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Re:A Friendly Introduction to Racket
on Sunday August 23, 2026 @11:35AM (#49409683)
Agreed. As someone who hasn’t used Racket it wasn’t clear to me why syntax rules needed to be used over a simple define or what syntax rules even did that define didn’t.
Re:How much money we can raise for transparently idiotic startups?
on Monday July 22, 2024 @01:58PM (#41037377)
Interesting, I didn’t realize that the “Bro” app from Silicon Valley was based off of a real app.
Re:Roku update turns on hated motion-smoothing feature, with no off sw...
on Monday July 08, 2024 @03:57PM (#40908951)
A really good video on the subject: https://youtu.be/_KRb_qV9P4g?si=x0pmLkBhLYXud4G0
The gist is that, for animation, frame interpolation messes with intended timing and can produce incoherent images on interpolated frames and odd frame rate issues for certain kinds of animations. Interpolation can thus cause animations to lose their punch and feel wrong.
While interpolation may be nice for live action films, it should still be an option to turn off.
Re:Ask HN: What are some iconic comments on HN?
on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @12:46PM (#40719788)
I couldn’t find the first one.
2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31610005
Re:Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge
on Monday September 04, 2023 @08:38AM (#37379919)
If you are using the app, I believe you can get rid of this under settings > username > enable home feed recommendations. Turning it off makes the app way more usable.
Re:Why we switched from Python to Go
on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @11:18AM (#15499800)
I believe the parent means templating in the sense of generic types: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_(C%2B%2B).
Re:Django 1.11 beta 1 released
on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @09:51AM (#13695873)
As far as youtube tutorials go, I thought sentdex had a pretty good one: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQVvvaa0QuDeA05ZouE4O... . It helped me get my first django project up and running.
Re:Nim Programming Language v0.16.0 released
on Monday January 09, 2017 @12:54PM (#13358165)
To supplement the other response, [T] declares a generic type, so [T] is a public method with the generic type T. I'd agree though that the is initially hard to parse, especially when taking C and C++ into account, where * means something entirely different.
Modern garbage collection
Re:Announcing .NET Core 1.0
on Monday June 27, 2016 @08:48PM (#11990717)
From my experience, Rider is pretty stable and usable. Have you tried it out at all? https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/