hawkice

55 ms·

511.
by hawkice 10y ago
Hopefully he applies his brilliant insight to adding collision avoidance to bumper cars. That'll make the sport really fun.
512.
by hawkice 10y ago
I cannot disagree with your attitude more. This company is saying they have an existing threat to their ongoing operations that _will_ be fatal, that they are unsure will ever be solved. This is fundamentally different than saying ad blocke
513.
by hawkice 10y ago
There might be a weird HN edit thing going on, but it seems like you are answering a "what is..." question with a Yes. Not that I have an answer per se -- if I still have to be driving, inputting the obvious strategy doesn't
514.
by hawkice 10y ago
Mandarin Chinese is a curious example of this because it's at an almost perfect intersection of constructed and natural (which aren't opposites). It was defined as the language spoken in Beijing but limited to the vocabulary share
515.
by hawkice 10y ago
October 2014 -> May 2016 is 1.5 years, not 2.5. It's all of 2015 and bits of 2014 and 2016.
516.
by hawkice 10y ago
This is an odd idea. I remember, after the explosions in Tianjin, the only place to find reasonably up-to-date information was on Chinese social media. The government wasn't saying much of anything, facts or blame-wise. Social media ev
517.
by hawkice 10y ago
Goodnight Moon combines very short length, repetitive format, relatively straight-forward subject matter choice, and a cross-cultural emotional goal. Maybe the book that would have been written wouldn't be word-for-word the same, but i
518.
by hawkice 10y ago
This is probably the perfect example of why I find these discussions massive wastes of time. If there is a catastrophic brake failure currently, with human drivers, it isn't seen as a deep philosophical issue. I have absolutely no clue
519.
by hawkice 10y ago
So, that's predated by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat,_Sleep,_Repeat and I suspect many other things. The saying goes back a long time, and it's not clear when it was first adapted to this usage.
520.
by hawkice 10y ago
In addition to writing what you've learned from all the tasks you've done professionally for a good reason -- and since that reason is good, people who hire will care about your ability to do it -- you can also write (in a positiv
521.
by hawkice 10y ago
It seems that professional programmers have little understanding about the limits of human endurance in skilled labor. Junior doctors work 100 hour weeks and 36 hour shifts so busy they often don't have time to visit the bathroom. It m
522.
by hawkice 10y ago
Obviously a minor point, but if x: return True else: return False is weirdo-code. Just use return x, maybe cast to bool if you need to.
523.
by hawkice 10y ago
A very reasonable and predictable attitude. Which raises the question: what does this get engineers, if it takes a lot of time and doesn't save any in the interviewing phase? Personally, I hate resumes with the fury of a thousand winds
524.
by hawkice 10y ago
Thanks for pushing the human element of recruiting forward. Instantiating the Recruiting post by Mr. Ptacek is perhaps the best good any small group of people can do for tech at this point. That being said, I lost a lot of interest when it
525.
by hawkice 10y ago
Fun fact: Despite the hyper-cautious (2015) in the headline here, the AMP page described, the one that Google said they were going to fix, still redownloads the same video file every 30 seconds, thus making it, still, theoretically unbounde
526.
by hawkice 10y ago
Upwards of 30MB and it took two minutes to execute the call to alert. Only for those who actively hate the visitors to their page.
527.
by hawkice 10y ago
I disagree with some of the other commenters about the nature of Mr. Ceglowski's candidacy. I do not think it is a protest vote. I voted for him, and I cannot imagine what I would protest -- I've loved PG's essays and read Ha
528.
by hawkice 10y ago
For those who read the comment about Object.observe: Don't use that. It's being removed from everywhere it exists, and pulled from the standards recommendation. Just have a set(state) function that calls your callback instead, it&
529.
by hawkice 10y ago
So, yes, one direction overflows and one doesn't, but as long as the contract says overflow works as two's compliment, the answer is the same. This is why not having undefined behavior is so useful.
530.
by hawkice 10y ago
> The next interview asked me to implement Towers of Hanoi non-recursively. What? Obviously this isn't a great interview question, but this seems massively pointless. I don't think there is an obvious way of doing this that doe
531.
by hawkice 11y ago
Directly to the left of the comments link, which is under the headline at the top.
532.
by hawkice 11y ago
The are two ways to distinguish it being one number or two: (1) Context. This helps most of the time. Not the most helpful for computers, or CSV files. (2) Space. 123,456 is one number and 123, 456 are two. Again, not _strictly_ helpful fo
533.
by hawkice 11y ago
Now it 404s. Good while it lasted.
534.
by hawkice 11y ago
Nah, you can't update two atoms and make sure they both change at the same time. That being said, 99% of the time you can have one atom, a map, with two keys, and that'll do it.
535.
by hawkice 11y ago
The above poster was saying there is a subculture of people who, in order to feel superior, conspicuously avoid posting on Instagram about a sunset. This is an absurd characterization. There is no place in the galaxy in which it is conspicu
536.
by hawkice 11y ago
> I find these types of criticisms of photography just part of the hipster "backpacker mentality": [...] I see a sunset and I don't upload it to Instagram. Oh no! I guess I became a hipster! Please, I'll download Inst
537.
by hawkice 11y ago
So, obviously that is the core issue -- a tiny correction is that very few Chinese people are members of the communist party, less than 7%, and there is no expectation that foreigners join considering they have not been allowed to be member
538.
by hawkice 11y ago
Surprised no one has mentioned the gravitational effect these hubs have -- Sacramento will never really blossom in the tech industry because so much talent gets sucked into SF. But as plane ticket prices go down, those areas get larger and
539.
by hawkice 11y ago
> LVT implicitly incentivizes density. Not necessarily, although that is certainly how it works in many residential situations. The general idea is removing the marginal disincentive for high-value _use_ of the land. Property taxes mean
540.
by hawkice 11y ago
I'm surprised this didn't come up with the github script tag DDOS. I know they changed content to try to encourage them to stop, but it was an inconvenience to users, like alert() calls, so of course it was no where near as effect

More ›