HackerNews Summary (2023-06-13 10AM)

Source: Text Editor Data Structures

Summary
Creating a text editor can be a challenging task, with problems ranging from trivial to complex. Having a single string as the text buffer offers several benefits, including simplicity and compactness. A fail-fast approach can also be helpful in quickly iterating through solutions.

Fact

💻 Using a single string as the text buffer is the most compact and straightforward representation for a text editor.

🤔 Building your own data structures for a text editor can provide flexibility and address specific concerns that off-the-shelf solutions may not.

🔍 A fail-fast approach can help to quickly iterate through potential solutions and avoid unnecessary optimization.

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Source: A Self-Learning, Modern Computer Science Curriculum

Summary
Isaac Newton self-taught geometry by repeatedly reading the same book until he mastered it. There are various studying methods, including the Feynman method and committing time daily to learning.

Fact

📚 Isaac Newton learned geometry by buying Descartes’ Geometry and repeatedly reading it until he mastered the whole book all by himself.

🧠 There are different studying strategies, including the Feynman method and committing time daily to learning.

🎓 Always take something a little harder than your skill level to research and backfill the requirements.

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Source: CudaText

Summary
CudaText is a free, open-source, cross-platform text editor with features such as syntax highlighting, code tree, code folding, multi-caret, multi-selection, and more. It supports many languages, has customizable hotkeys, and is extensible through Python add-ons.

Fact

💻 CudaText offers syntax highlighting for over 300 languages and has a feature-rich syntax parser engine.

🌳 It includes a code tree structure for functions, classes, and more (if allowed by the lexer).

🙌 Multi-caret and multi-selection capabilities make it easy to edit multiple sections of text at once.

🔍 The find/replace feature provides support for regular expressions.

🔧 CudaText is extensible through Python add-ons, including plugins, linters, code tree parsers, external tools, and more.

🖥️ It has a tabbed UI, with the ability to split the view to primary/secondary and split the window into 2/3/4/6 groups of tabs.

🎨 Features for HTML/CSS coding include smart auto-completion, HTML tag completion, and HTML color code underlining.

🔌 Features implemented as plugins include a project manager, macro manager, spell checker, FTP panel, and more.

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Source: Rob Henderson’s Newsletter

Summary
There is evidence that suggests fewer men are attending universities, which is making the dating market tougher for women. Women tend to prefer men with higher levels of education and income. A man with a master’s degree is almost twice as likely to get a match than a man with a bachelor’s degree.

Fact

👨‍🎓 Men with higher levels of education and higher income receive more responses from women on dating websites and apps.

💼 Women tend to prefer partners who earn more, especially if their partners are less educated than themselves.

💻 Women were 91% more likely to “like” a man with a master’s degree compared with a bachelor’s degree on Tinder.

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Source: Tipping in the United States has gotten out of control, experts say. Here’s why

Summary
Consumer tipping practices have been increasing due to numerous factors such as the use of tablets to ask for tips, pressure to give within societal norms, and the emergence of new technologies. The traditional tip rate has risen from 10% in the 1950s to around 21% in 2022.

Fact
💸 The traditional tip rate increased from 10% in the 1950s to 21% in 2022.
💻 Tablets and kiosks are being used to pressure customers into tipping higher amounts than before.
📈 The practice of tipping has increased to include new industries and services due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Source: Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’

Summary
Over a thousand subreddits have gone private, causing a challenge for Reddit’s team who are working around the clock and adapting to infrastructure strains. Revenue impact is currently not significant; Reddit’s teams are focused on improving the product, and critical mod tool launches are upcoming. While some third-party apps are shutting down, agreements with RedReader and Dystopia have been made. Wearing Reddit gear in public is not recommended due to upset users.

Fact
💻 Over a thousand subreddits have gone private.
🚀 Reddit’s team is focusing on improving the product.
💼 Revenue impact is currently not significant.
📱 Critical mod tool launches are upcoming.
📱 Apollo and RIF are some third-party apps shutting down.
👨‍👩‍👧 Reddit is in agreements with RedReader and Dystopia.
👕 Wearing Reddit gear in public is not recommended.

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