Hacker News: scadge

New comment by scadge in "SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions"

scadge — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:58:15 +0000

> I don't think I need to explain why it's a bad idea for a database to be so careless about data validation.

...Meanwhile MongoDB being successful for years with no sign of decline.

New comment by scadge in "The lost joy of music piracy"

scadge — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:55:54 +0000

Sometimes it's cheaper to break the law and pay a fine, than to do everything by law.

New comment by scadge in "Nearly two decades of satellite images available in Nasa’s Worldview"

scadge — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 15:44:48 +0000

Seems like a viable idea. Do you have any presentable results yet?

How to enable Hibernate logging

scadge — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 20:45:46 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@scadge/how-to-enable-hibernate-logging-dc11545efd3d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16588133

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Amazon buys startup Ring in $1B deal to run your home security

scadge — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 09:41:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ring-m-a-amazon-com/amazon-buys-startup-ring-in-1-billion-deal-to-run-your-home-security-idUSKCN1GB2VG

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16481888

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Halunke: dynamic, OO language with simple grammar inspired by Smalltalk and Lisp

scadge — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 13:22:59 +0000

Article URL: http://halunke.jetzt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16420083

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The language of maths is not the language of your business

scadge — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 10:14:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.innoq.com/en/blog/the-language-of-maths-is-not-the-language-of-your-business/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16419168

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

If-statements design: guard clauses may be all you need

scadge — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:21:06 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@scadge/if-statements-design-guard-clauses-might-be-all-you-need-67219a1a981a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16257041

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by scadge in "The ozone layer is healing"

scadge — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 09:39:00 +0000

I hate this magazine narrative style, where each consecutive paragraph or two tell totally the same but in different words and referring to another Mr. or Ms. Scientist. The whole article could easily be 10 times shorter.

But the news is good.

Americans are dying younger than people in other rich nations

scadge — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 13:10:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/27/americans-are-dying-younger-than-people-in-other-rich-nations/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16021788

Points: 11

# Comments: 3

New comment by scadge in "India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this year"

scadge — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 10:00:48 +0000

There are approx. 3.1 million employees[1] in India's IT sector. Is 56k (which is lower than 2%) so much?

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-approximate-number-of-IT-e...

New comment by scadge in "India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this year"

scadge — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 09:50:04 +0000

> For Indian techies, 2017 was the stuff of nightmares.

I still believe qualified engineers had no problems keeping their job or finding a new one. In any country.

No wonder that unqualified employees will always be laid off at some time.

New comment by scadge in "Introducing the Crypto University"

scadge — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 12:42:52 +0000

This should've been named "The Royal Bitcoin University" judging from the logo.

Why not just create a course on Coursera or something?

New comment by scadge in "How I sold 1.6M pixels of my future iPhone X‘s lock screen"

scadge — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 13:28:24 +0000

Yeah, me too. This article is a heads-up for those who think the idea of million dollar homepage can't be new anymore.

New comment by scadge in "Libdill: Structured Concurrency for C (2016)"

scadge — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 13:21:16 +0000

Sure, I understand. Was just curious about how they both relate, and now I get it.

New comment by scadge in "Libdill: Structured Concurrency for C (2016)"

scadge — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 13:09:26 +0000

I think it's fair to say that Go was hardly the first language to implement the concept of coroutines[1]. Probably the only merit of Go here is the short and convenient name of the 'run' method.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroutine#Implementations

New comment by scadge in "Libdill: Structured Concurrency for C (2016)"

scadge — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 12:41:32 +0000

So it looks like libuv could use libdill, right?

New comment by scadge in "Libdill: Structured Concurrency for C (2016)"

scadge — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 12:07:23 +0000

I read that NodeJS is written in C with the same concept in its core - asynchronous on one core (thread) with interruptions. How does it compare to libdill?

Earthworms can reproduce in Mars soil simulant

scadge — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 09:25:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wur.nl/en/newsarticle/Earthworms-can-reproduce-in-Mars-soil-simulant.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15977514

Points: 138

# Comments: 75

New comment by scadge in "Cyclomatic complexity of software"

scadge — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 16:06:07 +0000

Interesting if there is any research showing that reducing the cyclomatic complexity of one's code leads to speed-ups in development, better code readability etc.? I know it's kind of obvious, but still would be great to see the numbers and statistics.