Hacker News: RegEx

New comment by RegEx in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

RegEx — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:50:54 +0000

I believe your comment is operating under the assumption that people are merely choosing to rent over buying because it's the more economically wise choice. That's not how things work in reality. Many people want to buy but cannot put up the initial costs.

New comment by RegEx in "Many patent holders stop looking to East Texas following Supreme Court ruling"

RegEx — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 01:54:42 +0000

Tyler is far from podunk.

New comment by RegEx in "Taking Children Seriously"

RegEx — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 04:31:50 +0000

Spanking isn't considered abuse in American culture. But you can make children obey physically without spanking. There is snatching from them, picking them up, etc. Those are physically asserting yourself over them to enforce a specific outcome. Not saying that's good or bad, just showing how the poster didn't imply abuse.

New comment by RegEx in "Uber gets sued over alleged ‘Hell’ program to track Lyft drivers"

RegEx — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 23:50:52 +0000

In other words, every hack is legal?

New comment by RegEx in "JSON Web Tokens should be avoided"

RegEx — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 11:58:24 +0000

https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/5228

Emphasis on spoken language in programming education

RegEx — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 16:49:39 +0000

Article URL: http://joequery.me/education/spoken-language-emphasis-programming-education/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13238442

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by RegEx in "Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon"

RegEx — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 17:40:10 +0000

You are the one sneering. "Failing to understand" is a completely respectful stance. It places the lack of understanding on the person saying it. It leaves open the possibility that the person saying it is wrong. It's skeptical but not without a degree of humility.

This is opposed to a straight up judgement, like what you have just done.

New comment by RegEx in "Confessions of a $20K bootcamp graduate"

RegEx — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 15:22:56 +0000

I agree with this. I used to teach at a coding school. I told my students to emphasize projects on their resume, not the fact that they went through our program.

New comment by RegEx in "Bootcamps vs. College"

RegEx — Thu, 19 May 2016 19:10:39 +0000

> Once you know even elementary discrete math such as sets and logic programming becomes more of an exercise in seeing if you can realize abstract ideas and models.

I agree with this 100%. The proof exercises you have to complete in discrete math make for great programming exercises. They force you to ask yourself

1. What's the problem? 2. What do we know? 3. How do we get to the end? 4. What does it look like to be "done"?

These are great questions to ask yourself when programming.

New comment by RegEx in "Bootcamps vs. College"

RegEx — Thu, 19 May 2016 19:08:21 +0000

> if you've been programming for 5 years, a 3 week bootcamp makes no sense

If you want to make a transition to web dev from say, systems programming, cramming that knowledge into a few weeks might not be a bad way to go. At that point, you should already know how to learn, it's just a matter of sitting down and learning it.

New comment by RegEx in "Bootcamps vs. College"

RegEx — Thu, 19 May 2016 18:58:09 +0000

It depends on the school. Some bootcamps have very low acceptance rates to keep their placement numbers high - as that is their main marketing point. They bring in people who can demonstrate they already have the mindset but don't have the knowledge.

Other bootcamps just need you to be able to use your computer and you're in.

New comment by RegEx in "Refined Twitter"

RegEx — Wed, 04 May 2016 21:53:28 +0000

Runtime speed has not been a priority in most apps/websites in a long time. Even relatively new phones struggle with things like modals and swipe effects on mobile websites. So much effort is spent on making things feel "native". Native, in my opinion, should mean fast before anything else.

New comment by RegEx in "Why Lisp is now an acceptable scripting language"

RegEx — Sat, 26 Mar 2016 20:22:32 +0000

What are the bread-and-butter (aka not sexy and cutting edge, but mature and stable) lisps used for web development?

New comment by RegEx in "Hashpipe – Pipe iff the hash matches"

RegEx — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 01:43:29 +0000

This is a really, really interesting point!

In addition to your point, (and perhaps this point has already been made elsewhere in the thread), but the type of people that would install hashpipe would be the kind of people to avoid the practice entirely.

Perhaps there's some mechanism for convincing people to use the tool, and if that mechanism ends up being easier than convincing people to stop piping directly to bash, it sounds like it would be worth pursuing :)

New comment by RegEx in "Show HN: Picnic.css, a lightweight Bootstrap alternative"

RegEx — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 23:50:13 +0000

Their edited-edited post is much more approachable. Bringing up alternatives is great, that's why I generally bookmark threads like this. Passive aggressive rhetorical questions are not nearly as conducive to productive conversation. I commend them for changing the tone of their post.

New comment by RegEx in "Show HN: Picnic.css, a lightweight Bootstrap alternative"

RegEx — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 01:18:26 +0000

This is extremely tacky. Of course you meant to put the framework down - your first statement shows you think this is a competition, and you don't want to "lose"

Your edit is just to try and convince others and yourself that you weren't being a complete tool. (You were).

It seems you had no other intention in your comment than to belittle the authors work and puff yourself up. If you actually thought you could learn something from the author you would have treated them with some degree of respect.

Show HN: Jsonselector

RegEx — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:28:48 +0000

Article URL: http://jsonselector.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8084490

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by RegEx in "Who Gets to Graduate?"

RegEx — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 00:45:08 +0000

One thing I didn't realize until it was too late was that attending community college first forfeits an extremely large amount of potential scholarship money. Transfer scholarships pale in comparison to freshman 4-year scholarships.

New comment by RegEx in "I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]"

RegEx — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:39:24 +0000

These comments...they are completely awful. I don't want to be associated with this place anymore. How do I delete my account?

New comment by RegEx in "Quark: A secure Web Browser with a Formally Verified Kernel"

RegEx — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 11:17:37 +0000

I did not see that directory at all. I tried to Grep to see if some process creates the directory, but I couldn't find it.