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If someone is curious about this data, I made a little analysis a while ago - Nobel Prize in numbers: https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/nobel-prize-in-numbers/#sec...

Deep APIs were mentioned in "A Philosophy of Software Design" (John Ousterhout)

You could try to serve the Memento from the server and store it in an index db

I am not sure what you mean by "store it in an index db", but I was thinking about using the searcher on a static website (no real backend, only a fileserver serving pre-generated html files). So if I understand you correctly, in order for this to work I would have to cache Memento via a local storage and load it on every page load/search request.

Unfortunately the index would change over time, thus one would have to detect this somehow and regenerate Memento as well.

Good job, this looks really well done. One thing I am wondering, however, is how easy it would be to integrate a pre-generated inverted index file into this fuzzy searcher?

Context: Say I have a bunch of blog posts from which I create an inverted index at "export to html" time, in order to avoid indexing the blog content at runtime on every page visit. Is there a way to persist the internal state of the fuzzy search across different page requests (e.g, /blog-post-1, /blog-post-2), so it only builds its internal state/index once?

The pre-generated inverted index could be quite large and I would like to avoid parsing it on every page request.

I don't get it why the Microsoft Word team didn't create a good looking default template that people could just use without any fiddling necessary. They had more than 20 years at this point to create something that looks pleasing out of the box, but when you check the available templates they are all an ugly looking mess.

I built a Markdown like text format for writing technical reports. I was fed up with Word and I wanted a plain text language that supports tables, footnotes, auto validated references to any part of the document, syntax highlighting of code blocks, comments, math equations, table of contents, etc... Unfortunately, existing solutions are all slow or written with some bizarre toolchains that are a pain to set up.

I wrote it from scratch in Go with very few dependencies, so I can compile it to a single binary that should work on all platforms. It outputs .html or .tex which is then compiled to a PDF via Xelatex. Since Latex is pain to deal with, I wanted to generate pdf directly, but life got in a way so... it's not exactly a finished project, but at least I enjoy using it.

Tab vs spaces war has cooled off, so we have to start a new one.

A: If I do X, then this happens...

B: Yeah but I don't care about X.

A: You are not a professional if you don't care about what I care about.

Now that this debate has raised some dust, I guess Bob has already started writing the "Clean Performance" book in order to continue to milk the series and stay in the spotlight.

I am glad you liked it.

Thanks, I thought it was a bug in some app and just wanted to be sure, so I don't have to babysit the server.

If anybody knows which app is that, please tell the maintainer that they have a serious bug. It's night here, so I am logging off.

Author here. This is not related to this discussion, but does anybody know what causes these lines to appear in my server logs?

  <REDACTED> - - [14/Feb/2021:22:26:45 +0100] "GET /posts/the-complexity-that-lives-in-the-gui/ HTTP/1.1" 200 16798 "-" "HackerNews/1391 CFNetwork/1220.1 Darwin/20.3.0"
  <REDACTED> - - [14/Feb/2021:22:26:45 +0100] "GET /posts/the-complexity-that-lives-in-the-gui/ HTTP/1.1" 200 16798 "-" "HackerNews/1391 CFNetwork/1220.1 Darwin/20.3.0"
  <REDACTED> - - [14/Feb/2021:22:26:45 +0100] "GET /posts/the-complexity-that-lives-in-the-gui/ HTTP/1.1" 200 16798 "-" "HackerNews/1391 CFNetwork/1220.1 Darwin/20.3.0"

the producers and consumers of messages are completely decoupled, which makes debugging really annoying because you don't have anything like a stack trace

This is actually a really good point. I don't know why you were downvoted.

I think that the only thing that really works are code reviews. The best engineers on the team should have enough time to review what is being committed and provide suggestions for improvement. Things will start gradually improving, but it usually takes a very long time before you see any progress.

Like someone already mentioned in this thread before, an important part of this transformation is to not forget about the political aspects of such cleanup process. People don't like to hear criticism, so you will probably encounter a lot of pushback in the beginning.

Well, that's a surprise for sure. I wrote this article a few months ago and it gained no traction. Today I woke up and boom, front page.

To be entirely honest, most of his books are pretty awful, as they are mostly preaching something for the sake of preaching and selling the books. I bought his last one (Clean Architecture) as I wanted to improve myself as an architect, just to realize its riddled with fluff and rarely anything in there is actionable advice. For some reason the reviews from his followers are mostly glowing.

I also found myself agreeing with everything written in this blog post. For the record I have read his famous Clean Code, Clean Coder and Clean Architecture and I don't find them all that meaningful.

You can't see email on HN. Check the website posted above and find my email there.

Sure thing.

It didn't sell in such numbers that I could compare different markets and draw any conclusions. Maybe next time.

The majority of the bugs I've been resolving take from 30min to a few hours (if I know the codebase) - but they are usually complex distributed systems issues.

What kind of bugs are those that could be fixed in 2 minutes?

Better keyboard support comes in next version. Do you mind telling me why do you switch between tasks every 6 minutes?

No the word you are looking for is: synchronization.

Cross platform means works on multiple platforms (in this case Windows, Mac, Linux).

You are right that was updated to free updates for one major version (e.g: license 1.2.0 is also valid for 1.3.0, 1.4.0 but not for 2.0.0).

Thanks for suggestions

Here is the list of current shortcuts (not much I know): https://docs.royalsloth.eu/slothtracker/documentation/#keybo...

Yes

Whatever software you buy, there are usually some kind of minimum system requirements listed so people don't run it on some ancient potato and complain how it doesn't work.

It uses ~220Mb of RAM in total.

The only way to improve is to hear such opinions. So thanks, will see what I can do about the design. It's easy to get carried away with feature development.

They are not bound to specific dates, as shipping to hit an arbitrary date creates a buggy software.

A version is released when a new feature/a set of features is ready. This is actually the first public release, that's why there are no release dates online.