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New comment by ninjabeans in "Show HN: Buzz, strongly typed scripting language written in Zig"

ninjabeans — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 23:07:39 +0000

Is there any difference between a statically typed scripting language and a statically typed compiled language that compiles in <.1s?

New comment by ninjabeans in "Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI"

ninjabeans — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:20:21 +0000

You have to log in after 3-4 phrases? Why even bother making this whole thing if you just want to prevent people from experiencing it?

New comment by ninjabeans in "Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook"

ninjabeans — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 23:38:16 +0000

By how much would the country's tax income increase, percentage wise, if all these companies started paying full tax?

New comment by ninjabeans in "When did software go off the rails?"

ninjabeans — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 20:00:44 +0000

Ironic that your blog needs javascript to display a page.

New comment by ninjabeans in "How is Ruby different in Japan?"

ninjabeans — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 06:34:02 +0000

Yeah but no one writes their personal projects in those.

New comment by ninjabeans in "How is Ruby different in Japan?"

ninjabeans — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 06:28:23 +0000

I have been using it for all my scripting needs almost since it first came out.

New comment by ninjabeans in "Someone Created a Startup Just like Mine and Here Is Why That Is Awesome"

ninjabeans — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 18:28:28 +0000

He sources startup ideas from Mechanical Turk?

New comment by ninjabeans in "Fortress of Tedium: What I Learned as a Substitute Teacher"

ninjabeans — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 22:14:17 +0000

Lovely read.

New comment by ninjabeans in "How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac"

ninjabeans — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 18:59:40 +0000

I noticed a lot of disk activity once and fired up Process Monitor (on Windows). Dropbox.exe was going through literally all the files on my computer. That was when I uninstalled it forever.

New comment by ninjabeans in "Exploring calling conventions with x86 assembly"

ninjabeans — Sun, 04 Sep 2016 06:30:36 +0000

How did he create that diff graphic?

New comment by ninjabeans in "Malware that uses USB drives to covertly jump airgaps"

ninjabeans — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 12:22:09 +0000

It could be exfiltrating by modulating fan speed.

New comment by ninjabeans in "Memcpy (and friends) with NULL pointers"

ninjabeans — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 09:29:45 +0000

Can't the compiler warn about this?

New comment by ninjabeans in "The surprising cleverness of modern compilers"

ninjabeans — Tue, 24 May 2016 15:08:17 +0000

This sounds the most plausible.

New comment by ninjabeans in "Xi editor: A modern editor with a backend written in Rust"

ninjabeans — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:10:51 +0000

I like the design decisions.

Just a heads up, you misspelled "sparse" and accidentally a word after "completely".

New comment by ninjabeans in "Show HN: A HN desktop app for reading links and comments next to each other"

ninjabeans — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 11:23:56 +0000

This should be a website. My ad blocker doesn't work and I can't open links from stories in new tabs.

New comment by ninjabeans in "The Little Old Lady from the Upper West Side: How the New Yorker Stays Relevant"

ninjabeans — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 12:40:37 +0000

Am I missing something or is that a disparaging statement?