Hacker News: pharmakom

New comment by pharmakom in "In Defense of Simple Architectures (2022)"

pharmakom — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 14:24:16 +0000

GraphQL is less complicated than querying dozens of interdependent REST queries.

New comment by pharmakom in "Reddit beats film industry again, won't have to reveal pirates' IP addresses"

pharmakom — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 22:34:38 +0000

Well they don’t need Reddit to see who is seeding. But posting to Reddit can easily be done through Tor or proxies.

New comment by pharmakom in "Reddit beats film industry again, won't have to reveal pirates' IP addresses"

pharmakom — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 21:05:59 +0000

I assume the pirates are using Tor or a proxy anyway though?

New comment by pharmakom in "Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat"

pharmakom — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:39:49 +0000

I once discovered that a very large org had AD configured in such a way that you could see “last seen at” timestamp for everyone profile in the company.

It would have been trivial to track everyone’s hours using this, which would likely have been unpopular.

New comment by pharmakom in "React has grown beyond its original promise and it's causing more harm than good"

pharmakom — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 07:26:31 +0000

Why do we need a templating language at all? Syntax is inferior to data.

New comment by pharmakom in "Python types have an expectations problem"

pharmakom — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 20:26:14 +0000

But if x is an int, the result is an int

If x is a list, the result is a list

I don’t think that the type system can describe this.

New comment by pharmakom in "On a Tesla: Don't"

pharmakom — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 09:07:19 +0000

You probably should have your dog belted in to a chest harness.

Check your insurance policy.

New comment by pharmakom in "iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, browser engines, and more"

pharmakom — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 09:22:19 +0000

The hardware is better because of RnD, funded by high margins due to software lock-in. Not sure why people struggle to see the connection here.

New comment by pharmakom in "Fossil is quitting smartwatches"

pharmakom — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 09:04:45 +0000

How would most things work on such a small screen?

I think the Apple Watch will become increasingly standalone.

New comment by pharmakom in "A Terribly Serious adventure: Philosophy and war at Oxford"

pharmakom — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 08:30:16 +0000

There was also much more low hanging fruit back then. Making significant contributions to a field only required scratching the surface.

New comment by pharmakom in "Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union"

pharmakom — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:06:03 +0000

This is the problem. Microsoft does not have a strong product function in Windows so no one can push back on this bullshit in the first place.

New comment by pharmakom in "Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union"

pharmakom — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 21:44:51 +0000

I once would have agreed with you, but the advertisements and pushiness in Windows are simply unacceptable at this point.

New comment by pharmakom in "Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than conventional"

pharmakom — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 10:50:42 +0000

Telegraph readers skew wealthy so probably own a private vegetable patch.

New comment by pharmakom in "Embracing Common Lisp in the modern world"

pharmakom — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 08:09:24 +0000

How would they define lisp?

To me Lisp means programs in list syntax with prefix notation.

New comment by pharmakom in "Programming Language Checklist (2011)"

pharmakom — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 15:08:10 +0000

To me what’s missing is a functional programming language that is statically typed and has an extreme emphasis on performance. C++ meets Haskell, but not terrible.

New comment by pharmakom in "Programming Language Checklist (2011)"

pharmakom — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 15:05:34 +0000

Zig, Odin and Jai are the main contenders.

I don’t think backward C compatibility is a good idea, since the C syntax has issues. Instead a transpilation tool from C could be built.

New comment by pharmakom in "Programming Language Checklist (2011)"

pharmakom — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 08:13:10 +0000

C# is more like Java than C++

New comment by pharmakom in "Programming Language Checklist (2011)"

pharmakom — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 08:08:43 +0000

Quite funny, but I want people to advance the state of the art.

Does C++ / Java / Python really represent the high water mark of programming languages? I sure hope not…

New comment by pharmakom in "Google employees blast 'profoundly boring' management lacking 'visionary leader'"

pharmakom — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:29:08 +0000

Exclusivity made everyone think so. Groundbreaking marketing, for a webmail service.

New comment by pharmakom in "The Case for Rust in the base system"

pharmakom — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 20:11:01 +0000

What if Rust compiled to C? Wouldn’t that be a good way to support long tail platforms with low effort?