rv77ax's comments

On: Give up GitHub: The time has come

[rv77ax]

This is called "vendor lock-in" [1]. I believe you have heard it before.

If the article's writer read this, please add this as one of the reason why FOSS need to move from GitHub.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in

On: Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you ...

[rv77ax]

Have you heard the term "marketing"?

On: Rewards of Up to $500K Offered for FreeBSD, OpenBS...

[rv77ax]

Impossible. Our ego is too high to allow bug in our code.

[lowry → rv77ax]

Higher than a pile of banknotes that together make half a million dollars? I doubt that.

On: GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue...

[rv77ax]

I think using number of downloaded will also count number of build on each commit. Imagine if you have three branch in your repository, each push will rebuild the project (redownload dependencies). If you push three times a day it will download three dependencies three times.

Also, some project include their dependencies to VCS which only count once per build.

On: Exa, a modern replacement for ls

[rv77ax]

The last thing I want in terminal is colours.

On: SoundCloud's Collapse

[rv77ax]

Instead of pursuing major record label, did they not even though about creating one?

On: JavaScript Fatigue: Realities of Our Industry

[rv77ax]

I bet the author use space instead of tab.

[pluma → rv77ax]

If you write JavaScript and don't use two spaces for indentation you're being intentionally obtuse.

[scottmf → pluma]

What why?

[pluma → scottmf]

Because you don't exist in a vacuum and two spaces is the most popular form of indentation in the ecosystem.

But these days I recommend using an intelligent autoformatter like `prettier` when writing JS exactly to avoid any such discussions.

On: Ask HN: In what creative ways are you using Makefi...

[rv77ax]

I use makefile as the library package dependency [1], maybe like what package.json was in node environment.

The idea is if you want to use the library, you just include the makefile inside your project makefile, define a TARGET values and you will automatically have tasks for build, debug, etc.

The key is a hack on .SECONDEXPANSION pragma of GNU make, which means it's only work in GNU/Linux environment.

[1] https://GitHub.com/shuLhan/libvos

Edit: ah, turn out I write some documentation about it here: http://kilabit.info/projects/libvos/doc/index.html

On: Meet the Man Traveling the World on $25M of Bitcoi...

[rv77ax]

The only question on my mind: where did he cash his money? Or, who has big cash to redeem his Bitcoin with million dollars transaction?

[_kjkw → rv77ax]

It's unlikely that he did it in a single transaction, he more likely split it up over a few days. Even a year ago, Bitcoin daily exchange volume was ~$160M, so he wouldn't have had too many problems.

On: GitNotifier – Email notifications for selected Git...

[rv77ax]

They provide it through RSS feeds.