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stralep | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which song kicks the most code out of you?

Apocalypshit by Molotov

stralep | 13 years ago | on: Put the logo below the fold: Breaking design rules for profit

About design: why is not your main text width limited to 50-80em?

stralep | 13 years ago | on: Ask PG: Any chance of an update on "What I've learned from Hacker News"?

I see no reason to use additional mechanism. Why not use upvote? I'm upvoting stories so I could see them later (as ColinWright noted), why not create a page I could see comments I liked?

stralep | 13 years ago | on: Ask PG: Any chance of an update on "What I've learned from Hacker News"?

Comments, not stories...

stralep | 13 years ago | on: Ask PG: Any chance of an update on "What I've learned from Hacker News"?

I would really like to see comments I have upvoted... There are bunch of wise comments somewhere, that I have read, upvoted, and forgot.

stralep | 14 years ago | on: Nikola Tesla Wasn't God And Thomas Edison Wasn't The Devil

None that I had pleasure to drink with :)

stralep | 14 years ago | on: Nikola Tesla Wasn't God And Thomas Edison Wasn't The Devil

Could you add any contact info in your profile? :) There are not many people that know joys of rakija on this site :)

stralep | 14 years ago | on: Learn to read a sentence of Chinese in 3 minutes

I have been using their service for Spanish for almost a year... Really useful for expanding your wordlist.

stralep | 14 years ago | on: The demise of the low level Programmer.

Really, could anyone handle more than a few layers at the same time? It is sometimes useful to know how hardware (I'm looking at you, L2 cache!) works, but even then a bit simplified version can do the job.

And from time to time there comes another layer on top of everything else, and you wish you could forget the lowest layer you know, just to not start going insane. Or at least to slow it a bit :)

stralep | 14 years ago | on: Free your technical aesthetic from the 2010s

I agree, but this should have been from the start, or at least from UNIX-Internet marriage. My point was little tongue-in-cheek, but I believe that during the years UNIX has got things that are not truly with their initial idea. Or little more interfaces than necessary.

stralep | 14 years ago | on: Free your technical aesthetic from the 2010s

What I like about UNIX: Everything is a file.

Except of processes.

And sockets.

And XWindows.

stralep | 14 years ago | on: 3 Ways I Would Improve Hacker News

Is there a way to see all comments I have upvoted? This is one thing I would really like.

stralep | 14 years ago | on: Mozilla's Narcissus meta-circular JavaScript interpreter

It's currently 4AM here, so I cannot reason right :) If I misunderstood your point, my deepest apologies.

stralep | 14 years ago | on: Mozilla's Narcissus meta-circular JavaScript interpreter

Parent interpreter is not host, it is JavaScript. No one said that parent and child interpreters cannot have the same language :)

stralep | 14 years ago | on: Switch statements versus polymorphism

I completely agree with this:

It exchanges one form of duplication for another, not eliminates it.

The real "problem" is that textual code is generally one-dimensional in nature, but we are interweaving two dimensions of option combos. It's allegedly a limit inherent to textual code, regardless of paradigm used to write the code.

I'm currently thinking of language with "code" laying in database of sort, and text is just a view of real data. Of course, there would be some text serialization, but it wouldn't be the "true way" for programming it...

stralep | 14 years ago | on: I Write Like

I write like David Foster Wallace

stralep | 14 years ago | on: Spanish Morphology in Haskell

It's not my thesis, I just found it on net and it seemed cool.

I wish you good luck in your endeavor! :)

stralep | 14 years ago | on: Take The AQ Test

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stralep | 14 years ago | on: Dog Bites Man; Pope Condemns Violence; Publishing Still Doesn’t Get It

Or that pirating books is currently done by some subset that is not representative for general public?

stralep | 14 years ago | on: Watch Me Make Mistakes

This is extremely cool.

Only one thing I would suggest really - width of linked Stypi page should have some reasonable maximum width, something close to 80 chars. Otherwise, it is really hard to see where all changes are made when browser is maximized.