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mkchoi212

458 karma · joined February 22, 2017

Fintech / iOS enthusiast
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mkchoi212··on Show HN: Sourcewizard – AI installs SDKs in your codebase
All of our customers use AI to integrate our SDK anyways so this makes sense
mkchoi212··on Ask HN: Do you use productivity apps with email access?
I use Amie which has read & write access to my calendar + email
mkchoi212··on Ask HN: Would you use an AI-powered seeker-provider platform?
The AI would do the search for you. Essentially, every new post on this platform would be processed by the AI to see if it matches your query.
mkchoi212··on Launch HN: Lumona (YC W24) – Product search based on Reddit and YouTube reviews
Are you paying for Reddit's API or did y'all find a way around it?
mkchoi212··on Ask HN: How do you digest your newsletters?
damn 250 is a lot! impressed that you can digest that much info. how long does this usually take you?
mkchoi212··on Ask HN: What is the best programming book you've read?
The Little Schemer is my favorite by far! So easy to understand and follow. Definitely a must read if you want to get into functional programming
mkchoi212··on Ask HN: What is the best programming book you've read?
The Little Schemer is my favorite by far! so easy to understand and follow. Definitely a must read if you want to get into functional programming
mkchoi212··on Launch HN: Reploy (YC S20) – Instant fullstack staging environments for web apps
Cool stuff! Would be cool to see Reploy adopt formats other than web apps ;)
mkchoi212··on GitHub Audio (2016)
Wow like the author says, it is nice to leave open in the background :)
mkchoi212··on Guietta – Python module to create simple GUIs
This feels like markdown but for GUIs. Love the simplicity and look forward to see what kind of interfaces people come up with!
mkchoi212··on How to list all the targets on a Makefile
Simple but really effective trick. Brian Kernighan would be proud :)
mkchoi212··on How Does Sqlite Work? (2014)
Wow, I've been using sqlite all this time without knowing how the internals of it actual work. Would love more insight on its memory usage and how it handles memory pressure, etc
mkchoi212··on DHH: The HEY stack Vanilla Ruby on Rails, MySQL, redis, stimulus, elastic search
It uses ElasticSearch? Does this mean that HEY only supports searching when the device is online? I would expect search to work on a mobile app with no internet access when I'm paying $100 for an email service...
mkchoi212··on Faster Integer Parsing
Always great finding out about new SIMD instructions I've never heard of before. Hope I get the chance to use them in the future and make stuff insanely fast :p
mkchoi212··on MakeSpace – Virtual Spatial Chat
Looks so awesome. The spatial audio feature would be a game changer if implemented correctly. The hold caps lock to broadcast your voice globally seems like a super power that should be limited to the admin or something though :O
mkchoi212··on How to get people to work on your project (2007)
This is gold. While I agree with most things the author mentions, I'm kinda meh on this statement.

> Write good code. Go back over older code and rewrite it. Then come back later and rewrite it again. Make it better.

IMO, just making it work initially is what matters the most. Ship it, get the bug reports, and fix the kinks. While fixing the kinks, maybe refactor a bit here and there. Some could say, yeah but refactoring makes it easier for others to work on the code with you. My response to that is, yes... but this is a chicken, egg problem. You can write the prettiest code in the world where even a toddler can start hopping on and writing code. But, none of that matters if you never ship, pick up some momentum, and actually have people who want to work on the project with you.

mkchoi212··on The Next Step for Generics
> Second, we know that many people have said that Go needs generics, but we don’t necessarily know exactly what that means.

Seems like the go authors are still bent on the idea that generics are really not necessarily and that there is no such problem that can only be solved by generics. Then is the generic drafting only a thing because they have been pressured into it by the community? I wonder why Rob Pike one day decided that it’s okay to change a language he almost vowed to never change after the initial release.

mkchoi212··on A grandmaster who got Twitch hooked on chess
This is awesome. Chess becoming main stream again as people bored in quarantine are looking for new brain engaging activities.
mkchoi212··on Music Grid
"Hit Play button. You'll figure it out ;)"

Peak user instructions. Overall, great job :)

mkchoi212··on Async Python is not faster
"the more performance sensitive Python code you can replace the better you will do. This is Python performance tactic with a long history"
mkchoi212··on How London Transport Is Preparing for Life After Lockdown
I feel like the London subway carriages are a lot smaller than subway carriages from other parts of the world; e.g South Korea. In addition, I’m not sure how good the air circulation is in the tube as it doesn’t have the best reputation for having a good AC system. Hope this emboldens the British gov to make the necessary changes to the tube.
mkchoi212··on Gimp 2.10.20
Ah what awesome new features/changes! Can’t wait to try these out :)
mkchoi212··on Static Analysis
I can't understand how people use languages without static analysis. The only edge case I can think is using any scripting language to write a script that is less than 1k lines. Are there any pros for languages that don't have static analysis other than the fact that it allows "rapid development/prototyping"?
mkchoi212··on Used EV Batteries Could Power Tomorrow's Solar Farms
This is something I'm super excited about. People should note that people started trying this out long time ago with batteries from used laptops. I believe couple people were even able to create DIY household energy storage solutions with just old battery laptops!

Once the industry figures out the problem of scaling, this could be very impactful.

mkchoi212··on New inline assembly syntax available in Rust nightly
Ah gotcha. I guess I just haven’t come across a situation that calls for hand written ASM yet :p
mkchoi212··on New inline assembly syntax available in Rust nightly
Yeah true. But doesn’t Rust provide an equivalent to C’s intrinsic functions like popcount?
mkchoi212··on Gravity: An embeddable programming language without any external dependencies
After having looked at it for a minute, it looks like a very simplified version of Swift. Looks great! Might try out the language on my Raspberry Pi and see how fast the thing is :p
mkchoi212··on New inline assembly syntax available in Rust nightly
This looks a lot better than GCC’s asm. However, I can’t think of a good reason why one should use asm in their code instead of letting the compiler write the far superior asm for you.
mkchoi212··on Amazon in advanced talks to buy Zoox
Am I the only one that read this as “in advanced talks to buy ZOOM”? I almost freaked out when I thought I read that..
mkchoi212··on ZSH Aliases
I don't understand what the negatives of typing `gs` over `git status` is.. Unless I have a bin named `gs`.. but as long as I know that, what are the disadvantages?
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