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johnx123-up commented on IDEs we had 30 years ago   blogsystem5.substack.com/... · Posted by u/titaniumtown
stavros · 2 years ago
VB6 was fantastic. The language was terrible, but the IDE was the best way to make GUIs that ever existed. The Windows 98 era was excellent for UX as well, with every element on the screen having an accelerator key, consistent menu guidelines, consistent visuals, keyboard shortcuts, etc.

It was just brilliant.

johnx123-up · 2 years ago
Let's not forget Delphi and OptiPerl https://www.uptiv.com/free/optiperl/ Till date I have not seen any IDE that could reproduce its amazing box and line coding feature
johnx123-up commented on Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes   maroofy.com/?hn=v3... · Posted by u/subtech
johnx123-up · 3 years ago
Interesting. Some feedback

1. Please add match score

2. Group and fold duplicates

3. Add the year with the sort feature - to identify rip offs

johnx123-up commented on Lazarus – Professional Free Pascal Rad IDE   lazarus-ide.org/... · Posted by u/pabs3
progre · 4 years ago
For those not familiar with the story, Lazarus was a dead guy that got resurected by Jesus of Nasareth in the New Testament.

As in, Pascal was all but dead (tha Java hype was happening with full force) and even the Delphi guys put their best efforts into making Delphi a C++ dialect, but this RAD IDE would resurect Pascal.

johnx123-up · 4 years ago
Plus, unlike Delphi, Lazarus had support for the Linux too. Disclosure: Old Delphi dev
johnx123-up commented on Changing std:sort at Google’s scale and beyond   danlark.org/2022/04/20/ch... · Posted by u/ashvardanian
mlochbaum · 4 years ago
Any chance you could comment on fluxsort[0], another fast quicksort? It's stable and uses a buffer about the size of the original array, which sounds like it puts it in a similar category as glidesort. Benchmarks against pdqsort at the end of that README; I can verify that it's faster on random data by 30% or so, and the stable partitioning should mean it's at least as adaptive (but the current implementation uses an initial analysis pass followed by adaptive mergesort rather than optimistic insertion sort to deal with nearly-sorted data, which IMO is fragile). There's an in-place effort called crumsort[1] along similar lines, but it's not stable.

I've been doing a lot of work on sorting[2], in particular working to hybridize various approaches better. Very much looking forward to seeing how glidesort works.

[0] https://github.com/scandum/fluxsort

[1] https://github.com/scandum/crumsort

[2] https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/implementation/primitive/sor...

johnx123-up · 4 years ago
FWIW, I have found scandum's note on pdqsort in HN https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=scandum
johnx123-up commented on Show HN: Two-way Jira sync in a collaborative spreadsheet and Gantt   visor.us/landing/visor-fo... · Posted by u/electric_muse
thenanyu · 4 years ago
This seems like a roundabout way to get more locked into Jira. Switch to Linear, or Height, or Shortcut, or Taiga or anything other than continue your abusive relationship with Atlassian
johnx123-up · 4 years ago
Or, Restya Core as it has Excel-like UI/view. Disclosure: Using it since its private beta
johnx123-up commented on Atlassian products have been down for 4 days   status.atlassian.com... · Posted by u/Corrado
nvch · 4 years ago
Using Clubhouse was a huge pain.

Feeling that even they don’t understand what all their epics, stories and milestones do haunted me all the time. Page load times up to 10 seconds and totally unusable on a big screen (just insanely slow after window size bigger then on avarage laptops).

Convincing my company to switch to Linear was better than any holiday.

johnx123-up · 4 years ago
FWIW, Restya Core works good for us. Disclosure: We were privileged to be on their private beta.
johnx123-up commented on I stopped advertising and nothing happened   theantistartup.com/i-stop... · Posted by u/deeeej
VoidWhisperer · 4 years ago
One thing that this article doesn't mention and I'm curious about: while the author didn't see it in this case, if you are in a much more competitive niche, if you completely stop ad pay, what is stopping google from then displaying a competitor who is still paying them for ad space at the top of a search result related to your brand/market niche where you are otherwise the first non-ad result?
johnx123-up · 4 years ago
IIRC, Google had a rule that you cannot bid on trademark names. Not sure if that changed lately.

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