Hacker News: Nikaoto

What is your favorite program?

Nikaoto — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 05:33:47 +0000

Considering everything: usability, ease of maintenance, quality of code, beauty, design, simplicity... Better to exclude software that doesn't have practical uses (like games and demos). Bonus points if you modified them to suit your use case better.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26678641

Points: 2

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New comment by Nikaoto in "Based Cooking"

Nikaoto — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 09:33:47 +0000

I'm not a vegan, actually very much the opposite, but https://grimgrains.com looks like a nice website. It's open source too https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Grimgrains

New comment by Nikaoto in "Based Cooking"

Nikaoto — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 09:05:12 +0000

If it isn't my favorite website collector, Mr. Condor

Sam Altman Is Not a Blithering Idiot (2013)

Nikaoto — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:54:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2013/03/sam-altman-is-not-blithering-idiot/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25848719

Points: 2

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Unsubscribe.txt

Nikaoto — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 06:58:41 +0000

Article URL: http://www.untroubled.org/articles/unsubscribe.txt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24905014

Points: 2

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New comment by Nikaoto in "A little bit of plain JavaScript can do a lot"

Nikaoto — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 12:24:49 +0000

It's as if using the technology the way it's designed to be used is a reasonable idea. Who could've thought?

Learning from Your Failed Startup

Nikaoto — Fri, 29 May 2020 22:00:27 +0000

Article URL: https://nikaoto.com/blog/learning-from-your-failed-startup/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23356041

Points: 1

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Learning from Your Failed Startup

Nikaoto — Tue, 12 May 2020 10:14:46 +0000

Article URL: https://nika.ninja/blog/learning-from-your-failed-startup/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23152394

Points: 3

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New comment by Nikaoto in "The missing semester of CS education"

Nikaoto — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 20:47:18 +0000

Yep. And the sad part is that some of the students I met here don't realize what they're learning is not CS. I only applied to avoid the compulsory military service, I was already learning a bunch on my job.

On the bright side, the local job market demands match what they teach here very well. According to my anecdata, lots of students who had no knowledge or experience working as programmers now have full-time jobs mostly as web developers. Looks like the university's doing its job and I'm just a whiny C student.

New comment by Nikaoto in "Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?"

Nikaoto — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 11:58:32 +0000

I got goosebumps reading the second one, because it's so close to what could actually happen. I live in a small eastern European country in a frozen conflict with Russia. Both cell carriers in my country have a way to send messages to its users en masse, which is at the moment used to spam people with ads and political messages (given that the commissioner pays enough per message).

Russian hackers hijacking both cell companies to send a string of messages to citizens seems like a very plausible scenario. Our software companies are notorious for their terrible security measures (which are often nonexistent). Just a few months ago, a few major hosting companies were hacked by possibly Ukranian or Russian actors to have every site hosted on them be replaced with a single image of our past megalomaniacal president holing our flag with subtitles saying "I'll be back". It could have just been a test run to see how we'd handle it or respond to it. I had access to one of the websites and skimmed through its directories. The directory which contained static content for serving had multiple child directories following a naming pattern: `name`, `name_`, `name__` ... I think the virus would recursively add an underscore to the directory it was creating if a directory with the same name already existed. Seems like the attacks happened multiple times and were automated, so it probably didn't require great effort from the attacker. Maybe the multiple names were due to different ways of attacking and it's saddening to see that 3+ different ways to hack our hosting services worked.

Russia has been slowly creeping the border towards our capital city. If Russia wanted, it could easily just annex the entire country and nobody outside would give a damn. We'd just have to comply because we're in a total mess. EU would wag their fingers and "condemn" what Russia did and that would be the end of it. I think Russia has bigger plans. Just taking us over has less value compared to the alternative: to test out its cyber-attacking power on a small challenge such as our country before moving onto bigger targets, such as Ukraine.

Where do you suggest I move? Finland and Canada are looking great, their immigration policies seem lax :-)

New comment by Nikaoto in "What happens when your career becomes your whole identity"

Nikaoto — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 21:03:48 +0000

The Art of Manliness podcast had a great episode about this: https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/podcast-547-achievin...

Made me think harder about the specific things I enjoy about programming.

The book Dark Horse expands on the topic.

Cost Analysis of Active Debris Removal Scenarios and System Architectures [pdf]

Nikaoto — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 13:29:05 +0000

Article URL: https://conference.sdo.esoc.esa.int/proceedings/sdc7/paper/660/SDC7-paper660.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21813209

Points: 1

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Learning from Your Failed Startup

Nikaoto — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 20:33:28 +0000

Article URL: https://nika.ninja/blog/learning-from-your-failed-startup/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21609760

Points: 1

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New comment by Nikaoto in "“The books will stop working.”"

Nikaoto — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 21:11:43 +0000

Good guys, bad guys, and explosions as far as the eye can see.

New comment by Nikaoto in "I Miss Rails"

Nikaoto — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 08:29:38 +0000

Serious question. What's wrong with simply having a static directory from which you send html files to the client? I do that all the time with my servers and the load times and the complexity of the project never seems to get out of hand. When the app needs to be highly interactive, I perform simple fetch requests and DOM updates from JS. Am I missing something here?

New comment by Nikaoto in "Facial recognition: It’s time for action"

Nikaoto — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 20:28:13 +0000

They would have to use a camera, which you would have to allow.

New comment by Nikaoto in "Facial recognition: It’s time for action"

Nikaoto — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 20:02:54 +0000

Yes, but that person can't copy your biometric data stored in their brain, convert it to a standardized format, and distribute it to millions of other devices.

New comment by Nikaoto in "Facebook's seized files published by MPs"

Nikaoto — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:26:25 +0000

If you've ever worked at FB, you can get a job at basically any other tech company very easily. So, no. There is shame in that for FB employees.

New comment by Nikaoto in "An elevator in a Chicago skyscraper fell 84 floors, requiring a dramatic rescue"

Nikaoto — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 14:39:07 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by Nikaoto in "An elevator in a Chicago skyscraper fell 84 floors, requiring a dramatic rescue"

Nikaoto — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 08:20:38 +0000

What does OT stand for?