dapreja
Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?
on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @07:25AM (#18449321)
ADP Retirement Services first generation of PES (Plan Entry System) program. It was/is an internal tool with all the horror stories that you hear about internal tools. The people who made it wrote obscure logic with encrypted variable naming with the main purpose of having job security, it's a core tool in their business model but treated like gutter trash, built with visual basic and embedded angular code to make it look more modern, the supposed rewrite talk went on for 8 years, and to put icing on the top it was QAd/maintained by underqualified offshore old-school contractors (you cant even call this group devs/engineers).
Re:A single-page app is almost always worse than a multi-page app
on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @08:59PM (#18342564)
> Error HandlingAn MPA renders a 500 page upon error and that's it. However, an SPA needs to detect errors in the client code and then update the user interface accordingly. Again, busywork required to regain what MPAs offer out of the box.
I'm no gilded dev, but 5 years back when PHP wasn't avoided like the black plague we would still need to update user interface handling these internal server errors. It's judt good design practice.
I more or less agreed/understood with the writer up to that point. Everything else past this just sounded like a argument for argument's sake.
Re:Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam
on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @10:24PM (#18072213)
I just hope they don't shit on the android support like Snapchat. It's the first ever paid app i got and i'd like to think that's saying something for an android user. Probably far fetch but it would be nice the android version became open source if that should ever get dropped by apple (so community can maintain it)
Re:California Wildfires: Inmates Are Risking Their Lives for $2 a Day
on Saturday August 11, 2018 @06:35AM (#17739160)
You should probably just stop. Reading over your discussions as an outside spectator shows zapita to simply respond for argument sake. Don't feed trolls.
Re:What technical recruiters want from engineering candidates
on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @06:28AM (#17081280)
You're giving these recruiters too much credit on their intelligence. They're vuage because they're ignorant and need to reach a certain word count to their pitch, and the same way they need to get a certain number of submissions. In short they're like monkeys incentivized is to give the minimum amount of vuage info in the shortest amount of time until the candidate agrees to continue with submission.
Re:The environmental impact of technology devices is getting worse
on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @03:21PM (#17032996)
To be fair the android rooting community is usually transperent. It's perspective of "scary" shouldnt be compared to jail breaking an iphone to get free apps. Also, most tutorial for rooting or just flashing firmware it's alwqys adviced to backup data, so fear of loss should be manegable.... one more thing, if you've reached the point of needing to root/change device software, do you really believe the company cares about your warrenty. I've known people with apple care go get their 5 year old mac books for battery replacement, to then get their time wasted with a lazy response of "sorry we don't covery water damage". When for a fact that device never experienced it.
Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook
on Monday April 30, 2018 @05:25PM (#16962541)
I really hope signal vets a UI redesign (at least for android)
Re:Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie?
on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @06:22PM (#16816292)
Maybe holidwood should hire they creator of emoji movie. That peice of shit stood out.
Re:Credit Card Signatures Are About to Become Extinct in the U.S
on Sunday April 08, 2018 @09:33PM (#16789653)
Yea no signature pads are pure shit.
Re:You have options – Why we left the U.S. and moved back to Europe
on Sunday April 01, 2018 @05:20PM (#16730499)
Well paid US job? Could you please provide ball park estimate and what exactly do you do. Also how do you deal with currency exchange and are yoy a native brazzilian speaker? I've been contemplating moving to south america as well.
Re:Facebook was warned about app permissions in 2011
on Sunday March 25, 2018 @09:37AM (#16672104)
I tell my relatives repeatedly to not take pictures of me if they're going to share them on those platforms. This whole thing is a problem with people's complatiency with technology and especially the coorporations taking advantage of it.
Re:China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains
on Saturday March 17, 2018 @10:01AM (#16606959)
Shit like this scares the crap out of me thinking i might one day have an unpaid parking ticket that flew off.
Re:Facebook open-sources Detectron
on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @01:33PM (#16216019)
Use your last android phone.
Re:Facebook open-sources Detectron
on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @01:32PM (#16216006)
You should be set with openCV or JavaCV. JavaCV has more ported image/video progressing libraries than openCV and are a bit more customizable in my experience. And literally JavaCV has openCV natively but a different wrapper. I would only suggest openCV if you are working with python. It provides enough tools for basic then mid complex objects and if you want to mature in it then open up the hood. As for porting that pet porject to a mobile android device i would suggest to go straight with javaCV even though openCV has wrappers for android and java. The reason is because at some point you'll want to ditch their riggid methods of obtaining video/pictures. JavaCV has served me well when integrating with android. Also, if you eventually want to scale up the processing into a web service then it' easier.
Re:A Real-Time Mario Kart AI Using CNNs, Offline Search, and Dagger
on Monday January 01, 2018 @11:48AM (#16046739)
Disclaimer - didn't go through most of the content (plan to later). But possible feedback for growth would be to take the dataset from the N64 low resolution images, normalize them into coordinate pixel ratio percicions so network input dimensions can interact with more recent versions of mario Kart. You can then work with the DS mario emulator for the newer versions of mario cart (faster, more agressive bots, road detail). The point to doing this would help provide insight of how Tesla/etc can generate more training data for their auto poilets. Think about it, if the transition or generalization of data likes this is possible, you could switch game plaform and provide actual data their auto poilet systems need.
Re:How to Explain Your Tech Job to Your Family During the Holidays
on Thursday November 23, 2017 @06:04PM (#15768407)
I avoid family in general. Too many self-interest mixed with alcohol andresentment, no thanks.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)
on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @10:13AM (#15392522)
Wait it's Canada, do you sponsor visa to US citizens?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)
on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @10:11AM (#15392516)
Remote?
Re:Amazon data science interview questions
on Sunday August 20, 2017 @02:08AM (#15057169)
The reality is, unless you're directly communicating with someone who understands the problem/question, they'll be expecting the textbook definition as is or whatever stackoverflow response has.
Re:Computer Age Statistical Inference: Algorithms, Evidence and Data S...
on Friday August 18, 2017 @10:12PM (#15051249)
Could you tell me how exactly did you land (and what it is) your current job, and from what previous possition did you come from?
Re:The Google memo isn’t sexist or anti-diversity, it’s science
on Thursday August 10, 2017 @02:52PM (#14982887)
This horse is going to get beaten to death like the MNIST dataset with AI tutorials.
Re:App sizes are out of control
on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @05:37PM (#14905620)
TBH not many people consider SVG format worth the effort unless the graphic is made from scratch. 1) an organization rarely rationalizes having a UI dev spend 6 something hours either transforming an existing PNG to an SVG, or spending 12 hours compleitly replicate an existing design in photoshop only for it to be exportable as an SVG. I could be far fe5ching things but sometimes business or upper management get short sighted on the small things. Probably there is no rationalizarion in spending extra effort in having these graphics all svg format, thus improving your application's load and bandwidth utilization, vs pumping more funds towards other easier quicker solutions.