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New comment by peey in "Show HN: Particle Fountain – Solution of a Rosetta Code Task in Easylang"

peey — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 18:25:00 +0000

That's incredibly concise. I see you're perturbing vx and vy randomly and updating location accordingly on every frame. Is the perturbation also per-frame or is that block of code just executed once? Is randomf a floating-point number between 0 and 1?

New comment by peey in "Show HN: JSX in Browser with Sucrase"

peey — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 18:14:00 +0000

This is really cool. Do you also plan to show the code before compilation / allow it to be edited and be compiled on your demo page?

Gboard wearable caps by Google Japan [video]

peey — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 03:03:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vib77CUxNM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37807539

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

New comment by peey in "Ask HN: How to say no to a GitHub issue feature request?"

peey — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 10:06:10 +0000

Your point of view is very clear: it's not a feature you're interested in. But it doesn't mean that it's not a good feature for the person who has opened the issue.

Instead of convincing them that it's a bad feature or talking about why it's uninteresting to you, just point them to a CONTRIBUTING.md and stop engaging with them after that. If they're actually serious about the feature, they can implement it in their own fork (which then you can request as a PR if you want it in your repo).

New comment by peey in "You're not dumb, the prerequisites are bullshit"

peey — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 11:59:22 +0000

It's useful to know who they think the book is written for, to get the most out of the book.

Books are not individualized, so it's a very difficult ask to publishers and writers to write something in that section that perfectly applies to you.

New comment by peey in "Class 1 / Class 2 Problems"

peey — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 15:33:26 +0000

You're right! Even I tried to post it. This is what I observed:

1. After posting, I'm redirect to https://news.ycombinator.com/newest where the link works 2. I click to open the discussion, now on this page link no longer works 3. Going back to /newest, the link no longer works!

New comment by peey in "Class 1 / Class 2 Problems"

peey — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 15:29:18 +0000

looks like a class 1 problem

New comment by peey in "The fastest object diff library in JavaScript"

peey — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 18:30:07 +0000

Would you rather implement `leftPad` or use the npm package?

Who does that server serve?

peey — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 07:43:43 +0000

Article URL: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29128227

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by peey in "Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux"

peey — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 15:40:26 +0000

the titled should be updated to say "the Linux community" at the end, as on the original page

New comment by peey in "Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web"

peey — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:37:09 +0000

1. Would it be correct to describe memoized DOM approach as combination of direct manipulation (like hand-written jquery, or what svelte compiles to) + a mechanism to avoid invoking selectors by caching references to DOM elements? Or is there more to it?

2. It'd be a good experiment to separate out the memoized DOM implementation from imba codebase in a way it can be used by different frameworks, just as virtual DOM libraries got popular after react. If someone were to attempt this, where would you recommend that they start with the imba codebase?

New comment by peey in "Swift Protocol Oriented Programming and Testing"

peey — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 19:26:56 +0000

Suggestion: title should be renamed to "Protocol Oriented Programming and Testing in Swift".

"Swift Protocol" is something else entirely https://docs.openstack.org/swift/latest/

Fair Code: adding Commons Clause to OSI-approved licenses

peey — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 18:38:32 +0000

Article URL: https://faircode.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27665829

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by peey in "$1 Unistroke Recognizer (2007)"

peey — Wed, 05 May 2021 09:40:04 +0000

I expected it to cost $1, and then I thought "I'd gladly pay $1 for a perpetual licence to a good quality library".

Setting aside OSI's definition of OSS, has this been explored as a OSS funding model?

New comment by peey in "Julia: A Post-Mortem"

peey — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 11:17:28 +0000

I've always viewed Julia as a language for scientific computing professionals [1].

The article pronounces Julia's death only based on popularity relative to other languages. Yet, it's not clear what the author is comparing it to.

The comparisons I see are MATLAB and FORTRAN, to which Julia seems to stand third in TIOBE Index [2] that the author is using. The author doesn't seem to focus on this.

The author mentions

> Julia’s target user is harder to define. I have struggled with this while writing Learn Julia.

I wonder if it may not be the case that the author has developed his own notion of what Julia ought to be. And I'll agree that Julia may have failed his grand vision to displace large parts of Python, but I do not think that that vision is based in reality. Python users that want to use frameworks written in other, faster languages (like C++) will forever continue to use Python and enjoy the vast libraries that it offers which aren't centred around scientific computing.

[1]: There seems to be a list on https://juliacomputing.com/. Arguably their needs might be very different than the author's. But I can't say because the article's arguments are not based on technical shortcomings.

[2]: In the TIOBE Index (as a proxy for popularity) MATLAB gets 1.04%, Fortran 0.83%, and Julia 0.41% (GNU's Octave, the main FOSS Matlab competitor, is nowhere to be seen). I do not know what these percentages mean though https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

New comment by peey in "To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language"

peey — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 20:29:18 +0000

It's important to note the methodology employed in the original paper used "did not have meaningful structure or variable names" [1]. If the code's like that, then yes it's less like reading a language and more like cryptic puzzles.

But limitedness of the methodology means the conclusion can't apply to software development at large, something that the title misleads us about.

[1]: https://twitter.com/wcrichton/status/1339235494102753280

New comment by peey in "Show HN: This website is valid JSON"

peey — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 13:50:01 +0000

But what do you think one gains by serving json instead of serving valid html like a body with just ``?

If you can retain full functionality (and hack on your ideas) AND be standards compliant (to make sure someone who decides to start offering a new web browser doesn't have to worry about 10% of websites serving this instead of valid HTML), then you should do that.

New comment by peey in "Expanding Fuchsia's open source model"

peey — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 20:38:26 +0000

> there's open source alternatives to Play Services that Google neither litigates against nor seems to actively fight against

AFAIK these are reverse-engineered. Do you sincerely believe that developers' time is best spent reverse engineering and maintaining play services alts to undo a blockade that Google put in, just to be able to get full freedom over their android derivative? Wouldn't it be better spent in playing with cool new tech (as Google engineers seem to be doing)?

New comment by peey in "Expanding Fuchsia's open source model"

peey — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 20:32:06 +0000

AOSP is an open source project, which is impractical for any business to run because of apps' reliance on proprietary google play services.

Chromium is an open source project, but proprietary chrome has the largest browser market share and they like to abuse their position to not play well with standards bodies.

Google can develop Fuchsia. It'll even be cool piece of tech, but I do not for a second believe that contributing to the project would benefit anyone but Google.

New comment by peey in "SpaceX gets $886M from FCC to subsidize Starlink in 35 states"

peey — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 21:48:28 +0000

"Mars Terraforming Not Possible Using Present-Day Technology"

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/goddard/2018/mars-terrafo...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0529-6