Hacker News: Malice

New comment by Malice in "Continuous glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch"

Malice — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 13:47:58 +0000

Was a fairly hassle free process. I never spoke to a doctor and use the device for the reasons you said. Just interested in the data.

New comment by Malice in "Neuralink Live Stream [video]"

Malice — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 10:30:23 +0000

Irregardless of your wishes, language evolves. Parts of the US use "on".

New comment by Malice in "How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team"

Malice — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 12:53:03 +0000

It's a mantra that the military use. Train, train, train and fail in training because you can't fail in the real fight. If you read "can't fail" as "can't afford to fail" rather than "failure is an impossibility" you'll get the intent.

New comment by Malice in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)"

Malice — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 16:15:20 +0000

> Social Economic Justice Round

What is a Social Economic Justice Round?

New comment by Malice in "SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy could launch for the first time as soon as Feb 6"

Malice — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:56:55 +0000

Roughly zero. It should launch in the first half of 2018 but it won't launch on Feb 6th.

New comment by Malice in "Older Adults' Forgetfulness Tied to Faulty Brain Rhythms in Sleep"

Malice — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 12:01:49 +0000

The point might have been that with access to emojis (on other platforms) youngsters no longer use the oldschool emojis. Use of oldschool emojis strongly suggests oldschool poster :)

New comment by Malice in "Internet Chemotherapy"

Malice — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 14:08:59 +0000

https://pastebin.com/diXX0r4L

New comment by Malice in "Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat"

Malice — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:25:12 +0000

It would be cool to have that visually presented for controversial topics. Your observation never occurred to me before, good stuff :)

New comment by Malice in "Social media has become a direct threat to democracy"

Malice — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 11:50:37 +0000

Based on your comments, I've realized that I do the thing you're talking about. I'm going to change my behaviour as a result. Thanks for posting this.

New comment by Malice in "Musk revises Mars ambitions"

Malice — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 18:47:41 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_for_Mars

New comment by Malice in "Professors’ unprofessional programs have created a new profession"

Malice — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 11:05:20 +0000

How did you get into it? I think something like that would be my dream job. Yeah, I'm not normal :)

New comment by Malice in "Why We Terminated Daily Stormer"

Malice — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 11:38:44 +0000

> Holocaust denial is a pro-genocide ideology

Can you make this case more clearly? I get that it's anti-semitic (the lying point) but not how it's pro-genocide.

New comment by Malice in "The man who wrote the book on password management regrets the error"

Malice — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 13:51:32 +0000

No. You only know whether you have it correct or incorrect.

New comment by Malice in "Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo"

Malice — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 05:22:56 +0000

I had to read this a few times, but I think I get it now. The original manifesto author means that the "bar is lowered" for diverse candidates because they're scrutinized more carefully and fewer qualified candidates are eliminated? If you're good enough and diverse, you're more likely to be hired than if you're good enough and ... whatever the word for not-diverse is? The original author is not claiming that more unqualified diverse candidates are hired, just that it's easier to get hired if you're qualified and diverse?

If I've understood that correctly I really appreciate your effort in explaining it. Your comment should be higher so more people could see it :)

Also, if I understand you correctly, the phrase "lower the bar" might have gotten him fired for something he wasn't intending to say.

New comment by Malice in "About This Googler's Manifesto"

Malice — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 14:28:42 +0000

Because of "significantly higher variance in male scores"

New comment by Malice in "About This Googler's Manifesto"

Malice — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 14:20:13 +0000

> Could you point me to a quote taken in context that does that? I just reread the document and fail to see where the manifesto questions an individuals capacity of doing a tech job. I'm honestly trying but fail to see the offense.

I'd second this. I've read it a few times and can't see the problem. To be explicit, I'm not saying there is no problem, I'm asking for help to see it.

New comment by Malice in "SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately Held Companies"

Malice — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 10:47:53 +0000

Because you don't make the choices he made if you love money. You absolutely do not start a rocket company. "If you want to make a small fortune in the rocket business, start with a large fortune."

That being said, maybe we're looking at things differently. I'm sure he prefers having money than not having it, but the macro scale choices he's made imply he values other things more than his personal fortune.

New comment by Malice in "JavaScript Power Tools: Real-World Redux-Saga Patterns"

Malice — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 19:00:20 +0000

What do you like about it?

New comment by Malice in "Ask HN: For those programming 10+ years, what do you wish you knew 4 years in?"

Malice — Fri, 19 May 2017 13:39:16 +0000

Cool :)

I use Python for anything related to text processing or webscraping. I use Haxe for when I'm doing cross platform game programming. I use React for web UI / front end work. Erlang for distributed stuff. In each of those cases I've tried other tools and the ones I prefer now seem much more effective ...

I've never done anything in F#

New comment by Malice in "Ask HN: For those programming 10+ years, what do you wish you knew 4 years in?"

Malice — Thu, 18 May 2017 11:16:26 +0000

* Functional is generally better but don't be crazy about it.

* Have tests but don't be crazy about it.

* Keep your development process as streamlined as possible.

* New languages generally aren't as hard as you might think and they might be the right tool.

* The right tool for the right job can make a huge difference.