erikbye

73 ms·

691.
by erikbye 9y ago
Yes, but probably not much advice as to APIs or technical implementations that caused problems. I'd like to hear from founders.
692.
Ask HN: Seeking advice wrt dating service and legal pitfalls
2 points by erikbye 9y ago|3 comments
693.
by erikbye 9y ago
I haven't had a single problem with it. And at least recommend another front end then, because straight MPV is a horrible user experience.
694.
by erikbye 9y ago
Try SMPlayer.
695.
by erikbye 9y ago
At least I was right about 'sickness', which was the vital clue here. And I can "guess" a lot more than hand-picked examples, using this method I've understood everything from store signs and logos to large parts of
696.
by erikbye 9y ago
You misunderstood, I think... I'm saying if you know the 214 radicals and you see the character for e.g. house, you'll understand the character(s) and even sentences (sometimes). If you know the radical 黑 and 死, then you can easil
697.
by erikbye 9y ago
> In Chinese you have to memorize thousands of characters When I started learning Chinese I just memorized the 214 traditional radicals and from there I could pretty much infer the meaning of every character.
698.
by erikbye 9y ago
Would that be MITx 6.00.1x?
699.
by erikbye 9y ago
I'm just saying a person thought to be "very smart" should be able to do CS101, easily; and I don't think the examples you mentioned are indication of extraordinary cognitive faculties. I taught myself near photo-realist
700.
by erikbye 9y ago
Perhaps "very smart" was an incorrect assessment on your part.
701.
by erikbye 9y ago
It's incredulous how people can find git daunting; especially the simple usage most make of it. Yet, I constantly see people refer to such simple and easy to use CLI tools as an obstactle in CS courses, not a helpful tool. Welcome to t
702.
by erikbye 9y ago
> Programming is hard The programming people do most of is incredibly easy. Stop perpetuating the myth that programming is hard. People have changed careers to programming using week-long courses. No, they're not working on OS desig
703.
by erikbye 9y ago
Anyone who talks about compiling the Linux kernel as a measure of difficulty or knowledge obviously knows nothing. I could teach my 9-year-old nephew how to do that.
704.
by erikbye 9y ago
> We don't expect law students to have been amateur lawyers in high school; it's a bonus if they have been in the debate society or have taken a personal interest in the subject, but it's not necessary. I don't see wh
705.
by erikbye 9y ago
That just sounds like the professor didn't teach them about Java classpath before telling them to use a CLI; or this kid didn't read the course materials.
706.
by erikbye 9y ago
Hmm.... Many CS101 courses are extremely easy; have a look at something like Harvard's CS50, which many people also take online. There's always somewhere to start for people who's hardly used their computer for more than just
707.
by erikbye 9y ago
> having different points of view on a programming team can mean the difference between having your product take off, or fail. All teams have different points of view. This has nothing to with "diversity" or gender. If there&#x
708.
by erikbye 9y ago
Why should demographics be forced? This insane obsession with having a 1:1 ratio male/female, and now ethnicity-based as well, is not healthy. It's weird that the politically correct opinion seems to be that it can't be accep
709.
by erikbye 9y ago
Doesn't Sturgeon's law apply to most industries? To everything?
710.
by erikbye 9y ago
Which is why Facebook's hourly rate for their moderators is $1-15.
711.
by erikbye 9y ago
That's not what he said. And don't make the false assumption that you can't have attribution or compensation without copyright.
712.
by erikbye 9y ago
Journalists and newspapers as we know them today are deathly afraid of becoming obsolete, which they in many ways already are. What they're doing now with ads and paywalls is just delaying their extinction for a bit. I doubt you will f
713.
by erikbye 9y ago
The Unix philosophy is popularly simplified to "do one thing and do it well", sure, but that simplification is not accurate. Many Unix programs do much more than one thing. What the Unix philosophy actually is: "The Unix phil
714.
by erikbye 9y ago
A person is either Catholic or a know-nothing, entitled snowflake? What a binary world you live in.
715.
by erikbye 9y ago
Catholics and abuse and you are surprised?
716.
by erikbye 9y ago
You mean truly catastrophic if it was codebook?
717.
by erikbye 9y ago
HTTPS or not, certainly nothing is private here, but that's expected for this sort of place.
718.
by erikbye 9y ago
This does not seem to be a universal truth. Time and again I see news stories of grocery store type jobs (or McDonalds) getting hundreds of applicants.
719.
by erikbye 9y ago
Some of the comments here... SMH. I think that a lot of you should cut back on the self-aggrandizing and realize that whether you are a software engineer or a trucker, very few people in the world do great and meaningful things.
720.
by erikbye 9y ago
Yes, something like that. Or when the victim is wasted or deliberately drugged.

More ›