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freekh··on The Rise and Fall of Pixel QI
My biggest dream is a big epaper or pixel qi screen to do development on. The bazillion nits is killing my eyes...
freekh··on How to take 7 years to ship a beta
Second that: game looks amazing! Maybe you should scratch the irony in the article because I'm sold :) I'm spending the next seven years on my project :)
freekh··on Crafting Interpreters
Isn't a scripting language a programming language? The way I understood it is that not all programming languages are scripting languages but all scripting languages are programming languages. I'm making my own you see and I also use the same denomination.
freekh··on Light Phone 2: A simple 4G phone with e-ink
Thanks! And sorry for replying so late, but just had to ask why on Earth you would go to the trouble of looking it up, writing this comment and then adding that FYI in there? Just strange (or is it some sort of display of superiority I don't understand), hence the question. Hope this comment is not offending I certainly did not mean it. Just felt that it would be polite to answer given that you took the time :)
freekh··on App Maker, Google’s low-code tool for building business apps, comes out of beta
Don't want to sound overly negative but for some reason this makes me think of SharePoint. I'm sure it's nothing like it though :)
freekh··on Light Phone 2: A simple 4G phone with e-ink
Does anyone know if the banana phone has Spotify?
freekh··on The Hitchhiker's Guide to Elm
Working on an elm project now and a few months in I believe I might see the main wart if elm which is the amount of boilerplate required. I suppose that should shock no one because elm might be many things but feature rich is not one of them. I still like it though. And boilerplate might be easier to read than some bad abstraction. Still it ends up less dry than I would have liked.
freekh··on The rise of the pointless job
This is the same feeling I have when visiting the us. Remember coming into a Starbucks staffed by 5 people but only one doing something. At an airport there was a bunch of people whose job was to make sure I had my passport open prior to going through security. And so on and so on. It might just be my cultural shock though when going there. When you go to a different country you sometimes pick up 'strangeness' and generalise it to the whole country...
freekh··on Over 30? Too Old for Tech Jobs in China
Yeah, that ressonates with my thinking as well: it's around 30 for engineers at least cause it takes a couple of years to get your head around the business and then another couple of years to acquire the expertise.
freekh··on Americans Are a Lonely Lot, and Young People Bear the Heaviest Burden
I have a 2yr ol, and me and my spouse have the exact same way of functioning. We haven't quite figured out how to get 3-5 days but 1-3 days of exercise each is what we aim for. Or thinking it's the same: you can't have a happy family if your vitals (sleep, exercise, healthy food) are low. We try to combine 1 exercise (running) with going to a playground all of us and then one runs a round while the other cars for our son.
freekh··on Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress
If this is not going to be a meme I don't know. He has beautiful smile at the end there :)
freekh··on Elm at Pacific Health Dynamics
This is also my experience in both elm and (type|Java)script/react/redux apps as well: flat decoupled architectures seem to scale better in terms of development/maintenance in addition to reducing (bad) churn. If styling is properly handled, feature progression is also linear-ish.
freekh··on The Drugging of the American Boy (2014)
I've always wondered if it is related to discipline not bring enforced as harshly. I'm NOT saying it was good to do that, just wondering if that is a cause...
freekh··on Norway Used NSA Technology for Potentially Illegal Spying
I am disappointed beyond words. If they indeed surveiled Norwegian citizens I except all responsible will be severely punished and that examples are made. These days I feel examples are made of people that did much less to impact personal freedom and democracy. Obviously the Rechtsstaat has cumbled already... I believed Norway to be above such dystopian practices. </rage>
freekh··on A RISC V Based Linear Algebra Accelerator for SoC Designs [video]
Here's my notes for those who are want; they added some 68 instructions for linalg to risc v. Their arc has a specialized reduce / aggregate logic and associated memory for vectors and matrices. They also made a c lib for their instruction set. Saw some impressive speedups compared to normal risc v (x12?), x86 (x5?) and fermi gpus (x10?) (In the hpc challenge where they did have to update some of the code, obviously, to use their instructions).
freekh··on Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale?
My view of BTC is as digital gold, in that, it is the standard to which other easier-to-trade (digital or fiat or not) currencies are anchored in (so like gold standard). Ever since I started reading about it, this was how it was sold. The new gold standard. In this regard, high transaction fees/times was expected. POW is a feature, not a bug.
freekh··on MNT Reform: DIY portable computer
This is exactly something I've been looking to do for myself. Highly inspiring!!!
freekh··on Google’s PixelBook: the target is bigger than it seems
Thanks I am gonna check this one out! I don't care about graphics to be honest.
freekh··on Show HN: MMOsteroids: JS, Go, and Webrtc
This is just awesome! Thanks for sharing!
freekh··on Google’s PixelBook: the target is bigger than it seems
I am hoping it’s gonna be ARM based and that it will be easyish to install Linux on it. ARMs, at least apples cores, finally seem to have gotten fast enough to be powering my main/Dev machine and if I could get the screen, look n feel, ram and disk that’s high-end enough I am jumping at it. I am really hoping for something to be replacing the x86 with something more open, more secure and more battery friendly.
freekh··on Ask HN: Does coding give you brain fog?
Oh yeah! My friend used to tease me every day after work when we worked together. "How's it hanging up there in the code fog" he would always say when I was grasping for words :) I never really noticed though: so no headaches or anything like that...
freekh··on Talos II
Looks interesting, I didn't even know that you still could buy PowerPC she. Anyone know of pros and cons?
freekh··on Why Good People Leave Large Tech Companies
I really liked this comment :) I am looking forward to pondering upon this way of reasoning for this entire Saturday :)
freekh··on A reality check for virtual headsets
What I imagined VR will give, once the headsets and input devices have been iterated on, is a way to have a true workspace environment on the move.
freekh··on Show HN: A WebAssembly game demo
Works flawlessly on my Firefox 53 (and Chrome) on (Arch) Linux.
freekh··on Engineering management lessons (2014)
Second this a lot. In fact I am gonna steel exactly this and feed it back to my org
freekh··on Scastie: use any Scala compiler and Scala library in the browser
This looks so cool!!! Can't wait to try it out!
freekh··on Noun Project – Icons for Everything
This really reminds my of the glory days of clip art :) I for one really liked those so no harm meant :) The next thing is clippy coming back (oh wait that's all those chat bots) :)
freekh··on Lbry.io – decentralized digital library
Is it possible that they try to optimize for discussions on forums just like this one? :P
freekh··on Lisping on the GPU [video]
Can't wait to the next hackathon I am going. I am so going to play around with this!
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