Technetium_Hat's comments

On: The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S.

[Technetium_Hat]

yes there is definitely a double standard between a) masculinity in women and b) femininity in men

On: The Obvious UI Is Often the Best UI

[Technetium_Hat]

it is a convention in android apps to show a toast message as a tooltip when you long press on a button.

On: Why is Middle School so hard?

[Technetium_Hat]

you were lucky to hit that point in middle school. i am in high school currently and am struggling due to not ever learning proper study skills. everything before was too easy for me which ended up hurting me in the long run.

[perseusprime11 → Technetium_Hat]

Looking back, can you please think of somethings that could have helped you and share here?

On: A lighter V8

[Technetium_Hat]

you can definitely inherit from Array and Map in javascript.

On: Crafting Interpreters: Calls and Functions

[Technetium_Hat]

If it is to be 2 separate volumes, would the first volume, ie jlox, be ready to publish already?

[munificent → Technetium_Hat]

It's written, but there's still a lot of work to publish it: copy-editing, page layout, cover design, etc. I don't want to get distracted by that until all of the chapters are done.

On: They Said You Could Leave Scooters Anywhere, Then ...

[Technetium_Hat]

Based on their (lack of) interactions with local governments, goodwill does not seem to be one of their chief concerns.

On: Ask HN: Why is programming editing text?

[Technetium_Hat]

code generated /= text. Most html web pages are still largely written _by hand_ in a text editor. The closest thing to this that exists now is OpenSCAD, a usability nightmare.

On: The JSON Meta Application Protocol (JMAP)

[Technetium_Hat]

"It's popular so it must be bad"

On: The JSON Meta Application Protocol (JMAP)

[Technetium_Hat]

JSON was created as the lowest common denominator between multiple ancient javascript engines. At one time, at least one browser couldn't handle keywords being used as unquoted object keys, so JSON just has all keys quoted for simplicity. It's the same deal with trailing commas.

On: Respawn will deal with Apex Legends cheaters by ma...

[Technetium_Hat]

the idea is that cheaters would find it more fun to play in the tool-assisted mode. obviously there will still be some black-hats who try to hack the main mode.