Hacker News: tramav

New comment by tramav in "Ask HN: Is Kagi Search Down?"

tramav — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 22:30:36 +0000

yeah it's down and I get a 500 error

New comment by tramav in "Ask HN: Is Clojure Dead?"

tramav — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 19:04:51 +0000

Clojure is very much alive. A dead language looks very different (Ceylon comes to my mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31932085)

New comment by tramav in "Researchers looking for mRNA were ridiculed by colleagues"

tramav — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 11:13:53 +0000

Are you sure that you are not the person in your joke: "The physicist John was constantly announcing on radio to let people show him a physical event that he cannot explain. He was a regular on radio and asked several times. Then one day he read this sentence on the internet: JOHN, PUT SOME WORK INTO YOUR RESEARCH, HE WHO SEEKS FINDS."?

New comment by tramav in "New report on Apple’s VR headset: 8K in each eye, potential $3k price tag"

tramav — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 10:36:53 +0000

The Oculus Quest can also be used to play PCVR games.

New comment by tramav in "Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account"

tramav — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 19:56:22 +0000

Well, you need to be open about new experiences. And until I got my first VR headset I didn't know what I missed. Now I feel that having a powerful GPU and playing a 3D game on a flat screen is such a waste.

New comment by tramav in "Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on September 11"

tramav — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 00:15:44 +0000

However: Does Apple support officially other app stores on their iOS platform or allows to sideload apps in a convenient manner?

New comment by tramav in "Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on September 11"

tramav — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 00:03:20 +0000

The law talks about "a dominant position within the internal market or in a substantial part of it". If we look at the iOS platform, Apple could be seen to have a dominant position there since it is the market maker there.

New comment by tramav in "Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on September 11"

tramav — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 23:02:32 +0000

"Epic flagrantly violated the terms they had previously agreed to"

Epic probably thinks that some conditions are illegal, and therefore void. But that would also mean that Apple broke the contract with Epic when they removed the app from the store.

New comment by tramav in "What Is Good About Haskell?"

tramav — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 18:11:57 +0000

Does Data.Aeson parse JSON as UTF-8 and numbers as decimal? You know, in real world business applications we don't use float/double or ASCII.

New comment by tramav in "Why Are So Many Developers Hating on Object-Oriented Programming?"

tramav — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 13:14:24 +0000

> then in about 2 weeks about [2] functional programming sucks and is a toy and his solution was OOP.

which is clearly satire:

"PS> As most of you have guessed, the post is a satire. To all of the new developers out there — don’t take this seriously, FP is great!"

New comment by tramav in "The philosophies of software languages, from Go to Elixir"

tramav — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 18:36:59 +0000

>Kotlin:

>Some readers will question why this chapter doesn’t include Scala. Although it’s a language that has great support for concurrency, its original guiding philosophy was more centered in functional programming. Kotlin, however, which was inspired by Scala in a way, does have a specific focus on concurrency.

Something similar can be said about Kotlin: The main design goal is the two way interop with different platform APIs (JVM, JS, LLVM). And of course it has many features a modern general purpose language is expected to have. Specifically for asynchronous progamming it has coroutines. However, I think for asynchronous and parallel computing Scala and Clojure have more to offer...

New comment by tramav in "Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize"

tramav — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 10:59:07 +0000

Don't you think it's a little short-sighted to think just in categories like black and white (i.e. coal and nuclear energy)? Coal is also very bad in my opinion. We should work towards using more renewable energy and its research. And what about reducing energy consumption?

New comment by tramav in "Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize"

tramav — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 09:56:15 +0000

>It boggles my mind that Germany made a great effort on renewable, and used this extra energy to close nuclear plants rather than coals ones.

Today Germany is still affected by the radioactive fallout (Chernobyl). For example many wild boars in Thuringia are radioactively contaminated with caesium-137. It will still take about 300 years until the radioactive caesium-137 vanishes.

Introduction to Clojure (2013)

tramav — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 22:43:52 +0000

Article URL: https://vimeo.com/68375202

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19472738

Points: 5

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New comment by tramav in "Common Mistakes When Hiring Software Engineers"

tramav — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 21:30:49 +0000

When you want to hire a senior software developer you are the one being interviewed.