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New comment by shurcooL in "An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google"

shurcooL — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 06:39:14 +0000

All of the Go commits are public, you can look at them for yourself:

• https://github.com/golang/go/graphs/contributors

• https://github.com/golang/build/graphs/contributors

Brad also once gave a lightning talk about HTTP/2 that had 80+ slides in 5 minutes. He’s very fast.

New comment by shurcooL in "What is music? A unified theory of music and dreaming"

shurcooL — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:00:53 +0000

Perhaps I shouldn’t have said “I don’t see at all” because that’s an exaggeration. I see some connection, e.g., listening to music can feel “enjoyable”, just not “very strong emotions that lie outside the range of their normal everyday emotions”.

As an example, here’s a random song that has a nice beat and I enjoy listening to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY-4-O7GetQ. What kind of “strong emotions outside the normal everyday range” can one feel when listening to it?

I agree certain rare songs can instill strong emotional responses, but that isn’t the case when just listening to random music that sounds good for the first time.

New comment by shurcooL in "Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019)"

shurcooL — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 06:20:33 +0000

> Google's `repo` command is a wrapper around Git that treats a set of smaller repos like one big one, but it's a (very) leaky abstraction.

Could you please provide a link to it? I’m very interested in seeing this command, but ironically it’s not a name that’s easy to google for.

Edit: I was very wrong, searching for “google repo command” displayed https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo as the very first result.

New comment by shurcooL in "Implementing WebGPU in Gecko"

shurcooL — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 00:29:57 +0000

WebGPU to WebGL is like Metal/Vulkan to OpenGL.

New comment by shurcooL in "Having Kids"

shurcooL — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 17:41:45 +0000

  * less productive
  * less time for your ideas
  * less ambitious

These points may or may not be true depending over what timeframe you measure.

If it’s your own lifetime, sure. If you measure your productivity over the next 300 years as what you plus your transitive offspring accomplish, it’s possible having kids is a huge boost to your aggregated productivity.

New comment by shurcooL in "Show HN: GoCode.io – A Golang Game in the Browser"

shurcooL — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 05:01:00 +0000

Yep. Based on the hint for that question, I expect this is the "normal" solution.

New comment by shurcooL in "Show HN: GoCode.io – A Golang Game in the Browser"

shurcooL — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 03:34:06 +0000

Not to discount your point, but I want to offer my opinion which is different.

I had fun _because_ it was more constrained. But I also like Go.

As an example, I solved level 6 in what I understand to be an unconventional way:

(spoiler alert)

I realized I could “get out” of readCodesFromKeypad function scope by ending it early and then writing the start of another top level function. Once I had access to global scope, I could add an init() function to modify the “crypto/rand.Reader” variable and assign to it an io.Reader that I could control. I was on mobile so I decided to take a shortcut and just overwrite the global passcode variable instead.

(end spoiler)

I may have “cheated”, but it felt creative and in spirit of the game, and it got me to the next level.

New comment by shurcooL in "Twitter lets you use 2FA without a phone number"

shurcooL — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 05:40:47 +0000

I'm glad this happened; I've been waiting for more than 5 years for this.

New comment by shurcooL in "A lone wolf's miles traveled in northern Minnesota"

shurcooL — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 04:25:39 +0000

96.5 MB GIF ahead warning.

(I'm both impressed and scared of how I used up 1% of my generous mobile data plan in about 5 seconds by clicking 1 link.)

New comment by shurcooL in "John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence"

shurcooL — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:09:23 +0000

I wanted to find some discussion on this topic. I’m not pessimistic, but I am curious to consider what it may mean for humanity if/when AGI happens.

New comment by shurcooL in "Lesser Known Coding Fonts"

shurcooL — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 03:24:26 +0000

So glad to see Go Mono mentioned here. I'm a happy user for many years now.

New comment by shurcooL in "Coffee Is Hard"

shurcooL — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 02:55:54 +0000

This seems like a high quality article and has many upvotes, but I found it hard to read, and unfortunately ads made it even harder, so I couldn't get through it. I wonder if I'm in the minority because I don't use an ad blocker?

New comment by shurcooL in "Things you probably don't know about Go (2012) [slides]"

shurcooL — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 18:14:13 +0000

This is a talk from 2012, so I believe the title needs a “(2012)” suffix according to what I’ve seen in the past on HN.

New comment by shurcooL in "An Ethical License for Open Source Projects"

shurcooL — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 16:16:02 +0000

There was what I thought an insightful twitter thread on this license at https://twitter.com/chimeracoder/status/1175896685505056769?....

New comment by shurcooL in "Apple Card launches today for all US customers"

shurcooL — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 00:31:35 +0000

It might be desirable for some people if there is an option for a minimalist card. One that offers the following features:

• can make purchases with it; no fees (when you pay it off on time)

Without any of the following:

• rewards, deals, special offers, other gimmicks and spam

Maybe the Apple Card will be an interesting option for people looking for something simpler and aren't trying to maximize the rewards.

New comment by shurcooL in "Apple Card launches today for all US customers"

shurcooL — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 00:07:48 +0000

To add another data point, I had no problems making the first purchase with it (or any purchases since).

New comment by shurcooL in "Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn"

shurcooL — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 03:23:30 +0000

Thank you for sharing, I really enjoyed this talk. I somehow missed it when it happened.

New comment by shurcooL in "I wanted to punish my daughter with a no-frills phone but it didn't go to plan"

shurcooL — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 21:35:54 +0000

One party trick some people miss about me is that for a number of years I carried around an iPad mini (with cellular) in my front jeans pocket. It was my primary and only mobile device. It was somewhat more inconvenient than a smaller phone, but not by as much as one would expect it to be. Having its bigger screen was an advantage in many situations though.

I downsized to a large phone a year ago (partly because Apple neglected the iPad mini and I gave up waiting for a better version to come out).

New comment by shurcooL in "iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone"

shurcooL — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 04:46:39 +0000

Do you know why is the upstream bug in "New (Open)" state, if it's fixed in currently released versions of iOS/macOS?

New comment by shurcooL in "Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook"

shurcooL — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 12:56:06 +0000

> Oh and the escape key… long remapped to caps lock. If I really need caps lock, fn + caps lock key toggles it.

I've remapped escape to caps lock too, but how do you get fn + caps lock to toggle caps lock?