Hacker News: maaaats

New comment by maaaats in "React Suspense"

maaaats — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:24:57 +0000

Graphql is for fetching exactly the data your app needs at that point, suspense is for fetching only the code the app needs at that point.

New comment by maaaats in "Long S"

maaaats — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 08:30:33 +0000

The example of "Paradise loft" written as "Paradife loft" reminds me of the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten's logo looks like Aftenpoften

https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftenposten

New comment by maaaats in "Topology-disturbing objects: a new class of 3D optical illusion (2017)"

maaaats — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 13:42:17 +0000

My whole collection is here: https://www.thingiverse.com/Matsemann/collections/matsemanns...

Do it, I have shown these to various school classes. They have been popular everywhere, from primary school to universities!

New comment by maaaats in "Costco's Thanksgiving Day Website Crash Cost It Nearly $11M"

maaaats — Sat, 30 Nov 2019 22:49:56 +0000

One of the biggest electronic stores in Norway knew their web page couldn't handle the load, so they had some kind of queue system im front. When I checked, my spot in line was estimated to have to wait more than an hour. They got a lot of flak for it, all other web shops worked fine.

New comment by maaaats in "Syntax Highlighting Is Backwards (2018)"

maaaats — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 22:20:19 +0000

I tried rainbow/semantic coloring for a while, but felt it messed with my pattern recognizion. And when everything is highlighted, nothing is, it felt loud.

New comment by maaaats in "Debuggers Suck"

maaaats — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 20:33:35 +0000

elm/browser was recently updated. If you compile in dev modus it gives you a small button to press in the webapp, that opens a new window where actions and state can be replayed.

New comment by maaaats in "Debuggers Suck"

maaaats — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 09:33:44 +0000

Elm has some of this built in. Not a debugger per se (you cannot add breakpoints and step through the code), but since everything is pure and there is only a single state, you have a single source of truth and a function from that truth to your view. One can replay the different transitions, and see the whole state of the program at those times.

Contract for the Web

maaaats — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 14:32:23 +0000

Article URL: https://contractfortheweb.org/?2019

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21628394

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by maaaats in "I ditched Google for DuckDuckGo"

maaaats — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 15:54:48 +0000

Switched last week. Fed up by how Google gives a 90s-looking wap site when using Firefox for Android. I added an extension that switches my user agent just for google.com to get around it, but instead most results are then AMP links. And opening AMP-links hosted on google in firefox gives you a page that you cannot scroll.

Almost wonder if they're doing it on purpose.

Haven't used ddg long enough to comment on the quality. But at least google for Norwegian results have declined lately. Many results are just machine-translated spam on autogenerated blogs.

For instance, last week I googled "pes anserinus bursitt", and one of the top results is http:// bumyjaki .tk/arrestere/pes-anserinus-bursitt.html (don't open it). The preview is broken Norwegian, and clicking it I get popovers saying I've won stuff, and firefox asks if I want to enable vibration, and I'm instantly redirected to more spam. How the f is that so high, google? And it's prominent on lots of stuff I search.

New comment by maaaats in "PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your Concerns"

maaaats — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 12:02:35 +0000

Alberto Contador initially won Tour de France in 2010, but tested positive for traces of clenbuterol. He blamed it on meat he had been eating. It has become a meme in cycling circles.

New comment by maaaats in "PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your Concerns"

maaaats — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 10:49:57 +0000

What are they astroturfing? TdF vs Giro? Contaminated beefs? Caliper vs disk brakes?

Edit: or are you talking about something else than r/peloton?

New comment by maaaats in "Satya Nadella Added $850B to Microsoft"

maaaats — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:00:46 +0000

Meh, I upvoted because I thought it was interesting reading about the differences and how MS has changed over the years.

New comment by maaaats in "Hand and Wrist Exercises for Computer Users"

maaaats — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 21:37:11 +0000

Huh, my company is basically throwing ergonomic things at us if we ask for them (chairs, standing desks, keyboards etc), as they know the cost is minuscule compared to us even being only a single day away from work.

New comment by maaaats in "Hand and Wrist Exercises for Computer Users"

maaaats — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 21:34:14 +0000

I use a roller mouse, a bar below the keyboard. Feel it's even better than an ergonomic-but-standard-mouse, as I don't have to move my arm to the side. Fixed my stupid elbow.

New comment by maaaats in "Moving towards a faster web"

maaaats — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:20:32 +0000

I'm thinking the same, this willbe used somehow to push more users into Google's walled garden.

Amp is like ten times as slow for me.. Firefox on android, a bug in amp makes the pages not scrollable. Have to press the tiny little icon in the top right, then again press the url, and then wait for the page to load an additional time.

New comment by maaaats in "Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet"

maaaats — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 18:15:01 +0000

At least Firefox gives proper suggestions from history when typing in addresses. Chrome is way off, as if it wants you to search in google instead.

New comment by maaaats in "Just did the Y Combinator interview: here are my notes"

maaaats — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 12:02:26 +0000

Do interviewers really want an honest answer, or just enough to label you? And if you don't want canned responses, maybe not ask such open-ended and really a bit weird questions. Be more specific. I have no idea what the interviewer want out of a question like that. Small-talk or just get warmed up with me saying my name and where I'm from? Or my life-story so far? What if I don't define myself as what I do for a living, would it be weird omitting the fact that I'm a programmer and instead tell about my hobbies? Should I divulge information about myself that you aren't allowed to ask (discrimination etc), but that I feel is me?

New comment by maaaats in "The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M, Collected $6,790"

maaaats — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 21:58:20 +0000

Things don't happen in a vacuum, don't be so dismissive. There would probably have been put something in place to stop a $20 sim from doing these things in the first place.

New comment by maaaats in "My name causes an issue with any booking"

maaaats — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 12:33:51 +0000

Ouch. I have a ü in my last name from family in a different country way back somewhere. It doesn't crash systems as much as an apostrophe would, but it's very good at showing encoding issues between systems..

It's not as big an issue as it used to be, at least. Before I've had online transactions failing because of a mismatch between my name (with ü), and the name on the card (with u). The systems seem more forgiving now, having handled that case or something. I also remember being a bit scared traveling to Japan many years ago, as we were told it was SOoo important that the names and everything matched to gain entry. And then the name on my ticket was completely mangled. But no one cared.

Here's a SO post about someone with the last name Null: https://stackoverflow.com/q/4456438/923847

New comment by maaaats in "How to Find Consulting Clients"

maaaats — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 10:15:46 +0000

Your clients hire you and tell you to find their sql performance problems. How is that not them telling you what to do, and you doing it?