Hacker News: phase_9

New comment by phase_9 in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

phase_9 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:08:53 +0000

The glory days are over. In the future, one software engineer will be able to support multiple product areas much like how one HR team can support 1,000's of employees.

LLMs have made domain knowledge and reasoning "cheap"; it doesn't matter if the output is lower quality - look around you for countless examples of where cheap wins and "cheap" continues to improve.

Good luck out there; we will all need it.

New comment by phase_9 in "“Find Satoshi” PerplexCity puzzle solved"

phase_9 — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 20:44:53 +0000

The surplus stock was incinerated. Source: wished at mind candy in the early 2010s

Learn Redux by writing Middleware

phase_9 — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 20:19:53 +0000

Article URL: http://jonnyreeves.co.uk/2016/redux-middleware/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11817794

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Integration Testing with Golden Masters in Golang

phase_9 — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 19:30:27 +0000

Article URL: http://jonnyreeves.co.uk/2016/integration-testing-with-golden-masters

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11529512

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Automatic Race Condition Detector in Actor Based Systems

phase_9 — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 20:38:53 +0000

Article URL: http://improbable.io/2016/03/04/automatic-race-condition-detector

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230979

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by phase_9 in "React Makes You Sad?"

phase_9 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:19:43 +0000

Hey plexicle - I also bumped into this one when I started with webpack; I've written the approach I use as a blog post, hope this helps: http://jonnyreeves.co.uk/2016/simple-webpack-prod-and-dev-co...

New comment by phase_9 in "TypeScript: New Compiler and Moving to GitHub"

phase_9 — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 19:20:37 +0000

Slightly off topic, but can anyone share a link to a large, well designed (open-source) codebase written in TypeScript? Github incorrectly/mistakenly tags C projects at TypeScript thanks to the `.ts` files present (thanks for picking a unique TLA Microsoft ;)

[0] https://github.com/trending?l=typescript

Multiline Strings in JavaScript through toString'ing functions

phase_9 — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:00:51 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/sindresorhus/multiline

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7350257

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by phase_9 in "Exploring an alternative to git-subtree"

phase_9 — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 21:54:58 +0000

I have anyways seen git submodules (and svn-externals before) to be a quick and dirty workaround for managing dependencies between modules.

I've been under the impression that using an artifact management tool such as Apache Ivy or Bower provides a more manageable and scalable solution, especially in projects with 20+ developers.

How does the solution proposed by the author compare? Does it compliment a managed artefact based solution?

New comment by phase_9 in "Args.js – Optional and Default parameters for JavaScript"

phase_9 — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:57:26 +0000

I've seen this style of library come up quite a few times whilst hacking away in JavaScript where developers try to introduce a sense of strict typing (I even wrote a similar one myself when I first moved over from ActionScript). In the end I learned to stop worrying and love the ~~bomb~~ duck typing[0].

For me; one of the "joys" of coding JavaScript is the expressiveness that comes with a dynamic languages; should you throw an ArgumentError when your function that expects a number is invoked with a String? Maybe - sure it can help catch problems early and effectively "stop-the-line" in your public API, but then again it will probably end up throwing the classic `TypeError: Object foo has no method 'bar'` for you anyway.

For "public" methods which form part of an API (especially when that API is going to be shared outside of my team) I try to make my functions handle failure early (before they delegate off to the "private" internal methods), even better if the public methods can repair any unexpected usage, ie:

  function convertToHex(value) {
    var result;
    
    if (typeof value !== "number") {
      result = convertToHex(parseInt(value, 10));
    }
    else {
      result = "0x" + value.toString(16);
    }
    
    return result;
  }

Also, with regards to default argument values, I've always felt the "native" JavaScript approach was fairly compact and descriptive when required:

  function doFoo(bar) {
    bar = (bar !== undefined) ? bar : "default_value";
  }

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing

New comment by phase_9 in "How I got a root shell in my NAS, 0day inside"

phase_9 — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 19:17:49 +0000

The DNS320 has been my home server for just over a year (replacing a LinkStation). You can install Fonz FunPlug in about 5 minutes and get a solid, mirrored server for about £20.

http://nas-tweaks.net/devices/d-link-dns-320/

New comment by phase_9 in "Anders Hejlsberg and Lars Bak: TypeScript, JavaScript, and Dart"

phase_9 — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:31:36 +0000

ECMAScript 4 was implemented in ActionScript 3[1]; a very nice language to work with IMHO. The members of the ECMAScript steering group launched into a public fracas on their respective blogs[2] which eventually ended in the draft being canned, despite the fact both ActionScript and Silverlight were already based on the standard... shame.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActionScript#ActionScript_3.0

[2] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2007/10/30/ecmascript-3-a...

New comment by phase_9 in "My review of the Surface Pro"

phase_9 — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 08:25:19 +0000

Shame I can no longer hear anything thanks to the roar of my laptop's fans!

Text only link for TFA: http://www.google.com/gwt/x?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftiamat.tsotech.co...

Green Sock JavaScript Animation Platform vs CSS3 Transitions.

phase_9 — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:31:10 +0000

Article URL: http://www.greensock.com/transitions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4976991

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by phase_9 in "Show HN: jQuery-Mustache Plugin"

phase_9 — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:56:06 +0000

This is a small jQuery plugin that I have been maintaining for a few months now. It provides a bit of sugar when using both jQuery and Mustache templates.

Show HN: jQuery-Mustache Plugin

phase_9 — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:55:27 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jonnyreeves/jquery-Mustache

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4829418

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by phase_9 in "Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless"

phase_9 — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:59:47 +0000

True, but I find the lack of Micro-SD Card Slot to be particularly galling, especially as it's becoming an increasingly popular trend with Android handset manufacturers looking to add a hefty markup between otherwise identical models. Just ends up hurting us consumers who want to carry their music collections around with them :(

New comment by phase_9 in "Rsvp.js"

phase_9 — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:17:16 +0000

Yet another promises library (: It's great that people are writing and sharing code, but it feels like people are trying to re-invent the wheel when stable, mature and well tested libraries[0] already exist for these problems.

[0] https://github.com/cujojs/when

FastGlacier - A Windows Client for Amazon Glacier

phase_9 — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 10:36:04 +0000

Article URL: http://fastglacier.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4620238

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by phase_9 in "Flowplayer 5.0.0"

phase_9 — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:48:03 +0000

Anecdotal, I know, but I found VideoJS to be a bit of a mess. From a code point of view, the player instance would not destroy correctly resulting in a memory leak for single-page web apps and IMHO the CSS was a pain to work with.