News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

iMarv

I have recently migrated my projects to fossil (https://fossil-scm.org), hosting them myself on a cheap vps.

I also really got hooked on their code/project management philosophy, rethinking a lot on how I want to run collaborative projects in general

Might be something about empathy. If you got into a car accident and were lying on the street with a removed limb, would you like random strangers taking photos of you?
Re:Tesla Model 3 = 31% of UK Electric Vehicle Sales on Monday December 28, 2020 @04:10PM (#25563263)
And that is the great thing about it. It is just another car, but runs on electricity. I really do not dig the futurism other car companies are trying to sell with their EVs. Why does everything need to look like some weird futuristic fantasy instead of just building a "normal" looking car with a battery in the floor?
Re:Ploopy: An Open-Source Trackball on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @02:17AM (#21267586)
Doing pretty well with Logitechs MX Ergo which also looks more polished than this open source alternative. I am fine with paying for closed source products if they are good and can be used without a hassle.
Elon Musk and Steve Jobs are and were highly intelligent people. For them it is less about bullshitting but more about their dreams and goals.

I do not believe Elon Musk is bullshitting when giving timeframes, he knows what is possible technically, but fails to predict how long it takes to deliver

Re:The Baseline Costs of JavaScript Frameworks on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @04:15PM (#18555766)
Depending on how well you do the treeshaking, all dependencies that are not in use will be removed from the bundle.

I do not know how agressive the angular CLI settings for webpack are, but with our own config we are removing any noise really effectively

Self driving will work well when everyone uses a self driving car. The reason why ant colonies do not have any traffic issues is that they work together. Now imagine if all cars on the street would communicate with each other, knowing where each wants to go and when. I think the problem with self driving is the people on behind the wheel rather than the technology
Re:Using Prettier to format your JavaScript code on Friday March 09, 2018 @02:43AM (#16550334)
It works perfectly with Typescript
Re:Hetzner Cloud on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @07:03AM (#16212884)
Hi, after creating a server you can boot it with various images provided by hetzner into a rescue system.

disclosure: am part of the frontend team of hetzner cloud

Re:Hetzner Cloud on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @06:44AM (#16212772)
Maybe we just have more interns than amazon ;)

full disclosure: am working for hetzner cloud

Re:Hetzner Cloud on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @05:51AM (#16212507)
Or directly from your terminal :) https://github.com/hetznercloud/cli

e/ am part of the team working on hetzner cloud

I think it is not as binary as this. I too have friends that I do not see often, but what makes them friends to me is that no matter for how long we do not meet, as soon as we meet our relationship is the same as the last time we met.

Friends are not always those who you meet every day, but those that give you the feeling of happiness when you have them around, at least for me.

Re:As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard on Friday December 08, 2017 @01:46AM (#15877133)
Also helps a lot in large communities. There will always be people that are nice and you like to have around, but are a bit "louder" during gaming sessions. We were really successful by teaching them to not hit the PTT-button when they need to drop their load of frustration.
Re:Minecase – A distributed Minecraft server in .NET Core on Thursday November 23, 2017 @11:47AM (#15766201)
Looking into the issues: "Add multiplayer support" The only reason I see running a minecraft server is to play multiplayer, so I guess there still is a lot of work to do.
Re:How we built the unbeatable Dota 2 bot on Friday August 18, 2017 @01:36AM (#15043841)
I still agree and think that you are somewhat correct. Nevertheless: the pros are training 5v5 exclusively. 1v1 is a just for fun gamemode, the money is earned in the 5v5 tournaments.

I am not saying the bot should be able to play 5v5, I am saying that he ist trained to play this one very specific 1v1 scenario. He is doing really well with that, but as soon as you pick a different hero, the bot will struggle.

Re:How we built the unbeatable Dota 2 bot on Thursday August 17, 2017 @07:17AM (#15035649)
That is correct, what I was trying to say is, that the playstyle of the professional players is not used to those rules. It takes them out of their comfort zone and they have to adapt. I would love to see the bot matched up with a high mmr player who is playing matches with these rules on a regular basis
Re:How we built the unbeatable Dota 2 bot on Thursday August 17, 2017 @02:05AM (#15034146)
As a developer I surely am amazed of the capabilities of the bot, but as a Dota player I am a bit more skeptic. The bot only wins in a certain scenario, Shadow Fiend vs Shadow Fiend, no bottle, no runes, no jungle creeps and so on. This cuts down the possibilities of playstyle a lot. This is stuff the pros are used to have available, and are training with. The bot was trained without it and has a fitting playstyle. For this certain type of 1v1, a pro would have to adapt. I still think that if you give them enough time, they will figure it out.
Re:Various Schemes of making $5,000/month at home (Quora) on Friday April 21, 2017 @04:58AM (#14164014)
Was going to say the exact same. "Would you like to finally find success working from home? Would you like to do more than just get by? Today we are talking about how to hustle your way to making $5,000 per month or more. Learn from these examples and use them as inspiration when devising your own work at home success plan." .. and my scammy-senses are tingeling.
The title is kind of misleading. The websites and Apps were indeed built with hundreds of lines of code, and are being sold/are for rent on the given platform.

I honestly do not see a big difference compared to other services which offer you pre-built blogs, websites etc.

My boss uses a desk which allows him to easily change its height. If he needs to stand for a while he just moves it up and can work while standing.

I think this might be a viable solution but depends on the company you are working at, as these desks obviously are more expensive.

Everything with extensions is about trust, we recently started developing an extension for our customers to improve their experience with our product. While in theory you could look at the source code from your browser, the only solution for proving that we do not track their data is to publish the extension as an open-source project.

By the way: while testing around with extensions, I happened to realize that Kasperskys safe-form-input thingy does not work at all with other extensions, in fact: everyone can track your passwords, no matter what you do.

Re:Ask HN: How to become a vegan? on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @06:37AM (#12853463)
My girlfriend is vegan and I am vegetarian. I am vegetarian for 3/4 of a year now and slowly start to replace all animal based products. The best help for me is to have someone I can rely on (like my girlfriend). Sharing food with someone who already is vegan helped me to get the right feeling for it and made me experience a lot of options food wise. Ultimatively I am vegetarian because living with my girlfriend showed me that I can eat tasty stuff without having to kill or abuse animals
Re:Ask HN: How to become a vegan? on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @06:28AM (#12853438)
Either you get it from pills yourself, or (if not vegan) the animals will be injected with it. Either way, there is no perfect solution to fill up your B12 needs
Re:Randomly generated dungeons on Friday September 30, 2016 @07:15AM (#12611752)
Random structure generation really is a big thing to do. There are way too many parameters and possible things to happen so all it comes down to is the imagination of the developer.

I have tried generating a simple city, which took quite a while to accomplish, while I am not 100%ly happy with it, I think this is as simple as it can get: https://github.com/iMarv/CityGenerator