Hacker News: ndc

New comment by ndc in "Does anybody like React?"

ndc — Tue, 26 May 2026 03:11:05 +0000

I think it's a shortcut for saying that react doesn't have an 'official' routing library (like vue-router) and state management library (like vue's pinia). So depending on what you choose to manage routing / state, one react app can be quite different from another.

Maybe nowadays there is a set of popular libraries for react so it becomes framework-y?

New comment by ndc in "Does anybody like React?"

ndc — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:28:32 +0000

Wait, react is a framework now? People used to say that react is just a model binding library. FYI I haven't used react.

New comment by ndc in "Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored"

ndc — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:59:00 +0000

Housing price goes down, but there's no maintenance. No shops open nearby, no hospitals, no firemen, no police, no gas stations.

People will flock to cities that still have services. Then the cities will have the same population density as before.

New comment by ndc in "Security through obscurity is not bad"

ndc — Mon, 04 May 2026 08:19:42 +0000

Cixin Liu's Dark Forest theory is security through obscurity. If you don't have any other defense mechanism, at least try to hide.

New comment by ndc in "Music for Programming"

ndc — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:15:21 +0000

Hey me too! Japanese trap is great.

New comment by ndc in "Ask HN: What is the best example of api documentation you know?"

ndc — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 15:22:21 +0000

Examples examples examples. From the most common use cases to the less common. With annotations and links to the endpoint reference.

New comment by ndc in "If you could give a book to your younger self, what would it be?"

ndc — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 09:41:09 +0000

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. I read this book during college, but I wish I had read it earlier in my life, like when I was in junior high. This book set my priorities straight.

New comment by ndc in "The Greatest 404 message I've seen in awhile"

ndc — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:44:11 +0000

Marvin the paranoid android

New comment by ndc in "Ask HN: My brain refuses to think, what should I do?"

ndc — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:53:54 +0000

Have you ever experienced your list becomes bloated with items? Then you spend your time prioritizing and reprioritizing the items?

When that happens to me, I just pick one item and forget the rest of the list.

New comment by ndc in "Ask HN: Please explain short selling?"

ndc — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:03:52 +0000

In case the borrower fails to deliver, the broker lose license, ok understood, but what about the stock itself? Does the transaction gets rolled back? Or will the total number of shares be permanently increased at the cost of the broker's license?

Edit: The lender must write off the stock?

New comment by ndc in "Ask HN: Has anyone chosen ASP.NET MVC 2 over Rails for their web app"

ndc — Mon, 24 May 2010 12:25:15 +0000

ASP.NET MVC skips the whole ORM part and let programmers deal with the issue however they like. I find this refreshing compared to Rails 2 which enforces ActiveRecord. I hear Rails 3 decouples ActiveRecord but I haven't seen it in action.

This is important if you have a plan to build front end to legacy database.

New comment by ndc in "Ask HN: Discovering new music?"

ndc — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:05:30 +0000

It's odd that nobody has mentioned Pandora yet: http://www.pandora.com/

Put one song in, and it will give a set of songs that are similar to your song, with explanation why it thinks they are similar.

Too bad it is available only if you are browsing from US IP address.

New comment by ndc in "Ask HN: Cloning a US startup for a european country ?"

ndc — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:25:49 +0000

How about contacting the original site, maybe you can become its affiliate in France?

New comment by ndc in "Ask HN: When to listen to users & when not to?"

ndc — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:05:37 +0000

Yes, ask them 'why' 5 times when they ask for feature A B C.

New comment by ndc in "Ask HN: What's the deal with mailing lists?"

ndc — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:50:31 +0000

I don't think the problem is the mailing list style of discussion. Looks like it works fine, even for big projects like the linux kernel. What I find frustrating with mailing list is the archive:

* sometimes there is no archives

* sometimes the archive is unsearchable, only browsable

* for archives with search capability, sometimes the search results are not accurate enough

If end users can find answers through mailing list archive, they needn't post nor subscribe.