svisser | 10 months ago | on: Wikipedia's Most Translated Articles
The word "translated" isn't correct here, as the articles may not be translations of other articles.
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svisser | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why is the Wikipedia Foundation's begging tolerated?
It's not exactly tolerated by Wikipedia community, see this discusssion:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost...
svisser | 4 years ago | on: I let a baby bird nest in my hair for 84 days
Ironically, her husband's name is Robin.
svisser | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
Wikipedia itself is also working on a new UI:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improveme...
The English Wikipedia isn't one of the "early adopter wikis" but if you visit, say, the French-language Wikipedia you can see the changes (e.g., different width to improve readability).
svisser | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How would a goal-oriented programming language look like?
You should look into BDI agents and BDI programming languages.
svisser | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Strong hacker == Strong coder?
Being good at hacking doesn't mean they can write clean maintainable code (in a team).
svisser | 8 years ago | on: Somehow, sometimes, this happens
It may be because it's the vault codebase, a tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management.
One would hope that such a codebase is well understood and implemented.
svisser | 8 years ago | on: Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB
For context, Alibaba uses their own fork of MySQL which is AliSQL:
svisser | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is the most amazing python script you ever wrote to save your time?
Do you specifically want it to be about Python scripts or also other languages?
svisser | 8 years ago | on: Baffling ABC maths proof now has impenetrable 300-page ‘summary’
The opening sentence of a linked article sums it up quite well: "If nobody understands a mathematical proof, does it count?"
The abc conjecture may be solved today but only when a sufficient number of people understand and accept the proof as a proof.
svisser | 8 years ago | on: Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet
Unfortunate name if you happen to know Dutch.
svisser | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best python library for git?
svisser | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's the most beautiful code written in Python you have ever seen?
Earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9896369
svisser | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Pydantic – Data validation using Python 3.6 type hinting
For those looking to validate dictionaries / JSON responses in Python, the voluptuous library works quite well: http://github.com/alecthomas/voluptuous. It also works for lists and other data types.
svisser | 9 years ago | on: Saturn moon 'able to support life'
Coincidentally a book was written a few decades ago called "Ringmakers of Saturn" which discusses the presence of alien life around Saturn as well.
svisser | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why can't I write a int literal like 2,333?
In Python you can do this:
1_000_000
svisser | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why have foosball (table football) become so popular among developers?
I guess the real question is:
"Why have foosball (table football) become so popular among management of software development companies?"
svisser | 9 years ago | on: Divided by a common syntax
"Divided by a common syntax" also describes the relationship between Python 2 and Python 3.
svisser | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Does it matter to be the first on the market?
Not necessarily.
There is even an argument that you want to be "the last" on the market.
For example, Google is the last "search engine" - it wasn't the first search engine on the market but it did grow to dominate the market when it arrived.
svisser | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: JinjaSQL – Generate SQL Queries using a Jinja Template
> In the long run, for readability and maintainability, ORMs win most of the time.
It depends. Anyone working on that code now needs to learn the ORM, the SQL and how to let the ORM generate that SQL for anything beyond the basics.
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