Same reason I might use tippy.js for popup boxes. I know I could make it myself, and make it just as well as the tippy authors have designed it, but why waste my time doing that when I know they've already thought through all of the problems that I can't even expect until I'm already in the thick of it?

Sure it's not like I haven't used libraries in the 20 years I've been coding. If it solves the complex problem I am facing, I will use it. But have you looked at the code in question? It is not complex. It is code you write in 20 minutes.

I don't understand the hate. I don't have to solve P=NP to post on HN. If I did solve something complicated, I'd be publishing a paper, not posting here. I thought this is something that might help the community. If people are upvoting it, it's because they think it might help them - save 20 minutes if nothing else.

Either way, your comments might be against HN guidelines [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

My best guess is that it looks like a typo for "keycombo".

Yes, thanks. Switched to a new keyboard on my phone, and I'm getting some different typos now. Not necessarily more, I always seem to have a lot that slip through, just different...

Seconded. There's definitely something deeper going on here, and I'm so excited to see it.

The other two posts he linked to here were real interesting as well:

* https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/2016/11/this-is-where...

* https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/2018/12/hand-drawn-li...

The original blog post is a pretty fantastic piece in support of teaching humanities in CS, I'd say!

Only when the humanities get taught a bit of science.

Nope, that's not what Bootsnap does. Bootsnap caches the pre-parsed .rb files as ISEQs (bytecode buffers.) It's conceptually a bit similar but not the same.

"Suddenly Nic Cage grabs you by the arm and throws you into the wall. You hit the ground hard and scream." made me laugh out loud

I know a ton of people who use Cash App's card for that. Seems like it works well for them. (I don't use it personally)

I loved that card for the $1 off at any coffee shop until they changed it. It's still ok, but now you have to make 5 purchases with the card to get 5x$1 off.

Huh, they might be A/B testing that. I still have the original $1 off any coffee shop (min. $1.50; every 30 minutes). When did your deal change?

A couple of months ago. On podcasts I listen to, I've heard other people talk about it changing. Basically the deals all get 'locked' until you make a certain number of purchases to unlock them again.

I wouldn't really call APL/J/K "lost" (or "dead", or "useless", or...). There's an active community on Reddit and there's a pretty active circle of APL'ers on Twitter. It wasn't ever a super mainstream language, but it's definitely not lost its appeal -- maybe even as a fun hobbyists' language.

kdb+/q is reasonably popular. And the salaries are very very high. I know some q guys pulling in over a million/year.

Wow I had never heard of those technologies before. What kind of background would you have to have to get a job like that? What companies are hiring people on damn near a million?

Banks. Maybe some hedge funds or prop trading shops, but mostly banks.

For memorizing lines? Chew a piece of gum. I've found that it takes the emphasis away from my location in my mind and places some emphasis and connection with the feeling of chewing gum. For extra points, alternate different flavors for different sets of things to memorize.