pauljz

Joined 14 years ago

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Email: my HN username [at] gmail.com

I'm working at Clover Health - a health insurance company where we're using data and technology to improve the health and lives of the elderly, disabled, and chronically ill.

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Comment · 10 years ago
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Comment · 11 years ago
If you're wondering why comments are a factor at all, and aren't just discarded by the lexer, remember that comments in JS are preserved and available to things like `Function.prototype.toString()`. I've seen this used to do evil multiline string support a few times. Slap the multiline string or template into a comment inside a function and then have another function that toStrings it and strips the boilerplate.

This sounds like a horrifying hack but it's also pretty similar to how Angular's shorthand DI works.

Comment · 11 years ago
This isn't a totally new phenomenon either. I used to ride this stretch of the Metro to work every day back in 2009-2012, and I remember seeing these plants back then too. At the time they hadn't really taken hold at Cleveland Park, but Woodley Park was overrun with them.

These stations also had a tendency to flood during particularly heavy rains, so it's no surprise that questionable drainage is the culprit.

It's interesting to note that these stations get no natural light where the ferns are growing. It's all manmade light.

Comment · 11 years ago
In the final example where he switches to int32 for Go (after "Let's make it use int32 consistently and try again"), he runs gopherjs twice instead of running go and gopherjs. I hope that's a typo.

The reasoning seems correct, but it'd be nice to have the benchmarks corrected to verify.

Comment · 11 years ago
I really like Go and have definitely felt there's room for great integrated tooling there.

I want to do Go as one of our early code engines. We'll probably start off using srclib for early Go support and then build up some bigger features around the compiler tools, go fix, and so forth.

Comment · 11 years ago
The "Hot Dog Stand" theme was actually requested by more than one person. Gotta give the people what they want.
Comment · 11 years ago
We want to make sure it's light enough to run on netbooks/travel computers.

We've got a Dell Venue 8 with an Atom processor lying around that we're using as a test device to make sure things still run well under CPU constraints.

We haven't looked too close yet at one-directory deployment or running off a USB stick, but I just added a sticky note to our backlog to see if we can do it cleanly.

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Comment · 11 years ago
We want to do some cool stuff with SQL down the road. We'd start with features like a query result browser, but could expand that into things like query analysis too.

We don't have it pegged for a specific release just yet though.

Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
Great visualization, but this would be much more interesting if it accounted for differences in income within countries as well.

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