Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — waldir

waldir

HN member
Joined
Wed, May 15, 2013, 5:00 AM UTC
HN karma
76
Public activity
48 items

About waldir

Occasional hacker, compulsive bikeshedder, wiki addict.

http://waldyrious.github.io

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/waldyrious; my proof: https://keybase.io/waldyrious/sigs/qgJFt1eE8X2416hzOyWH7UV5DDSqWam1-xdWMsO1sLE ]

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #46140691

    > It's the difference between instructions for a user and instructions for a developer Sounds like a job for a CONTRIBUTING.md :)

  2. comment
    Comment #45695164

    They've already started a public repository here: https://github.com/anthropics/skills (It's the last link in the "Getting started" section of the post.)

  3. comment
    Comment #37403162

    I get why people may not like the comparison you're making, but that aside, I agree that the article insists uncomfortably often that the freedom only comes if "the work" gets done…

  4. comment
    Comment #35479095

    Extensive discussion on reddit, dating back from the day after the initial announcement date (15 February): https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/113dm5v/anyone_get_...

  5. comment
    Comment #35479084

    So... was your project one of the 20 accepted ones? I got the email but my project (tldr-pages) wasn't selected.

  6. comment
    Comment #34287605

    Doesn't that suggest that tooling wasn't the issue after all?

  7. comment
    Comment #34116013

    That's why I prefer outliners. They still provide the sense of an infinitely nestable hierarchy, allow focusing on arbitrary levels of it as a temporary "root" document", and allow…

  8. comment
    Comment #25809687

    Interesting. Can you share an example of this working?

  9. story
  10. comment
    Comment #19479200

    It's really great to be able to just click a link and start playing with Julia without installing anything! While there are other platforms offering a similar experience, I'm glad …

  11. comment
    Comment #17731826

    I found https://giordano.github.io/blog/2017-11-03-rock-paper-scisso... to be a pretty good attempt at that. Of course, the code's elegance will probably not be immediately evident…

  12. comment
    Comment #17722769

    For context, they mean the live video feed of JuliaCon 2018. Here's where the release was announced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jN5wKvN-Uk

  13. comment
    Comment #16443172

    They're probably mixing it up with Google Buzz.

  14. comment
    Comment #16135256

    As I commented recently on a thread about Patuá [on reddit]( https://redd.it/7oly3x ), the similarities between different patois are striking, even across different source language…

  15. comment
    Comment #15986928

    > A couple of unit tests and docs are always helpful but do not give enough credit compare to the effort of building such projects. You might want to take a look at https://github.…

  16. comment
    Comment #15986924

    It's worth noting that this newcomer friendliness is no accident: building and maintaining a welcoming FOSS community, and doing so at scale, can only be achieved with deliberate e…

  17. comment
    Comment #14418228

    It would probably make sense to also link to the deletion discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

  18. comment
    Comment #14403749

    After reading lots of similar anecdotes about Ed (Steven Levy's "Hackers" dedicates quite a few words to it), I was quite sure it was pretty much unusable for today's UI patterns, …

  19. comment
    Comment #14370187

    In fact, Flang has now been added: https://mohd-akram.github.io/languages/?source=Fortran

  20. comment
    Comment #14368240

    Not just JavaScript: https://mohd-akram.github.io/languages/?source=LLVM%20IR

  21. comment
    Comment #13984576

    You might be interested in https://worldbrain.io

  22. comment
    Comment #13920950

    The repository and website should have these criteria mentioned explicitly. I'll probably send a PR to that effect :) ps - amazing initiative, congrats!

  23. comment
    Comment #13078128

    > things like habit tracking, habit reversal therapy, time tracking What apps do you recommend for these purposes?

  24. comment
    Comment #12645378

    To counter your point, consider the fact that 4K video looks better when downsampled to 1080p than video captured directly in 1080p: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIf9h2Gkm_U -- …

  25. comment
    Comment #12313752

    > Especially now that new TLDs are being added at a steady clip. Indeed, there are some differences ( https://www.diffchecker.com/tcbbvy7p ) with IANA's root domains list: http://w…