Hacker News: 5teev

New comment by 5teev in "Dear Instagram"

5teev — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:45:32 +0000

"Bolts Framework" is rather different from, and clearly not competing with, "Bolt."

New comment by 5teev in "The Fallacy of Android-First"

5teev — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 08:22:55 +0000

I wouldn't be surprised if Apple someday has a Windows (or whatever) version of Xcode. That is, in a kind of parallel to the OP's essay, Xcode as we know it isn't necessarily "Mac-only" but simply built for Mac first.

New comment by 5teev in "The Brutal Ageism of Tech"

5teev — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 18:10:11 +0000

But what if it's an awesome shiny new hammer based on the latest impulse-delivery fads? Plus, screwdrivers are boring.

Terms of use/Paid contributions amendment

5teev — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 20:36:07 +0000

Article URL: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Paid_contributions_amendment

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7394813

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by 5teev in "How the US Treasury imposes sanctions on me and every other "Stephen Law""

5teev — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:42:18 +0000

It's bad enough having a nearly--but not actually--unique name and frequently getting confused for the other one.

New comment by 5teev in "Level 3 are now hijacking failed DNS requests for ad revenue on 4.2.2.x"

5teev — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 04:47:48 +0000

Comcast also did this to me. Not one of the several tech support people I talked with seemed to be aware of Comcast's non-hijacking DNS servers at 75.75.75.75 and 75.75.76.76.

New comment by 5teev in "How To Survive A Death March"

5teev — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:18:29 +0000

Pretty sensible advice for dealing with long hours over an extended period, but I was confused by the use of the term "death march" which in terms of software development is known as an anti-pattern:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_march_(project_management...

New comment by 5teev in "Lou Reed, Velvet Underground Leader and Rock Pioneer, Dead at 71"

5teev — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 05:08:58 +0000

Seconded. I also prefer "I Heard Her Call My Name" to "Sister Ray" from the next album.

New comment by 5teev in "The Obamacare website that we can’t use only cost us $634 million"

5teev — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 05:40:02 +0000

"Fact" because I can't tell if it's true. (I'll confess I have great doubt.) "Preposterous" because it doesn't seem possible a web site would cost that much. Relevant to HN because it's about a web site, and the readers here are well positioned to evaluate how such a thing might actually be true.

I was worried it might appear so, but I was not trying to rabble-rouse. Sorry if you mistook my intentions.

New comment by 5teev in "The Obamacare website that we can’t use only cost us $634 million"

5teev — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 01:26:30 +0000

This seems preposterous. I'm mainly interested in how this "fact" became a talking point, and how far and fast it spreads.

The Obamacare website that we can’t use only cost us $634 million

5teev — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 01:08:59 +0000

Article URL: http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/10/the-obamacare-website-that-we-cant-use-only-cost-us-634-million/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6541048

Points: 9

# Comments: 5

New comment by 5teev in "Open plan offices attract highest levels of worker dissatisfaction"

5teev — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 03:58:09 +0000

I bet I'm not the only one who sometimes puts headphones on with no music, solely to broadcast that don't-bother-me signal.

New comment by 5teev in "Logo, Bullshit & Co., Inc."

5teev — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 17:48:33 +0000

Historical note about the logo illustration at the top of the essay (which predates the well-known red logo): it was internally referred to as "Uncle Stinky".

New comment by 5teev in "Why is cycling so popular in the Netherlands?"

5teev — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 20:05:38 +0000

This also applies to some Critical Mass riders in the Bay Area.

New comment by 5teev in "NYTimes Objective–C Style Guide"

5teev — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 06:42:02 +0000

Tag line: "All the Code That’s Fit to printf()"

New comment by 5teev in "NYTimes Objective–C Style Guide"

5teev — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 05:33:25 +0000

Objective-C's tendency to long names (variables, selectors, classes) makes it more "self-documenting" than any language I've worked with. Besides, it's not that bad with autocomplete.

New comment by 5teev in "Understanding the most beautiful equation in Mathematics"

5teev — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:37:29 +0000

Small typo:

Euler defined the function e^x in analysis as:

   e^x = lim(1+x/n)^n

as x tends to infinity

Should be "as n tends to infinity".

New comment by 5teev in "Stop Validating Email Addresses With Your Complex Regex"

5teev — Fri, 24 May 2013 16:25:31 +0000

It's an interesting intellectual exercise to build THE email validation regex, but it's shortsighted to inflict your experiment on the public.

While I definitely enjoyed how Friedl's book (http://regex.info/book.html) builds over several chapters to an ever more complex solution, maybe a page long, my takeaway was: don't bother. A friendly UI will help users avoid an obvious mistake, but as other posters have pointed out, the only real validation is, does an email get there?

New comment by 5teev in "You are not Steve Jobs"

5teev — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:30:42 +0000

Just to clarify why sgpl cited him: he is one of the (if not the absolute) most successful rappers of all time. Definitely top of his field. And married to Beyoncé (who is no slouch herself). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyoncé_Knowles (just in case)

New comment by 5teev in "Supreme Court to consider if silence can be evidence of guilt"

5teev — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:13:06 +0000

Note also: they don't have to read you your rights unless you're already under arrest and they want to question you.

http://www.lawcollective.org/article.php?id=115