Hacker News: Recoil42

New comment by Recoil42 in "Theranos.world"

Recoil42 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:10:07 +0000

The event they're hosting is a free watch party for the movie. You didn't exactly crack the case.

New comment by Recoil42 in "Run a script when police raid your house"

Recoil42 — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:33:20 +0000

Just curious, what is the root event (events?) of your PTSD?

New comment by Recoil42 in "The rise of fake engine noise"

Recoil42 — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:13:44 +0000

>You know, deaf people have managed to survive by looking around before they step onto the road.

And what about blind people?

New comment by Recoil42 in "A new way to lock your computers: just walk away"

Recoil42 — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:43:02 +0000

Android already does this. It's called Smart Lock. Just set your computer as a trusted device:

https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/6093922?hl=en-CA

New comment by Recoil42 in "[dead]"

Recoil42 — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 06:17:31 +0000

Just curious, why are you posting this? Is there a point you're trying to make?

New comment by Recoil42 in "Farm 432"

Recoil42 — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 23:25:54 +0000

>For some reason shrimp which are essentially bugs are no problem because (I think) they come from the ocean, so there's an obvious mental line that can dissassociate them from other bugs.

Generally, we eat the innards, not the exoskeleton.

New comment by Recoil42 in "Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven"

Recoil42 — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:13:27 +0000

Rice does certainly work as a mild desiccant. Admittedly it is not a terribly effective desiccant, but it still has those properties.

New comment by Recoil42 in "Larry Page: I would rather give my billions to Elon Musk rather than charity"

Recoil42 — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 15:25:25 +0000

> "Page even went as far as suggesting that everyone give their money to a corporation that was trying to accomplish big stuff."

We call that investing.

New comment by Recoil42 in "Classic arcade game TRON on a cloth modelling grid"

Recoil42 — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:58:35 +0000

Why not just use constants?

New comment by Recoil42 in "Ford Ditches Microsoft for QNX in Latest In-Vehicle Tech Platform"

Recoil42 — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:35:33 +0000

Former ActionScript developer here. Can confirm, it was actually pretty great. It's a hell of a lot more of a cleaner language than Javascript, for instance.

Don't forget that most game UIs are still built in ActionScript, and they're just fine.

New comment by Recoil42 in "2015 Tesla Model S P85D First Test"

Recoil42 — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 15:37:17 +0000

It's a bit misleading of a conclusion to make, because most of those changes likely aren't non-compatible changes.

For instance, maybe a chip goes out of manufacturing, and they can no longer get it supplied, but a successor product from the same supplier meets all the same requirements.

Perhaps a bracket goes out of manufacture, but an almost identical bracket is sourced from a different supplier.

This would qualify as a hardware modification, but is a non-breaking change.

New comment by Recoil42 in "Everything You Need to Know About Cooking with Blood"

Recoil42 — Sun, 19 Oct 2014 00:29:56 +0000

I'm curious, where do you live? Do you make this observation coming from South Korea, or, for example, Los Angeles?

New comment by Recoil42 in "Introducing GIFV"

Recoil42 — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 16:00:02 +0000

We have a format for something like that — WebP. As a bonus, it's less processor-intensive, which makes it suited for things like tiling backgrounds, or embedding many of them on a page — a huge problem for MP4s that anyone who's enabled the on their services has no doubt already discovered.

New comment by Recoil42 in "Hyperlapse, Instagram's new video stabilization app"

Recoil42 — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 20:47:19 +0000

Microsoft didn't coin the term. It's been in use for at least the last few years.

See T&L's online Google Maps Hyperlapse tool, from 2012:

http://labs.teehanlax.com/project/hyperlapse

New comment by Recoil42 in "Show HN: Album Release “8-bit” Raycaster in JavaScript"

Recoil42 — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 21:20:52 +0000

Same. And if you escape the mouse, it allows you to look, but gets even more glitchy.

New comment by Recoil42 in "Gulp.js: The streaming build system"

Recoil42 — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 18:54:54 +0000

Adding gulp-plumber will fix this, but I agree, it should be available out of the box.

https://www.npmjs.org/package/gulp-plumber

New comment by Recoil42 in "Gulp.js: The streaming build system"

Recoil42 — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 17:05:44 +0000

"For instance, it does not allow to sequentially execute tasks: everything is done in parallel."

This is false. You can set perquisites for a task, which will be executed in sequence.

New comment by Recoil42 in "Tesla's Infinite Mile Warranty"

Recoil42 — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 20:56:09 +0000

There are reports that this has already been solved.

http://transportevolved.com/2014/08/11/tesla-model-s-drivetr...

Moreover:

Speaking a few weeks ago at the Q2 earnings call, Tesla Motors [NASDAQ:TSLA] CEO Elon Musk said that Tesla’s approach — replacing the drivetrain of affected cars under warranty at an estimated cost of $15,000 per case — was more about customer satisfaction than anything else. “Our optimization was customer happiness. And so we knew exactly what to do. We just wanted to give people their car back right away,” he said.

New comment by Recoil42 in "The Thermodynamic Ice Bag"

Recoil42 — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 16:59:07 +0000

Extra awesome bonus point: When they were first testing their rockets, they used their submarine as a tow/tug for their launch platform. Yeah, these guys are crazy awesome.

New comment by Recoil42 in "Adobe's New Pen and Ruler"

Recoil42 — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 07:38:48 +0000

Sure, but the public perception is that he was.