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New comment by nnoitra in "Why I am learning category theory"

nnoitra — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:44:08 +0000

Why is Elm mentioned specifically. As far as I know (state, action) => state is just a function without side effects?

New comment by nnoitra in "Why I am learning category theory"

nnoitra — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 21:05:15 +0000

Isn't Redux only used when the app becomes too complex with really complex state?

New comment by nnoitra in "Why I am learning category theory"

nnoitra — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:59:02 +0000

Will it make you a better React dev tho?

New comment by nnoitra in "The Rune Programming Language"

nnoitra — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 08:35:44 +0000

Can someone explain the timing security vulnerability mentioned in the article, I'm not sure I understand.

New comment by nnoitra in "Show HN: Have fun betting virtual (not real) money on predictions from HN users"

nnoitra — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 01:58:22 +0000

This may seem like a dumb question but why not use a laptop?

New comment by nnoitra in "An Interview with Mickey Petersen, Author of Mastering Emacs"

nnoitra — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 20:27:45 +0000

Why, what's so good about it?

New comment by nnoitra in "Why are most CS programs so bad at teaching programming as a skill in itself?"

nnoitra — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 16:12:01 +0000

The premise is not true. Many universities in Europe teach proper classes with programming assignments.

New comment by nnoitra in "The German School of Lisp (2011)"

nnoitra — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 14:19:51 +0000

No, you can't. How many dialects of C++ are there or of Java.

New comment by nnoitra in "Why are glasses so expensive? The industry prefers to keep that blurry (2019)"

nnoitra — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 04:03:56 +0000

This comment slowly escalated to the point where I thought the next line would be: "They also own your eyes".

New comment by nnoitra in "Graduate students question career options"

nnoitra — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 05:34:19 +0000

Nope. You can go ahead and make a startup which can fail and then you're left with burnout and an empty bank account. Wasting time is an integral part of life.

New comment by nnoitra in "Math Stack Exchange is a waste of time? (2017) [pdf]"

nnoitra — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 14:21:55 +0000

My experience has been diametrically opposite to this. I've found Stack Exchange communities to be amazing communities to ask deep questions, practice technical writing and even exercise critical thinking skills.

On the Math Exchange I've had nothing but positive experience. The thing to do is first to struggle a bit with the problem and formulate a good question. Asking good question is an incredibly valuable skill. The questions which get treated bad are usually either poorly written and/or the person asking it clearly didn't even spend the bare minimum trying to solve it.

Here are some tips to get your questions answered and upvoted:

1) Spend some time on the problem

2) Describe what you've tried and why according to you that doesn't work or you don't understand it

3) Write in clear language and don't make obvious grammar mistakes

New comment by nnoitra in "Google Alphabet reviewing every project after $6B decline in profits"

nnoitra — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:06:43 +0000

Yay, more code repos that will rot somewhere by engineers who thought they were "changing the world and making an impact".

New comment by nnoitra in "My next Mac might be the last"

nnoitra — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 02:57:29 +0000

The UI is bad, 7 years of OS updates and the older versions of the Mac still feel better. It's just glitz on top of very bad ideas.

New comment by nnoitra in "My next Mac might be the last"

nnoitra — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 02:56:25 +0000

This M1 Mac Air will definitely be my last. I am switching to Windows laptop soon. The thing is that Macs were head and shoulders above the competition and I just don't see it anymore. It's becoming an isolated ecosystem and the competition is just more than keeping up even with the M1.

I started using Macs in 2015 roughly and at that time they were destroying the competition. The retina display sucks. It doesn't feel natural to me.

New comment by nnoitra in "Ask HN: If you could teach a course, what would it be?"

nnoitra — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 15:42:08 +0000

Heard a programmer recently how open source programmers were being exploited by corpos that used their enthusiasm for the craft.

New comment by nnoitra in "Ask HN: If you could teach a course, what would it be?"

nnoitra — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 11:08:57 +0000

Is this that common? xD

New comment by nnoitra in "Ask HN: If you could teach a course, what would it be?"

nnoitra — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 04:04:31 +0000

How to wake up tired 90% of the time for Dummies.

New comment by nnoitra in "Just for Fun. No, really."

nnoitra — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 01:33:21 +0000

What would my interviewer think if I answered that question with pussy and money tho?

New comment by nnoitra in "Show HN: I made an Aesthetic Typing app"

nnoitra — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 12:58:18 +0000

This is really awesome.

New comment by nnoitra in "Ask HN: Best programming books in the last couple of years?"

nnoitra — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 16:34:19 +0000

useless everywhere basically. No sane person would sit down and read TAOCP.