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vhf

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swiss developer

github: vhf

email: see GitHub

website and blog: https://draft.li https://draft.li/blog

twitter: _vhf

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/vhf; my proof: https://keybase.io/vhf/sigs/DCCjVWvSCfe_9FYHOH-XiLM8KhQ4ltC8TwS0nQ0yqE4 ]

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vhf··on Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
Check these out:

* https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism

* https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos

vhf··on The Rise and Contentious Fork of RSS
Shameless plug backing up the fact it hasn't gone anywhere: https://draft.li/blog/2016/03/21/rss-usage-on-the-web/
vhf··on JavaScript and Node performance coding tips to make applications faster
(I'm the author of this last repo.)

You are correct that these no longer apply to the most recent Node versions. Crankshaft is still being used in Node <8.3.0.

Crankshaft got totally disabled starting from V8 5.9. Node 8.2.1 uses V8 5.8.283.41, Node 8.3.0 uses V8 6.0.286.52.

I'm pretty sure there is still a big number of projects running on Node <= 8.3.0.

I'll make it clear in this project README though, whenever I find time. :)

vhf··on Programming Books
Hey! I created this repo, please respect the license?
vhf··on V8: A Tale of TurboFan
They are complementary resources, "Optimization killers" helps you avoid pitfalls in practice, "v8-bailout-reasons" tries to document and explain the various Crankshaft bailouts.
vhf··on Freely available programming books
Wow. This is an awesome idea, and a very easy one to implement. I'll think about it. :)
vhf··on Freely available programming books
I agree with you: github is not suitable for this.

When I created this github repo, it was because stack overflow wasn't suitable for this. Then I created a website (the now defunkt resrc.io) which could pull these kind of lists from github, parse the links, have them tagged in a database, parse the link content, make it searchable, etc.

It still wasn't suitable. And I'm still looking for a suitable way of curating such lists, be it on github or anywhere else.

vhf··on Freely available programming books
I'm the author and maintainer of this project, which seems to end up here once a year.

Since I don't want to answer to every post suggesting something, I'll do it here: I know we could do better in terms of curating this content.

I would be very happy to discuss ideas towards the goal of better curation of these lists. Please open an issue on github or shoot me an email!

I also have to say I started this thing 3(?) years ago, and today I have less and less time to take care of it. I closed around 1800 PRs, which means almost 2 per day over the last years. I'm extremely grateful to the contributors helping me maintaining this and I'm glad it's been useful to a couple million people (according to the stats). Should anyone serious want to contribute in a more involved way, please step forward, I could really use some relief. :)

My email is on github, my twitter is in my HN profile.

vhf··on Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters
It wasn't 2500 bucks. The text Switzerland voted on today said something like:

> 1. The Confederation has to implement a basic income.

> 2. This basic income has to be sufficient to live in dignity and participate to public life.

> 3. The basic income amount and financing are regulated by law.

Nothing regarding the exact amount. Swiss people were asked to vote on an idea, not on a specific amount.

vhf··on Ask HN: What are your biggest frustrations with Linux development?
Lack of good hardware/laptops.

I had a Lenovo X200s for over 4 years and finding a viable replacement is almost impossible.

I am saddened by the fact that there are no i7 / 16GB / highDPI with decent keyboard at the price of a 2015 Retina MBP.

vhf··on Hack.chat – A minimal, distraction-free chat application
We had the same experience launching a chat on HN last week. Some valuable feedback, but some pretty brutal comments as well, and lots of (failed) crash attemps.
vhf··on An overview of JavaScript reactive frameworks
I'd be curious as well. No idea how it compares to the others.
vhf··on Zop
Is there a color-blind mode available?
vhf··on Ask HN: What projects are you working on?
I'm trying to collect and gather all free programming learning resources from the Internet and index them. URL : http://reSRC.io

[edit] Feedback is welcome!

vhf··on Show HN : bash script to generate tree structure of a directory
How is this different than `tree`?
vhf··on Ask HN: A site to find devs, designers to work on projects?
It is not a startup, it is public service. But still, it needs some design work, don't you think?
vhf··on Ask HN: What is the best example of api documentation you know?
Take a look at beautiful docs[0]

[0] https://github.com/PharkMillups/beautiful-docs

vhf··on Ask HN: A site to find devs, designers to work on projects?
I'm very interested as well. Currently looking for a designer to help me work on the frontend of http://resrc.io
vhf··on Algorithmic tagging of Hacker News or any other site
Very interesting.

I have been doing some research towards automatic tagging lately, and I found several Python project coming close to this goal : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/topia.termextract/ , https://github.com/aneesha/RAKE , https://github.com/ednapiranha/auto-tagify

but none of them is satisfying, whereas Algorithmic Tagging of HN looks pretty good.

I have been trying to implement a similar feature for http://reSRC.io, to automagically tag articles for easy retrieval through the tag search engine.

vhf··on Free Programming Books
Hi, repo owner here. Yep, I'm doing my best to keep dead links out. See this issue for example : https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/issues/850
vhf··on A list of free programming books
And which was among the first additions to this list, because it truly is an awesome read !
vhf··on A list of free programming books
README.md says : " This list initially was a clone of stackoverflow - List of freely available programming books by George Stocker. Now updated, with dead links gone (hopefully) and new content. "

I've had this SO list in my bookmarks for long enough, and there were more and more dead links in it. I felt the need to move it to github in order to keep it up-to-date and to augment it.

I apologize if the intention or original source were not made clear.

vhf··on Show HN : reSRC.io - curated lists of learning resources
First time I ship a week-end project !

I would be pleased to get any feedback.

vhf··on Gnome Developers Re-Implement Middle-Click Paste
> Drag and drop is universally a "cut and paste" operation.

Unless you are using Gnome and the origin and destination of your drag and drop are on two different devices. In which case it will copy instead of cut.

vhf··on Meet the Dread Pirate Roberts, the man behind Silk Road
If anything : decentralized vs centralized currency.

For the laymen : Nobody owns Bitcoin. Liberty Reserve owned Liberty Reserve.

It's as simple as it gets.

vhf··on I do not speak English, what better way to ask in English?
I don't think it's unethical, but I do think it's kind of rude.

If you're looking for idioms, give bab.la a try : http://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-portuguese/

If you're looking to learn/improve your English, take a look at Duolingo : http://www.duolingo.com/ -- it even supports Brazilian Portuguese.

If you really want to understand the links posted on HN and contribute to the discussion, learning some English is obviously the way to go. Make the effort, it's well worth it !

Good luck

(I'm not a native english speaker. I learned by watching US TV series with english subtitles, pausing the video every single word I did not know to look it up on wordreference.com. I eventually didn't need the subtitles anymore.)

vhf··on Show HN: How I Wish Scientific Papers Were Displayed
Contrast[1] is too low for me as well, and text should not be justified[2] IMO.

I too appreciate your effort, but keep in mind the differences between print- and web- layout design. Most scientific papers are published in PDF, using Latex. These two work great for the print. Correct hyphenation, good justified text, etc. Browsers are not that far yet, unfortunately.

[1] http://contrastrebellion.com/

[2] http://www.rnib.org.uk/professionals/webaccessibility/articl...

vhf··on Ask HN: Your opinion of Bootstrap
Bootstrap's initial intention was both not to lose time with webdesign when building back office applications and to have a consistant design in back office applications.

This is the reason why I think it's a great tool for any back office need, but not so great for front.

To me, Bootstrap feels like it's supposed to be used as-is. I love Bootstrap, it saves be a lot of time. But when I need a framework for front, I much prefer Foundation, which was meant to facilitate designing websites for Zurb's clients.

vhf··on What we look for in students
For me, this is by far the most reassuring submission on HN this week.
vhf··on Show HN: Spread bitcoins by lending to friends
Nope. Zerocoin is.

(Disclaimer : I'm a fervent Bitcoin supporter, I like its pseudonymous property and discard any anonymat claims. I've never used zerocoin because I don't have any use for it.)

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