Hacker News: oconnor0

New comment by oconnor0 in "Ashet Home Computer"

oconnor0 — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 03:26:54 +0000

Strange, I was able to sign up from my .family email

New comment by oconnor0 in "SimpleW – Web Server Library .NET Core"

oconnor0 — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:17:25 +0000

I really wish that Kestrel was available as a standalone library. Kind of like Jetty on the JVM.

New comment by oconnor0 in "Cwerg: C-like language that can be implemented in 10kLOC"

oconnor0 — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:58:20 +0000

Does that mean you are planning a specific editor for it?

New comment by oconnor0 in "I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome"

oconnor0 — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 03:12:54 +0000

Except that Google Drive just doesn't seem to work in Firefox.

New comment by oconnor0 in "Wrapping Up 2021. Leaving C++"

oconnor0 — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 22:30:24 +0000

Ada came out of the DOD so assuming it's an all-caps acronym makes a lot of sense. ;)

New comment by oconnor0 in "Luau goes open-source"

oconnor0 — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 00:36:45 +0000

> I think that makes it the second (production-ready) language to have a primarily-structural type system

I assume we are talking about a static type system here? Many common "scripting" languages are structurally typed - what Python calls duck typing.

New comment by oconnor0 in "How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source (2017)"

oconnor0 — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 20:01:43 +0000

It is interesting to me that I read people criticizing Microsoft for their open sourcing code as doing it for marketing reasons---which seems accurate---but not criticizing Google or Apple or whoever else when they open source code.

New comment by oconnor0 in "Unix System Programming with Standard ML (2001) [pdf]"

oconnor0 — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:49:44 +0000

What's the problem with the module system and functors?

New comment by oconnor0 in "Writing a DSL in Lua (2015)"

oconnor0 — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 23:11:45 +0000

Would you be willing to explain why explicit asynchrony is superior to implicit cooperative threading? Rather than simply engaging in more namecalling.

New comment by oconnor0 in "OCaml on Baremetal Shakti RISC-V Processor"

oconnor0 — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 22:46:05 +0000

Ah, maybe, perhaps I am in the minority that liked the different operators for ints and floats. :D

New comment by oconnor0 in "OCaml on Baremetal Shakti RISC-V Processor"

oconnor0 — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 17:04:12 +0000

> and not so good at floating point computations

What does this mean? I was under the impression the OCaml compiler did a decent number of floating point specific optimizations, like unboxed arrays and what not.

New comment by oconnor0 in "Ask HN: What is the best “dumb” phone?"

oconnor0 — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 20:30:41 +0000

What is the problem with running Android here?

New comment by oconnor0 in "Using Zig to Provide Stack Traces on Kernel Panic for a Bare Bones OS"

oconnor0 — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 06:00:49 +0000

I don't think I'd call Rust user friendly.

New comment by oconnor0 in "Show HN: Gutenberg – A static site engine as a single executable"

oconnor0 — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 15:00:04 +0000

"Terrible and unoriginal name choice" is probably a little dramatic:

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=gutenberg+static+...

New comment by oconnor0 in "The Customization Curve"

oconnor0 — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 18:34:22 +0000

No customization presents a simple tool that, hopefully, just works and can be accepted with its flaws and limitations. Once customization starts being added in, it's easier to see annoyances and "why isn't this feature present".

New comment by oconnor0 in "C++17 is formally approved"

oconnor0 — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 14:52:33 +0000

It's significantly easier to be "bad" with C++ than it is to be "bad" with Java.

New comment by oconnor0 in "Sile – Simon's Improved Layout Engine"

oconnor0 — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 23:13:29 +0000

The Sile PDF says

> There is no shortcut for boldface, because boldface isn’t good typographic practice and so we don’t want to make it easy for you to make bad books.

Where/what is that from? Like is that common "knowledge"?

New comment by oconnor0 in "Neo – Desired Word Processor for Authors"

oconnor0 — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 19:57:44 +0000

What is the process for converting what is written in Quoll into something printable, like a PDF?

New comment by oconnor0 in "Neo – Desired Word Processor for Authors"

oconnor0 — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 15:53:37 +0000

Has anyone used (Quoll Writer)[0]?

[0]: https://quollwriter.com/

New comment by oconnor0 in "Android Is a Dead End"

oconnor0 — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 02:31:51 +0000

"provides a read-only mirror" sounds like "developed behind closed doors" to me.