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New comment by memorythought in "Linear code is more readable"

memorythought — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 15:36:04 +0000

This paper[1] suggests that there is a 50/50 split amongst programmers in the way in which they trace programs:

> Given a straight-line program, we find half of our participants traced a program from the top-down line-by-line (linearly), and the other half start at the bottom and trace upward based on data dependencies (on-demand)

So it's possible that both viewpoints are correct in some sense and we should pursue languages which allow us to switch between the two viewpoints.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06305

New comment by memorythought in "Gordon Moore has died"

memorythought — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 17:00:54 +0000

I would be careful applying this one to imposter syndrome. I think of imposter syndrome as a failure to calibrate your expectations of yourself with the reality of what your work requires. Asking yourself what the "real" person would do that you aren't doing seems to me like it would play into that miscalibration. You might be better of asking _someone else_ what your replacement would do.

New comment by memorythought in "I wish Asciidoc was more popular"

memorythought — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 21:16:53 +0000

I love AsciiDoc and want to use it more. The main problem is, as noted, that it's hard to get this ruby library into whatever platform you want to deploy to. Consequently it's hard to build tooling based on AsciiDoc.

I've had a brief play with trying to implement AsciiDoc in Rust (and others have too, see https://github.com/Veykril/pagliascii). I got bored of trying to figure out what the semantics should be by reading the implementation and decided to wait until the upcoming specification effort at https://asciidoc-wg.eclipse.org/ bears fruit, the Zulip seems a bit more active recently

New comment by memorythought in "Automerge 2.0"

memorythought — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 09:19:29 +0000

This optimization is indeed in the pipeline, although there are other things nearer the front because performance is currently Good Enough ™ that other things are more pressing (other things being e.g. completing the Peritext implementation, improving the sync protocol).

New comment by memorythought in "Element (Matrix) launches Chatterbox, end-to-end encrypted embedded chat"

memorythought — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 10:16:52 +0000

There are other considerations though aren't there? Assuming that you trust the hosting entity:

* You may not want to trust the hosting entity for all of time. If you trust that E2E is deployed now, then you don't have to trust the future version of the host

* You may want additional protection against the host database being compromised. If you trust that E2E is deployed then a compromise of the host would not mean anything for your users privacy

New comment by memorythought in "One Way Smart Developers Make Bad Strategic Decisions"

memorythought — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 16:50:43 +0000

My reading of Seeing Like A State was not "central planning bad". The author explicitly acknowledges that there are many benefits to what they refer to as "high modernist" projects which we all enjoy on a daily basis. My reading was more that large scale projects designed to entirely change the way something is done in order to make it legible to a central authority necessarily throws away an enormous amount of local information and this leads to a tradeoff. You end up being able to build much bigger systems, but those systems are not as flexible.

In the context of microservices that seems like a pertinent point because the purpose of a microservice architecture in the first place is often to allow an organisation to be more flexible and accommodate local knowledge.

New comment by memorythought in "CRDTs are the future"

memorythought — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 20:05:20 +0000

Im one of the authors of this. Right now the code is very unstable as we're tracking the performance branch of the JS implementation. Once the JS version hits 1.0 I'll be putting a bunch of effort into making the API cleaner and more rusty and documenting things.

It does work and can actually be used as a backend for the JS implementation if you use the wasm backend we've built. In fact, this is how we have tested it, by compiling to WASM and running the JS test script against it.

Ion – Decentralized Identifiers Developed by Microsoft

memorythought — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 17:14:32 +0000

Article URL: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/identity-standards-blog/ion-booting-up-the-network/ba-p/1441552

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23490992

Points: 3

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New comment by memorythought in "Homoiconicity Revisited"

memorythought — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 09:33:50 +0000

I read the javascript part as specifically referring to JSON, not to all javascript code.

New comment by memorythought in "Automattic invests in Matrix"

memorythought — Thu, 21 May 2020 14:17:16 +0000

You might be interested in https://radicle.xyz/

Reddit community points launches on Ethereum

memorythought — Thu, 14 May 2020 11:33:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/community-points/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23178227

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by memorythought in "Conventional Comments"

memorythought — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 20:35:33 +0000

papercut?

New comment by memorythought in "Secor: A service persisting Kafka logs to S3, GCS and Azure Blob Storage"

memorythought — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 17:29:53 +0000

I don't think there's a good connect sink for GCS available under a non commercial license

New comment by memorythought in "Firefox for a Better Web offering privacy and faster access to great content"

memorythought — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:24:28 +0000

How is this trackers buying themselves a free pass? I don't know much about Scroll, their website suggests that they are about paying publishers for content you view, rather than selling your data. Is there something sneaky that they're doing that I'm not aware of?

New comment by memorythought in "A Year of Developer Journals with jrnl.sh"

memorythought — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 15:48:09 +0000

True, not particularly difficult. At the moment though I just keep GPG encrypted text files if I handle encryption independently of jrnl then I lose a lot of the value of it like being able to search by tag.

There was some discussion of including it here https://github.com/maebert/jrnl/issues/262 but it looks like they might have decided against it.

New comment by memorythought in "A Year of Developer Journals with jrnl.sh"

memorythought — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 15:20:32 +0000

Does anyone know of a tool like jrnl.sh that integrates with GPG for encryption?