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wronghorse

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wronghorse··on Crafting Interpreters
I have the paper copy even though I mostly end up using the web version. I like having a well-made book to display, casually browse when I'm bored and to support the author.
wronghorse··on No, billionaires won’t “escape” to space while the world burns
To be fair, their username does literally have the word troll in it. I wouldn't put much stock in their intellectual integrity.
wronghorse··on Where Everything Went Wrong: Error Handling and Error Messages in Rust (2020)
This is really interesting because I recently found the anyhow crate and I was wondering why it's not mentioned anywhere else. Definitely feels like useful information that a newly minted Rust dev could make use of.
wronghorse··on [dead]
You're not the only one. Although I was curious to read it since I haven't used Dropbox in a few years and see what users think of the experience these days.
wronghorse··on GitHub Won’t Help You with Hiring
Several of the world's largest tech companies are based out of the US. Should they not care about US politics?
wronghorse··on YC Software Startups: Value and Initial Programming Language Used
I'm curious about this too. I'm working on collecting that data for these companies. Hopefully that sheds more insight into this.
wronghorse··on Ask HN: How to avoid over-engineering software design for future use cases?
This is certainly an interesting thought. Ivan Zhao of Notion had some similar thoughts on design. That the early pioneers of computing were able to develop a large amount of amazing insights not just due to the greenfield nature but also because they were less focused on the business aspects.
wronghorse··on The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect (2008)
Is this really true? Do you have any sources for this? I'm interested in learning more.
wronghorse··on I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride
I believe Rust's serde library is similar when it comes to JSON. It also gives you the option to choose how strictly you want to enforce the types.
wronghorse··on Announcing GitHub India
Bit paternalistic don't you think?
wronghorse··on Help Me? Web Developers Unite
The <a> tag allows you to set a "download" attribute which will prompt the user to save the URL/file rather than navigating to it.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a

wronghorse··on Mozilla moves to monetize Thunderbird, transfers project to new subsidiary
Headline makes the monetization sound like a done deal but it only seems like it's a possibility that they're considering.
wronghorse··on Ask HN: What's your cross-platform PDF / ePub reading workflow?
You can also upload from iOS by using the "Copy to Play Books" option in the Share menu.
wronghorse··on Ask HN: What's your cross-platform PDF / ePub reading workflow?
I've found the native Books app on iOS to be very nice to use. Especially with the infinite scroll feature. That would definitely be something that Google should adopt for their app.
wronghorse··on Ask HN: What's your cross-platform PDF / ePub reading workflow?
My setup right now is to upload my ePubs to Google Play Books. Once your document/book is uploaded you can access it from the app on Android/iOS or directly from the web-reader on any browser.

Play Books automatically syncs your reading progress, notes, bookmarks etc and there's no additional overhead on your part.

wronghorse··on Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?
I've been working as a developer at a shitty company with no mentorship or room to grow for 2 years. My co-workers are obnoxious, loud sales people which drives me insane. I've tried my best to get out but due to visa constraints/random shit I've not been able to find anything.
wronghorse··on Fugitive on run for seventeen years found living in cave by a drone
The second line of the article mentions that he was jailed for trafficking women and children.
wronghorse··on Implementation of On-Device Deep Learning Model for Image Recognition
If we can run a highly sophisticated image recognition model like Hotdog or not-Hotdog directly on a phone, anything is possible.