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caspervonb··on Ask HN: Mojave, anything developers should know about before upgrading?
Downloading it so.. I hope not but Apple updates tend to cause problems rather than solving them, also upgrading Fedora at the same time which may turn out to be dumb, fingers crossed.
caspervonb··on Ask HN: Is there a browser I can pay for?
Brave?
caspervonb··on Ask HN: How do you keep energy to work on personal projects after work hours?
Try to get an issue done before starting work, slow and steady wins the race. All nighter every now and then when something is super interesting.

As for working out, ehhh yeah I'm supposed to do that too.. new years resolution? But being active gives you more energy so there's that, once you get to it.

caspervonb··on Ask HN: How do you make sound come out of your desktop?
Downsized in my old age so nothing special, just a pair cheap of Pebble speakers (https://amzn.to/2wJBMR3) which sound okay, not great but okay.

If i was going to run it to an amp I'd probably run it via a long jack, there are these fancy wireless things available these days for a couple of bucks but meh, good old wires for the win.

caspervonb··on Visualizing Toxicity in Twitter Conversations
So toxic, but what defines toxic, how were they categorised etc? Just can't take the term seriously anymore after all the buzzfeed videos educating me on American politics that's been shoved into my feeds.
caspervonb··on How to Design for the Modern Web
Does it really tho? This one seemingly got featured by someone at Medium and it pulled in around 10 000 hits from newsletters. While it's more than nothing its no where near the majority source of my traffic.
caspervonb··on How to Design for the Modern Web
Mostly news sites did that from my experience, I just found it ironic with how Americans stereotypically shout freedom of speech at every opportunity and then news outlets turn around with "Oh you're European, can't read our news".

Reddit's mobile website truly hates itself tho.

caspervonb··on How to Design for the Modern Web
> 99% of us work for companies with free products subsidized by overt tracking and complete disregard of user privacy.

Indeed, also security but that's for another rant.

caspervonb··on How to Design for the Modern Web
> Is this a joke?

The post, yes it's a joke but reality is just as sad, Reddit, Medium, Facebook, Linkedin etc all do this kind of crap.

caspervonb··on How to Design for the Modern Web
With 150 000 reads so far, I hope most do.
caspervonb··on How to Design for the Modern Web
Not sure what lead certain sites to take that path, but the real issue IMHO wasn't really a legal one but rather that the site owner was indeed a teapot.
caspervonb··on How to Design for the Modern Web
Poe's law in action, not sure what this says about Medium content in general.
caspervonb··on How to Design for the Modern Web
Would have been funnier if you came from Reddit mobile... ;-)
caspervonb··on How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites
I wish... even GitHub won't work properly without JavaScript enabled these days.
caspervonb··on How to Design for the Modern Web
Intentional irony ;)
caspervonb··on Show HN: Returnif – the conditional return statement
if (err) return err...

Pointless sugar

Postconditions ala ruby would be "neat", still kinda pointless tho.

caspervonb··on Gravity – An embeddable programming language
Not to rain on your parade here but, in what world is a interpreter "fast and efficient"? Embeddable, minimal footprint and zero external dependencies etc are all excellent real selling points here.
caspervonb··on Ask HN: Selling points for Go++, a parody language
Depends on how evil you are.

- C preprocessor. - C++ templates. - Add a fn keyword in addition to func. - Add lambda literal in addition to func. - Take out goroutines, replace them with nothing. - Allow emoji's as identfiers. - Make typing optional, run it in an interpreter.

caspervonb··on Hello Go [Updated 6th of May]
Repost from about a week ago, updated and revised since then.
caspervonb··on [dead]
Already been discussed to death here.
caspervonb··on Hello Go
rand.Shuffle was introduced in 1.10 which is currently the tip, maybe it's a case of lessons learned?
caspervonb··on Somebody Tried to Hide a Backdoor in a Popular JavaScript NPM Package
Like I've been saying, npm is ripe for abuse https://medium.com/p/73fac4bc5068
caspervonb··on Proton Native – React Native for the desktop
It seems to runs on "UI" from andlabs, which is a fairly lightweight C wrapper around the the Windows, Cocoa and Gtk API's.

Sidenote as for why a UI library would wrap another UI wrapping library, Gtk is what is considered "native" on Gnome based distros.

So weight-wise, it's basically comes at the cost of native node module which is not bad compared to Electron's crazy IPC bridge back and forth communication nonsense.

caspervonb··on Hello Go
That we should edit wikipedia and add "gopher sort" to bogo sort's list of names?

Had planned more, each section getting more silly than the previous including a tangent where it evolved into Hello as a Service but for now, to be continued.

caspervonb··on Hello Go
From the FAQ:

> It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

> In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.

For Medium, this means just blocking or deleting the cookie.

caspervonb··on Hello Go
But it's with bogo sort..!

Anyhow the goal was to elicit a chuckle, so even if its not directly from the post I'll still count this as a success.

caspervonb··on Hello Go
Haven't tried WSL yet but that's an option. Also most if not all of the GNU coreutils are available on Windows.
caspervonb··on Hello Go
Concurrency does not equal parallelism.

Lets say there's one core, or "hardware thread". Then the scheduler has no choice but to stick them all on the same thread. They are running concurrently but not in parallel.

With more cores, Go can schedule them to run in parallel.

Rob Pike has a great talk on YouTube titled something like "Concurrency is not parallelism" on this exact thing.

caspervonb··on Hello Go
You can delete or block Medium cookies to reset the "3 monthly freebies" counter.
caspervonb··on Coder of 37 years fails Google interview because he doesn't match answer sheet
It's on Reddit, was just about to submit it.
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