Hacker News: stevedh

New comment by stevedh in "ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL"

stevedh — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:50:21 +0000

Intermediate Representation

New comment by stevedh in "Ask HN: What's the best hackable smart TV?"

stevedh — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:27:02 +0000

It was shot in colour. But the rest of the comments in the tree apply.

New comment by stevedh in "The British sitcom that swept through the Balkans (2023)"

stevedh — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 09:49:38 +0000

A Touch of Cloth. Probably the highest density jokes per second in UK comedy.

New comment by stevedh in "UK becomes first G20 country to halve its carbon emissions"

stevedh — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 13:11:44 +0000

I've flown Newcastle to Southampton (and back) a few times.

New comment by stevedh in "Ask HN: Science Fiction Starter List"

stevedh — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 22:26:10 +0000

Citizen of the Galaxy - despite being one of Heinlein’s “juveniles” is an interesting and entertaining exploration of the balance between freedom and duty.

It’s mostly not earth based.

New comment by stevedh in "Show HN: Going into freshman year, figured I should build an interpreter"

stevedh — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 19:35:38 +0000

Can you expand upon why you chose those particular things to focus on? I’m genuinely interested and don’t have a traditional CS background so I’d like to know what I’m missing.

(Serious question. I’m not being snarky)

New comment by stevedh in "Thunderbird 115"

stevedh — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:45:38 +0000

5. iOS Outlook

6. MacOS Outlook

New comment by stevedh in "London Underground Dot Matrix Typeface"

stevedh — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 12:26:15 +0000

https://fallout4london.com/ ?

New comment by stevedh in "The Complete ZX Spectrum ROM disassembly (1983) [pdf]"

stevedh — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 23:00:35 +0000

Oh that's why I could never check it out!

I'm kidding - I'm in the same area and would have loved to have read this, if I'd known it existed.

New comment by stevedh in "Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992)"

stevedh — Thu, 12 May 2022 19:55:19 +0000

Douglas Noel Adams

New comment by stevedh in "Ask HN: Junior SQL developers – How do you learn SQL?"

stevedh — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 09:28:59 +0000

Yes I'm familiar with it. What I'm saying is that :

relation = table. join = relationship.

New comment by stevedh in "Ask HN: Junior SQL developers – How do you learn SQL?"

stevedh — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 01:31:18 +0000

Bit of a nitpick.

Relations are another name for the tables, relations are not the joins between them.

New comment by stevedh in "Microsoft announces Lists, a new Airtable-like app"

stevedh — Tue, 19 May 2020 21:18:56 +0000

Absolutely agree with everything here. But I'm curious what you're considering as an Excel replacement? For anything more sophisticated than Google Sheet's can handle I can't think of a single alternative off-hand.

New comment by stevedh in "The Why of Cooking (2017)"

stevedh — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 10:42:47 +0000

That's an interesting idea. Do you leave the eggs to cool prior to breaking or are the cool enough to be handled after 20s?

New comment by stevedh in "Does OO really match the way we think (1997) [pdf]"

stevedh — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 17:57:01 +0000

This is an approach I've been exploring myself. Do you have any suggestions or recommendations as to languages that lend them selves well to this approach?

New comment by stevedh in "You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video]"

stevedh — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 06:46:34 +0000

It looks like that should be http://chandoo.org/wp/

New comment by stevedh in "Show HN: Jukebox, a music player for Dropbox for iOS"

stevedh — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 15:55:49 +0000

A bit of an aside, but is anyone aware of a cloud player (for onedrive or google drive ideally) that supports audiobooks well? I'm using the onedrive app at the moment but it has a tendency to forget your progress which leads to a lot of manual scrubbing to find your place.

New comment by stevedh in "Ask HN: What is HN reading?"

stevedh — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 14:28:07 +0000

Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game" is well worth reading if a little enigmatic.

New comment by stevedh in "You shouldn’t use a spreadsheet for important work"

stevedh — Wed, 28 May 2014 10:03:22 +0000

Technically VBA != VBScript, although they are similar.