class Universe(void):
def __init__():
eval("Fiat Lux")Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?
#342John Carmack's Fast Inverse Square Root: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Overv... . The first time I really and truly felt that people approach problems differently from how I, by default, go about them.
If you enjoy this sort of thing, this book is full of bit twiddling algorithms you never thought possible: https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Delight-2nd-Henry-Warren/dp/0...
Re: Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?
#343Earlier quoted context omitted.
He mentioned on a podcast that he even uses his own text editor.
Oh? What podcast?
Re: Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?
#344Earlier quoted context omitted.
He mentioned on a podcast that he even uses his own text editor.
Wow! Do you remember which podcast? Now I am interested in this interview!
Re: Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?
#345I really appreciated and missed Scala's `Some`/`None`/`Option` [1] and `lazy` constructs, so much so that I brought them with me to TypeScript. Option provides an elegant way to handle parameters or results that may or may not be defined. Here's a simple Option implementation: https://gist.github.com/mceachen/75598510275865b8cf88bb2ef80... With this you can write something like Opt(possiblyNullResult).flatMap(ea => f…
You might want to look into fp-ts. Has plenty of constructs like those, although it now favors piping calling conventions over a fluent API.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?
#346Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I see a maze it means it's a maze :) I'd suggest to not go bar-hopping in Thailand with that mindset...
Nice to see a bit of casual transphobia on hackernews.
Nice to see confusing a joke reference to a regional fact (as to things that can seem X but be Y) with transphobia. Anybody told you that merely referencing trans women in Thailand is opposing them? Projecting much?
Re: Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?
#347https://rosettacode.org/wiki/99_Bottles_of_Beer#World_model_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complexity_of_Songs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_music
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repetitive_song
|>~~~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%3DMC2_(song)
Re: Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?
#348Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice to see a bit of casual transphobia on hackernews.
Nice to see confusing a joke reference to a regional fact (as to things that can seem X but be Y) with transphobia. Anybody told you that merely referencing trans women in Thailand is opposing them? Projecting much?
I'm amazed that you're defending that comment.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?
#349Earlier quoted context omitted.
So this would be more of a labyrinth than a maze?
No, a labarynth is a single twisting route without branches. A maze has branches and thus can have dead-ends. Both must have an entry and exit point (technically mazes may have more than one exit and entry, but most don't).
That’s open for debate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth:
”Although early Cretan coins occasionally exhibit branching (multicursal) patterns
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both logic and literary descriptions make it clear that the Minotaur was trapped in a complex branching maze
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In English, the term labyrinth is generally synonymous with maze. As a result of the long history of unicursal representation of the mythological Labyrinth, however, many contemporary scholars and enthusiasts observe a distinction between the two.”
Re: Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?
#350Source of the original "true" command, presented to you below