WizzleKake
Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer
on Friday October 08, 2021 @04:50PM (#28804028)
How is it a problem?
Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer
on Friday October 08, 2021 @01:37PM (#28801842)
A 10x programmer doesn't cost 10 times as much as a regular programmer. 10x programmers are real and drive real business value. The people who insist 10x programmers are a myth simply have not worked with one. Do not conflate brilliant-but-an-asshole or prodigious-output-but-creates-a-mess programmers with 10x programmers.
Re:2.5 Gigapixel Image of the Orion Constellation Took 5 Years to Comp...
on Saturday October 24, 2020 @10:57AM (#24879580)
Try something like this.
https://ophir.alwaysdata.net/dezoomify/dezoomify.html
Re:Germany bans children's smartwatches
on Friday November 17, 2017 @02:10PM (#15725044)
Why is spying on children any different than spying on adults?
Re:iOS 11 reviewed
on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @03:34PM (#15288055)
No.
Sometimes at work I don't want to use my employer's wifi.
Sometimes I do.
Re:Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon review
on Monday August 07, 2017 @04:31PM (#14951001)
You're thinking of X1 Yoga
Re:Update on HTML5 Video for Netflix
on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @04:57PM (#13934872)
Their only choice is to pay up or ignore it.
They can pirate it too, which is often a superior user experience in that the user can keep the file, move it to a different device, watch without arcane restrictions, etc.
Re:Chernobyl disaster: Giant shield begins move towards reactor
on Monday November 14, 2016 @06:51PM (#12954415)
4chan's hr board sometimes has high-resolution photos of this project.
Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick
on Friday October 28, 2016 @11:25PM (#12822479)
Your citation is about starch.
A better citation in support of your assertion https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/71495
Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick
on Friday October 28, 2016 @04:22PM (#12820267)
He doesn't have a citation because he's wrong.
Re:Show HN: GitHub's Fixed Header for better accessibility
on Friday September 16, 2016 @12:35PM (#12515224)
This works too.
Re:Apple celebrates one billion iPhones
on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @06:18PM (#12176913)
How many of these are in landfills?
Re:Duffy and Cruz Introduce the Protecting Internet Freedom Act
on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @07:11PM (#11866440)
so?
Re:Bitcoin's $137k Jackpot
on Friday April 29, 2016 @05:45PM (#11598975)
Part of the point of bitcoin is that it is decentralized.
Re:Ask HN: How do you manage Facebook/Whats App/Twitter/Email/Etc addi...
on Thursday February 04, 2016 @04:03PM (#11037206)
you can just:
$ grep face /etc/hosts
Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
on Monday February 01, 2016 @01:02PM (#11013687)
IRC clients can log.
Re:Nanomsg: Stepping Down
on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @04:10PM (#10853801)
which would describe, I think, most women and people of color who have participated in technical communities for more than a short time
This is an odd assumption to make.
Re:IBM is still making ThinkPad keyboards
on Monday October 05, 2015 @12:52PM (#10333071)
http://www.pckeyboard.com/
Unicomp is still keeping the glory days of the IBM Model M keyboard alive.
Re:Analysis of Antidepressant Paxil Finds Data on Teen Risk Was Held Back
on Friday September 18, 2015 @12:15PM (#10240038)
> restoration of brain connectivity back to a state that more closely matches that of non-depressed patients.
Do you have a source for this?
Re:OpenSSH 7.0 released
on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @01:29PM (#10042848)
Several ciphers will be disabled by default [in the next release]: blowfish-cbc, cast128-cbc, all arcfour variants and the rijndael-cbc aliases for AES.
I still use arcfour; it seems to be the fastest when using scp or rsync (rsync -e 'ssh -c arcfour') for copying large files. I hope the OpenSSH package manager for my distribution keeps arcfour enabled for this reason.
Re:Dollar Shave Club Is Valued at $615M
on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @12:00AM (#9762537)
I remember when Dollar Shave Club popped up on my radar. I thought to myself, "You know what? They are right. It's ridiculous that I spend so much money on Gillette razor blades. I only get 2-3 good shaves out of them."
I ended up buying an $80 Philips electric razor and haven't looked back. Takes way less time, I don't have to use shaving cream, and I don't have to be careful either.
Re:An Interview with Neal Stephenson
on Friday June 19, 2015 @01:04PM (#9746156)
He draws a distinction between Intellectual Ventures and Intellectual Ventures Labs (where he worked):
Re:Why i’m done wearing a helmet
on Monday June 15, 2015 @10:30AM (#9719495)
Here's some data: http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/pedestrians-and-bicyclists...
Also, the link in the article about health benefits doesn't point to anything on the web.
Re:Mark Shuttleworth Considering Canonical IPO
on Monday May 25, 2015 @06:56PM (#9602083)
You can brick certain ThinkPads with BIOS older than 2.08 by installing Linux on them.
Not Linux-related, but the keyboard transition (happened between W520 and W530) was unfortunate and pissed a lot of people off.
I'm sure the new keyboard design has its merits, but the fact that they changed it over the objection of their most loyal users speaks volumes about the direction Lenovo is taking the ThinkPad brand.
Re:Ask HN: Always late to the office, is this OK?
on Friday May 15, 2015 @03:27PM (#9553041)
This sounds like a maturity issue. Grow up. Show up on time.
If they want you there at 9, get there at 9. That's not unreasonable.
Re:Foo Fighters, HIV Deniers (2000)
on Thursday April 30, 2015 @06:32PM (#9468070)
The inventor of PCR, Kary Mullis, has something to say about this too.
Can you cite any research that shows definitively that HIV causes AIDS? Mullis says that he can't find a reference. Can you?
Re:Why RAII rocks
on Thursday April 23, 2015 @05:18PM (#9429891)
Why not just put a and b on the stack then? ;)
Bjarne says, "Code that creates an object using new and then deletes it at the end of the same scope is ugly, error-prone, and inefficient."
Re:How Google Hires
on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @01:43PM (#9335711)
The problem, however, is that most standardized tests of this type discriminate against non-white, non-male test takers (at least in the United States).
Can anyone explain this? I don't understand the explanation that follows.
Re:After exercise, fast food helps you recover just as well as sports ...
on Sunday April 05, 2015 @05:39PM (#9325417)
The link in the article is about chocolate milk: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16676705
Here is the actual study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25811308