jimhart3000

Born on June 25, 2012•231 Karma

on Aug 25, 2014

•on: Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official

I went back to cable last year after years of Netflix/Hulu for my tv needs (there isn't a better option than Comcast for ISP and the Internet + Cable + HBO deal was more or less the same I was paying for Internet + Netflix/Hulu + TiVo), and Prime video has been a pretty adequate replacement for a lot of what I had been using Netflix to watch (which, honestly, is primarily children's programming, so your mileage may vary).

jimhart3000•

on July 25, 2014

•on: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've be...

I grew up in the south where this is a pretty standard exchange at a restaurant:

"I'd like a coke." "What kind?" "Pepsi"

undergrowth54•

on July 29, 2014

Right. Thats my point.

jimhart3000•

on June 10, 2014

•on: Apple begins rejecting apps that offer rewards for...

They kind of already do this with their pharmacies.

jimhart3000•

on May 9, 2014

•on: All of Bach

A hearty second to the recommendation of Perahia's Variations.

jimhart3000•

on May 1, 2014

•on: The World's Most Powerful Browser-Based IDE – Codi...

Nope, that one's taken by a new app that's disrupting the fishmonger industry.

jimhart3000•

on April 30, 2014

•on: Michael Lewis: The Wolf Hunters of Wall Street

This is long established practice in the publishing business - publications getting exclusive excerpting rights to upcoming big books. Lewis's name can help move some issues of the Times, and the exposure there helps move some books. Lewis also has a long history with the Times magazine, so it's unsurprising to see them get excerpt rights.

jimhart3000•

on April 18, 2014

•on: Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at ...

Also worth a read if you're a Rolling Stones fan.

jimhart3000•

on April 13, 2014

•on: Bret Victor's favourite books

Aside from the comics, no fiction. That makes me sad.

jimhart3000•

on March 21, 2014

•on: Hack Isn't PHP

Objective-C as well.

Delmania•

on March 21, 2014

Nitpick, C# is an ECMA standard that has a non proprietary implementation (Mono). I realize the best implementation is the CLR provided by Microsoft, but is feasible that should Microsoft abandon C#, others could pick it up.

cafard•

on March 21, 2014

I'm pretty sure that I remember Objective-C (under gcc) from way back.

jimhart3000•

on March 21, 2014

•on: Hack Isn't PHP

> Writing list(, $b) = array(3,4) is not allowed. Instead use $_, i.e.: list($_, $b) = array(3, 4).

Not that I think the former is good practice at all, but isn't the latter a kind of weird use of what is a valid variable name?

wting•

on March 21, 2014

Using _ as a throwaway variable name is idiomatic in Python, Haskell, and Go. Looks like they're pushing the same idiom in Hack, which I'm ok with.

agumonkey•

on March 21, 2014

AFAIK in Haskell it's not a throwaway variable, a pattern with _ will not create a binding at all. I don't think Python does this, maybe Go.

MBlume•

on March 21, 2014

Python doesn't have language support for the idiom -- trying to evaluate

lambda _, _: None

gives

SyntaxError: duplicate argument '_' in function definition

but tools like pylint will silence unused-variable warnings if the variable starts with '_'.

agumonkey•

on March 21, 2014

Thanks for the verification. But even a bit of syntactic convention won't be enough if python create a unnecessary binding.

wycats•

on March 21, 2014

And Ruby, and Rust. It's close to universal.

wtetzner•

on March 21, 2014

And Clojure.

underwater•

on March 21, 2014

It is a variable, not a language construct. The docs are just recommending `$_` as a convention over something like `$temp`.