Hacker News: supergreg

New comment by supergreg in "Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017)"

supergreg — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 01:33:37 +0000

Which is why browsers take so seriously the time to first paint despite the efforts by javascript frameworks to push it back.

New comment by supergreg in "VS Code to autocomplete JavaScript class 'this' properties automatically"

supergreg — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 13:26:13 +0000

Edit: I misinterpreted the question at first. I guess in TS you declare a class' properties explicitly while in javascript it is usually done in the constructor. The feature must be related to these dynamic properties. Original answer below.

This[0] page says this problem can be also seen in Typescript. But TS has the arrow function as a class method feature that in Javascript is only at stage 2 in it's way to standardization, so it's easier to solve there.

[0] https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/'this'-in-TypeS...

New comment by supergreg in "Patchwork – Decentralized messaging and sharing app built on Secure Scuttlebutt"

supergreg — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:19:31 +0000

Are there gateways to see how it works before trying it out myself?

New comment by supergreg in "A minimalist guide to tmux"

supergreg — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:30:31 +0000

I had remapped w to cycle to the next pane so I had no idea of the window list. Thanks for that.

New comment by supergreg in "Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disks from 1985 (2014)"

supergreg — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:21:33 +0000

So it's a remix. What was that about good artists steal?

New comment by supergreg in "About rel=noopener (2016)"

supergreg — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 12:47:37 +0000

Just warn them that at some point in time the feature will cease to work. I see these warnings in the console all the time for broken SSL CAs and deprecated DOM APIs.

New comment by supergreg in "Go Is a Great Fit for Lambda"

supergreg — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:49:45 +0000

Because it would make moving away from lambda much easier.

New comment by supergreg in "Starting an ISP is hard (2016)"

supergreg — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 13:28:55 +0000

What is this superb country you live in?

New comment by supergreg in "Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language"

supergreg — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:55:17 +0000

Same in Spanish. At my company we use only English for code, even comments. And are trying to push for jira tickets to be written in English only as well. At least among the developers. Can't keep managers from using Spanish.

New comment by supergreg in "Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language"

supergreg — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:14:52 +0000

I've seen a couple of Spanish versions of Python out there, just novelties, never seen them move beyond a proof of concept. There's a whole bunch of esoteric programming languages that don't use English, just like Brainfuck. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_languag...

New comment by supergreg in "WDMyCloud Multiple Vulnerabilities"

supergreg — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 09:23:48 +0000

It could be if there's someone willing to pay for it being added.

New comment by supergreg in "Tiny, weird online communities made a comeback in 2017"

supergreg — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 12:45:39 +0000

If you are looking for open source, I think Discourse is the best out there. We tried to move a community from an old phpbb forum to a newer software some years ago and checked several projects and most projects are either unmaintained or old (with old style PHP programming) or new but lack features we needed.

We ended up using NodeBB because the person who was going to maintain it was more comfortable with Javascript than Ruby.

New comment by supergreg in "Tiny, weird online communities made a comeback in 2017"

supergreg — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 12:31:58 +0000

> Usenet is free

Last time I checked it needed you to subscribe through some provider who charges money, ISPs used to offer it with the Internet access. Is it really possible to access for free?

New comment by supergreg in "Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking measures"

supergreg — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 13:32:13 +0000

I don't think they can enforce their TOC just by opening the page. I need to open it just to read the TOC in the first place. By reading this comment you consent to agreeing with it.

It doesn't work that way.

New comment by supergreg in "Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking measures"

supergreg — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 13:20:46 +0000

I'll trust the block lists from my internet neighbors. Thank you for your concern but the people who build those lists take sufficient care and most use a transparent process to add rules to them, like GitHub pull requests, and if there's ever a rule that wrongly blocks a site I can whitelist it myself with ease.

They might burn some CPU cycles but surely the ads themselves burn much more.

New comment by supergreg in "Open Source .NET three years later"

supergreg — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:02:55 +0000

Where does Mono fit in all this?

New comment by supergreg in "Why Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository (2016)"

supergreg — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 18:32:57 +0000

Maybe we could look at the problem from the other side. Create tools to manage multi-repos like if they were a single mono-repo. A docke-compose for git.

New comment by supergreg in "Introducing Turbo: 5x faster than Yarn and NPM, and runs natively in-browser"

supergreg — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 13:28:39 +0000

Seems like it only downloads from CDNs.

New comment by supergreg in "The Trouble with Politicians Sharing Passwords"

supergreg — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 01:12:37 +0000

Then generate a session id and invalidate the URI after first use.

New comment by supergreg in "Amazon Neptune – Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud"

supergreg — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 19:01:01 +0000

Don't free and open source licenses apply only during redistribution of the software? Unless it is licensed with the Affero GPL, just connecting to a service does not require its source code to be available. That is assuming Amazon modifies the software. If they don't, then there's nothing to argue.

Are they making money with software they didn't build? Yes, but so are we.