Hacker News: wronghorse

New comment by wronghorse in "Crafting Interpreters"

wronghorse — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 23:36:21 +0000

I have the paper copy even though I mostly end up using the web version. I like having a well-made book to display, casually browse when I'm bored and to support the author.

New comment by wronghorse in "No, billionaires won’t “escape” to space while the world burns"

wronghorse — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 06:36:46 +0000

To be fair, their username does literally have the word troll in it. I wouldn't put much stock in their intellectual integrity.

New comment by wronghorse in "Where Everything Went Wrong: Error Handling and Error Messages in Rust (2020)"

wronghorse — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:11:32 +0000

This is really interesting because I recently found the anyhow crate and I was wondering why it's not mentioned anywhere else. Definitely feels like useful information that a newly minted Rust dev could make use of.

New comment by wronghorse in "[dead]"

wronghorse — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:42:00 +0000

You're not the only one. Although I was curious to read it since I haven't used Dropbox in a few years and see what users think of the experience these days.

New comment by wronghorse in "GitHub Won’t Help You with Hiring"

wronghorse — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 01:31:33 +0000

Several of the world's largest tech companies are based out of the US. Should they not care about US politics?

New comment by wronghorse in "YC Software Startups: Value and Initial Programming Language Used"

wronghorse — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 07:57:58 +0000

I'm curious about this too. I'm working on collecting that data for these companies. Hopefully that sheds more insight into this.

New comment by wronghorse in "Ask HN: How to avoid over-engineering software design for future use cases?"

wronghorse — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 11:07:11 +0000

This is certainly an interesting thought. Ivan Zhao of Notion had some similar thoughts on design. That the early pioneers of computing were able to develop a large amount of amazing insights not just due to the greenfield nature but also because they were less focused on the business aspects.

New comment by wronghorse in "The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect (2008)"

wronghorse — Wed, 13 May 2020 16:33:32 +0000

Is this really true? Do you have any sources for this? I'm interested in learning more.

Show HN: Is Bourbon Street Clean Now?

wronghorse — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:51:17 +0000

Article URL: https://isbourbonstclean.now.sh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22558070

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by wronghorse in "I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride"

wronghorse — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:03:02 +0000

I believe Rust's serde library is similar when it comes to JSON. It also gives you the option to choose how strictly you want to enforce the types.

New comment by wronghorse in "Announcing GitHub India"

wronghorse — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 19:46:53 +0000

Bit paternalistic don't you think?

New comment by wronghorse in "Help Me? Web Developers Unite"

wronghorse — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 14:49:55 +0000

The tag allows you to set a "download" attribute which will prompt the user to save the URL/file rather than navigating to it.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a

New comment by wronghorse in "Mozilla moves to monetize Thunderbird, transfers project to new subsidiary"

wronghorse — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 14:45:58 +0000

Headline makes the monetization sound like a done deal but it only seems like it's a possibility that they're considering.

New comment by wronghorse in "Ask HN: What's your cross-platform PDF / ePub reading workflow?"

wronghorse — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 14:37:38 +0000

You can also upload from iOS by using the "Copy to Play Books" option in the Share menu.

New comment by wronghorse in "Ask HN: What's your cross-platform PDF / ePub reading workflow?"

wronghorse — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 20:21:12 +0000

I've found the native Books app on iOS to be very nice to use. Especially with the infinite scroll feature. That would definitely be something that Google should adopt for their app.

New comment by wronghorse in "Ask HN: What's your cross-platform PDF / ePub reading workflow?"

wronghorse — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 16:39:39 +0000

My setup right now is to upload my ePubs to Google Play Books. Once your document/book is uploaded you can access it from the app on Android/iOS or directly from the web-reader on any browser.

Play Books automatically syncs your reading progress, notes, bookmarks etc and there's no additional overhead on your part.

New comment by wronghorse in "Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?"

wronghorse — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 21:19:05 +0000

I've been working as a developer at a shitty company with no mentorship or room to grow for 2 years. My co-workers are obnoxious, loud sales people which drives me insane. I've tried my best to get out but due to visa constraints/random shit I've not been able to find anything.

New comment by wronghorse in "Fugitive on run for seventeen years found living in cave by a drone"

wronghorse — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 12:34:58 +0000

The second line of the article mentions that he was jailed for trafficking women and children.

New comment by wronghorse in "Implementation of On-Device Deep Learning Model for Image Recognition"

wronghorse — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 20:43:51 +0000

If we can run a highly sophisticated image recognition model like Hotdog or not-Hotdog directly on a phone, anything is possible.