolly in "“YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”"

japgolly — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 22:17:44 +0000

It takes orders of magnitude more effort to counteract bullshit than it does to produce it. Your opinion doesn't scale and not only is it easily exploitable by bad actors, it's happening in practice all over the place these days and is a huge, huge problem.

New comment by japgolly in "GHC 9.0, supporting linear types"

japgolly — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 06:58:36 +0000

> linear-typed arrays can perform in-place updates if there are no external pointers to the data.

Holy crap! That's amazing and I hadn't thought of that!

New comment by japgolly in "Why Japanese web design is so different (2013)"

japgolly — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 02:39:03 +0000

Wow thanks! I didn't understand that despite being able to read and write Japanese! Sarcasm aside you don't seem to have a very deep understanding so maybe you should be a bit nicer when expressing your opinion.

> 1 kana represents 1 syllable

ちゅ <-- 2 kana, 1 syllable

> BY DEFINITION, more concise than Latin letters

smash <-- 1 syllable, 5 latin letters, ~3 kana in length スマッシュ <-- 5 kana

New comment by japgolly in "Please – A cross-language build system"

japgolly — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 19:47:53 +0000

> If you're familiar with Blaze / Bazel, Buck or Pants you will probably find Please very familiar

Yes, so why would I use Please over any of them? I've spent close to 10min reading and have no idea why this exists or why anyone would use it. It looks like Bazel with a different config format, in which case why wouldn't one just use Bazel?

New comment by japgolly in "Why Japanese web design is so different (2013)"

japgolly — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 22:49:19 +0000

That's not how Japanese works. Yes Japanese uses Chinese characters that's only a subset of Japanese. Japanese sentences are typically a bit longer than English in terms of syllables and written length - their main reduction technique at the language level is omission, rarely efficiency improvement.

- Why's it so hot today? = 6 syllables

- Nande konna ni atsui no kyou? = 10 syllables (spoken colloquially)

What about written length? You can see the Japanese sentence is a little longer here (when the English uses a non-monospaced font). It's also enough to demonstrates the why using kanji doesn't always provide the huge reduction/compression that you're expecting.

- Why's it so hot today?

- なんでこんなに暑いの今日？

New comment by japgolly in "Git is too hard"

japgolly — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:34:04 +0000

Oh wow, ClearCase. That's a blast from the past that I'd forgotten even existed. CC was the stuff of nightmares.

New comment by japgolly in "Nakabonne/ali: Generate HTTP load and plot the results in real-time"

japgolly — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 10:24:11 +0000

There's also ab (Apache Benchmark) which is super simple and can be all you need sometimes.

New comment by japgolly in "Nakabonne/ali: Generate HTTP load and plot the results in real-time"

japgolly — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 10:22:56 +0000

Wow that's really nice! Thanks for sharing!

New comment by japgolly in "Gitter is joining Matrix"

japgolly — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 04:08:32 +0000

Interesting, I'd never heard of Matrix. And a very timely discovery too... I might find myself integrating this with ShipReq in a few months.

(Disclaimer: ShipReq dev here)

New comment by japgolly in "We now consider Moment.js to be a legacy project in maintenance mode"

japgolly — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 09:55:32 +0000

False comparison. We're not creating a copy of the mutable world, we're writing software. Pretty different. Good luck programming in DNA or whatever and knowing that your code does what you want it to do.