Hacker News: m712

Ask HN: How to commit properly when starting out a project?

m712 — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 11:41:29 +0000

When I am just starting out a new project, usually I work on multiple things at once, like (in a web project) the routes, authentication, database models, etc. etc. So usually during the first few days of a project I don't commit at all and just keep adding new code. The result is that when I do commit 5 days down the line it's just a single "Bring the project up-to-date" commit that just pushes everything at once. What is the best practice for committing when just starting out a project? What do you recommend?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22234480

Points: 4

# Comments: 5

New comment by m712 in "Old CSS, New CSS"

m712 — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 14:55:05 +0000

About map/area: Some websites still use them, and really well too. The Team Fortress 2 website[0] uses them with the images at the top of the page to link each of the characters' description pages.

[0]: https://teamfortress.com/

New comment by m712 in "Dark Horse Discord"

m712 — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 18:26:38 +0000

Are you the original author of the article? The article itself seems to be experiencing issues right now, but from what I recall, the author mentions "extensible roles" and "good free tier" as the features that got him to use Discord. I don't consider these features crucial enough to use non-Free Software. If you are not the original author and have other features in mind, please explain which features of Discord are "so incredibly good".

New comment by m712 in "Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million students"

m712 — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:57:36 +0000

Zed Shaw's books are seriously overrated.

New comment by m712 in "Dark Horse Discord"

m712 — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 06:27:10 +0000

Discord is also proprietary software and is backed by Tencent. Read the privacy policy, it might surprise you.

Please try investing in Free, Open Source alternatives first.

New comment by m712 in "The Unison language"

m712 — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 15:09:26 +0000

No mention of Smalltalk in the comments? The "codebase" that is managed by ucm sounds very similar to Smalltalk images. I am personally delighted about this.

New comment by m712 in "13.3" full color ePaper display"

m712 — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:04:08 +0000

Seems like the site is suffering from the Slashdot effect.

Require Parameters for JavaScript Functions

m712 — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 23:04:58 +0000

Article URL: https://davidwalsh.name/javascript-function-parameters

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21940933

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by m712 in "Most cybercrime doesn't involve computer hacking"

m712 — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 19:54:17 +0000

I had to do a double take when I saw it.

Draw.io: Online flowchart and schema drawing software

m712 — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 17:48:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.draw.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21790820

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by m712 in "Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet"

m712 — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 14:15:33 +0000

>Nonetheless, Google's core service--providing unbiased, accurate, and free access to information--remains at the heart of the company.

Hah!

New comment by m712 in "C-for-all: Extending C with modern safety and productivity features"

m712 — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 11:34:56 +0000

It started out so great, but at the end I was left with the impression that someone was just trying to shoehorn features into C with quirkier syntax than C++. That type declaration syntax will probably haunt me in my sleep.

New comment by m712 in "Matestack: Rapidly create interactive UIs in Ruby"

m712 — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 19:01:03 +0000

`my_frist_page`

New comment by m712 in "Why does the Librem 5 phone cost that much?"

m712 — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 12:37:55 +0000

Here I must praise KiCad. It is one of the best pieces of FOSS software out there. It beats almost all other (commercial or non-commercial) software in PCB design, hands down.

New comment by m712 in "PHP 7.4"

m712 — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 12:29:39 +0000

I have been waiting for a strongly typed mainstream high level language for a long time (TypeScript doesn't count because all type information is stripped during runtime). PHP still has a lot of cruft that prevents me from using it in my projects, but the recent updates seem like a step in the right direction. Hope that by PHP 8 the language will have deprecated more of the bad stuff.

New comment by m712 in "Gitlab was down"

m712 — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 12:09:34 +0000

The status page has updated to indicate that they misconfigured their firewall. Apparently their entire set of services go through a single firewall (or at least, multiple firewalls with the same config). It's worrying that they don't have a staging setup for these kinds of things.

(NOTE: I am speculating here, if they do have a staging system and this wasn't reproduced there then the last sentence doesn't apply.)

New comment by m712 in "Gitlab was down"

m712 — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 12:05:37 +0000

Ironically, status.gitlab.com takes upwards of a minute to load on my end. I thought it was going to time out.

New comment by m712 in "Firefox Preview 3.0"

m712 — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 11:54:03 +0000

I can't find it on F-Droid, hopefully they get it on there soon. The main repo doesn't seem to have the Pocket spyware in the app yet, at least.

New comment by m712 in "Firefox browser will block the IAB's DigiTrust universal ID"

m712 — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 11:04:37 +0000

Unfortunately, if the hardware has a lot of issues the well-integrated experience seems to quickly fall apart. I can't really speak about the desktop side of Apple products but the MacBook line of products seem to be troubled with many hardware related issues for years now.

New comment by m712 in "JSONCrush – Compress JSON into URI Friendly Strings"

m712 — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 10:19:38 +0000

You can probably use extended URL encoding for that, which is supported by at least body-parser [https://npmjs.com/package/body-parser]. Not sure about other PLs.