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Re:Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16 on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @08:35AM (#47778172)
Wow I haven't used enlightenment since the 90s! So cool!
Re:Firewalling Your Code on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @06:37AM (#41366068)
I would think Lint rules are better for encouraging this and has no run time implications. Easy escape hatches as well if you really want to crack the firewall to ship something urgently.
Re:Show HN: Little Procedural Pixel Worlds on Monday May 23, 2022 @10:23PM (#31487336)
this x100
Re:Use console.log() like a pro (2020) on Monday April 12, 2021 @09:12PM (#26787112)
console.clear() is the worst. I've had to fight rogue calls to capture debugging information.
Re:51 Star Flag (2011) on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:30AM (#25772890)
A nice way of teaching the P = NP problem.
Re:Stored Procedures as a Back End on Thursday December 03, 2020 @07:27PM (#25297459)
Everything old is new again.

Have a customer with a 25 y/o Oracle PL/SQL system that basically operates their business and they can barely iterate on it. Every year a new consultancy comes in with their flavour of microservices and tries to subsume some functionality and they choke on the monolith to end all monoliths.

We just finished our TS migration, I wonder if this would have helped.
What a surprise, a database technology that previously has made security a premium feature is unsecured.
Re:Procedural Lake Village on Thursday June 18, 2020 @09:21PM (#23570053)
Links to artists you recommend?
Re:Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB? on Friday May 22, 2020 @06:11PM (#23277648)
What are those good use-cases for mongo?
Re:Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall on Thursday January 09, 2020 @03:20AM (#21999420)
The philosophy you are espousing is known in literary theory as "Death of the Author".

> argues against the method of reading and criticism that relies on aspects of the author's identity to distill meaning from the author's work.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Author

I recommend Lindsay Ellis' video on the subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGn9x4-Y_7A

Many of the golden age authors rage from "just" problematic like Asimov to a lot worse (see for more: http://www.jasonsanford.com/blog/2018/2/golden-age-sf-not-go...). I still read these authors but I for one cannot help see the author in their books, and knowledge of their actions certainly influences how I interpret these books. I therefore don't believe in Death of the Author.

Re:Better protecting kids’ privacy on YouTube on Monday January 06, 2020 @07:00PM (#21975036)
If you are interested in the FCC law/regs that brought about this change then check out Legal Eagle's video covering the subject. Very detailed and well presented, makes it clear that YT's hands are pretty tied on this matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Q48dwopVU

Re:Unbundling AWS on Sunday December 01, 2019 @04:38PM (#21677956)
I've not come across the term JAMstack before, why doesn't this make sense for using with AWS as the author suggests?
Re:Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry on Thursday November 28, 2019 @03:01AM (#21655436)
Darn had my eye on a new username.
Re:Evaluating Bazel for building Firefox on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @06:57AM (#21385733)
TIL Thunderbird is still a thing.
Re:Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap on Thursday August 22, 2019 @05:48AM (#20766288)
Jeff is an enjoyable speaker, his latest GDC talk is fantastic (and a better version of this blog post). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stxVBJem3Rs
Re:Armoured Commander: The WWII Tank Commander Roguelike on Saturday August 17, 2019 @02:30AM (#20722511)
Such a great game, pushes the boundaries of "roguelike" in a unique way.
Re:PyPy JIT for 64-bit ARM on Sunday July 28, 2019 @07:14PM (#20550350)
Awesome. You can now run PyPy on Rpi!
Re:Amazon EventBridge: The biggest thing since AWS Lambda on Saturday July 13, 2019 @02:06AM (#20426731)
Everything old is new again!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Pipes

But in all seriousness we've got half a dozen use cases for this just off the top of my head.

Re:The Cold War bunkers that cover a country on Sunday April 14, 2019 @09:18PM (#19662648)
Evan Hadfield did an episode of Rare Earth on these.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSEpkalRgvU

Re:Kong gateway reaches 1.0 GA, now supports service mesh on Thursday December 20, 2018 @06:38PM (#18730250)
> you should be able to do all API Management without having to pay us a penny.

I contacted Kong sales once about OpenID connect support, they basically dismissed us as too small. Needless to say we took Kong out of our stack and won't consider it again.

Re:A new look for rust-lang.org on Thursday November 29, 2018 @09:59PM (#18566265)
Love the new design, it adds a feel to the project that many others lack.

Compare it to https://www.python.org/ for example which is perfectly functional but squint and you could be on any page on the internet.

Re:Rust 2018 survey results on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @04:13PM (#18546822)
Pie charts :(
C4 is my goto as well.
Re:Essentials of Metaheuristics (2015) [pdf] on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @04:02AM (#18501198)
+1 Fantastic course.
A Roguelike.
Re:Why Zig When There Is Already CPP, D, and Rust? (2017) on Monday October 15, 2018 @01:35AM (#18217574)
> C++, Rust, and D have a large number of features and it can be distracting from the actual meaning of the application you are working on.

I've just started working in Rust and found it to have the right number of features compared to C++.

Re:Braid 10th anniversary critical compilation on Friday August 03, 2018 @06:46AM (#17678748)
Jonathon is an active HN member, though I am sure he is tired of discussing Braid in depth.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jblow

Re:The Theory of Interstellar Trade on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @12:18AM (#17547277)
Loose prequel to my favourite book of all time A Fire Upon the Deep. Vinge is a brilliant author with a background in maths and computing and it shows in his writing.
Re:How Voxels Became ‘The Next Big Thing’ on Sunday May 27, 2018 @11:02PM (#17170380)
Waiting for one of these demos to include animated characters. Not holding my breath.

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