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rhardihon Anbox – Android in a Box

Speedwise, this would be a great sub for the Android Emulator for development purposes. I've always felt something like the iOS Simulator was missing a counterpart for Android.

rhardihon Snakisms

Nihilism made me chuckle.

rhardihon A crater formed in Siberia's permafrost is growing

Hypothetically we're completely screwed already and nothing we do at this point matters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis

rhardihon Show HN: Design, data-structure, algorithm problems and their solutions

Yes, but do you have an implementation of a sparse array with constant time lookups?

rhardihon Show HN: Design, data-structure, algorithm problems and their solutions

This phrase is misleading:

The fastest time to sort an integer array is O(N)

It could be interpreted as generally applicable. The proposed method uses reverse-indexed flagging, an approach which isn't really feasible if element values are very large.

Generally, the lower bound for any comparison based sorting algorithm is Ω( n log( n )).

rhardihon Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle

This took quite some time to dig up. In case anyone else was wondering, this produces a png (assuming foo.pic contains the example pic instructions): $ pic foo.pic | pic2graph > foo.png

rhardihon Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle

Maybe it's just me, but if it takes more than five minutes, to figure out how to go from the example chart to a png, perhaps there's a reason no-one knows it.

rhardihon Qt Quick Controls 2.1 and Beyond

Is this due to unfamiliarity / learning curve with the technology or limitations found using Qt Quick? Because what you're describing sounds an awful lot like the base example when starting a new Qt Quick application project.

rhardihon Restoring YC's Xerox Alto day 8: it boots

This series is the best thing on HN in a long time. As a software engineer by trade, I feel like I've been missing out not learning more about electrical engineering. The level of knowledge and skill involved in this restoration is downright awe-inspiring.

rhardihon The Sad State of Web Development

Honestly I think you're right on the money! If you're happy and productive in your current workflow, there's no shame regardless of technology choice. The tendency to bandwagon every latest craze, is what lead to this mess in the first place.

rhardihon Show HN: Serve – like python -m SimpleHTTPServer, but with gzip and http2

Python's SimpleHTTPServer is for when you have some directory on your computer and you want to test it locally in the browser. That's all.

That is however, the same intended purpose as this tool.

So, there's no reason to use GZIP or HTTP2 with a SimpleHTTPServer replacement. If you need those features, it's because you're doing things _in production_

Call me old fashioned, but I find it useful to know what a request would look like served from a production setting, without actually having to get it from production.

If you're optimising for load times, the final size of a gzipped request matters greatly. It's nice to know if you're within the 14kb boundary before pushing out.

HTTP/2 is a completely different beast as well. Since this is mostly for working on static sites, odds are you might host on a CDN with static file caches. If you've optimised your site for HTTP/1.1, bundling, inlining etc., but the the edge of the CDN actually serves these files as HTTP/2, you're very likely to have worked against the performance improvements given to you by HTTP/2.

rhardihon Show HN: Serve – like python -m SimpleHTTPServer, but with gzip and http2

I couldn't fit all that in the title though. :)

Joking aside, you are correct. Go shipping pre-installed is a yet to be seen nice-to-have on most systems.

rhardihon Using Git with Dropbox

Except you don't own the stuff in your dropbox any more than you own you pictures on Facebook.