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kipple commented on Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships   softwareengineering.stack... · Posted by u/rbanffy
kipple · a year ago
> The actionable tip here is to start with the data. Try to reduce code complexity through stricter types on your interfaces or databases. Spend extra time thinking through the data structures ahead of time.

This is why I love TS over JS. At first it feels like more work up front, more hurdles to jump through. But over time it changed how I approached code: define the data (& their types) first, then write the logic. Type Driven Development!

Coming into TS from JS, it might feel like an unnecessary burden. But years into the codebase, it's so nice to have clear structures being passed around, instead of mystery objects mutated with random props through long processing chains.

Once the mindset changes, to seeing data definition as a new first step, the pains of getting-started friction are replaced by the joys of easy future additions and refactors.

kipple commented on Keep Out – WebGL Game   playkeepout.com/... · Posted by u/memalign
trothamel · 2 years ago
I'm not as huge fan of the controls. I have five fingers on my left hand, and there are six buttons there, so I'm constantly moving them around, while my right hand doesn't do much. Maybe figure out a way to use both hands?
kipple · 2 years ago
+1, arrow keys for turning pls
kipple commented on Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)   usebruno.com/... · Posted by u/ulrischa
tdudhhu · 2 years ago
Insomnia did the same. There was an option to migrate to an offline account but the migration did not work.

So I turned to Bruno. I have been happy with it but there are some strange issues. Sometimes it does not save settings when I press Ctrl s. I still don't know when this happens but I lost some work a couple of times because of this.

kipple · 2 years ago
I've noticed this same save issue in Bruno

The fix for me: cmd+s only works if the left pane (Query, Body, etc) has focus

Save does not work if the right pane (Response, Headers, etc) has focus

kipple commented on Google admits AI viral video was edited to look better   bbc.co.uk/news/technology... · Posted by u/lonelyasacloud
kipple · 2 years ago
Gold star to dfbrown, who pointed this out in the release announcement comments yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38547713
kipple commented on How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret   wired.com/story/neuralink... · Posted by u/thunderbong
abigail95 · 2 years ago
What's your number then? How many monkeys would you trade for a person?
kipple · 2 years ago
> the cold calculus here is the very nature of the banality of evil
kipple commented on iPager – Help Apple GetTheMessage   youtube.com/watch?v=N_B0r... · Posted by u/nickt
kipple · 2 years ago
I hate the Apple/Google text message incompatibility — but I can't argue with the results... I switched from Android to iPhone after years of my friends complaining about me degrading our group chat experience.

I was stubborn at first, but some messages would get sent out of order or dropped altogether, and finally I succumbed to the pressure.

kipple commented on Comlink Makes WebWorkers Enjoyable   npmjs.com/package/comlink... · Posted by u/thunderbong
kipple · 2 years ago
I've used Comlink in a production React app (for client-side text search) and enjoyed it.

The lib author wrote a nice blog post about "why webworkers" and "why comlink" a few years ago: https://surma.dev/things/when-workers/

kipple commented on Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it   webcache.googleuserconten... · Posted by u/burnerbob
teraflop · 2 years ago
It looks like all 166 threads with the "App not working" tag are invisible when not logged in. So I'm guessing somebody applied that tag retroactively.

https://community.fly.io/c/questions-and-help/app-not-workin...

EDIT: it now appears that the "app-not-working" tag itself has been deleted, and no longer shows up even when logged in.

kipple · 2 years ago
In another comment here, they're saying they just deleted that tag to avoid this access issue — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36810393
kipple commented on Svelte is a language   gist.github.com/Rich-Harr... · Posted by u/r0xsh
willsmith72 · 2 years ago
> Having everything just be explicit JavaScript code

This is funny because it's exactly the reason I prefer react

kipple · 2 years ago
Agreed, I want markup in my logic — not logic in my markup
kipple commented on 33-46% of workers on MTurk used LLMs in a text production task   arxiv.org/abs/2306.07899... · Posted by u/puttycat
Rebelgecko · 3 years ago
Neal Stephenson made some interesting predictions about this ~a decade ago

Edit: Anathem actually came out 15 years ago

kipple · 3 years ago
I forget, how does this come up in Anathem?

I remember similar notions in his novel Fall — where the internet is so full of fake news and sponsored content that people need additional services to filter out useful information

u/kipple

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