Hacker News: royjacobs

Postcards from the Peak of Complexity [video]

royjacobs — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 21:16:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u08hjp6PF-Q

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42036150

Points: 4

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New comment by royjacobs in "JSON Patch"

royjacobs — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 16:52:11 +0000

Because that would require consumers to have a Javascript interpreter to use it.

New comment by royjacobs in "Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene"

royjacobs — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 09:02:49 +0000

The demoscene needs you back, Saffron!

New comment by royjacobs in "UFO 50 is the best retro-gaming homage I've ever played"

royjacobs — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 16:10:01 +0000

This looks great. I hope it'll get a Switch port.

New comment by royjacobs in "Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible"

royjacobs — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:31:45 +0000

And in full resolution, too!

Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible

royjacobs — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:22:00 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/viti95/FastDoom

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41008084

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

New comment by royjacobs in "Ask HN: How to grow a concert visuals business?"

royjacobs — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:44:54 +0000

It might be more useful to talk to the people behind the tooling that is used during concerts.

For instance, Notch grew out of the demo scene and could be interesting maybe? See https://www.notch.one/

New comment by royjacobs in "Tokyo's oldest train line – in pictures"

royjacobs — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 21:06:01 +0000

I only recently discovered Densha De GO! and apparently the most recent game in the series is based around this very line. Very interesting to see these photos, I love the vibe, and it makes me appreciate all the detail that went into the game.

New comment by royjacobs in "Shapeways Files for Bankruptcy"

royjacobs — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 09:22:14 +0000

That's a shame, but there's heavy competition from companies like PCBWay, I suppose.

Incidentally, I read it the title like Shapeways provided some files to somehow 3d print bankruptcy. I'm not sure why.

New comment by royjacobs in "Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC"

royjacobs — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:17:51 +0000

It's great to see Java Web Start finally being used in anger 24 years after its initial release.

New comment by royjacobs in "Claiming, Auto and Otherwise"

royjacobs — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 12:05:16 +0000

"Should all array types be Copy but not Claim? If not, where is the cutoff, and does it depend on the element type?"

I think it was mentioned that something should be considered Claim'able if it can fit in a cache line. So I would guess that a heuristic could be used to determine which array sizes are valid to automatically implement Claim for.

New comment by royjacobs in "Claiming, Auto and Otherwise"

royjacobs — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 12:16:37 +0000

I really like this proposal. It's fairly concrete, makes day-to-day coding much more ergonomic and, more importantly, doesn't introduce a great many esoteric concepts that are just going to clutter the language.

I'm assuming not everyone will agree with this, since it's more 'magic' but I'd argue it's the right amount of magic to help you with common patterns that you'd otherwise have to spend time manually implementing anyway (like the Dioxus Labs 'context' example).

Claiming, Auto and Otherwise

royjacobs — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 12:13:20 +0000

Article URL: https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2024/06/21/claim-auto-and-otherwise/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40748783

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

New comment by royjacobs in "A Rant about Front-end Development"

royjacobs — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 09:55:28 +0000

"Yes, it's more complicated than server development in that it is a real-time, multi-point input, multi-output (rendered elements on screen) environment with synchronisation and concurrency needs."

I would argue that most backends typically also deal with more than 1 user at the same time (and in real time).

New comment by royjacobs in "Java string interpolation feature has been cancelled"

royjacobs — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 11:20:17 +0000

Are you implying that other new features are not useful? Could you elaborate, because I think a lot of the stuff being added (records, pattern matching) is super useful.

Wild is a linker with the goal of being fast for iterative development

royjacobs — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 19:18:21 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/davidlattimore/wild

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40601299

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by royjacobs in "The Borrow Checker Within"

royjacobs — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 14:56:55 +0000

I'm wondering why the lifetimes as described in steps 2 and 3 need to be so explicit. Why shouldn't the borrow checker be able to infer them?

New comment by royjacobs in "Show HN: I built a tiny-VPS friendly RSS aggregator and reader"

royjacobs — Fri, 31 May 2024 12:15:03 +0000

Where would it end, though? Should the developer also provide build instructions for Haiku and AmigaOS?

New comment by royjacobs in "RustRover is released and includes a free non-commercial option"

royjacobs — Wed, 22 May 2024 08:37:57 +0000

It's great that there's a free non-commercial option. I'm wondering if I can convert my existing CLion license to RustRover though, I only bought it for the Rust support.

New comment by royjacobs in "How a 64k intro is made (2017)"

royjacobs — Mon, 20 May 2024 14:21:40 +0000

My point exactly :)