billrobertson42

Joined 16 years ago

Karma
222
Submissions
138
Member since
Dec 5
5'9" tall
View on Hacker News

Recent submissions

Comment · 11 months ago
I wanted to suggest Fernflower. I have a lot of experience with it, because it's what Jetbrains uses in Intellij. I have only seen it generate sensible code.

I took a quick peek at Vineflower first, and it's a fork of Fernflower. So would recommend that for anyone who might stumble on this in the future who is looking for a decompiler.

Comment · 1 year ago
I took it as sarcasm.
Comment · 1 year ago
What is react doing that appears to make it so much slower? Where does it spend its time?
Comment · 1 year ago
When you're writing a release, or about some detail of your project, you need to directly give new readers background, or at least provide some navigation to something else that provides background.

A lot of tech and tech-adjacent writing is like that these days. Our cool project X now does Y! With no introduction about what X is, or even a link to something that describes it. So most readers are left to wonder about why should care. At times, I've even tracked down X's github repo only to find that their README has the same problem.

It's an easy trap to fall in when you write. It's easy to feel like you're over-explaining things. You, the author, know what it is, and likely many of the people who follow X know too. The problem comes when some curious person outside of the Xosphere takes a look. Chances are good you'll lose most, if not all, of them.

If you want people to be interested in your X, then make sure they have a way of learning about your X when you introduce improvement Y.

Comment · 3 years ago
This is amazing. Thank you!
Comment · 3 years ago
zmq is a challenge to get to work for sure. It's super low level.
Comment · 3 years ago
Good news! It's in rubles.
Comment · 4 years ago
Awesome!
Comment · 4 years ago
A simple font selector would be nice. I have some seriously impaired vision w/o correction and monospaced fonts really help when I have to look at a screen that way.

That and ability to zoom in/out or increase/decrease font size.

Comment · 5 years ago
Good for them. Bug, mistake, bad data, or whatever. Glad they fixed it.
Comment · 5 years ago
It doesn't appear to be locked now.
Comment · 6 years ago
If the expose category and tags then passing through the ability to filter based on that would nice too.
Comment · 7 years ago
I started in the 90's and I realized early on that non-tech people in the company viewed us as cogs.
Comment · 7 years ago
Realizing that "coder" is largely a pejorative term and most people have no idea and appreciation for what you do.
Comment · 7 years ago
Have you tried seeing if you're connected to anyone there through LinkedIn?

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton