alex_x

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WTF Are You Loading?(x-x.codes)
2 points by alex_x 1mo ago|0 comments
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by alex_x 1mo ago
Agree on it being a good thing
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Ask HN: After 20 years of coding it is not a fun hobby anymore. How about you?
3 points by alex_x 1mo ago|5 comments
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by alex_x 2mo ago
Am I the only one who takes these “legends returns“ for a lack of innovation? Noticed that for a while in triple A gaming. I get it, companies are playing safe, but I don’t want to be sold the same thing over and once again.. Edit: typo
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by alex_x 2mo ago
A farmer producing meat is a better farmer than me even if I hire my own farmer. If we invent a meta-farmer profession (for those who hired a farmer) I will be great meta-farmer, but still suck as a farmer
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by alex_x 2mo ago
Commit messages, comments and function names are hard to come up with, that's why we spent years to argue on maximizing value. We also learned to pay attention because we new that this particular name is like that with a reason. Now it
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by alex_x 2mo ago
All above comes at a cost of author slowly starting to understand less and less code in their own projects. Then in other projects as well. After the initial boost is over they will have to pay money just to stay afloat because they have al
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by alex_x 3mo ago
I got emotional here as well.
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by alex_x 4mo ago
Easy-to-learn and built-for-learning-good-practices are two different things; I think your point is perfectly correct but it's mostly about the second one
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by alex_x 4mo ago
Humans are highly dependent on the environment; you can blame people for eating too much of highly processed food and lots of sugar, but that's what happens if all you see around is highly processed food and sugar
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by alex_x 4mo ago
lmk if you ever visit Zürich :)
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by alex_x 4mo ago
I agree with that 100%
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by alex_x 4mo ago
I also wonder if this is so visible because a lot of people don't really care what they do and will happily use any bullshit machine to simulate work.
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by alex_x 4mo ago
thinking becomes a commodity
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by alex_x 4mo ago
That's a fair point for students, but as a beginner who simply wants to tinker with fun stuff, you can go very far without knowing of a program stack. I think I had the wrong audience in mind
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by alex_x 4mo ago
I wonder why all these easy-to-learn languages use indentation to denote scope, not something like curly braces. Isn't it actually harder to explain?
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Slow Down(x-x.codes)
2 points by alex_x 4mo ago|0 comments
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by alex_x 4mo ago
seeing this slop landings is so tiring. It makes me not caring about potentially good product in no time
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The Programming Language for Agents(zerolang.ai)
1 points by alex_x 4mo ago|0 comments
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Wrote this for humans, now I use it as a prompt(x-x.codes)
2 points by alex_x 4mo ago|1 comments
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by alex_x 4mo ago
About year and a half ago I put together code review guide for human-written code to help my team speed things up and show how to operate based on trust, respect, and mutual goals; This aged well and now the same article shared as a prompt
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by alex_x 4mo ago
been thinking about the same for a while but couldn't put this into words; thank you
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Show HN: Review code changes in a terminal and share with your coding agent(github.com)
2 points by alex_x 4mo ago|0 comments
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by alex_x 4mo ago
what's your average battery life?
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by alex_x 5mo ago
isn't that a normal timeline for critical vulnerability? Seems like paid marketing
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Incomplete pull request results in repositories(githubstatus.com)
4 points by alex_x 5mo ago|0 comments
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by alex_x 5mo ago
No bindings, I wrote a few wrappers myself to make often used functions a bit more swifty, but otherwise its pretty smooth sailing
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by alex_x 5mo ago
a lot of cool-looking stuff in my ECS is supported by Swift parameter packs; however, once you start using them a lot you find limits pretty soon. One example: the following wouldn't compile in swift: func query<each T, each K&g
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by alex_x 5mo ago
there is not much to brag about yet :'( About a year ago I was curious about building an ECS-based game engine with world simulations like in dwarf fortress, but obviously at much smaller scale while playing Starfield. Something cool s
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by alex_x 5mo ago
I'm currently building my roguelike in swift using c-interop with raylib - this brings me so much joy

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