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Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)

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Re: Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)

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Post by sillysaurusx »

It’s actually fascinating to watch this one. You can see scripters fighting for control. I just watched all the checkboxes get unchecked within a couple seconds, followed by an equally swift counterchecking from the opposing side.

Love the user count too. That was missing from the first one.

It would be nice if it had a fixed zoom level so that messages like "hi" would show up the same for everybody. But given the scripting, I guess it wouldn’t matter anyway.

Now you know what you have to do next: add 8-bit color selection support. Then we can prove once and for all what HN’s favorite color is.

Re: Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)

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Post by madamelic »

What is wrong with un-checkers.

Like do y'all leave carts out in the parking lots and Starbucks drinks on shelves? What went wrong in your life that you think it is fun to destroy other people's work.

EDIT: Feature request with that in mind: you should block someone's ability for 5 seconds to click if they are clicking subsequent boxes and someone reverses the check/uncheck within 2 seconds. Turn it into a real war.

eg: you are checking/unchecking in a line and someone clicks the box right as you click it, you get stunned.

Re: Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)

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Post by [deleted] »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #31

It’s actually fascinating to watch this one. You can see scripters fighting for control. I just watched all the checkboxes get unchecked within a couple seconds, followed by an equally swift counterchecking from the opposing side. Love the user count too. That was missing from the first one. It would be nice if it had a fixed zoom level so that messages like "hi" would show up the same for everybody. But given the sc…

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Re: Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)

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Post by cpursley »

bcardarella wrote: post #27
jahsome wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Without evaluating the merits of your statement, I find it funny you start out implying others are close-minded, but end up rather close-minded yourself.

Considering how many other solutions that are all trying to solve distributed systems issues but avoiding just using Erlang or Elixir I think the statement has merit.

Exactly, I've commented many times on here that at least half the show hn posts (like Hatchet from yesterday) are just overlycomplex implementations of features that have existed on the beam for decades. Or at least already in the Erlang/Elixir ecosystem (Oban, for example).

Re: Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)

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Post by blinding-streak »

madamelic wrote: post #32

What is wrong with un-checkers. Like do y'all leave carts out in the parking lots and Starbucks drinks on shelves? What went wrong in your life that you think it is fun to destroy other people's work. EDIT: Feature request with that in mind: you should block someone's ability for 5 seconds to click if they are clicking subsequent boxes and someone reverses the check/uncheck within 2 seconds. Turn it into a real war.…

It's a checkbox. It has one job in life. To be clicked. Your OCD isn't going to prevent me from clicking some checkboxes, either to check or uncheck them.
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