Hacker News: mezzode

New comment by mezzode in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"

mezzode — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 05:57:41 +0000

Oh wow, TIL that Slack also started like that

New comment by mezzode in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"

mezzode — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:29:24 +0000

You're thinking of Discord

New comment by mezzode in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

mezzode — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:03:59 +0000

It depends on the person, as a sample size of one I was on 5,000IU and my levels were still on the low end (almost still deficient), and my calcium levels were still safely on the low side as well. Ultimately people should be getting their levels checked before and after to see exactly what the effect on them is

New comment by mezzode in "Proposed top-level domain string for private use: ".internal""

mezzode — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 08:30:13 +0000

As others have mentioned there already is the ".home.arpa" TLD but I definitely think ".internal" is a step up in terms of clarity. That said, for my internal network I just put things under a subdomain of a domain I own so I can use HTTPS with a proper SSL cert

New comment by mezzode in "NERV Disaster Prevention"

mezzode — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 04:17:57 +0000

The logo isn't even just inspired by, it just outright is the NERV logo from Rebuild https://wiki.evageeks.org/Nerv_Logo

New comment by mezzode in "Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as errors"

mezzode — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 08:14:04 +0000

So it's basically the great tabs vs spaces debate again

New comment by mezzode in "Coronavirus Work from Home Model"

mezzode — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 16:15:57 +0000

>Isn’t there a word for when a lot of math and complexity and specific numbers with names imbue an article with some extra sense of being true or having authority?

Quantitative fallacy?

New comment by mezzode in "The Power of Shower Thoughts"

mezzode — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 20:44:06 +0000

My problem with shower thoughts is often I have too many and it's a struggle to hold on to them all until the end of the shower so I can actually write them down

New comment by mezzode in "Parse, Don’t Validate"

mezzode — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 06:50:25 +0000

https://github.com/google/mundane/blob/master/DESIGN.md was where I first learned about how useful opaque types can be for ensuring the type system does the heavy lifting

New comment by mezzode in "Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?"

mezzode — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 22:21:25 +0000

Generally yes, although I definitely wish the initial load was speedier the better looks and "flow" are worth it imo. I usually browse Reddit using Relay and look at my saved posts on desktop, which has benefited a lot from the redesign since I can just do stuff in a single tab instead of middle-clicking a bunch of posts.

New comment by mezzode in "Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview"

mezzode — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 22:06:49 +0000

I still think that first-class support for PWAs will be a more promising alternative to Electron

The Better Boarding Method Airlines Won't Use

mezzode — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 22:51:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHbLRjF0vo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19081478

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mezzode in "Paradox of tolerance"

mezzode — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 00:19:01 +0000

Probably https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14964006

I remember seeing this comparison and finding it quite profound as well.

New comment by mezzode in "Electron 4.0.0"

mezzode — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 02:06:07 +0000

There are definite a lot of advantages to building with web technologies, it's just that Electron is an excessively heavy way of enabling it since it basically just gives you a webapp with a whole browser bundled in. PWAs are a much better alternative since you can just use the one browser instead of having one running for every Electron app.

New comment by mezzode in "Electron 4.0.0"

mezzode — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 01:58:55 +0000

I still think that the majority of Electron apps can and should just be PWAs. Most like Discord pretty much just wrap their webapp anyway.

New comment by mezzode in "Fear, trust and JavaScript: When types and functional programming fail"

mezzode — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 06:23:56 +0000

I've found myself preferring type guards for checking action type, since it avoids you having to have keep one big `Actions` union around that takes X amount of lines and really doesn't serve any other purpose.

New comment by mezzode in "Modern Code Review: A Case Study at Google [pdf]"

mezzode — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:35:13 +0000

HTML makes perfect sense, as another poster said.

I've also found Authorea[1] to be pretty promising.

[1] https://www.authorea.com/

New comment by mezzode in "Modern Code Review: A Case Study at Google [pdf]"

mezzode — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 02:17:27 +0000

Off topic, this reminded me how much I hate how pdfs are the standard for papers.

New comment by mezzode in "[dead]"

mezzode — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 05:29:27 +0000

I was surprised at just how comically angry people were over this. I can kind of understand their arguments against a trend of being too change-happy and over-correcting, but these things really should be considered case-by-case, not on whether it's part of a trend. It's an opportunity to use more descriptive terms, with being less insensitive as a bonus, and neither of these warrants the level of hate that's been coming out.

Really, "master" and "slave" are pretty overused in tech for situations where it only kind of makes sense if you squint. There are a couple of examples of this. For databases, "master" and "slave" doesn't accurately describe the relationship, its more like "original" and "copy". For git, "master" as a name doesn't really make sense either since it implies it's master of something, when "main" or "primary" is closer to the truth.

I also remember seeing "dom" and "sub" being suggested somewhere, and even if it was a joke I'm all for it.

New comment by mezzode in "Google is discontinuing Inbox"

mezzode — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 01:54:19 +0000

Inbox has got to be the single most useful productivity tool for me. Pinning, bundling, and snoozing just make managing emails so quick and efficient since you can easily triage and get rid of what doesn't matter, and Gmail as it currently stands just can't compete.

If bundling and pinning aren't brought over to Gmail like snooze, Gmail is basically dead to me from an efficiency perspective since manually selecting what you want to remove takes significantly longer than pinning and sweeping in Inbox.

Worse still, there's the opposite problem if we wanted to build an Inbox successor on top of Gmail since while bundling and pinning would be easily implemented by the client, snooze is still not part of the Gmail API[1] so there would need to be a completely separate layer of snoozing in the client.

Honestly, if a competitor were to rise and implement Inbox's feature set, my money is on the table.

[1] https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/109952618