nadagast
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1 year ago
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on: Why choose async/await over threads?
I think a lot of this type of problem goes away with immutable data and being more careful with side effects (for example, firing them all at once at the end rather than dispersed through the calculation)
nadagast
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2 years ago
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on: If You Don't Change the UI, Nobody Notices (2009)
You think the only reason vim & emacs aren't used as much as iOS/Android/Windows (or equivalent defaults on those platforms) is familiarity?
nadagast
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2 years ago
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on: If You Don't Change the UI, Nobody Notices (2009)
I think there have been and will continue to be UX improvements to programmer tools. GitHub is one example.
You think tools that stagnate will continue to see the same levels of adoption in new generations of programmers? It's an empirical question, I guess I just don't see it, and I say that as someone who loves vim & emacs.
nadagast
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2 years ago
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on: If You Don't Change the UI, Nobody Notices (2009)
I use and love emacs, but pointing to it as an example of how to evolve UX over time is indicative of your perspective. iOS/Windows/Android are used by the majority of people on the planet, emacs is not.
Which UX do you think young people today and in the future will most understand? iOS/Android or emacs? Why is that?
nadagast
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2 years ago
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on: Datomic is Free
Day-tomic I believe
nadagast
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3 years ago
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on: Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling to find workers
Isn't it because there's a ton of new supply of labor from around the world?
nadagast
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3 years ago
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on: YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study on recommendations
Maybe the system was different back then, but now Avoid will only avoid the player as a teammate, they can still be on the enemy team. So if someone is too good, there's no incentive to avoid them.
nadagast
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4 years ago
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on: Why Vladimir Putin and his entourage want war
indeed
nadagast
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4 years ago
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on: How to Create a SaaS and Compete with the Big Players as a Solo Founder
We're working on task management + email, I kept your comment [1] from awhile ago. I don't see any way to contact you in your profile, are you interested in trying an alpha? Email me at garrett at twobird.com
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23693582
nadagast
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4 years ago
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on: Why don’t the French celebrate Lafayette?
Mike Duncan and Revolutions is great, endorse!
His previous podcast, The History of Rome, is also great.
nadagast
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4 years ago
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on: Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional
I know -- I meant more about making sure they don't make public places unsafe/unclean.
nadagast
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4 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Are you terrified of Plaid’s account verification approach?
Yeah, when I first saw the flow, I was shocked...
nadagast
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4 years ago
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on: Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional
I think we should do everything we can to give/push them into treatment, but at the very least they don't get to make streets unsafe and unclean for others, they have to go elsewhere
nadagast
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4 years ago
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on: Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional
100% this -- is this really an unpopular opinion?
nadagast
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4 years ago
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on: The Education of Melvyn Bragg
In Our Time is a wonderful podcast, always interesting content! Also, as an American, the pace of the show and way of speaking is itself interesting to me.
nadagast
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4 years ago
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on: If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pension fund
This was one of the biggest things that struck me when I visited Japan. Their cities are just so much friendlier/better than 99% of American cities.
nadagast
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5 years ago
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on: The Database Inside Your Codebase
This brings back thoughts I've had that we should be working with normalized data in code, rather than thick objects. I think the main reason we don't is because there's a lack of tooling around it in our languages. I think a system/language/library designed around this could solve some of the problems in the article as well. First class support for having only one value for a given domain specific id, relations, declaratively describing constraints, and strong querying seem like they would be very helpful to lots of programming problems in complex apps.
nadagast
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5 years ago
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on: Cyclic dependencies are evil (2013)
This is the right answer and I wish more languages would make this dramatically more ergonomic to do. Store the most basic normalized truth and query/derive what you need.
nadagast
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6 years ago
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on: Avoid News: Towards a Healthy News Diet (2010) [pdf]
But how will you decide which is worth knowing if you never look? I get why you may want to take it in at a slower pace than a social media feed, but it seems like there's no way to tell what's worth knowing if you "stop consuming news".
nadagast
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6 years ago
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on: Avoid News: Towards a Healthy News Diet (2010) [pdf]
> On the whole, you are not ignorant if you don't consume the news, not by any standard.
I don't mean this in an insulting way, but aren't you ignorant (by definition) of current events if you don't read/hear about them?
