General Topology is valuable, especially for the filter perspective; so are some of the Algebra volumes.

I know that `git rebase` changes the committer date while keeping the author date the same, so I'm assuming something similar happened here. For example, many of the early commits have this committer date with varying author dates:

    $ git show --format=fuller 3dafc8f5de6ffe46fb223a75a46a6bd848b6daf8
    commit 3dafc8f5de6ffe46fb223a75a46a6bd848b6daf8
    Author:     Kenton Varda <kenton@cloudflare.com>
    AuthorDate: Thu Feb 27 17:15:37 2025 -0600
    Commit:     Kenton Varda <kenton@cloudflare.com>
    CommitDate: Tue Mar 4 14:48:59 2025 -0600
    
        Add storage schema by Claude.

GitHub uses the committer date for its history, which is annoying if you rebase frequently; I like to run a non-interactive `git rebase` with `--commmiter-date-is-author-date` in such cases.

let me guess: you haven't read the article, have you?

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

He’s built up an impressive amount of clout over a short period of time, mostly by interviewing interesting guests on his podcast while not boring listeners to death (unlike a certain other interviewer with high-caliber guests that shall remain nameless).

What's the meaning of life though, and why is it love?

I agree that “/usr/sbin directory becomes a symlink to bin” can be confusing for new users, but I don’t think it’s wrong: I interpret this statement as saying that /usr/sbin is going to be a relative symlink with target bin, which would indeed make it resolve to /usr/bin.

Recent versions of F# can stop on individual function applications in an expression like

    x
    |> f a
    |> g b
    …

(search for "pipeline debugging" on < https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/whats-new-in-fsharp-6/>).

In my experience, these are more common than strict point-free style anyway.

It's a joke.

I assume they're talking about code like

    x
    |> f a
    |> g b
    …

… where everything after the first |> is essentially in point-free style.

Your posts are my favorite thing about Hacker News, both because of the things you're saying and the way you're saying them; please don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

This feels like a conversation where it would have been useful for the participants to be very explicit about the points they were trying to convey: the reviewer could have said "Isn't this a quadratic algorithm, because each call to `+=` reallocates `escaped_file_path`?" (or whatever their specific concern was; I may have misunderstood), and the author's initial response could have been "No, because the capacity of the string is doubled when necessary."