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Re:How I Write Code: Pen and Paper on Friday September 03, 2021 @01:43AM (#28400791)
I tried pencils but I find text written pencils to be too faint. I find it uncomfortable to read. But pen writes text in bright blue color which is more pleasing to read.
Re:Sputnik V: fraudulent clinical trial data on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @12:15AM (#28297985)
Moscow Times article does not load on my phone. It appears to reload itself again and again. Then it error out. Anyone facing same issue?
My last straw with Protonmail: I created an email account in Protonmail. Used it to send and receive emails as usual. Then one day suddenly their "algorithms" suspended my account because the "algorithms" found that my account was being used for abuse. That was the end of Protonmail for me. Back to GMail. I know people lose their GMail accounts too. But in the last 17 years, I had 0 issues with GMail and 1 issue with ProtonMail and that 1 issue disrupted my life for a while.

I now find me asking: What is a good reliable email provider out there? I know I can host my own email in my own server under my own domain name but on HN we have seen articles about people losing their domain names too. Is there truly no good way to have permanent email address?

Re:Comparative unsafety on Friday April 09, 2021 @10:41AM (#26751160)
If I try to search something within the page with Ctrl + F that also causes the whole page to re-render and display "loading ..." and "rendering ..." progress bar.
Re:7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they? on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @12:02AM (#26720464)
I wish I could limit the use of Internet to 1 hour per day. Like the olden days in the early days of internet.

Internet was given in our university for only 1 hour per day. It was possible to live in this manner even when I used to do programming. All programming documentation was available as PDFs or downloadable copies. I remember the MSDN documentation for C++ could be kept on the local machine. For Python I used to keep a PDF copy of the tutorial and reference i think.

These days I don't know anymore if that style of working will still work. Software has become so complex and error messages have become so many and so complex that I think we need access to internet all the time while programming. To see resolution to strange errors in Stack Overflow or on GitHub issues.

I wish all software developers did not assume that I am connected to the Internet all the time. It will be good if we can have a world where local-first internet-optional style of programming is still there.

Re:Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server on Friday February 26, 2021 @05:17AM (#26273250)
Someone please be kind and explain to me how this works? Don't different executable formats need different headers?

Don't ELF need "0x7F ELF" header? Don't Windows executable need "MZ" header? How is it fulfilling both requirements simultaneously?

Ask HN: Should you care about privacy policies if you have nothing to hide?

I meet people sometimes that don't care about privacy policy because they think they have nothing to hide. I think there were some stories on HN where someone thought they have nothing to hide but then got into problems because their privacy was misused or their data was misused. Those stories provide lesson that everyone should care about privacy and how their data is used. Cannot find such...

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I came here to say the same thing. A lot of the discussion with modern languages focus around syntax. Why not use a Lisp which has very minimal syntax and focus on solving problems instead?

Do you have an opinion about Common Lisp? I know that Scheme is more minimal and cleaner but since you recommend Scheme I want to know what your opinion about Common Lisp is.

Does this curve really represent everyone's experience?

I never experienced the "I hate Python" phase. I think I went straight from "So exciting" to "productive" phase with Python.

Ask HN: What is a nice way to begin learning game programming these days?

One thing I want to avoid is start with heavy and complex beasts like Unity which abstracts away a lot of the basic concepts.I am looking for something more minimal. Game programming from scratch approach. Like the early days when people used to write programs in BASIC building all the graphical components and audio tones step by step.Is there something available today? My requirements:- No...

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Re:Perl.com Taken over by Domain Squatters on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:24AM (#25940956)
What is the full story behind this? How did it happen? Was it a domain hijack? Did someone forget to pay the bill? Do I need to worry about this for my domains?
Re:OO in Python is mostly pointless on Thursday January 28, 2021 @05:37AM (#25940313)
> How about file-like objects in python? Many file-like interfaces are necessarily stateful.

Still the state and the functions that operate on them can be separated out. Right? No reason why the state and the functions need to be tied together inside a class.

Re:Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out on Thursday January 28, 2021 @05:32AM (#25940277)
I have not faced this problem. I say that there will be a learning curve to understand the product before a new developer can start fixing bugs or adding enhancements. Managers have always understood it.

For contractors too the learning curve is part of the deal. The contractors get paid by the hour when they are climbing the learning curve. Managers seem fine with it.

Re:OO in Python is mostly pointless on Thursday January 28, 2021 @05:02AM (#25940108)
Calling someone a "narcissist" is clearly name calling.

I did not find anything narcissistic in the OP's post. It is a controversial topic but nothing about it came off as narcissistic.

Re:OO in Python is mostly pointless on Thursday January 28, 2021 @04:57AM (#25940072)
> thanks for the comment

There is really no need to be respond nicely to someone hiding behind their anonymity and calling you names and throwing personal attacks at you. Your parent comment's account should simply be flagged and banned.

Re:OO in Python is mostly pointless on Thursday January 28, 2021 @04:49AM (#25940041)
> Please, post your clickbait bullshit somewhere else.

This is needlessly insulting and aggressive. Flagged.

Re:Show HN: History suggest box for your shell on Monday December 28, 2020 @12:32AM (#25556968)
Yes. ZSH has this too. I think the basic shell features can go a long way.
Re:What is the absolute worst thing about Lambda School? on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:22AM (#25440946)
How do lambda school manage to get so many students? Do they provide relevant training or experience? Can the lambda school training count as internship for job application?
Re:Is deep learning a new kind of programming? on Sunday December 13, 2020 @02:05AM (#25404871)
yes, dropout and other regularization techniques were used
Re:Is deep learning a new kind of programming? on Sunday December 13, 2020 @01:45AM (#25404797)
We trained a deep learning model to look at like 20 system parameters and predict an output. the parameters were binary. So one curios engineer decided to brute-force the trained model with all possible inputs like 2^20 inputs to see what the model does. he found for the problem we were solving only 4 of the 20 parameters had effect on results. the remaining approx 16 parameters do not affect results.

So he replaced the model with a single line of code with one boolean expression made with those 4 parameters connected with logical operators.

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