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Re:Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen on Thursday May 29, 2025 @08:45AM (#44125543)
Yeah, strong agree here. Nielsen brought a certain weight of rigor to the debate back in those days which made sense to the way I wanted to think about web design as an engineer. I don't really think there's a "winner" or "most right" person amongst the trio, but Nielsen's ethos appealed to me more than the others mentioned.
Lots of social commentary here, but I'd just note you're one mad lad. This is a great writeup and a nifty bit of sleuthing. I found it enjoyable to read.
Re:A Practical Guide to Running Local LLMs on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @12:43PM (#43334330)
I use them to make legal contract review less toilsome, but I suppose that's a hyper-specific endeavor.
Re:Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @10:25AM (#43332775)
Amazing resource. Highly recommended for both content and approachability.
Got a little beat going with it, but the lack of VSTs and fine-grained control will be limiting in the long run. It's a super cool in-browser demo though. Overall, I'm very positive on the efforts.
Re:AI Flame Graphs on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @11:16AM (#41995901)
I can imagine Nelson and other Anthropic engineers jumping for joy at this release.
Re:Pg_analytics is now PostgreSQL Licensed on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @10:57AM (#41995654)
Nice seeing you guys on the front page. New York can't stop, won't stop.
Re:Furnace – the biggest multi-system chiptune tracker ever made on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @10:08AM (#41647721)
Lots of comments herein cover things I would otherwise post, so I'll just say this is great fun. Love that it's FOSS. Now, everyone go make some music!
Re:The Stainless SDK Generator on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @02:42PM (#40148019)
Congrats, folks.
Re:Introducing "Implement DNS in a Weekend" on Friday May 12, 2023 @11:21AM (#35917491)
Julia is the best ever.
Re:Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011) on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @01:17PM (#35790959)
This account discrete maths. Bravo!
Re:Nintendo Is Taking Down My Videos [video] on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:43AM (#35602417)
Yeah, this is mostly correct. Source: worked there for 9 years.
Re:I Use Cheap Notebooks on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:53PM (#35099138)
Muji notepads (if you're close to a Muji) have the distinction of being both reasonably priced and nice to look at IMHO. They also have a lovely selection of writing instruments of all types.
Will be interested to see why I would use this instead of Envoy or similar FOSS. One obvious thing would be giving the operational work to Cloudflare instead of doing it myself, but beyond that it reads like "we built an internal thing in Rust."
Tokio has won.
These are amazing.
Productizing FAIR output, or is that too reductive?
The QA 7-way is nightmare fuel. I hate it. I hate going through it every-single-time I'm forced to.
Re:Show HN: Piano Chord Player on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @12:14PM (#34328094)
This was fun. Really dig the arpeggiator.
Re:Monkey.org on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:11AM (#26025940)
Morning, folks. Shidoshi@ (almost everywhere, including Monkey) here. This was quite funny to wake up to. I did ping Dug, Dave, and Jim this morning, so maybe one of them will drop in and give a history lesson.

If any of you are looking to join Niels and me at Stripe, do please drop me a note.

Re:Assertions in Production Code? (2008) on Friday August 31, 2018 @11:45AM (#17886475)
pp. 76-77 of Ousterhout's "A Philosophy of Software Design" talk about the issues with boilerplate try-catch. He basically does not approve, as they make readability suffer and often do not do what they advertise (truly catch errors.) I don't know how he would feel about production assertions, but I'm guessing he would buy into it if it helps reduce complexity. In the sense of finding remedies to troublesome bugs--which will occur.
Re:Why Doesn’t Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders? on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @10:20AM (#15797998)
This article was originally published in 2016, and HN had a lot to say then as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10944966
Re:Visual Studio App Center on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @12:21PM (#15705478)
This is nifty, and congrats to the M$ teams for continuing to kill it on the announcements (right before re:Invent.) Will this service also support soft push via services like AirWatch for private/non-store deployments?
Re:Introducing Oculus Go, Plus Santa Cruz Updates on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @06:21PM (#15454044)
In my neighborhood, and I keep meaning to stop in. I just keep walking by because I am unsure what they are selling.
Suica, Pasmo and the like are all contactless SCs. The Wikipedia page is a good start, and you can go deeper from there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suica
Re:Sears's History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon's Doing on Monday September 25, 2017 @12:08PM (#15331570)
Muji in Japan does this. I would not be surprised if there's at least one 6-pager in Day One on housing in some shape or form.
Re:SoundCloud is here to stay on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:56PM (#14991860)
I actually don't see that as a bad concept. It might make Amazon/Twitch curious about how they might do the same, but competition is good.
Re:Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @12:53PM (#14971133)
What samstave said... but, I'll buy the beer.

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