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Re:Rhombus 1.1 is now available on Monday August 17, 2026 @01:05AM (#49326730)
With AI becoming so predominant, I wonder if dynamically typed languages will lose favorability? Seems to me like a heavily documented, statically typed language is going to be ideal for AI programming. I'm wondering what role these flexible, coder-friendly, dynamically typed languages will play in the years to come.
Re:Ask HN: Are any other languages as big as C++? on Friday December 20, 2024 @12:52AM (#42468636)
Define big.
I suspect that not much will change for users. The folks who want to continue tweeting will do so. The folks who do not want to tweet won't. Everything else is office politics.
Re:Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning on Thursday August 08, 2019 @06:18PM (#20649449)
This! We were shadowbanning people on IRC in like 2001. Unreal IRCd had a shadowban plugin that literally did exactly what modern shadowban features do.
This isn't a quirk of JS at all. It's somebody purposefully calling `parseInt` incorrectly.
Compare decades of SF mismanagement to a president that has been in office barely more than 2 years. Seems legit.
Re:Nils Nilsson has died on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @12:10AM (#19735493)
Damn. A* was the first cool algorithm I implemented when learning to code games many years ago. I remember feeling so cool having a tower defense game with A* pathing.
How does the undo send work? Does it store the email on your server for X seconds before dispatching through gmail?
Re:Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @02:58PM (#18709970)
Thank you for letting us know.
Re:Users don’t need a password on Sunday October 29, 2017 @01:05PM (#15580120)
I think the zeit website, for nextjs, uses this. It was always a bit strange, imo. It seems to work as the blogger laid out.
Re:Documenting the Web together on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @01:41PM (#15501183)
Already was the place to go.
Re:Ask HN: Does a fledging startup need AWS on Saturday July 29, 2017 @06:09PM (#14883223)
Are you suggesting that you have done zero development yet? Develop locally until you need things to go "live". Don't buy AWS on day one, you won't utilize it. Save the money. There are many great ways to develop locally, even with teams. You can go far by utilizing dependency management services, like npm, etc. You can go far by utilizing local database init scripts, etc, for consistent dev environments after a fresh repo clone.
Re:Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHub on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @07:41PM (#14707091)
Looks like she wasn't even aware of the project, but instead saw it on a person's twitter profile and went to its github repo to get that person fired. In a way, she's doing the exact same thing, to others, that she is claiming github did to her.
I also believe that Riot Games would fire employees for excessive offensive in-game chat.
Well, Vue can use React, can't it? So they kind of co-exist.
Re:Windows 10 on ARM on Thursday May 11, 2017 @07:42PM (#14320414)
I'm out of the loop on ARM. Can somebody explain the significance of it?
Ah yes. The classic text editor debate thread. In this thread you can expect to find folks claiming that 2 seconds of startup time for editors, like Atom, is so disruptive to their workflow that they'd rather use notepad.
Re:Ask HN: How many comments do you read on HN? Is it worth it? on Thursday January 26, 2017 @01:48PM (#13494075)
I hardly visit HN anymore, much less read comments.
I've been using the bose quiet comfort series. They're expensive, but they've got good active noise cancellation, if needed in loud areas. They do support the Apple microphone cable, so you can do phone calls with them. When at my desk, though, I use a Blue Yeti mic.
Re:Grubhub CEO sells stock before making damaging statements on Friday November 11, 2016 @11:33AM (#12932129)
Right, yea, the something else would have been knowing that in the event of a Trump victory he'd send out this email which could likely hurt the company (it'd naturally get leaked). Obviously it's a bit of a stretch, because why would he intentionally hurt his own company? I just thought it was a bit odd-looking.

Another user in this thread pointed out that this seems to be a monthly thing the CEO does, so this no longer appears as strange.

Re:Grubhub CEO sells stock before making damaging statements on Friday November 11, 2016 @01:48AM (#12928541)
It was the day before. Your point about it being an email is exactly my point this could be taken as him knowing something that nobody else did and thus selling his shares. Just looks odd

Grubhub CEO sells stock before making damaging statements

The optics of this stock sell off seem a bit odd given the relative time to him making statements that have reduced the value of said stock.https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1556458/000120919116148881/xslF345X01/doc4.xmlCouldn't he just buy them back at lower value?

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Re:The Reddit front page is entirely /r/the_donald posts on Thursday October 27, 2016 @10:07PM (#12812434)
Ted Cruz: "My job here is done, Dahnald. Enjoy the new algorithm."
Re:What do you call this in Ruby? on Sunday March 27, 2016 @01:07AM (#11368981)
Or is there? queue x-files theme song
Re:What do you call this in Ruby? on Sunday March 27, 2016 @01:04AM (#11368977)
dat bacon cannon
Re:I've Just Liberated My Modules on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @10:51PM (#11341769)
Coming in ES7!
Re:Show HN: CodeMill – a marketplace for pull requests on Monday March 14, 2016 @11:30AM (#11283386)
Not entirely fair. A lot of good things have worked on the honor system, as long as fair thought has gone into the "rules" of the system so that enough easy, edge case abuse scenarios are protected against. A big one that comes to my mind was the gaming league, CAL, back in the day. It was 100% honor system based, with a target audience that was known to be hackers, liars, and in general kids - yet it worked!
In the end, isn't that all we're really doing?
Re:Investigate switching away from GitHub on Thursday February 11, 2016 @04:45PM (#11083530)
"Dear GitHub" lives matter.
Re:Meatier – A Meteor alternative on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @01:03PM (#11074571)
How does this do server side rendering but also uses local storage for storing auth token?

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