eliasbagley
Re:In Defense of Matlab Code
on Monday December 15, 2025 @03:10PM (#46279833)
Its been a while since I worked with MATLAB and others. Whats up with GNU Octave these days? IIRC thats what folks were championing 10 years ago when anyone was talking about the problems with MATLAB.
Re:YouTube Won the Battle for TV Viewers
on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @06:24PM (#44664655)
You must be super knowledgeable. Maybe you should get a UX job at YouTube and fix it all.
Re:Can Duolingo actually teach you Spanish?
on Saturday December 10, 2022 @12:22AM (#33930144)
I'm guessing he's suggesting the AI can be a conversation buddy anytime you want, and also point out your mistakes so you can learn from them.
imo this would be awesome and a game changer
Re:Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels
on Friday September 02, 2022 @02:16AM (#32687204)
A moat based on an aging population isn't much of a moat
Re:Vim prank: alias vim='vim -y'
on Friday January 07, 2022 @02:22PM (#29843521)
The mighty ed has spoken!
Re:Synthetic tissue can repair hearts, muscles, and vocal cords
on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @08:53PM (#29399757)
or regular hair cell department
Re:User Retention
on Saturday September 11, 2021 @06:03AM (#28490726)
I think he was agreeing with you
Re:Why Do Bitcoins Have Value?
on Thursday August 05, 2021 @09:49PM (#28082395)
Kinda a reductionist answer. They are traded on Bitcoin exchanges, because people think they are valuable, because x y and z etc.
Re:Boxedwine is an emulator that can run Windows applications in the b...
on Monday April 26, 2021 @01:48AM (#26939598)
you'd probably need a particle accelerator or something
Re:Everything Easy is Hard Again (2018)
on Sunday April 18, 2021 @04:21PM (#26855959)
Yeah I've heard that Bitwig could be a good solution, and is made by the original developers of Ableton.
But what about 3rd party plugins? As far as I understand, most of these won't work on Linux either.
Re:Show HN: I built a Guitar Hero robot [video]
on Sunday April 18, 2021 @04:20PM (#26855952)
Once upon a time blob detection was considered "AI"
Re:Everything Easy is Hard Again (2018)
on Saturday April 17, 2021 @03:35PM (#26846829)
I would love to to use Linix as my daily driver, but keep needing to go back to Windows for Ableton and gaming.
Re:How Going Back to Coding After 10 Years Almost Crushed Me
on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @01:50AM (#26720977)
Who designs the interfaces that the tests call?
Re:Ask HN: Working part-time in tech?
on Monday September 07, 2020 @05:14PM (#24402956)
How would this work when substantial equity is involved? It makes sense that if you drop your hours, your salary would drop in proportion. But if a substantial amount of your total comp is from unvested equity, it doesn't makes as much sense. Your employer can't take away unvested equity, right? If so it seems like your employer would have much less incentive to want to do something like this - you may be working half as much, but your total comp only drops by like 25% or something.
Re:How to Become a Hacker
on Monday June 01, 2020 @01:39PM (#23381280)
Very similar for me - there is also a direct line from me reading that article to me being a software engineer today.
Re:Travelling with 24” Monitors
on Sunday March 01, 2020 @01:05PM (#22458131)
They aren't looking for electronics - they are looking for large masses that could be fuel for the explosives. Big blocks of clay, liquids, etc. A jumble of electronics alone with nothing that can actually explode is common and doesn't ring any alarm bells. I discovered this after talking to a TSA agent after flying a few times with my modular synthesizer, where I was surprised that it was never pulled for extra screening.
Re:Mutable Instruments' Eurorack Modules
on Thursday February 27, 2020 @12:13PM (#22435257)
I have mixed feelings about TipTop. On one hand, I really like their modules, and when one of the buttons on my Circadian Rhythm sequencer died, they sent me another for just the cost of shipping.
On the other hand, I broke one of my TipTop modules by accidentally plugging the power in backwards (they should really add reverse power protection), and the identifiers on the chips are all scratched off, so I have no way of identifying the chip I fried in order to replace it. Mind you this is a module cloned from a Roland 909, so it's not even like this is an original design.
Re:Ask HN: What is the most underrated skill software engineers should...
on Thursday February 13, 2020 @01:46PM (#22320216)
Any resources for this?
Re:Why so many things cost exactly zero
on Saturday January 18, 2020 @12:53PM (#22085809)
Not micro in the sense of penny transactions.
Re:Chronic sleep deprivation suppresses immune system
on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:31AM (#13528769)
I went to a sleep specialist for delayed sleep disorder. He told me to take 1mg of melatonin about 6 hours before bed, and to wear sunglasses at night when around lights.
Re:I Only Work Remotely
on Monday January 30, 2017 @08:04AM (#13520770)
Nobody is being forced to hire him.
Re:Fake Physics
on Sunday January 22, 2017 @01:53AM (#13454018)
Why is it stagnating though? Lack of talent? Lack of funding? Is it that all the lowest hanging fruit is gone and the problems are becoming intractable to solve?
Re:Why hasn't Haskell taken over the world? And the curious case of Go
on Sunday January 22, 2017 @12:23AM (#13453742)
An even smaller first step is Java -> RxJava, to start thinking in streams of data and transformations of that data.
Re:Neanderthals were people too
on Saturday January 14, 2017 @04:02AM (#13397598)
There's a traditional of using Latin names for species classification, so maybe H. P. Lovecraftus
Re:Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
on Friday January 06, 2017 @05:20AM (#13335250)
I'd still want to create. Maybe something with my hands. Being a luthier or cordwainer sounds attractive. Assuming money were no issue, perhaps a musician.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg Is Sure Acting Like Someone Who Might Run for Presi...
on Thursday January 05, 2017 @11:46PM (#13334025)
I imagine he could develop it, though.
Re:The Reality of Developer Burnout
on Thursday January 05, 2017 @11:42PM (#13334012)
> I realized it was an empty echo chamber of inaction. If anything you say can be interpreted in a way that the hivemind can destroy you over, they will do it, even with incomplete information and little to no proof.
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Re:America Needs a New Moon Mission
on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @04:05AM (#13262098)
More filthy than earth, though?
Re:HandBrake 1.0.0 Released
on Monday December 26, 2016 @10:20PM (#13261071)
Ah brings back memories of my college days when I would go to the library at night when the computer labs were empty, check out a dozen dvds on 4 hour loan, and use a separate computer to rip each one at the same time.
Re:My year with Elixir
on Saturday December 24, 2016 @12:07AM (#13248670)
The VM they both run on is the same - so you'd have to know some basics about that regardless. You'll also have to learn how to read Erlang syntax since there are many 3rd party Erlang libraries you can use from Elixir. The syntax is slightly different from Elixir, but the mental models are pretty much the same, so it's really not that difficult to get a working knowledge of reading Erlang.