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noobdev9000on Ask HN: Is Knuth's TAOCP worth the time and effort?

No, most of this is made trivial and redundant today.

Understanding your std library performance is lot more important

noobdev9000on Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users

It's their OS. Seems like an odd issue.

noobdev9000on Ask HN: What do you carry in your backpack?

You must have large pants

noobdev9000on JetBrains IDE update previews “deeply integrated” AI Assistant

New UI and VSC envy are good, it's already better than the old point-and-click adventure game UI they had.

AI thing will be good too. It's not more of a security nightmare or different than SO assuming that the IDE isn't leaking secrets.

noobdev9000on Inconvenient Truths about TypeScript

It's awful to incorporate as part of a project (all the configuration for compilation, mapping errors etc.). It's also extremely complex language with plenty of footguns. The required TS tooling is also an argument against it.

noobdev9000on The Odyssey by Homer, Translated by Samuel Butler

Are they bad, or are they bad because they don't torture the text to fit modern day sensibilities and npc iq?

noobdev9000on TypeScript please give us reflection/runtime types

Modern TS code is hard for me to read and reason, and I use Rust, Haskell, C++. Way too complex for my brain

noobdev9000on How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries

Why? Most companies require skills in frameworks and libraries. The fact you can glue them together shows a different skill, that you'll most likely use in job daily.

This feels so forced. Make a joke CV, strip it of any mentions of these "bad" things, try applying. Good luck.

noobdev9000on It's weird that people get mocked for changing their minds

Yes it's true. Changing mind aliases with being easily suggestible.

noobdev9000on A new study looks at how exercise can help alleviate anxiety and depression

There are even studies about how gut bacteria can affect brain. Mind-Body distinction is a dead end philosophycel cope.

noobdev9000on Principles of Imperative Computation

It's not really complex enough to require a full university course, is it now.

noobdev9000on Free-types: Higher kinded types in TypeScript

Why

noobdev9000on Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

Tabs are entirely useless and wrong abstraction. Look at VSCode, you just use Command Palette to search for anything. That's good

noobdev9000on EPUB 3.3 becomes a W3C recommendation

2023 and still no good epub reader for Windows. Such a shame Microsoft removed it from Edge.

noobdev9000on Rust has been forked to the Crab Language

Rust was always a corporation/FAANG language when you looked at contributors and sponsors, so it's probably not real reason, I mean it is clear async was rushed out for AWS/Amazon and everyone celebrated it nonetheless.

People like to hide motives

noobdev9000on Ask HN: How to be better at problem solving

Increase IQ

noobdev9000on Will deep understanding still be valuable?

It's not even valuable now, it's why we use abstractions and rely on interfaces.

"How does it work" rarely brings value.

noobdev9000on CS 61B Data Structures, Spring 2023 UC Berkeley

Is there a point for working programmer to learn these in 2023, rather than just treating them as abstract interfaces?

noobdev9000on Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come back to the office

Probably have enough data to judge WFH experiment as failed.

noobdev9000on RedisRaft

That it's not ready for prod when it's a public repo in GitHub

noobdev9000on RedisRaft

This is essentially a complete fabrication. If it's on public repo, ready or not, someone will use it for prod.

noobdev9000on Can Rust Beat JavaScript in 2023?

Have you or anyone else how to organize and test a Rust web application that is structured around usual onion layer using DDD or similar?