Hacker News: FrankDixon

New comment by FrankDixon in "I Am Deleting the Blog"

FrankDixon — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 09:52:32 +0000

Wielding the spotlight of your publication as a weapon sounds like an interesting business model too. Like a private detective being payed by a group of subscribers, interested in finding wrongthink.

Given the current climate and the pretty safe assumption that the NYT author knows that the general public would never read through SSC (because the posts are too long and you actually have to make an effort to "consume" that blog) make me suspicious of the "positive" piece.

New comment by FrankDixon in "Native Javascript alternatives to jQuery methods"

FrankDixon — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 14:53:24 +0000

is jquery even still a thing?

New comment by FrankDixon in "ROSshow: ASCII art visualizations for robot sensor data"

FrankDixon — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 06:44:15 +0000

I love the braille visualisation. It‘s amazingly high-def

New comment by FrankDixon in "Thinkpad X210"

FrankDixon — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 21:19:22 +0000

Second that. I don‘t get it

New comment by FrankDixon in "Thinkpad X210"

FrankDixon — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 21:18:45 +0000

It‘s mostly an issue with the decision makers at lenovo. Were linux as widespread as a desktop os as windows, it would have happened to linux too.

New comment by FrankDixon in "V Programming Language"

FrankDixon — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 22:50:04 +0000

I‘m not sure this will ever reach the light of day. It follows the same patterns as Eul did, another creation if the same inventor: - plenty of empty links on the website that lead to something ‚coming in march/april/june/...‘ - lots of nice ideas, but nothing to show for it

I wish the creator all the best, but Eul promised a lot, long long ago, and never delivered

New comment by FrankDixon in "“HackerNoon is leaving Medium, but also trying to take rights for people's work”"

FrankDixon — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 20:07:52 +0000

What exactly is the unique selling proposition of medium?

New comment by FrankDixon in "Show HN: Cell Automata Ventricle Puzzle in Elm and WebGL"

FrankDixon — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 23:01:15 +0000

I don't get what this is, but it looks amazing!

New comment by FrankDixon in "Protest against the EU radio lockdown"

FrankDixon — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 19:04:36 +0000

the eu is really on a streak with counterproductive legislature atm

New comment by FrankDixon in "Immersive Linear Algebra (2016)"

FrankDixon — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 18:32:37 +0000

yes! interactivity is where it is!

New comment by FrankDixon in "Show HN: AdaBound, an optimizer that trains as fast as Adam and as good as SGD"

FrankDixon — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 11:56:39 +0000

Are algos like Adam being used besides deep learning? I always come across Levenberg-Marquardt and Gauss-Newton, but never Adam.

New comment by FrankDixon in "C++20 Design Is Complete: Modules, Coroutines in C++20"

FrankDixon — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 07:16:17 +0000

I wonder if this really makes sense. In the long run, C++ will be even more massive than it is now. A hundred ways to do sth. Meanwhile, new, lean, langs jump up all the time: crystal, nim, swift, rust. I wonder how long the momentum can carry C++

New comment by FrankDixon in "Halley: Lightweight Game Engine Written in C++14"

FrankDixon — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 15:40:40 +0000

awesome, looks like a reboot of Advance Wars. Loved it back in the day

New comment by FrankDixon in "How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t"

FrankDixon — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:17:38 +0000

funny, in the recent sam harris interview, jack just couldn‘t get enough of highlighting how twitter enables „conversations“.

New comment by FrankDixon in "I scanned Austria"

FrankDixon — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 14:26:55 +0000

In germany the federal bureau of security in IT actually does that. They send the admins an email: https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Topics/IT-Crisis-Management/CERT-...

New comment by FrankDixon in "A Python Interpreter Written in Rust"

FrankDixon — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 17:26:06 +0000

How nice, even a wasm interpreter, that's dandy

New comment by FrankDixon in "Ending our Medium integration"

FrankDixon — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 20:55:03 +0000

totally, I love most of the articles I‘ve read. But all the garbage medium needs to run. Really heavy pageload for a simple thing like blogging

New comment by FrankDixon in "Rayshader – An open-source R package for producing 2D and 3D hillshaded maps"

FrankDixon — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 18:14:32 +0000

beautiful :)

New comment by FrankDixon in "Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger"

FrankDixon — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 17:12:42 +0000

to me all this end-to-end business sounds too much like marketing. As long as you have to use the clients provided by facebook, it doesn't matter that the chats are end-to-end encrypted.

Facebook controls the clients and as such can do whatever it likes with your chats (or whatever you agreed to)

New comment by FrankDixon in "Revery – Native, high-performance, cross-platform desktop apps"

FrankDixon — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 13:34:34 +0000

true. on macos many of the QT and java apps that used to be the norm were a lot worse. clipped buttons, for example.

or pseudo-aqua buttons that were not quite right, uncanny-valley style.