ironmagma

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1981.
Ask HN: Have you ever inherited a codebase nobody on the team could understand?
185 points by ironmagma 8y ago|217 comments
1982.
by ironmagma 8y ago
Then the first draft can go out when it would have been normally published. Then, the main value add would be commenting and suggesting changes as well as a centralized place to see comments and suggestions as well as their reactions.
1983.
by ironmagma 8y ago
Of course one can. But should one?
1984.
by ironmagma 8y ago
I don't really have time either unfortunately. That's a cool application though, is it yours? I used to work for JustFOIA.
1985.
by ironmagma 8y ago
Yep, never said it was bad. But the cost of this transit center is absolutely enormous for what it is -- a glorified bus station and park. There aren't even plans for BART connectivity, and the cost doesn't include the pricetag fo
1986.
by ironmagma 8y ago
This after over $2 billion dollars spent so far, and after a vulnerability review halfway into construction (why did it wait until then?), Fred Clarke said "We already had a very safe building. Now we probably have one of the safest bu
1987.
by ironmagma 8y ago
That's easy to say, and very difficult for people in certain circumstances. With chronic illness and chronic pain, life can be very, very unbearable. We do have a built-in expectation of being able to, for instance, exist without being
1988.
by ironmagma 8y ago
Well, we wouldn't really have operating schools or governments without that, so yes it does help people.
1989.
by ironmagma 8y ago
It's pretty clear its well-being is not just as important as ours — as a society we have decided this; we don't give cats open-heart surgery, it's not illegal to kill a cat, and cats also have no rights. Cats seem pretty alri
1990.
by ironmagma 9y ago
> Whether it's going from car to car and ticketing anyone who is 12.1 or more inches from the curb or ticketing people for spitting on the sidewalk, no good can come from idle police. So... enforcing our existing laws? What's t
1991.
by ironmagma 10y ago
It's never too late to start exercising. :-)
1992.
by ironmagma 10y ago
Switzerland. Strong economy, often considered one of the happiest countries in the world [1], considerate culture, and lots of natural geographic beauty. [1] World Happiness Report http://worldhappiness.report/wp-content&#x2
1993.
by ironmagma 10y ago
I don't have much advice for feeling unemployable, but I can provide a helping hand with feelings of depression. Right before I moved to the Bay Area I was feeling the worst I'd felt in my life with loss of love and passion, as we
1994.
by ironmagma 12y ago
It's not... you're probably thinking of the fact that anything NASA releases is not copyrightable. This doesn't imply, however, that they must release everything.
1995.
by ironmagma 12y ago
(A video relevant to the topic you mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfEiJJGv4CE )
1996.
Gravity Simulator in ~100 lines of JavaScript(codepen.io)
1 points by ironmagma 12y ago|0 comments
1997.
by ironmagma 12y ago
Seems only tangential, since I don't see anything about group calls or screen share (which are the main features we need Hangouts for).
1998.
by ironmagma 12y ago
Chrome doesn't even work with its own company's social network plugin (Hangouts). I always have to switch to Firefox to use screen share.
1999.
by ironmagma 13y ago
There are many ways. Google Alerts, companies' traffic logs seeing many Hacker News referrers (most likely), word of mouth...
2000.
H.I. Episode 1: Being Wrong on The Internet(hellointernet.fm)
1 points by ironmagma 13y ago|0 comments
2001.
by ironmagma 13y ago
Doesn't this solution make the assumption that the guard will continue to pick prisoners to enter the switchroom indefinitely? If he picked P1, P2, P1, P2, Counter, Counter, <end> would the solution still work?
2002.
by ironmagma 13y ago
I've spent a fair amount of time thinking about this thought experiment, and I think the reason it leads to a paradox is because it's impossible to run a simulation of your own universe (in real time, anyway) in the first place. S
2003.
by ironmagma 13y ago
If a company treats a small portion of its users badly, it's the responsibility of those users to speak out.
2004.
TRE: The approximate regex matching library and agrep command line tool.(github.com)
1 points by ironmagma 13y ago|0 comments
2005.
by ironmagma 13y ago
At Starry Expanse (the remake of Riven, which is the sequel to Myst), we put some of the work we've done into the Oculus Rift... it was absolutely breathtaking. The Myst series is absolutely the perfect genre for that platform, in my o