NigelTufnel

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Show HN: Ebash – AI-Powered Shell(github.com)
3 points by NigelTufnel 6mo ago|0 comments
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by NigelTufnel 9y ago
To find the best Python function ever written!
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Show HN: Pymash.com – facemash for the most popular Python repos(pymash.com)
2 points by NigelTufnel 9y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Goslow – Slow HTTP server that responds with errors(github.com)
6 points by NigelTufnel 12y ago|0 comments
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by NigelTufnel 12y ago
This is so much fun. It's kind of like RPG. There are 3 character classes. 1. Asshole: just goes straight after the green square. 2. Prankster: draws arrows pointing to the wrong exits. 3. Batman: stays on the button and clicks. I&#x2
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by NigelTufnel 12y ago
Were it GCC instead of VC++ that wouldn't change much for a lot of people. Fixing bugs in a program with 7 million lines of code is not easy. Fixing bugs in GCC for an unitiated person is probably super hard.
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Java 8 is the biggest thing to happen to Java since Java 7(codumentary.blogspot.ru)
3 points by NigelTufnel 13y ago|0 comments
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
Wikipedia doesn't underline links either. They're doing fine.
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
This is insane. No <!doctype> declaration? Come on!
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
I'm getting latitude = 60.0000, longitude = 100.0000 for my IP. Which is about 1000 km away from me.
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
Personal experience: weird jargon is a good thing. I've read a book on Hadoop once and it didn't use weird jargon - everything was in my native language. It was super hard to read - basically I needed to translate the book from my
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
I just did. And either a) I'm doing something terribly wrong or b) ctypes.Structure is slower than Python class with __slots__. I would bet on a) - I've never worked with ctypes before. EDIT: I bet on a) and I was wrong: ctypes of
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
I did a stupid microbenchmark and it turned out that simple class with __slots__ was the fastest method.
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
What was wrong with the honest: "We'll show ads to the first-time Firefox users, so we can make extra money with our free product. We'll show ads only once"? "User-first" bit is the textbook example of PRspeak.
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
Not just drop downs, but you can click on, e.g, restart and the page will restart. Took me a couple of minutes to get it.
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
Now that's hard. The next logical step is to type in point-free Haskell programs.
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
A slightly paradoxical advice: learn Objective-C. Learning of one thing never stops. Suppose you're now top 5% iOS developer. 5 years later you'll probably be top 1%. That's cool. I can see only one hugely improbable risk in
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
He seems to be a normal guy, not a PR genius. But, yeah, "The game with 50,000,000 downloads will be taken off the app stores in the next 22 hours" is brilliant.
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
It's noteworthy because this one became popular. That's how the world works.
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
Maybe it's just something I don't understand but I would go with Celsius everywhere with converting to Fahrenheit/Kelvin when showing/grabbing temperature to/from user.
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
I agree. It's not just the algorithm, scale etc. It's the chicken/egg problem - to have a good page ranking you need a lot of usage data from a lot of users and to get a lot of users you need a good page ranking.
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
It's always a safe bet that any new language will fail spectacularly. Also everybody is not Google and have massive speed/concurrency needs.
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
I wonder how fast is this server. Is handwritten assembly faster than GCC/clang-written assembly?
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
I don't understand. By built-in map you mean "map literals"?
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
I think that "destroyed" is not the right word. Yes, free to play games with in app purchases dominate the mobile market. For now. The mobile gaming is just 6 years old. We're in the 'Space Invaders' era. The qualit
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
I think that concatenation with + is okay when you're concatenating two strings. And CPython can optimize x = x + y or x += y calls. http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
Year 2014: Java gets lambdas. Java 8 is pretty nice actually. Lambdas, date/time API that doesn't suck, filter/map/reduce in the collections. I'm looking forward to work with it.
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
Template-heavy C++ and point-free Haskell code.
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
"Brilliantly simple" is an odd description of Scala. I would easily put Scala in the top 3 most-difficult-languages-for-me to work with. Maybe even top 2.
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by NigelTufnel 13y ago
There is a great moment in Stroustrup's talk when he shows a short error message in ConceptGcc and the audience applauds. It seems that Stroustroup was suprised by the applauses.

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