Hacker News: jolt42

New comment by jolt42 in "Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure"

jolt42 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:36:56 +0000

Ridiculous? Tandy (leather originally) became a large computer company for a while. So who's to say really.

New comment by jolt42 in "DIY Soft Drinks"

jolt42 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:47:55 +0000

Why? Is it just not put caramel coloring in it? It didn't taste like actual Pepsi to me, which I suppose might be more difficult?

New comment by jolt42 in "DIY Soft Drinks"

jolt42 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:41:55 +0000

Heh, I knew that Coca-cola didn't still have cocaine, but TIL it doesn't have Cola (nut) either! Its name is completely ridiculous now.

New comment by jolt42 in "A perfectable programming language"

jolt42 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:11:13 +0000

performance of Go - why not Fortran? type system of Kotlin - why not Scala/Haskell? Repl like Kotlin, why not Clojure?

New comment by jolt42 in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

jolt42 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:42:45 +0000

I've been meaning to get back into that, but now I'm curious about lots of personal development paths?

New comment by jolt42 in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

jolt42 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:01:51 +0000

I like this. I like crossword puzzles but don't like I'm just solving pre-made puzzles rather than exploring new territory. Math seems the best candidate but are there other fields with similar challenges?

New comment by jolt42 in "Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)"

jolt42 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:47:19 +0000

* Hot deploy

* Extreme thread-safety, better than all JVM languages and on par with the best.

* Macros - Other languages you have to reach for other languages to program in other paradigms, for example rules, logic programming, or writing a custom DAG. You'll probably say you don't need other paradigms whereas the truth is you just avoid it in other languages as it's too much of a hassle.

New comment by jolt42 in "Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)"

jolt42 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:29:26 +0000

Scala and Clojure were smart to ride the JVM early on. Babashka and Jank are Clojure breaking out of the JVM.

New comment by jolt42 in "Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)"

jolt42 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:25:44 +0000

I think by the same reasoning Qwerty keyboard is better than Dvorak. People are just used to Qwerty, although they would type faster on Dvorak, or in the case of s-expressions use structural editing.

New comment by jolt42 in "Don't Wait for Claude"

jolt42 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:34:58 +0000

Yes. I agree with the problem statement, but have no idea what the solution is BUT it does involve lots of key bindings.

New comment by jolt42 in "Explore the Hidden World of Sand"

jolt42 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:25:09 +0000

Only one from Mexico, definitely need more.

New comment by jolt42 in "AI has fixed my productivity"

jolt42 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:04:57 +0000

I'll try things I wouldn't otherwise try to get a better solution. I generate more throw-away code that actually gets thrown away, that's a win.

New comment by jolt42 in "Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter"

jolt42 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:08:09 +0000

I was impressed with how well flutter took function/react style and married it with OO, the rendering seemed to make anything possible and clean. Dart is good, just the threading model seemed awkward. Can't say I dove too deep though.

New comment by jolt42 in "Why The Jetsons still matters (2012)"

jolt42 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:34:01 +0000

Yeah that's a pretty blanket statement, although the day-to-day life aspect helps a lot.

New comment by jolt42 in "430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found"

jolt42 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:20:22 +0000

Finding red blood cells in 70 million year old bones. Still find that incomprehensible. Not sure King George didn't kill a dinosaur.

New comment by jolt42 in "There is an AI code review bubble"

jolt42 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:17:19 +0000

Don't get me started on not CamelCasing acronyms, acronyms aren't more important than regular words! :)

New comment by jolt42 in "“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)"

jolt42 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:43:42 +0000

Very good, I wrote Pascal many years ago, but I was thinking more Kotlin/Scala (right?) vs Java.

New comment by jolt42 in "“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)"

jolt42 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:26:35 +0000

There's so many languages out there, I reject Raku out-of-hand simply since IMO the type should follow the variable name.

New comment by jolt42 in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

jolt42 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:27:51 +0000

AI taking jobs by users avoiding ads. It makes me wonder how widespread this is and what other "not so obvious" job-taking effects it has.

New comment by jolt42 in "Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons"

jolt42 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:02:31 +0000

Renting a car is more of a pain these days. I find I actually have to learn how that car "likes its buttons". I don't remember having to look at a physical gear shifter to know it's in drive/reverse, etc. Now I have to see if some light is on. It must have been obvious to Human Factors folks from the outset that this was all a waste of time.