Hacker News: wylie

New comment by wylie in "NPM 'accidentally' removes Stylus package, breaks builds and pipelines"

wylie — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:45:34 +0000

According to comments on the GitHub project, it’s been restored to NPM. https://github.com/stylus/stylus/issues/2938

Fixing the Biggest Problem in Low-Code: Superblocks Custom Components

wylie — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:20:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.superblocks.com/blog/introducing-custom-components-in-superblocks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37325525

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by wylie in "Superblocks Announces $37m Funding"

wylie — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 21:49:59 +0000

Assuming this is a real question- the company doesn’t have 18 CEOs on the team. It does have about 18 investors listed. Does that clarify it?

New comment by wylie in "Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust? (2021)"

wylie — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 21:48:43 +0000

A group of smart WebAssembly experts tried to start a company around the idea of incrementally porting to WebAssembly, and wrote an excellent post-mortem of why that didn't work: https://zaplib.com/docs/blog_post_mortem.html

New comment by wylie in "RAWGraphs: missing link between spreadsheets and data visualization"

wylie — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 02:19:24 +0000

I'm one of the developers of Lens, and I agree that it's not the right fit for every problem. The way I categorize the different types of interfaces in my mind is a spectrum from:

* "shelf based" drag & drop like Lens, Tableau and most spreadsheets

* Query-based, where you type a query using SQL or another grammar and choose from a template

* High level code like ggplot, Vega or Observable's new Plot

* Low level code like D3

Since you're a developer, maybe you'd benefit from looking at one of the high level visualization grammars.

New comment by wylie in "Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana"

wylie — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 21:50:33 +0000

That's not accurate: there is a contributor agreement but it does not assign copyright. https://www.elastic.co/contributor-agreement

Teaching Open Source: Sept 2018 – April 2019

wylie — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 04:13:41 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.humphd.org/teaching-open-source-sept-2018-april/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19725568

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

ExceLint: Automatically Finding Spreadsheet Formula Errors

wylie — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 16:04:54 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.11100

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19063667

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Fast, Sound and Effectively Complete Dynamic Race Detection

wylie — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 17:43:42 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.08857

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19019381

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by wylie in "Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Will Shutter Service"

wylie — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 21:44:39 +0000

Any detail about what's going to happen to existing user accounts? As an Rdio subscriber, I want to make sure my existing collections and playlists don't just get deleted.

New comment by wylie in "Ben Fathi: Why I Joined CloudFlare"

wylie — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 13:15:36 +0000

I think I missed the context on who Ben Fathi is. Can anyone fill me in?

New comment by wylie in "Angular 2 Survey Results"

wylie — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 21:59:02 +0000

The Angular team listened to the community and has been working on an upgrade path. I found this blog post useful in convincing my team that we are not going to be wasting time as long as we continue to follow angular and JS best practices:

http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2015/08/angular-1-and-angular-...

New comment by wylie in "Taxonomies of Lost NYC Playgrounds"

wylie — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 02:16:07 +0000

I'm missing some context here- what happened to these playgrounds? Why have they gone missing? For example, it looks like Central Park still has a lot of playgrounds. http://www.centralpark.com/guide/activities/children-s-activ...

Apple Watch

wylie — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 02:00:57 +0000

Article URL: http://www.apple.com/watch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8665648

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by wylie in "My accidental experiment on seller psychology"

wylie — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:48:44 +0000

I've been socialized to think that cutting lines of any sort (especially of the kind mentioned in the article) is rude, both to the other customers in line and to the shopkeeper. If I try, someone will usually speak up and try to enforce the "order" of the line. Is this different in other cultures?

New comment by wylie in "A brand new Foursquare, with a brand new logo and look"

wylie — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 15:53:24 +0000

Foursquare has been promising this since the beginning, it's why I keep using it and checking in. Hoping this lives up to the promise, since their current recommendations are pretty static.

Researchers Who Provided Evidence For Gluten Sensitivity Prove It Doesn't Exist

wylie — Thu, 15 May 2014 22:16:48 +0000

Article URL: http://www.businessinsider.com/gluten-sensitivity-and-study-replication-2014-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7752584

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by wylie in "Students build auto-tracking Nerf turret with Arduino and Kinect"

wylie — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 23:49:58 +0000

Is there a link to the source code or blog post? Seems like this would be a great starting point to build a game on.

New comment by wylie in "Lifelink – The Peer-to-Peer Life Counter for Magic: The Gathering"

wylie — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 02:16:59 +0000

It's meant to be used while you're already playing Magic the Gathering or another other card game, as opposed to using dice or paper

New comment by wylie in "Lavabit Proceedings Unsealed [pdf]"

wylie — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 20:35:59 +0000

That looks like a reference to another case, United States vs. Forrester, where Forrester and Alba were the defendants[0].

[0]: http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1496507.html