iillexial's comments

iillexial | 3 years ago | on: The Need to Read

The first comment in your link says basically the same what you have said:

>This article makes far reaching societal claims with essentially no evidence.

and

>I suspect the author is making a good point, but it is far from adequately supported

iillexial | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is there editors and IDE crisis?

I think the problem is in the VSCode Go extension. I use vim-go and have no problems.

iillexial | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is there editors and IDE crisis?

Yes, VSCode for Go is buggy. Often requires a reload too see a new package.

iillexial | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?

https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages - recursion, and how to apply it, and functional programming in general clicked for after this course.

Also Code Complete - after reading I finally understood what good code should look like.

iillexial | 3 years ago | on: Hey, GitHub – Waiting list signup

Those who say it's useless, what do you think about blind people using this, or those who couldn't type?

iillexial | 3 years ago | on: Music for Programming

I like to listen to music that I like, and that corresponds with my mood.

iillexial | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where have all the forums gone?

I loved forums because they used to be much smaller than subreddits. Also, for me forums UX was much better. Big trees of comments hard to follow.

iillexial | 3 years ago | on: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

Yandex is under full control of Russian government. Pretty sure FSB can access anything.

iillexial | 3 years ago | on: Keyboard app with 100M installs with full phone access and tracking codes

How apps like this pass moderation in Google Play? Wondering if App Store moderation is any better.

iillexial | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Session manager and task runner for tmux written in Go

Hi HN!

I'm the author of smug, a tool that automates your tmux workflow and allows you to start and stop a development environment for your projects. I've posted this already and got some feedback back then, which helped me to fix a lot of bugs and add new features. I want to continue working on this tool and want to ask you: what functionality would you like to see in a tool like this?

I would appreciate any feedback from the community.

Thanks, Ivan

iillexial | 4 years ago | on: Tokio Console

Is there sth like this for Go?

iillexial | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Background.webcam – Train new hires remotely in real-time

I don't get it. How is it different from Zoom with a turned off camera?

iillexial | 4 years ago | on: Meta.ua (2002)

It's still functional website in Ukraine. There is even an email service.

iillexial | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm 24 y.o want to do an online BSc degree in Math. Does it make sense?

Thanks, I'm from Kyiv as well. Not all universities have part-time study programs, and those that do, limit number of students. I just took a look, and the university I would like to attend accepts only 10 students, comparing with 65 to full-time.

iillexial | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm 24 y.o want to do an online BSc degree in Math. Does it make sense?

>A degree can open doors if you want to work abroad. Relocation is not in my priorities.

I've already worked in the EU as a developer without a degree. Not all countries require it if you have proven experience and a job offer.

> If you already make a good wage then it might not be worth it from a money perspective

I make enough money. It's all about personal development and opening doors to fields I'm interested in.

>why do you think your motivation will be greater here than when you self-studied through MOOCs and math?

I don't think it will be greater, but I won't know before I try.

iillexial | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm 24 y.o want to do an online BSc degree in Math. Does it make sense?

I'm from the Eastern Europe, not from the U.S. I can go again to a university in my country and it will be much cheaper. We have this "part-time" study here as well. But I'm concerned about its quality.

Also, I'm going more for knowledge than for a paper. I've never had any troubles with getting a job without a degree, so I don't think I will have any with, even if it's from an unknown institution.

iillexial | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Check the things that matter to you in the menubar

The site says that "Radar is entirely free for open-source maintainers.". Can you please elaborate on this? I understand it as if you're contributing to any open-source software, and can prove it, you will get won't be asked to pay?

iillexial | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

https://github.com/ivaaaan/smug: A tmux session manager built with Go. I really needed it for my daily job and started it as a simple bash script. Then it grew up into a Go program.

iillexial | 4 years ago | on: Cops “almost 99.9% sure” Tesla had no one at the wheel before deadly crash

Yeah, but it's not 99.9%, it's "almost 99.9%". Very weird statement.

iillexial | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are some good strategy games?

Civilization for sure