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spleeder

375 karma · joined August 9, 2012

Creator of SongPane.com
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spleeder··on Show HN: Bible Semantic Search
"What is computer?" -> "its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay." (Daniel 2:33)
spleeder··on Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine
How would this vaccine work for people who are already infected?
spleeder··on Show HN: Purely Functional Scripting
Seeing how closely TopShell resembles Haskell I am curious why you chose to implement it in Scala rather than Haskell or Purescript.
spleeder··on What are good linux laptops for 2018?
Setting the QT_SCALE_FACTOR=2 env var does the trick for Zoom on my end.
spleeder··on Review: A Counterfeit, $100 iPhone X
It doesn't have a notch. This makes it better than the real iPhone. Too bad they added a software one.
spleeder··on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch is reportedly set for February 6th
What is the best location to watch the launch from?
spleeder··on Reason 3
The only thing I like about it is the fact that it removes the need for the `fun` keyword. Otherwise it just adds noise in my opinion.
spleeder··on TC39, ECMAScript, and the Future of JavaScript
I for one am not. What is wrong with calling a plain function?
spleeder··on Linux utils that you might not know
I use it as a general purpose calculator.
spleeder··on Announcing Git Integration for Atom and GitHub Desktop Beta
They are working towards Linux Support: https://github.com/desktop/desktop/issues/567
spleeder··on Ask HN: What car do you drive?
2008 BMW X5
spleeder··on JsonLogic – Build complex rules, serialize them as JSON
https://github.com/kanaka/miniMAL
spleeder··on Microsoft is now the leading company for open source contributions on GitHub
I have a feeling Microsoft will open source Windows soon.
spleeder··on Visual Studio Code 1.5
I love how VS Code has no problem working with large and even minified files (unlike some other “modern” editors). Every update is just icing on the cake.

Keep up the good work!

spleeder··on iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta
One of my favorite new features has got to be true color support.
spleeder··on Atom text editor 1.4 released
VS Code has much better git integration than Atom will ever have out of the box because Atom does not want to compete with GitHub for Desktop.
spleeder··on Your web / back end stack for 2016?
JavaScript everywhere.
spleeder··on I thought all anti-vaxxers were idiots. Then I married one
In my country (Romania) HIV was actually spread through vaccinations. Indeed that is how I got infected as an infant. The problem was supposedly not with the vaccines themselves though but with the fact that they were reusing needles.
spleeder··on Cloud9 launches unlimited private workspaces
Congrats and keep up the good work!
spleeder··on Visual Studio Code is now open source
This is my experience as well. I am really impressed at how VS Code as no problem working with large and minified files.
spleeder··on Show HN: SVG Path Builder
Love it! I can see my self using this tool to create perfect SVG icons.

One thing it looks like it is missing is zooming.

spleeder··on Ava – Simple concurrent test runner
I actually admire Sindre for his great contributions to the JS ecosystem. Keep up the good work!
spleeder··on What happened to the NASA exoplanet post?
The announcement hasn’t been made yet. It should be at 9am PDT. The posts you saw on HN were linkbait.
spleeder··on VirtualBox 5.0 officially released
Yes, that is absolutely what it means. Works beautifully on my Retina Macbook Pro.
spleeder··on Atom 1.0
They dropped React a while ago.
spleeder··on Is-postive – The most pointless NPM repository
Actually there is a positive 0 and a negative 0 in JavaScript. Try 1/+0 and 1/-0 in your browser console and notice how the result is different for each (+Infinity and -Infinity respectively).
spleeder··on Show HN: Deepstream.io – A scalable server for realtime webapps
Why go through the trouble and reinvent the wheel and not use one of the available protocols and serialization methods?
spleeder··on Material-ui 0.8 removes all CSS and switches to full js inline styling
I have been using inline styles in React with great results too. I am glad to see more and more adoption. It leads to better portability and greater flexibility.
spleeder··on “Implement text editor DOM updates manually instead of via React”
Canvas is hardware accelerated.
spleeder··on “Implement text editor DOM updates manually instead of via React”
I think this is a very good question, and the short answer in my opinion is yes, canvas rendering would make it much faster (as the guys at Flipboard have shown [1]). The downside is you would have to implement your own rendering engine from scratch which is quite challenging.

[1] http://engineering.flipboard.com/2015/02/mobile-web/

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