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Dev Fonts 2 years ago

You're in good company. Ligatures were really not meant to be used this way, and materially harm the editing experience IMO.

Using parens to pass type arguments was one of the things that turned me off on Zig. For a language that prioritizes "no hidden control flow," it sure did a lot to make various syntax conventions _masquerade_ as control flow instead.

How DWARF Works 2 years ago

Very mid compared to Visual Studio in my experience. You don't even get a modules window, and there's a whole litany of core C++ debugging features missing.

You are comparing apples to oranges. Settlement times in traditional credit card transactions are not felt by the customer, and provide safeguards for fraud prevention and charge backs. Furthermore, transactions are easily reversible through a claims system. Guess what crypto doesn't have?

I'm very familiar with congestion trading and was in that industry at one point, but cmon, this is a bad crypto talking point. It's already quite apparent that bitcoin mines actually destabilize grids just as much while driving up electricity prices for local consumers far more than any positive net effect from an energy perspective.

"good design?" Imagine a world where you can reply to a comment and have the entire thread context, or a world where after posting a comment and hitting "back", the navigation stack didn't take you to the post form. From an accessibility and legibility standpoint, the text is honestly hard to read (insufficient contrast, long line, etc.). There are so many usability issues/quirks about HN that I'm not sure "good design" is an apt description. "Information dense" is honestly a low bar -- it's easy to achieve information density and pretend the end result is actually good.

4B If Statements 3 years ago

I would think that the title alone should indicate that this entire bit is satire.

Do you understand the data structure being proposed in the original post, and are you claiming that scanning 100GB of data every time you want to perform a childof operation is acceptable? Please, use the proposed tree for your application since big o isn't the full story to you lol