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faleidel··on Ask HN: What's wrong with working on two remote jobs if you can perform?
If you pay X to get Y amount of work done and are happy about it why would you care that the person is also doing Z amount of work somewhere else? Z could be an other job, or a hobby or anything else, but it is none of your concern.
faleidel··on Functional Reactive Programming
Angular is using rxJs which is a reactive programming framework, but I think it was an error to do so.

The angular project I am working on is now 5 years old and the parts of the application that are the least understood are the ones with more rxJs in it. We even have custom rxJs operators that nobody understand anymore...

The way we do things now is to transform everything we can into promises because it's more easy to work with.

With promises you have a few functions with which you can do everything. With rxJs you have dozens of function with specific use cases and most of them looks alike. It's too easy to not take the right one and new peoples in the project needs to learn a lot of things to understand the codebase.

I was interviewing some angular devs aand asked the question: what is the difference between a promise and an observable and 80% of the time the answer was "for observable you need to sunscribe to get the result"). That shows a clear lack of understand of rxJs.

Anybody had a better experience with angular and rxJs?

faleidel··on JCOF: JSON-like Compact Object Format
I would like to see gzip compression added to the benchmark
faleidel··on Spreading rock dust on farms as a climate solution
A similar idea using olivine: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/22/1004218/how-gree...
faleidel··on The Stack Monoid
Search for "monoid category" on google. A monoid is a mathematical object in cathegory theory.
faleidel··on CLIs are reified UIs (2017)
While discoverability can be better with GUI's I find that googling things is always better for CLI tools. Most of my CLI search have a one or two lines of bash I can simply copy paste while solutions for GUI programms often involves lot's of screenshots of dropdowns to open and if the look of the application changed or the element's in the dropdown's are not the same it can be hard to follow.

Taking not's of how to do things or creating shorcuts will also always be better with CLI's since manipulation text is easy and always supported.

faleidel··on My fridge has an RFID chip in the water filter, so a generic filter doesn't work
If I recall right he was locked inside, not outside.
faleidel··on An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?
There is activityPub which is used by mastodon (a twitter clone). Some peoples are making reddit clone that federate with activityPub a bit in the same way that emails federate.
faleidel··on Differences between expert and novice brains in mice: study
Explaining your decisions is a skill in itself. When you are working in a team it is very valuable.
faleidel··on iFixit MacBook Pro 15" Touch Bar 2019 Teardown
How is the screen cable? Will it break as easly as with the last model?
faleidel··on Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value
The other one similar that I know of is prismo. If they all use activityPub they will be compatible. They will also be compatible with mastodon (which is like twitter), peertube (which is like youtube) and many others.
faleidel··on Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value
For anyone interested, I'm making an open source clone of reddit that is federated using activityPub. Everybody can host it's own server and each server can talk to eachother so you can interact with threads and comment from other servers.

The project is in very early stage, but it's usable and lind of cute.

https://moontreeproject.org

faleidel··on Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation
I'm making an activityPub reddit clone: https://moontreeproject.org/

The code is open source and on github: https://github.com/Faleidel/moontreeproject

faleidel··on So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux
Something I made while search for a replacement for my own macbook: http://nomoremacbook.com/

I have a macbook pro 2012 and still don't know what my next computer is going to be.

faleidel··on A Survey of the First 20 Years of Research on Semantic Web and Linked Data [pdf]
It's possible to define custom HTML tag in javascript, but I don't think that is what you want.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CustomEleme...

faleidel··on Ask HN: Can you recommend a modern, accessible P2P framework/library?
Wow, the now version of Aether looks nice! I remember trying your project 3/4 years ago? I'll re-try Aether when I get home.
faleidel··on The Secretive Business of Facial-Recognition Software in Retail Stores
Maybe this? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ivancash/irl-glasses-gl...
faleidel··on Show HN: No More Google, privacy-friendly alternatives to Google products
Use it as you like, I feel like it's a concept worth exploring in all sorts of domains!
faleidel··on Show HN: No More Google, privacy-friendly alternatives to Google products
I like the concept. I made something like it for macbooks some time ago at http://nomoremacbook.com/
faleidel··on Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming
I think your are on something and that 'lucid dreaming' may just be a dream after all. And interesting question would be: under an MRI can we detect lucid dreaming? If yer then maybe it's more then just a dream.
faleidel··on How to Recover from Romantic Heartbreak?
For me a relationship is a way to have support in your life.

After a break up, all the support a person has given you is still there. The effect of that person helping you in your life should have lasting inpact on you. It's a strange way to put it but see it as a tool. When you lose a tool nothing that was build with it will crumble. The house will stay up even if the hammer break.

faleidel··on Show HN: List of macbook alternatives for if you don't like the new models
Wow, didn't know about System76, up to 32gb of ram and the best choice of hard drive I have seen. But they don't offer windows? I'll search for a review and add it to the list.
faleidel··on Show HN: List of macbook alternatives for if you don't like the new models
What you are saying is exactly the kind of info I'm searching for. Do you have any links/reviews for the laptops you are talking about? I'll look into them when I have time.
faleidel··on Show HN: While teaching a class of kids, I made this programming game for them
I way to return to the level you where at would be nice. And tags for your jump :)
faleidel··on Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigate energy efficiency
We could look at hydrothermal vents to see the effect of heat source underwater.
faleidel··on Show HN: A Web-to-RSS Parser in Common Lisp
We should do a web-to-mardown thing since so much websites are unreadable.

The funny thing is that chrome for cellphone already has something like that with the "make this website mobile friebdly".

Anyway, nice project!

faleidel··on Text Summarization with TensorFlow
Put an end to filler based journalism? That would be nice but don't you think that they will just evolve around your trick?
faleidel··on OpenLambda, a system for serverless computing
The problem with serverless is that it's seems to mean distributed.

So why not chose a more fitting name?

faleidel··on OpenLambda, a system for serverless computing
What we need is to find a term to replace that atrocity. We agree that this is not "server less" but what is it? Its more like abstract servers.
faleidel··on Unexplored Areas in Data Compression
I tried to add 1 to the first byte of a file, 2 to the second, 3 to the third... and see how it effect the compression rate.

On a small text file that could normally be compressed by 71% the modified file only got 16%.

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