Hacker News: nycdotnet

New comment by nycdotnet in "Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go"

nycdotnet — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:09:20 +0000

TypeScript tried to accurately model (and expose to language services) the actual behavior of JS with regards to null/undefined. In its early days, TypeScript got a lot of reflexive grief for attempting to make JS not JS. Had the TS team attempted to pave over null/undefined rather than modeling it with the best fidelity they could at the time, I think these criticisms would have been more on the mark.

New comment by nycdotnet in "Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow"

nycdotnet — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 02:14:46 +0000

I am a C# dev by day and love working with it. I miss interfaces, Linq, and the nicer pattern matching features of C# when using GDScript, but overall GDScript is quite adequate for what it needs to do and the game dev loop feels faster when using it. They can interop as well without too much friction, so if you have the .NET version of Godot, it can have some code in C# where (if?) you need it and other code in GDScript when you don’t.

New comment by nycdotnet in "Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow"

nycdotnet — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:00:45 +0000

might be geometry dash.

New comment by nycdotnet in "Why is everything so scalable?"

nycdotnet — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:09:04 +0000

This is Conway’s Law: You ship your org chart.

New comment by nycdotnet in "Evolving the Multi-User Spaceport"

nycdotnet — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 01:16:37 +0000

The shuttle’s solid rocket boosters splashed down in the ocean via parachute, and were recovered and reused. The main engines and thrusters/rcs were also reused. Only the external tank was disposed. The issue with the shuttle (among many) was that the reuse was not actually economical due to the maintenance required between each launch.

New comment by nycdotnet in "Cognitive load is what matters"

nycdotnet — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 21:54:19 +0000

In some software platforms, the tooling makes it really easy to use a debugger to see what’s happening, so it’s common for everyone on the team to use them all the time.

The comment you’re responding to mentioned pulling code into a function. As an example, if there’s a clever algorithm or technique that optimizes a particular calculation, it’s fine to write code more for the machine to be fast than the human to read as long as it’s tidy in a function that a dev using a debugger can just step over or out of.

New comment by nycdotnet in "Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025"

nycdotnet — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 21:18:36 +0000

If you want to experience the Neuromancer vibe (but not story line), in 2025, from a contemporaneous source, I can’t recommend the Commodore 64 adaptation enough.

New comment by nycdotnet in "They Might Be Giants Flood EPK Promo (1990) [video]"

nycdotnet — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 10:56:28 +0000

Saw these guys on JoCo a few weeks ago. Great set. Birdhouse in your soul was one of our wedding songs. Hard to believe Flood is 35 years old. Thanks for linking this.

New comment by nycdotnet in "Two new PebbleOS watches"

nycdotnet — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:29:48 +0000

Excited for this release! Have you heard from Intel yet? “Core 2 Duo” was the name of one of their processors in the early days of multicore on a single package.

Edit: preordered!

New comment by nycdotnet in "You probably don't need query builders"

nycdotnet — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 21:01:20 +0000

This is Brent Ozar's old theme.

New comment by nycdotnet in "You probably don't need query builders"

nycdotnet — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 23:06:44 +0000

Record selector to drive a data grid. Ex: Filter employees by location, or active/terminated, or salary/hourly, etc. and let the user choose one or many of these filters.

New comment by nycdotnet in "You probably don't need query builders"

nycdotnet — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 23:03:41 +0000

Agree. With patterns like this you are leaning on your db server’s CPU - among your most scarce resources - versus doing this work on the client on a relatively cheap app server. At query time your app server knows if $2 or $3 or $4 is null and can elide those query args. Feels bad to use a fast language like Rust on your app servers and then your perf still sucks because your single DB server is asked to contemplate all possibilities on queries like this instead of doing such simple work on your plentiful and cheap app servers.

New comment by nycdotnet in "Is XYplorer really written in VB6?"

nycdotnet — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 14:07:30 +0000

“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”. Bjarne Stroustrup

New comment by nycdotnet in "Starship IFT-6 Livestream (liftoff at 4pm CT)"

nycdotnet — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 22:15:24 +0000

no barge for super heavy- the point of the catch is to save weight on the massive legs that would be required. It “soft landed” in the Gulf a few miles off shore, meaning they did a burn and it entered the water not in freefall (though it still looked faster than I expected).

New comment by nycdotnet in "CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished"

nycdotnet — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 22:54:01 +0000

Which would need to be encoded in at least two bytes at which point, why not just use CRLF?

New comment by nycdotnet in "CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished"

nycdotnet — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 22:50:40 +0000

Even Notepad.exe supports LF only text files now.

New comment by nycdotnet in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

nycdotnet — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 12:36:53 +0000

They did it!

New comment by nycdotnet in "Starship Flight 5 license issued by FAA"

nycdotnet — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 12:10:42 +0000

yes the booster’s structure is very strong vertically but not nearly as strong horizontally. There may be some “squeezing” forces from the chopsticks but this is effectively for fine positioning only. It will not support the weight. The booster will “land” by getting its pins (which stick out a bit) on the top rail of the arms.

New comment by nycdotnet in "Starship Flight 5 license issued by FAA"

nycdotnet — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 19:54:17 +0000

Yes. The booster has two pins that stick out at the top that are designed to hold the weight of the entire booster when empty. The plan is for the booster to return to the launch tower, position itself between the arms which will close on it and then the pins will “land” on the arms, completing the catch.

New comment by nycdotnet in "SpaceX launches mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck on the ISS"

nycdotnet — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 16:19:19 +0000

The goal of two commercial vehicles was dissimilar redundancy. But yeah this should be worked on in the not too distant future.