rejectedalot
Re:Show HN: Awesome-code-reading - A curated list of high-quality code...
on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @05:09PM (#18296420)
Check out peter norvig’s python code
Re:Elephant birds: Who killed the largest birds that ever lived?
on Saturday September 15, 2018 @02:04PM (#17995319)
I think since a vector has a direction, he’s suggesting that the direction of the vector is pointed “the wrong way” with respect to time
Re:New Evidence That Lead Exposure Increases Crime (2017)
on Friday August 31, 2018 @11:35PM (#17890048)
In Elizabethan England, didn’t a lot of women wear lead based makeup? I’d be interested in seeing how that affected crime rates or other metrics, if that data were available.
Re:Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that...
on Sunday July 29, 2018 @03:09PM (#17639745)
23 yo
Last tech thing: learned how routers work
Last non-tech thing: some strategy in technique for amateur cycling racing
Re:Keep on moving: the bizarre dance epidemic of summer 1518
on Monday July 09, 2018 @08:18AM (#17489671)
I learned recently that when elephants are very hot, they need to wildly flap their ears to cool their blood (as the blood flows from the body to the brain by way of the ears.) Maybe they hypothesized a similar effect?
Re:What I’ve Been Doing Since Quitting My Job
on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @10:02PM (#17193429)
It seems like you get a lot of your feeling of meaning and contentedness from social interaction. From what you’re saying about how travel, projects, etc don’t seem as fulfilling anymore, it really seems to me like you have some depressive tendencies.
I’m not a doctor, but just as a friend, I think you should really try to think of dealing with that existential sadness as a priority - not as an annoyance. Spending real time and energy towards improving your mental health could have real impact on every other aspect of your life.
Re:Memory transfer between snails challenges view of how brain remembers
on Monday May 14, 2018 @11:10PM (#17071371)
I missed that - thank you for clearing this up!
Re:Memory transfer between snails challenges view of how brain remembers
on Monday May 14, 2018 @11:01PM (#17071327)
It says that the snails retracted only briefly as a baseline, but learned to retract for longer periods of time to avoid the jarring electrical stimuli. I’m totally unfamiliar with this stuff, but it seems to me that injecting a snail with RNA would also be a jarring stimulus. Therefore, wouldn’t it be learning from the injection itself to remain in its shell for longer at a sign of human touch?
Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with burnout as a programmer?
on Friday April 13, 2018 @11:14AM (#16830719)
When dealing with burnout, you should identify what specific stressers exist for you in relation to programming, and then work to cut those stressers out from the process. I’m afraid that from person to person, programming burnout can come from different sources, so we’ll need more information first. For instance, is it specific aspects of the job / management? Is it the codebase itself, or a specific project you’re working on?
Re:Announcing gRPC Support in Nginx
on Sunday March 18, 2018 @04:50PM (#16614242)
Going into the microservice aspect above, it provides a nice abstraction of remote function calls, so that you can write microservice code that looks like it's executing a local function, but is really just expecting a remote server to implement the method name. In general, that's just RPC calls though. Google's implementation has proven very intuitive to learn, and has a nice size community online for help debugging, etc.
Re:Microsoft Offers Bug Bounty to Prevent Another Spectre-Meltdown Fiasco
on Saturday March 17, 2018 @05:59PM (#16609273)
See section 4.3 in the Spectre paper - https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf
It includes an implementation of the exploit in a few lines of javascript.
Re:Ask HN: What are you learning right now?
on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @06:21PM (#15708972)
I’m learning how to interview well and face rejection. I’m graduating this year and I’ve been rejected at the final stage from numerous “big 5” companies and some startups, and it’s hard to keep going, but I know that grit is important, so I’m learning :)