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vans··on Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've Done
It's so sad to see such techniques just because people can control themselves. Ok, a life with a full list of friends on facebook is fake, but the opposite is fake too. It's just another hypster minimalist move. Some tortured guy looking for meaning in his life, as all of us, but with enough paternalistic arrogance to pretend he knows better than us what's good for us, usual story.
vans··on Screeps – An MMO strategy sandbox game for programmers
far too high
vans··on SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year
because no one read the article :)
vans··on A solution for enabling UDP in the web
Cool, another protocol which claims for security and a reference implementation in... C
vans··on Whiteboard sticker for your laptop
I love having pen marks on my shirt when i'm carrying my laptop
vans··on It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android
The comparaison with JS is perfect. Like JS is the asm of the web ecosystem (no one wants to write its code just in JS, we generate it instead), default android and IOS way of programming have to be be generated.

Try Xamarin [0] or the newcomer flutter [1]. It's such a pain in the ass to dev in raw android or raw ios, use multi platform sdks.

And if you start with xamarin, you can target windows phone too, even if nobody cares ;-)

[0] https://www.xamarin.com/ [1] https://flutter.io/

vans··on This Is Your Life in Silicon Valley
Well written. I like the tone. I think it's a particular case of a global concern : what the purpose of life and how to live it well ? Even if i'm very different and put my efforts in other domains than "looking smart for other people". I'm asking myself similar questions: doubt about past choices, job, city, and so on.
vans··on PHP Sucks
He can switch to a static typed one. I don't know php but it should be a huge mindshift i guess
vans··on PHP Sucks
LOL
vans··on PHP Sucks
https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ No, you're right, it's just a matter of reputation. The language and its mindset are not to blame... ;-)
vans··on Flappy Bird Clone Code Injected into Super Mario World for SNES by Hand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y66UjBZN3K4
vans··on Writing a dynamic x86_64 assembler in Scala
I saw the talk. It was a nice hack !
vans··on Show HN: Miaou, an OS chat for developers and gamers
Maybe it's hard to pronounce for an english speaker. Hopefully, other languages exist and are used everyday :)
vans··on Why We Moved to React
I totaly agree with you. We need full decoupling between components. They have to be seen as pure functions, taking parameters and returning view modifications (and new values)
vans··on What We’ll Do in Space by 2116
ho no, 4 downvotes, my life is over... Downvoters understood what it is important for me obviously :D
vans··on What We’ll Do in Space by 2116
lol, i can't believe they are guy looking for HN reputation. And being jealous for such a virtual score, it's so childish that's funny :D
vans··on Writing an OS in Rust: Remap the Kernel
That's the kind of rust article i needed, thanks man :)
vans··on Reflecting on Haskell in 2015
Like Erik Meijer said in his course : there is nothing special or magic about monads. They don't deserve all the fuzz arround them. If you don't get why monads are so awesome, maybe that's a proof that you understood them. Because there is nothing special !!

A monad is just a type with 2 functions defined. Like an interface with two methods in OO langages. The 2 functions have to respect some laws but you can imagine whatever implementation for the 2 functions as long as the laws are observed (et type signature of course).

You could invent a total different implementation for the list monad, for the maybe monad, etc (if you respect the laws). There is no hidden ultra powerfull meaning which implies only one implementation.

The best paper on monads i ever read is an ascii art one, by Graham Hutton : http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszgmh/monads

vans··on Node.js running in the new Airbus A350 inflight servers
JS in airflights, ok that's official now, we are doomed.
vans··on Page Weight Matters (2012)
Read more about ads, their perception by our brain, how they work and how they are designed to bypass our consciousness. Next, understand the concept of metaphor. And then, come back... or not.
vans··on Page Weight Matters (2012)
I'm sorry, but watching an ad isn't just a payment like you do with money. It's a rape of your mind. It needs your personal data, to rape your brain deeper. So i block ads, not to see content, but because ads don't deserve to exist.
vans··on The New SDK for LEIA 3D
Is there a video of the proto ?
vans··on JavaScript as default language and software stack
Nice ending ;-)
vans··on JavaScript as default language and software stack
Using the right tool is an inportant skill. And if you're using javascript on the server side and feel it's right, you dont have this important skill.
vans··on JavaScript as default language and software stack
You are so right !
vans··on JavaScript as default language and software stack
Ahah, nice joke :)
vans··on Is it just me or is networking really hard?
What's the point of this insulting article full of rage ? nothing to do at this ranking on HN.
vans··on Skit: A pure JavaScript front end for building better web clients
Pre-render on server side is the way to go, no more empty html skeletons taking a while to fulfill after the first request, and you still get the reactive style of modern web app.
vans··on Be human
... sarcasm... for the sheldons of us :)
vans··on MacOS is the new Windows
What are you waiting for installing a linux on it ? Buy good hardware and throw away that shity os. Anyway, if you buy something because it's beautiful, you're doomed :)
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