ondras's comments

On: Deno Deploy Demo: a multi-datacenter chat, client+server in 23 lines of TS

[ondras]

Right, as jitl suggested. The BroadcastChannel is used to allow cross-datacenter messaging. So every script instance has its own set of clients and forwards incoming client messages to other script/datacenter instances.

I suppose this is not limited to multiple datacenters, but to multiple script instances in one datacenter as well.

On: Deno Deploy Demo: a multi-datacenter chat, client+server in 23 lines of TS

[ondras]

TypeScript...

[ranger_danger → ondras]

what, I'm just supposed to know that?

[agumonkey → ranger_danger]

Nothing is to be known by everybody. But it's surprising that you don't associate typescript with deno. Unless you didn't know about deno in the first place.

Just saying because TS had some kind of popularity these days.

[Mikeb85 → ranger_danger]

When discussing Deno, yes.

[orf → ranger_danger]

I think it's not unobvious if you open the link

[capableweb → orf]

To be fair, there is absolutely zero information about what technology is being used on the page the submission links to. Clicking the top-left icon brings you to "https://dash.deno.com/projects" which then forces you to login, still not giving any indication on what this thing is about or even written in.

I can see how you can get confused, even if I wasn't as I'm around the JS community.

On: Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm?

[ondras]

For me, that would be Eller's algorithm: http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/eller.html

It generates perfect mazes of arbitrary size M*N, using only O(max(M, N)) memory.

On: Blocked by JSConf.eu Twitter account

[ondras]

The "Brendan Eich club" is actually a small inside joke, as the sign was one of the official "features" of JSConf.eu 2011, where Brendan was an invited speaker :)

[topynate → ondras]

Yes, but that was seven years ago, and Things Are Different Now.

(Just leafed through their twitter. I'm seeing a lot of the same clique as were involved in the node.js brouhaha last year. Is this conference really worth the fuss?)

[EGreg → topynate]

This whole thing is a bit amusing.

So Brendan Eich invented JS, and then led Mozilla.

And being in the Brendan Eich Fan Club in 2011 probably was a positive thing and a cool thing for JS people.

Then much later, Brendan Eich donates $1000 to some political thing people strongly disagree with

So retroactively, being a fan of Brendan Eich means you are a homophobic hater and must be blocked?

I am quite sure this ain’t it :)

[jmmcd → EGreg]

You understand the timeline, but the virtue-signalling mob on Twitter probably doesn't.

[pseudalopex → EGreg]

Eich made the donation in 2008. It became widely known in 2012, when he was still CTO. Nothing came of it until 2014, when he was promoted to CEO.

[BrendanEich → ondras]

I also spoke in 2013.

[downandout → BrendanEich]

For the record, I think that what happened to you over a years-old, minor donation - regardless of what it supported - was ridiculous. Whenever someone suggests that I move to the Valley because I am in the tech industry, I bring up your story as an example of why I want nothing to do with most of the people that live there.

[communist_ → downandout]

You prefer to live where homophobia is tolerated?

[ygaf → communist_]

He prefers to live where people actually are tolerant.

[downandout → ygaf]

Exactly this.

On: Blocked by JSConf.eu Twitter account

[ondras]

Yes, I asked for explanation of rejected proposals in 2017 and 2018. And I received it (they even officially encouraged failed proposers to ask for an explanation).

On: Blocked by JSConf.eu Twitter account

[ondras]

Right, the ban only covers following the conference online. Which is why I mentioned the verb in the title.

But it also might be their way of saying "also pls do not attend again, we do not want ya".

[sshine → ondras]

If you care about the content of the conference, and/or you like to talk with some of the recurring participants, you could go to the conference next time and confront the organizers directly, since they won't let you do it online.

But in terms of feeling rejected for unknown reasons, I'd let it slide. The reactions you describe (twitter blocking, "we don't have time to answer" emails) are immature, so expecting more from them is naive.

Since they haven't said "please don't attend again", don't interpret it that way. Don't reward people for communicating this poorly. If you can buy a ticket in your name, and you want to go, go. :-)

[yakshaving_jgt → sshine]

After such juvenile behaviour, why should he give them any of his money?

[EGreg → yakshaving_jgt]

Perhaps so he can network with people he cares about, and ignore them?

On: Blocked by JSConf.eu Twitter account

[ondras]

Author here. To clarify: as far as the organizational aspect is considered, those people are competent and top-notch. All the confs were highly professional, their experience with managing this stuff cannot be overlooked. But the social/communication layer is a bit nontransparent, in my opinion.

On: Using SVG as image placeholders

[ondras]

I have a JS "port" (not a 1:1 reimpl): https://github.com/ondras/primitive.js

[homero → ondras]

That's incredible

On: Show HN: Sleeping Beauty, a 7-day roguelike game

[ondras]

Yeah, the author is aware. The game is rather easy.

HP regen was added as a fast&hacky way to make the game less difficult (non-regen versions were hard to beat).

(Also, you can F12 your JS console and hack the game's internals to your likings, adjusting your HP as necessary.)

For a non-PoC game, this would need to be more balanced.

On: Show HN: Sleeping Beauty, a 7-day roguelike game

[ondras]

Never got around, right. Most of the levels/rooms are okay-ish with respect to doors. What would you expect of a ruined tower hundreds of years old, filled with brambles and fallen plaster...