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pagnol··on ForgJs – A lightweight object validator
Been using runtypes and it works well enough, but now I'm wondering if this may be a smarter option.
pagnol··on Travel and the algorithmic trap
I love it when a comment makes me want to read a novel and this is one such comment. Thanks!
pagnol··on Loneliness is a serious public-health problem
> Likewise, I see people on the subway or bus looking at their phones, and I know many of them have to be lonely.

For ages I only possessed a tattered slow Android phone which I only ever used to make phone calls or send the occasional WhatsApp message. Back then I used to feel the same way about people on the subway who were looking at their phones. For a few months now I’ve been having a brand new iPhone (it was a gift) and I have since discovered to my own amazement that it’s a pretty damn awesome reading device. My backpack used to be full of books which are now all on my phone. This experience has made me less judgemental when I look around on a train and see only people interacting with their phone. For all I know, they may be reading poetry or the latest machine learning papers. :)

pagnol··on Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling
If you live in the Berlin area like me and are looking for ways to produce less waste, then check out this store called Unverpackt: https://original-unverpackt.de/

It's a physical store which sells most everything a normal supermarket does but without the disposable packaging.

pagnol··on Using Machine Learning to Understand Page Templates
What I'd really like to see is a presentation of an algorithm that automatically recognizes and hides the first dismissive HN comment that inevitably appears. Any takers?
pagnol··on Forgotten Employee (2002)
I am hungry for this kind of writing, what else can I read that is somewhat like this story?
pagnol··on Habits of Highly Miserable People
Are you practicing number 5? If so, great job!
pagnol··on Self-criticism can take a toll on our minds and bodies
You might like to look into TMS: http://www.tmswiki.org
pagnol··on 61% of “Entry-Level” Jobs Require 3+ Years of Experience
I've similarly always struggled to make sense of these kinds of claims, because in my life so far I was offered a job every time I applied, so I'm wondering if I'm either living in an area where the job market is much less competitive or if I'm aiming too low. It's out of the question that I'm some kind of hotshot, on the contrary my CV is a mess and I dropped out ouf college.
pagnol··on WordPress Plugin Development: Talking to APIs
> For one, no mention of testing here (or really hardly anywhere in PHP-land), [...]

In a different life I had to maintain a website based on the Drupal CMS and also one based on the then-popular Laravel PHP framework, and in both environments testing was common and well-supported. As much as I dislike PHP, such a blanket statement does not hold up.

pagnol··on 10 JavaScript Libraries for Front End
I don't write a lot of js these days and don't keep up with what's going on in the ecosystem, so overviews such as this one are actually quite interesting at times.
pagnol··on Announcing gRPC Support in Nginx
I would also like to know why you don't consider it 'modern' and how you would define modern-ness in this context.
pagnol··on Picat: A Logic-Based, Multi-Paradigm, Programming Language
Thank you for taking the time to respond! It's quite an honor to receive an answer from you, as your book has been a valuable resource whenever I worked with Prolog.
pagnol··on Picat: A Logic-Based, Multi-Paradigm, Programming Language
How does this compare to Mercury?
pagnol··on Shen Programming Language for Android
Presumably some readers bought the book when Shen appeared on the frontpage because its price on Amazon has risen from 40 usd to 230 usd: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01K3JCGGI
pagnol··on Micromouse
Hacker News at its best... awesome!
pagnol··on Clean – A functional programming language
Can anybody comment on this?
pagnol··on The State of JavaScript 2017
Ha, I use Elm because it allows me to iterate quickly, especially as I don't need to run the app to find out if there are bugs, since the compiler catches so much.
pagnol··on Son: A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine communication
I didn't know CBOR, but it looks similar to BSON and MessagePack, or is there a significant difference?
pagnol··on Show HN: Enviar.io – Real estate landing pages
Yes, it didn't take long and I didn't even need to validate my email address. Here it is: https://app.enviar.io/link/d6b6e380
pagnol··on Sshtalk: An SSH-based chat made in assembler
What happened?
pagnol··on Infinitown – A WebGL Experiment
I find myself wanting to do something similar... thanks for the inspiration!
pagnol··on My unusual hobby
I'm currently working through the material here: https://github.com/pigworker/CS410-17
pagnol··on A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)
I'm sure you'd love to live in the world of Fahrenheit 451, there they have no 'walls of text' and only big tv screens with colorful images, multiple per room.
pagnol··on I hate telephones
Also the desire to regard himself as an otherwise confident person (even superior to the majority!) seems to be very strong:

> In many polls, people list their number one fear as “public speaking”, beating out “death” by some margin. Not me.

Perhaps for this reason the fear of talking to a stranger must be so strongly suppressed.

Personally, I also often feel uncomfortable when accepting a call from an unknown number, but I try to lean into the pain and pick up nevertheless. I actually think of my phone as something like a therapeutic device that allows me to practice talking to strangers and little by little the feeling of uncomfortableness will fade away...

pagnol··on US government approves 'killer' mosquitoes to fight disease
> We understand stuff pretty deeply now.

Case in point... this is the mindset that worries us.

pagnol··on The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business
There's a great documentary about host clubs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pW0RV2nSg0
pagnol··on What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?
> The use of a ZIP archive to encapsulate XML files plus resources is an elegant approach to an application file format. It is clearly superior to a custom binary file format.

Why would it be superior? The biggest advantage I can think of is code reuse, but what else?

pagnol··on DevDocs API Documentation
This is great, thank you very much!
pagnol··on Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition (2015)
Yes, there is.
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