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Unknown elephant loanwords identified as truck engine sounds

ronenlh — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 20:02:15 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/1874853029872365961

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42578199

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by ronenlh in "Can You Become a 10x Developer by Writing a Tech Blog?"

ronenlh — Wed, 03 May 2023 12:58:36 +0000

Agree, the article mentions this in a way:

> There are many ways to do so: race others in ranked online challenges, try to solve hard programming riddles, or study new paradigms. However, most programmers, whose work involves a form of writing, overlook writing itself.

The point is that sometimes that "doing" doesn't advance you, as it's not challenging anymore. Writing can be a form of deliberate effort to improve in your craft. There are many other ways to improve, the post focuses on one.

Can You Become a 10x Developer by Writing a Tech Blog?

ronenlh — Wed, 03 May 2023 12:17:02 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/att-israel/can-you-become-a-10x-developer-by-writing-a-tech-blog-1016d5062998

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35801427

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by ronenlh in "A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)"

ronenlh — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 05:44:33 +0000

this simple behavior can be applied today to unsubscribe from “noreply@” emails and it’s not done

New comment by ronenlh in "Apple says they're removing my game because it's more than 2 years old"

ronenlh — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 20:41:11 +0000

Similar current Twitter thread on the same issue:

https://twitter.com/lazerwalker/status/1517849201148932096?s...

New comment by ronenlh in "Show HN: Top headlines of the world to start the day"

ronenlh — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 13:12:30 +0000

I was hoping for 5, but got hundreds

New comment by ronenlh in "The Thirteen-Factor Team"

ronenlh — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 13:17:23 +0000

This is a unusual post for me, as is the first one I write on methodologies as opposed to technologies. Constructive criticism welcome.

The Thirteen-Factor Team

ronenlh — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 12:28:21 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/att-israel/the-thirteen-factor-team-191c36d6ae85

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30526581

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by ronenlh in "The fastest GIF does not exist"

ronenlh — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 04:58:06 +0000

Great writing and research. You added great examples to make it clear, both in code and gifs. It was both fun to read and interesting. I was surprised to see Netscape running, I might try as well to play with the first JavaScript.

New comment by ronenlh in "How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software developer (2019)"

ronenlh — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 04:48:43 +0000

> The purpose of MCAS is to give the MAX the same aircraft handling characteristics so that it retains the original 737's type rating.

The article mentions that prominently in a few paragraphs, this is the first one:

“That's because the major selling point of the 737 Max is that it is just a 737, and any pilot who has flown other 737s can fly a 737 Max without expensive training, without recertification, without another type of rating.”

New comment by ronenlh in "From TypeScript to ReScript"

ronenlh — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 10:13:40 +0000

Yes and no. The syntax has been updated to make it less OCaml and more JavaScript-like.

ReasonML can compile to native, rescript can’t. Reason still exists as a separate project, and projects that have been rewritten into reason will not necessarily switch.

New comment by ronenlh in "From TypeScript to ReScript"

ronenlh — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 10:11:41 +0000

Typescript is “breath-first,” you can convert your entire project to typescript in a minimal pull-request. Gradually adopting the syntax.

ReScript requires a lot of commitment, as you have to completely rewrite each module to 100% comply with the type algorithm.

Typescript even transpiles when it encounters type errors.

New comment by ronenlh in "From TypeScript to ReScript"

ronenlh — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 10:04:08 +0000

Amazing in depth overview.

There are useful comments in my (shameless plug) post about my same transition:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25845147

New comment by ronenlh in "Ask HN: Can you relax without a screen?"

ronenlh — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 15:56:06 +0000

Nice writing

New comment by ronenlh in "Do Not Log"

ronenlh — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 17:21:15 +0000

I’ve seen too many times logs used as assertions in tests.

New comment by ronenlh in "Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories"

ronenlh — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 08:58:54 +0000

If one had all the resources, what should be done to make the web searchable/indexed in a relevant way?

New comment by ronenlh in "iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in photo"

ronenlh — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 05:45:33 +0000

Can this be an argument for plausible deniability in court?

New comment by ronenlh in "macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux"

ronenlh — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 05:41:17 +0000

> So here I noticed a major difference in how Homebrew seems to work compared to Arch Linux for example. On Arch Linux applications are built from source code centrally instead of relying on binaries from a vendor.

Homebrew also builds from source, but it uses cached builds they call bottles. I believe other package managers that build from source also used cached builds, I don’t know about Arch.

New comment by ronenlh in "Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript (2016)"

ronenlh — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 07:38:59 +0000

I believe it’s because programmers write websites, and when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail.

With webassembly we might start seeing compiled websites and we’ll miss the good old days of simple JavaScript.

New comment by ronenlh in "Ask HN: What's the next big thing in computing / programming?"

ronenlh — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 05:58:46 +0000

Someone already mentioned Unity as ahead of the curve.

I was impressed by it being a “Framework IDE.” It contains hundreds of visual tools and workflows where actual source code files are a small component which you drag and drop into widgets. Each widget is a visual representation of a class, and it’s source code is irrelevant.

Some of these tools are visual state machines, reactions to events, version control, collaboration. Most of us won’t like that change, as we’d lose a lot of control to opinionated rigid tools.

Maybe XCode and Android Studio will evolve to that for the next generation of developers.