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Re: See what Hacker News looked like on the day you joined

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Post by McElroy »

akkartik wrote: post #49
tomkwok wrote: post #5

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I heard about http://recursivecharacters.com last week at a lisp meetup. Just an art project, doesn't actually have an evaluator, but the author went to some detail to describe how an evaluator might work.

The entire library in the name of the library? Crazy! How would you input that on the computer when you wanted to reference it, though?

Re: See what Hacker News looked like on the day you joined

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Post by markburns »

dilap wrote: post #57
tomkwok wrote: post #5

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Native english speaker, math major. This seems really awesome! I feel like descriptive, long variable names have both an advantage and a disadvantage: advantage, obviously, that they're clear, but disadvantage that simply having all that filler text everywhere begins to make the code harder to follow in a serious way. So there's always this tug-of-war between short variable names that make flow easy to follow but req…

I read Japanese (I think this is Japanese in this case - it just happens to use a subset that is also Chinese - maybe).

This code is definitely easier to parse visually for me. It's really satisfying. As a character set, it is much more information dense, it just requires a lot of upfront study making it less efficient in the short to medium term (~10 years or so).

However, I would hate to work on a codebase like this. It is a key press to switch between input methods (languages), or a key combination on different keyboards.

When combining this with vim I find it incredibly frustrating to type. You have to mentally keep track of which language you are in, as well as which vim mode you are in, 4 options instead of 2. Plus you have to be in English language mode for vim commands to work correctly.

Although it is true that you spend more time reading code than writing code, it would obviously exclude those that don't read Japanese.

It would be a nice-to-have to be able to have Japanese variables only for the reading phase of a project when you are getting up to speed. Then swapping them out for English words when editing. Can't see how it would work in practice and a really limited market too.

But yeah, it's satisfying to look at.

Re: See what Hacker News looked like on the day you joined

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Post by yoklov »

vorg wrote: post #76
jimmaswell wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use long variable names all the time and it's never actually made the code harder to follow. You generally parse a whole word as a shape rather than one letter at a time anyway once you know the word, so effectively the only difference is a bit more horizontal space. If someone grew up using whole words as variables in math I doubt they'd find single characters easier to work with. For programming, using characters…

I doubt anyone can really parse grails.plugin.searchable.internal.compass.mapping.SearchableGrailsDomainClassCompassClassMapperFactory [1] as a shape. [1] https://github.com/gpc/searchable/blob/master/src/java/grail...

This is obviously code that solves a very real problem.

Re: See what Hacker News looked like on the day you joined

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Post by ShardPhoenix »

jrockway wrote: post #64

8 years! It was still called "Startup News" back then. The front page when I joined looks very much like it does today -- a few articles about Google (6!), some startup-y articles, some politics, some business-y articles, some pure programming articles, etc. A good mix, but things are still pretty good today. I remember exactly why I joined, incidentally. With increasing regularity, /r/programming was making me very…

> /r/anime is infuriatingly stupid, /r/awwnime is much more tolerable.

Well that's not too surprising when the latter has almost no comments. You could try r/trueanime - it's smaller and smarter, though it does tend to attract long-winded people.

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