knighthack

I still use IrfanView to this day. It's my Swiss knife for a lot of simple photo editing work (cropping, resizing, padding, text-adding, etc), batch-processing, and for browsing single photos through directories.

It's not just good, it's way faster than the bloated alternatives.

To top it off, IrfanView works beautifully on my Linux via Wine, and also on my Mac M1/M2 machines (and as a tool quicker than even Mac's own Preview). It's a primary install for me, whichever any platform I'm working on; and a software that's truly a gift to the world.

Power and love be to all the alternative text editors out there though.

You'd expect scientists - people working to understand the nature of reality - to have some base competency about how they measure reality. Could have at least used a database for things like this; moreover any decent database can often import from CSV and export to CSV as well. Excel is not at fault here; the 'scientists' are.

> Nuitka is the Python compiler. ... It then executes uncompiled code and compiled code together in an extremely compatible manner. Nuitka translates the Python modules into a C level program that then uses libpython and static C files of its own to execute in the same way as CPython does.

I'm happy to stick by the tool's own description of itself. But if you don't accept that, and Nuitka still isn't a compiler by you, sure. Go ahead with your pedantic and strictest definition of the meaning of a 'compiler'.

Learn to read English, before insisting on your pedantry as some sort of truth, in disregard of the tool's own intent/description. (And I do hope you take issue with everyone's description of Typescript as a compiled programming language too.)

I don't come to Hacker News for "inclusive" technology - which these days appear to be a politically-correct euphemism for forced diversity.

I come to Hacker News for discussions on technology.

Anything that prioritizes the "inclusive" nature of technology, versus the "technology" itself, is irrelevant to me, and has nothing to do with the main interests of the site (hacking and technology) and should be downvoted. Keep politics and social politics out from Hacker News.

At least as fast as C++ is a bold claim, but this is an interestingly documented process. I'm keen.

I'm quite partial to Nuitka at this point, but I'm open to other Python compilers.

That's a rather wild interpretation (to put it midly).

You have compared things on subjective terms; i.e. about BASIC being better on a limited old Apple. But that's not the same as how some technologies are objectively better or worse than others.

I'd have understood if you were comparing things on the measure of engineering tradeoffs - but instead you speak in absolutes about the 'betterness' of a technology that you do not prefer, over one known to be slow and bloated (ReactJS). That seems questionable.

Are the "people from diverse backgrounds" (whatever that means) denied any of their rights and privileges by a programmer's use of "advanced" code? No. Quite the contrary: less-experienced people may still read, learn from and improve themselves by the advanced/beyond-their-level code they encounter. So what's your real issue?

Code is written to solve problems; not to please the lowest common denominator. If you can't read code, you're that denominator, and that's on you.

I find your statement terribly odd too. A true Python master tends to write highly readable code; idiomatic and Pythonic code tends to be readable, unlike in other languages. So if you can't read advanced Python (or even use list comprehensions, which are basic in the Python scheme of things), you're not qualified to opine on what "advanced mastery" of Python entails.

In a serious code review, that isn't even a starter of an issue, if you have context surrounding that variable. Furthermore `input` is an actual Python function, and shortening an example for learning purposes is not the same as asking other people do the same in production code.

He doesn't answer the question. Instead, we have some nonsense about his past impulsive habits, quibbles about lack of diversity, gender imbalance, "Inter-generational conflict is brewing", 'privileged white man', and other drivel. What a waste of time as an article.

They overpromised on a free project, which you didn't pay for. It's a non-commercial project - I'd give a lot more leeway for that. Otherwise, go to Unity, and see how fast they fix the bugs in the things they promised to deliver.

Moreover it wasn't that they were lackadaisical; they overdelivered on other aspects of the Godot project. Sometimes some pet feature can wait, compared to improvements for other serious features that affect a wider profile (e.g. GDScript, C# integration, and the tons of other stuff in their 4.1 changelogs). Their resolution and closing of issues on the Godot repo is also really impressive and consistent for an open-source project.

That's a classic fallacy: appeal to/argument from authority. It's especially problematic, since who/what one presumes to be 'reputable', other people may not agree with.

Moreover the opinion of a majority of 'reputable' sources, agreeing to something, does not make it true. Reportage and stories are to be considered chiefly on the basis of what is reported and the likelihood of it being true, and should not be so staked on the reputation of the person/entity reporting it.

It is the incompetent hacks who have failed themselves, by not being aware, and by not adapting and improving accordingly. The 'system' did not fail them.

The real world is not a college or school or university, where things are fed to you on your time. Employees must learn on their own time and other people's time. If they cannot keep up, then let's be real: they are incompetent.

By blaming the system, you take away the accountability and responsibility of incompetent people. If many better programmers were able to catch up, why can't they? We can't make excuses for incompetence.

It's fair to expect a professional cook to be able to cook well. Guarding their feelings for their incompetent cooking serves no purpose, since they become useless to their firm, and customers will want to avoid what they cook.

The same expectation should hold for professional engineers. If they are incompetent hacks, tell them they are. Guarding their feelings above describing reality to them only lets their illusion of competence to continue, and is what causes poor software, more incompetent incompetent engineers, and troubled users.

I consider it my digital commonplace book.

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This seems like an interesting project.

I've been on the USD10 pricing for a long time. Now it's soon to be USD25 per month for my kind of tier - which seems crazy steep, and more profiteering than an attempt to bring search to everyone.

Engineering tradeoffs are real. But hiding behind them every time when it can be pointed out that they don't actually apply - and when demonstrated with concrete evidence - is another thing altogether.

Yes, I can hold lots of state in my head; and yes, I can make do without a debugger, if I have to.

But I don't want to. Especially since I've been so spoiled with PyCharm and Clion's way of doing it. My debugging time is limited and valuable, and a debugger that quickens my inspection of a program is nowadays so essential to my workflow that I'd rather hold back from committing to Nim at all until its debugger tooling (at least to the level of that in Jetbrains' IDEs) is available.

I notice that the "gatekeepers" of different language communities span from hostile to friendly, so to tar the entire site of Stack Overflow as being the same smacks of prejudice, rather than fact.

So what language are you doing work in? Anyone who doesn't preface sentences of anger with the language of their worfklow - especially when the questions, answers, feel and brainshare of SO communities are divided by language - is offering an opinion of pure sentiment, rather than rational assessment.

They're already doing it with TV shows. Look at the Witcher TV series for instance - which has strayed quite far from the source material.

Even the author (Andrzej Sapkowski) has denounced his relationship to it, yet they're claiming it somehow to still have his blessing, and still be be 'The Witcher'.