Hacker News: moon4u

New comment by moon4u in "C’s Biggest Mistake (2009)"

moon4u — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 10:14:20 +0000

> Oh, how they dare argue with WALTER BRIGHT. The hubris!

With all due respect, but if someone says something invalid, the fact that they have authority on a subject does not mean that we should agree.

As far as I understand the article (And I'm not the great Walter Bright, so I may be wrong) - the author states that "void foo(char a[..])" is better syntax than "void foo(size_t s, char a[])" but does not provide any arguments for it. Furthermore, the author initially fails to mention that there has been an attempt to fix the array-to-pointer-decay issue, when discussing "C's Biggest Mistake".

So, yeah, the author may be right that this has been C's biggest mistake. I don't know whether that is true or not, I do not have his experience. It is certainly true that this mistake would be high on rankings of all mistakes that C did. Still, the initial "sleight of hand" move followed by unsubstantiated argument leads to a post with the quality similar to that of a twitter post. Maybe even worse, since, you know, it's posted on a place other than twitter, so we are actually talking about it as if it was something serious.

New comment by moon4u in "Why is OOP still so widely spread?"

moon4u — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 08:22:26 +0000

I, too, have a question mark for the last point, but he is right for the performance remark, though.

New comment by moon4u in "Want people to do the right thing? Save them the guilt trip"

moon4u — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:17:34 +0000

I don't think that you are correct. Well... maybe they do know it and are opting for an alternative approach, because guilt-tripping seems like a fairly common tactic, especially in the aforementioned activists.

New comment by moon4u in "Want people to do the right thing? Save them the guilt trip"

moon4u — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 06:41:36 +0000

> I also think most activists are aware of this.

I'm sorry, but how did you come to this conclusion? The first thing that comes to mind is the new tactic used by activist, saying something to the effect of "If you are not doing something to prevent racism, then you are guilty of being racist." Which is what (I believe) lead to this thing: https://www.businessinsider.com/white-protesters-confront-di...

New comment by moon4u in "PureOS is convergent"

moon4u — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 12:31:12 +0000

> The only limitation for me has honestly been Windows, since I'm more of a Unixey guy.

You can put Linux on GPD Win. I have on mine.

New comment by moon4u in "Bullshit Jobs"

moon4u — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 09:12:24 +0000

There is a thing that I don't understand from the original article[1]:

> The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger. And, on the other hand, the feeling that work is a moral value in itself, and that anyone not willing to submit themselves to some kind of intense work discipline for most of their waking hours deserves nothing, is extraordinarily convenient for them.

Does the author really mean that if you don't work you still deserve something in return? That one kinda sounds like bullshit. Has that been expanded upon somewhere?

Also, the author mentions that this was already attempted during the 60s and that it ended in a disaster but doesn't tell what that was. I am not from America, so I don't really know the history of the country during the 60s. What happened?

[1] http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/

New comment by moon4u in "The Dunedin Study Has Been Studying Aging for 45 Years"

moon4u — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 09:56:57 +0000

I am kinda new to hackerrank and I don't know what it means when a comment is grayed out (it doesn't sound like a good thing), but I totally agree with you. I read the first part of the article and I just couldn't read further. It's like the article is about how great of an accomplishment that study is, instead of the data that supposedly came out of it.

New comment by moon4u in "A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript"

moon4u — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 06:32:52 +0000

>Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

https://i.imgur.com/Br00TCn.gif

New comment by moon4u in "Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online"

moon4u — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 09:02:35 +0000

Could a potential jailbreak be used to unlock an iphone?

New comment by moon4u in "The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet"

moon4u — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 08:52:42 +0000

It's Nook, but I don't remember the exact model. Maybe Glowlight.

Maybe it's just time for me to update? I bought this in 2014.

New comment by moon4u in "The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet"

moon4u — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 09:24:08 +0000

Is the response time really that fast? On my e-reader, it takes solid 1 second in the best case (and sometimes more than 3s worst) to switch a page. This device looks really fast. But maybe it's just updating small region and that's why it's so fast?

New comment by moon4u in "Open Letter to Tim Cook"

moon4u — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 09:24:43 +0000

I've gotta say. I'd use that device (on your [2] link) way more than my phone. Well... I wouldn't use it as a phone, but still.

New comment by moon4u in "Sdl-gpu: A library for high-performance, modern 2D graphics with SDL"

moon4u — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 22:08:20 +0000

I've used this library before. It is really good. The biggest difference that I can point out is that you can use shaders with SDL-gpu. Also - it plays nicely with the standard SDL2 lib.