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vhf | 8 years ago | on: JavaScript and Node performance coding tips to make applications faster

(I'm the author of this last repo.)

You are correct that these no longer apply to the most recent Node versions. Crankshaft is still being used in Node <8.3.0.

Crankshaft got totally disabled starting from V8 5.9. Node 8.2.1 uses V8 5.8.283.41, Node 8.3.0 uses V8 6.0.286.52.

I'm pretty sure there is still a big number of projects running on Node <= 8.3.0.

I'll make it clear in this project README though, whenever I find time. :)

vhf | 9 years ago | on: V8: A Tale of TurboFan

They are complementary resources, "Optimization killers" helps you avoid pitfalls in practice, "v8-bailout-reasons" tries to document and explain the various Crankshaft bailouts.

vhf | 9 years ago | on: Freely available programming books

I agree with you: github is not suitable for this.

When I created this github repo, it was because stack overflow wasn't suitable for this. Then I created a website (the now defunkt resrc.io) which could pull these kind of lists from github, parse the links, have them tagged in a database, parse the link content, make it searchable, etc.

It still wasn't suitable. And I'm still looking for a suitable way of curating such lists, be it on github or anywhere else.

vhf | 9 years ago | on: Freely available programming books

I'm the author and maintainer of this project, which seems to end up here once a year.

Since I don't want to answer to every post suggesting something, I'll do it here: I know we could do better in terms of curating this content.

I would be very happy to discuss ideas towards the goal of better curation of these lists. Please open an issue on github or shoot me an email!

I also have to say I started this thing 3(?) years ago, and today I have less and less time to take care of it. I closed around 1800 PRs, which means almost 2 per day over the last years. I'm extremely grateful to the contributors helping me maintaining this and I'm glad it's been useful to a couple million people (according to the stats). Should anyone serious want to contribute in a more involved way, please step forward, I could really use some relief. :)

My email is on github, my twitter is in my HN profile.

vhf | 9 years ago | on: Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters

It wasn't 2500 bucks. The text Switzerland voted on today said something like:

> 1. The Confederation has to implement a basic income.

> 2. This basic income has to be sufficient to live in dignity and participate to public life.

> 3. The basic income amount and financing are regulated by law.

Nothing regarding the exact amount. Swiss people were asked to vote on an idea, not on a specific amount.

vhf | 11 years ago | on: Zop

Is there a color-blind mode available?

vhf | 11 years ago | on: Algorithmic tagging of Hacker News or any other site

Very interesting.

I have been doing some research towards automatic tagging lately, and I found several Python project coming close to this goal : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/topia.termextract/ , https://github.com/aneesha/RAKE , https://github.com/ednapiranha/auto-tagify

but none of them is satisfying, whereas Algorithmic Tagging of HN looks pretty good.

I have been trying to implement a similar feature for http://reSRC.io, to automagically tag articles for easy retrieval through the tag search engine.

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