Hacker News: Arnor

New comment by Arnor in "Sorry, everyone: The future of sex is total apathy"

Arnor — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 14:27:00 +0000

This is all very perplexing. I don't understand any of this internal logic. I can't see how you can "treat [sex] exactly like you would any other experience" because we treat all experiences differently. We don't treat riding a bike like eating. We don't treat gardening like watching a movie. So how can we treat sex like gardening, watching a movie, biking, and eating? Likewise, I don't see how making sex "just another experience" makes it "not special." I hope that most of our experiences in life are special. I'm sure I've completely missed the point. Sorry if that's the case.

New comment by Arnor in "FBI says it won't recommend charges in Clinton case"

Arnor — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 16:12:04 +0000

I'm with you on this. It shouldn't be hand-waved away. It's serious. I just wish we could find some appropriate action between hand-waving and federal indictment...

New comment by Arnor in "FBI says it won't recommend charges in Clinton case"

Arnor — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 16:09:41 +0000

As will you, yes?

New comment by Arnor in "Summon Your Tesla from Your Phone"

Arnor — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:09:03 +0000

Accio Tesla

New comment by Arnor in "Web login using SSH"

Arnor — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 18:04:31 +0000

No! That is pointedly not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that I don't need every detail of my life to be private. I prefer that nobody go in and start playing games on my chess.com account, but I'm willing to take a higher degree of risk with that specific account than I am with, e.g. my financial accounts.

It is possible to care about privacy and still accept a more convenient (less secure) way to access specific things.

New comment by Arnor in "Web login using SSH"

Arnor — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 17:10:30 +0000

I agree in principle, but in practice I don't care much if many of my accounts get hacked or subpoenaed. Sure, I'd like to keep my communication and financial information as private as possible. My code, maybe and my personal photos and documents, but if a hacker or government organization gets access to my chess.com account or my GrubHub, I really don't care. They'll find out that I have trouble against the Sicilian Najdorf and that I eat too much cheese cake (which as of this post is open record anyway :)

New comment by Arnor in "I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil"

Arnor — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 19:59:22 +0000

There's been a lot of up/down vote action on this Big Bang theory reference. I've found it quite entertaining. Thanks HN. :)

New comment by Arnor in "I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil"

Arnor — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 15:49:28 +0000

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

New comment by Arnor in "I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil"

Arnor — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 15:05:17 +0000

> ... playing host to a herd of feral cats.

A group of cats is called a clowder... or a glaring :)

New comment by Arnor in "The Haskell user experience"

Arnor — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 16:19:30 +0000

That package looks useful. Thanks for sharing!

New comment by Arnor in "Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit"

Arnor — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:42:50 +0000

Though I agree with others that the price is a bit high, I want to see where this goes. I hope a strong community can grow around it and folks come up with interesting ways to combine previous kits. It would be really fun if some of the monthly projects consisted of compositions of previous projects. That may break with the model of each kit containing everything necessary for each project so maybe it would work better as a monthly challenge on Reddit or something. Anyway, here goes nothing :)

New comment by Arnor in "How Much Does an Experienced Programmer Use Google?"

Arnor — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 21:48:44 +0000

On any given day I use any combination of the following languages: Ruby, Python, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Haskell, Bash.

If I could remember how each language handled list operations and JSON/Base64 encoding I could probably code much faster, but the real efficiency gain wouldn't come until I stop reading HN :P

New comment by Arnor in "Add bytecode cache to Ruby"

Arnor — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 20:24:07 +0000

How significant is the performance impact on a mid-large Ruby on Rails application?

New comment by Arnor in "8^8 – Find another you"

Arnor — Fri, 15 May 2015 22:50:58 +0000

There's a wide spectrum between "exactly like you" and "opposite"

New comment by Arnor in "Announcing Rust 1.0"

Arnor — Fri, 15 May 2015 17:23:07 +0000

Awesome! I assume you intentionally released this on a Friday just to eat up everyone's weekends :) Thanks for the hard work. As I dig in, I'm hoping that Rust will fit in the "useful and safe" sweet spot in Simon Peyton Jones's diagram here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSmkqocn0oQ

New comment by Arnor in "Wego: a weather app for the terminal"

Arnor — Thu, 14 May 2015 17:05:04 +0000

Haskell combinators for ALL THE THINGS :)

New comment by Arnor in "Show HN: A random startup generator"

Arnor — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:40:09 +0000

WE ARE STRIPSTR. You like to strip. Stripstr does too.

New comment by Arnor in "So Your Company Has Been Found Using Alex’s Photographs Without Permission"

Arnor — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 21:59:17 +0000

Perhaps the commenter I replied to above wasn't interested in engaging with the idea. Maybe he just wanted to express his displeasure with the tone. Not every interaction is going to be the type of interaction you expect (i.e. "engaging with an idea"). Sometimes, critiques of written works have to do with the tone. There is nothing wrong with that.

The reason that comment got down voted and the reason I got down voted had nothing to do with PG'S 2008 post. It had everything to do with an abrasive community...

Yet, as my old man used to say, "Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and only the pigs like it." So it is on HN...

QED Turtles all the way down.

New comment by Arnor in "So Your Company Has Been Found Using Alex’s Photographs Without Permission"

Arnor — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 21:13:05 +0000

I disagree but don't understand why you were down voted... it seems that others disagree and think that's who they should express themselves. Maybe they are smug?

New comment by Arnor in "The User Is Drunk"

Arnor — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 16:41:30 +0000

AWS failed this test hard for me a couple weeks ago. A cat walking across my keyboard terminated an EC2 instance. Lesson learned: no cats on the desk when logged into mission critical software :)