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Skywing··on Rhombus 1.1 is now available
With AI becoming so predominant, I wonder if dynamically typed languages will lose favorability? Seems to me like a heavily documented, statically typed language is going to be ideal for AI programming. I'm wondering what role these flexible, coder-friendly, dynamically typed languages will play in the years to come.
Skywing··on Ask HN: Are any other languages as big as C++?
Define big.
Skywing··on Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
I suspect that not much will change for users. The folks who want to continue tweeting will do so. The folks who do not want to tweet won't. Everything else is office politics.
Skywing··on Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning
This! We were shadowbanning people on IRC in like 2001. Unreal IRCd had a shadowban plugin that literally did exactly what modern shadowban features do.
Skywing··on Why ['1', '7', '11'].map(parseInt) returns [1, NaN, 3] in JavaScript
This isn't a quirk of JS at all. It's somebody purposefully calling `parseInt` incorrectly.
Skywing··on San Francisco proposes “IPO tax” on eve of Uber offering
Compare decades of SF mismanagement to a president that has been in office barely more than 2 years. Seems legit.
Skywing··on Nils Nilsson has died
Damn. A* was the first cool algorithm I implemented when learning to code games many years ago. I remember feeling so cool having a tower defense game with A* pathing.
Skywing··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
How does the undo send work? Does it store the email on your server for X seconds before dispatching through gmail?
Skywing··on Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves
Thank you for letting us know.
Skywing··on Users don’t need a password
I think the zeit website, for nextjs, uses this. It was always a bit strange, imo. It seems to work as the blogger laid out.
Skywing··on Documenting the Web together
Already was the place to go.
Skywing··on Ask HN: Does a fledging startup need AWS
Are you suggesting that you have done zero development yet? Develop locally until you need things to go "live". Don't buy AWS on day one, you won't utilize it. Save the money. There are many great ways to develop locally, even with teams. You can go far by utilizing dependency management services, like npm, etc. You can go far by utilizing local database init scripts, etc, for consistent dev environments after a fresh repo clone.
Skywing··on Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHub
Looks like she wasn't even aware of the project, but instead saw it on a person's twitter profile and went to its github repo to get that person fired. In a way, she's doing the exact same thing, to others, that she is claiming github did to her.
Skywing··on Harvard withdraws 10 acceptances for ‘offensive’ memes in private group chat
I also believe that Riot Games would fire employees for excessive offensive in-game chat.
Skywing··on Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity
Well, Vue can use React, can't it? So they kind of co-exist.
Skywing··on Windows 10 on ARM
I'm out of the loop on ARM. Can somebody explain the significance of it?
Skywing··on VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering
Ah yes. The classic text editor debate thread. In this thread you can expect to find folks claiming that 2 seconds of startup time for editors, like Atom, is so disruptive to their workflow that they'd rather use notepad.
Skywing··on Ask HN: How many comments do you read on HN? Is it worth it?
I hardly visit HN anymore, much less read comments.
Skywing··on Ask HN: Remote workers, what headphone/mic combo do you use for video calls?
I've been using the bose quiet comfort series. They're expensive, but they've got good active noise cancellation, if needed in loud areas. They do support the Apple microphone cable, so you can do phone calls with them. When at my desk, though, I use a Blue Yeti mic.
Skywing··on Grubhub CEO sells stock before making damaging statements
Right, yea, the something else would have been knowing that in the event of a Trump victory he'd send out this email which could likely hurt the company (it'd naturally get leaked). Obviously it's a bit of a stretch, because why would he intentionally hurt his own company? I just thought it was a bit odd-looking.

Another user in this thread pointed out that this seems to be a monthly thing the CEO does, so this no longer appears as strange.

Skywing··on Grubhub CEO sells stock before making damaging statements
It was the day before. Your point about it being an email is exactly my point this could be taken as him knowing something that nobody else did and thus selling his shares. Just looks odd
Skywing··on The Reddit front page is entirely /r/the_donald posts
Ted Cruz: "My job here is done, Dahnald. Enjoy the new algorithm."
Skywing··on What do you call this in Ruby?
Or is there? queue x-files theme song
Skywing··on What do you call this in Ruby?
dat bacon cannon
Skywing··on I've Just Liberated My Modules
Coming in ES7!
Skywing··on Show HN: CodeMill – a marketplace for pull requests
Not entirely fair. A lot of good things have worked on the honor system, as long as fair thought has gone into the "rules" of the system so that enough easy, edge case abuse scenarios are protected against. A big one that comes to my mind was the gaming league, CAL, back in the day. It was 100% honor system based, with a target audience that was known to be hackers, liars, and in general kids - yet it worked!
Skywing··on Akka, Haskell, Erlang, Go and .NET Core compared on 1M threads
In the end, isn't that all we're really doing?
Skywing··on Investigate switching away from GitHub
"Dear GitHub" lives matter.
Skywing··on Meatier – A Meteor alternative
How does this do server side rendering but also uses local storage for storing auth token?
Skywing··on RxJS is great. So why have I moved on?
The Clojure, and ClojureScript, hype train is effective. I've been interested in learning Clojure for several years. Every other week, or so, I'll see a tweet or blog post that makes me want to drop JavaScript and move over to ClojureScript. The community looks like a great one to be part of, from an outsider's perspective. With that said, I've never been able to break beyond that learning curve, or have that "ah hah!" moment. I've been able to learn a lot of different languages over the years, and I so want Clojure to be one of them but it just hasn't happened for me, yet. This blog post puts my issue into words very well, it feels like I'm trying to program in mandarin and I struggle to be efficient at what seem like the most basic of tasks. A script that I could knock out in 20 minutes, with C# or JavaScript, will take me hours or days in Clojure because of the lack of muscle memory or something. My excitement always fades back into thoughts of "meh is it really worth the effort", at which point I usually just revert back to JS. :(
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