Hacker News: Drakar1903

New comment by Drakar1903 in "Stanford lab envisions delivery drones that save energy by taking the bus"

Drakar1903 — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 11:19:28 +0000

Today's useless robot deer is tomorrow's mountain rescue robot. Skepticism is healthy in moderation.

New comment by Drakar1903 in "Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem"

Drakar1903 — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 08:12:26 +0000

I keep wondering what pushes people to stay in the ecosystem of the forked chain that quote unquote lost the fight.

New comment by Drakar1903 in "Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem"

Drakar1903 — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 08:11:35 +0000

Let's not get hung up on details, if you have the resources to consider 51%ing Bitcoin for presumably nefarious purposes, you're probably a government/big finance/oligarch actor and you're probably not penny pinching.

New comment by Drakar1903 in "Bash IRC Quote Database"

Drakar1903 — Thu, 28 May 2020 07:11:01 +0000

I swear, HN really is the old boys' secret clubhouse.

New comment by Drakar1903 in "A lot of “idiotic” things have reasonable explanations (2011)"

Drakar1903 — Wed, 27 May 2020 07:30:13 +0000

Luck is when ability and preparedness meet an opportunity.

New comment by Drakar1903 in "Software will eat software in a remote-first world"

Drakar1903 — Mon, 25 May 2020 07:38:00 +0000

We could draw parallels to warfare, the one industry that historically warps everything around itself. First we fought with spears, swords and shields, then with primitive musket guns. Suddenly tanks and planes and helicopters join the frey. Then carriers, submarines, missiles and targeting systems. Radars. Space satellites. I'd be surprised if there aren't secret projects that simulate the same potential conflict a million times to decide chance of success given new parameters.

And every time the new advancement in technology blows the previous ones out of the water, but it is open to its own exploitable faults. Tanks beat infantry in open field, but they're less suited for urban warfare if you don't want to leave the city in ruin.

New comment by Drakar1903 in "Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices"

Drakar1903 — Tue, 19 May 2020 08:07:40 +0000

Call them contributor-hours, this way only the people that slack off can be offended.

New comment by Drakar1903 in "Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices"

Drakar1903 — Tue, 19 May 2020 08:01:55 +0000

This is one of those cases where that Ford quote about a faster horse is relevant. Many people will be happy to just have what they have now without thinking how it could be better.

New comment by Drakar1903 in "Roman Finger Counting"

Drakar1903 — Fri, 15 May 2020 09:14:43 +0000

That assumes two finger states - extended or bent.

Introduce half-extended as a state and you have 3^10 = 59049

New comment by Drakar1903 in "Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build the Post-Pandemic World"

Drakar1903 — Mon, 11 May 2020 12:39:21 +0000

You're right. We gotta push for Global Universal Basic Income. Someone surely has "X% of people live on less than 5 dollars a day" stats available on hand. If it makes their lives better over there, they have less incentive to uproot their life to go over here.

New comment by Drakar1903 in "Hourly 4-second sprints prevent impairment of postprandial fat metabolism"

Drakar1903 — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 06:24:09 +0000

And here I thought this was about software development.

New comment by Drakar1903 in "Things I wished more developers knew about databases"

Drakar1903 — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:45:26 +0000

I will be very glad if you actually answer these questions, in a separate comment. I'm driven to write this by nothing but the desire to know.

New comment by Drakar1903 in "Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?"

Drakar1903 — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 06:21:34 +0000

As someone who also does this, I find that the problem becomes not processing the information, but retaining it, and I haven't found a solution to that yet.

New comment by Drakar1903 in "Python programming is drowning in red tape"

Drakar1903 — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 06:38:09 +0000

Things in this industry are divided into those that get complained about and those that get forgotten.

New comment by Drakar1903 in "Newly unemployed New Yorkers are being frustrated by 1970s-era technology"

Drakar1903 — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 15:10:42 +0000

With respect to all the elders for whom all of this computer technology stuff came up pretty late in their lifetime - when and where do we draw the line about basic computer competency?

New comment by Drakar1903 in "Show HN: I made a site that aggregates entry-level positions"

Drakar1903 — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 08:05:58 +0000

Intern is the new entry level.

Once a consulting company told me they'd be happier if I had 2 years of experience because then they could pitch me as a senior engineer.

Overall the title inflation and title obfuscation in this industry is starting to become an issue.

New comment by Drakar1903 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?"

Drakar1903 — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:24:37 +0000

Remote? I'd be happy to apply from Europe, but at the moment the planes are grounded.

New comment by Drakar1903 in "How I became a better programmer (2017)"

Drakar1903 — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 07:40:58 +0000

Paying down tech debt is like brushing your teeth, if you don't do it regularly, you'll end up with more pain and a higher bill at the end.

New comment by Drakar1903 in "Stages of denial in encountering K"

Drakar1903 — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 07:34:41 +0000

This is what - I presume - is their implementation of sending an e-mail

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U:{(`Z,'!Z).'+x};V:0;i:0;I::`Z,(!Z)(#Z)!i;y:{I .`y};zf:{$[`kt=x;i+:1;^`W`F?x;I . x;. x]};u::F[0]!#Z;W:{U`V,,u,'0;U`W,,(-':1_u,x),'x 1};z:{U`z;1'(V;U[`a]{$[#x;"";y]}'$!Z;3)} Z:`to`cc`subj`!A$/:4#()

This looks like an exercise in obtuseness.

New comment by Drakar1903 in "Spot the Drowning Child (2015)"

Drakar1903 — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 13:10:21 +0000

I wonder how people would feel about machine-learning enhanced lifeguard system. Machines are sharp all the time.