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denys_potapov

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About denys_potapov

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    Comment #47657006

    tl;dr replace SQLite with Map ~ 2x speed up, replace zod validation with ifs ~ 2x speed up. Bun had a memory leak on unresolved promises - now fixed

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    Comment #46299882

    As the author of a JS-to-OCaml compiler [1], I must admit that Poe’s Law applies here [2]: “Without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of…

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    Comment #46162814

    Always. Probably you can't get in top 100 with python[1]. But I like dicts with tuple keys, bigints, all the list things. [1] My best is around 1300 place in HackerCup.

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    Comment #46162434

    Cool. Recursion in python is common bottleneck in competitive programming. Will give it a try. I created a similar tool for recursion [1]. But ended with rewriting AST and emulatin…

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    Comment #44095134

    I'm working on a block-based visual programming environment for kids — a sort of Scratch alternative — but instead of inventing a new language, it's a subset of Elixir. I'm using G…

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    Comment #40727457

    It's a 2024 webdev summary, nothing can be added: New React version made the lib obsolete, we used LLM to fix it (1/5 success rate)

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    Comment #38506012

    eyJ... — is a beginning of base64 encoded JSON. The fact that I know it, and see it in standards make me feel bad. I can't proof that this is wrong, but encoding one text format in…

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