News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

sac2171

Re: on Friday February 06, 2026 @02:27PM (#46917030)
I'm not sure how to validate this source - but very interesting way to get a sense for broad AI adoption in market.
Re:Docker 2.0 went from $11M to $135M in 2 years on Friday January 13, 2023 @10:19PM (#34377069)
Is your math right?
Re:Pinboard.in is down and DNS has expired on Monday January 10, 2022 @08:39AM (#29874573)
I believe you would need to add it to your local dns host configuration.

For example (on a mac): https://setapp.com/how-to/edit-mac-hosts-file

64.62.134.190 pinboard.in

Re:Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @02:59PM (#15707206)
I believe this happened with Lyft Line and Uber Pool.
Re:Emacs Live (2013) on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @02:24AM (#11951936)
That doesn't always work, and is still quite dangerous in the (abstract), usually your other programmers are friendly, but you should definitely be careful about it.

Proof of concept: https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/one-way-curl-pipe-sh-install...

Re:A Good Vimrc on Saturday October 10, 2015 @05:33PM (#10367089)
I've played around with vimscript and my .vimrc many many times, and always found it very unwieldy. I've started using a new and very different approach, which involves using the amoffat/snake library to write my new .vimrc functions in python. This is definitely not for everyone, but I've been able to do some pretty cool stuff with it, like creating a function for writing trace like debug statements, or sending the currently selected vim lines to a shell via the window manager/os level, rather than a terminal multiplexer like screen. If anyone else is interested, an example can be found at gist.github.com/sac2171/ce7b086421e8387193fd
Re:How Things Break: Ali fought Liston 50 years ago on Sunday May 24, 2015 @04:01PM (#9597363)
That was one of the best articles I've read in a while. While I think the article could have had a better title, and it doesn't dispose any 'useful' information, it is incredibly well written, and interesting.
Re:Amazon Home Services on Monday March 30, 2015 @04:20PM (#9292292)
For a second I believed this was an april's fools joke due to:

http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Home-Services-Hire-Grazer/dp/B0...

Re:Show HN: Downtyme, Scheduling Freetime with Friends on Thursday March 27, 2014 @04:18PM (#7483144)
Not my app, but I assume because it's made by a college student in the area, who would like to see how the proof of concept develops.
Something about this sounded sketchy...

http://www.liveside.net/2013/05/06/skydrive-reaches-250-mill...

places Sky Drive in fourth, behind Dropbox, Google Drive, and ICloud....

Re:The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000) on Thursday October 24, 2013 @11:15AM (#6605726)
Being young, I stumbled on PK Ware once while doing a task for a job. I started inquiring about their service, and was slightly rude to a rep. The conversation went something like...

Me: Why would I pay 40 dollars for zipping software I get for free? You guys are totally late to the game, winzip and winrar already exist.

Rep: ....... Yea, we started the industry, and our founder died from alcohol abuse...

Me: Good joke...

.......

It's a sad tale indeed.

Re:The creepy capital efficiency of Goldman's cafeteria on Friday October 18, 2013 @11:07AM (#6571766)
A lot of people are mentioning the idea that this should actually be a continuous curve... As someone who has used the cafeteria for a couple months, I would say this is most likely an over optimization. You are creating a complication for every transaction, and making it so now there is now set points where you can save the most money, namely at the beginning/end of the window. Which actually creates more of the two 'two hump system' swombat, saalweachter, smickie and others have mentioned. Just like there is a natural gradient to lunch from 12 to 1, you still get a gradient in the discounted hours. 11:30 isn't a better time to eat lunch then 11:55, It's simply an attempt to split up lunch times so that the cafeteria can effectively have 3 rush hour instead of 1. And since traffic effects aren't linear, you get a much quicker overall experience as a result. "The people standing around" is overplayed, Those are the people's elevator rides who were are little shorter/longer than expected.
Re:Welcome, Freshmen. You Don't Deserve to Be Here on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @01:00AM (#6551594)
I just graduated from another elite institution, and I truly wish this had been a part of my convocation.

If I ever do open a school, we will have a succinct version as part of the school creed/honor code.

Why wouldn't one use a simple #?
Re:The IIT Entrance Exam on Thursday June 27, 2013 @07:12PM (#5955294)
Could you provide a link?

Older »