Hacker News: Skalman

New comment by Skalman in "Rust and the Future of Systems Programming [video]"

Skalman — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 20:38:28 +0000

For me the hump was from the get-go.

Following the book, I installed Rust directly, but then i realized that I should've installed it via Rustup. Next, I want a good editing environment, so I install VS Code and Racer, but then I find out that I can't use Clippy unless I use Nightly... and I'm not interested in using Nightly, so I'll wait.

New comment by Skalman in "Firefox exploit found in the wild"

Skalman — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 17:30:18 +0000

To people helping others on the internet who claim to be security professionals, remember to make sure that the person is actually trustworthy, so you're not helping criminals. Even though a_cherepanov is a new account with only this comment, I suppose their email domain makes them trustworthy enough: ESET is a Slovakian security company that's had a Wikipedia page for 5+ years.

New comment by Skalman in "Things Rust shipped without"

Skalman — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 20:17:35 +0000

It's an encoding that isn't good at anything: it's neither ASCII-compatible (like UTF-8), nor fixed-length (like UTF-32), but because most characters require only 2 bytes, developers frequently assume that none require more, leading to bugs when a character eventually is represented by 4 bytes.

New comment by Skalman in "MetaES – JavaScript in JavaScript interpreter"

Skalman — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 22:19:57 +0000

If you don't need to dynamically evaluate the code, compiling ES.next code will be more performant, e.g. using Babel.

New comment by Skalman in "A Strong Mode for JavaScript"

Skalman — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 05:57:37 +0000

Perhaps you didn't catch that basically the difference between let and var is that let is block-scoped, while var is function-scoped?

  let result = 0;
  for (let i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
    result += arr[i];
  }

New comment by Skalman in "The next version of DuckDuckGo"

Skalman — Mon, 05 May 2014 19:08:18 +0000

In general, it looks really good.

- I'd like some more focus on keyboard navigation. Make sure that everything looks good when tabbing, even if you've used arrow keys first.

- Anti-phishing: A long domain name will trim the end in the "More from ..." link. Instead it would make sense to trim the beginning.

- Needs better contrast.

New comment by Skalman in "Heartbleed Bug Health Report Of The 5,000 Most Popular Domains"

Skalman — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:12:39 +0000

I note that mozilla.org is on that list. Does anybody know if they're affected?

New comment by Skalman in "Obama’s Path From Critic to Overseer of Spying"

Skalman — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:12:11 +0000

Was he ever that critical? From the article:

> Mr. Obama was a sponsor of a bill in 2005 to raise the standard required for federal agents using ... national security letters ... He joined other Democrats fighting the renewal of the Patriot Act until it was amended to address civil liberties concerns, then voted for its extension in 2006 after a compromise, breaking with Mr. Wyden who voted no.

> “The rhetoric was probably sharper than his votes.” By summer 2008, with the Democratic nomination secured and the White House now a real possibility, Mr. Obama voted for legislation essentially ratifying Mr. Bush’s surveillance programs.

New comment by Skalman in "Mozilla in 2013"

Skalman — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 07:10:32 +0000

It's a one-line fix to make it intuitive, but that's not what's needed here. Ultimately there should be some spec so that browser vendors can converge towards a single behavior.

New comment by Skalman in "Mozilla in 2013"

Skalman — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:57:55 +0000

That patch would not be welcome. The patch to make the behavior intuitive is literally to remove "!important" from one CSS file. They're not changing because they're afraid to break the web.

New comment by Skalman in "Wikimedia Foundation sends cease and desist letter to WikiPR"

Skalman — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:47:03 +0000

Well, it sure is an official guideline [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:COI

New comment by Skalman in "How Ghostery breaks simple websites"

Skalman — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:53:36 +0000

Well, I always open a private window if that's the case.

New comment by Skalman in "Chromium: "MathML is not something that we want at this time""

Skalman — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:00:50 +0000

Because that's not possible to style with CSS.

The Java Debacle - Firefox reverses the block

Skalman — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 18:05:33 +0000

Article URL: http://mike.kaply.com/2013/10/25/the-java-debacle/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6613377

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Skalman in "Can You Read People’s Emotions?"

Skalman — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 20:29:10 +0000

One thing that helps me is to imitate the expression and try to feel what I feel when I'm doing it. Not always right, but sometimes I go from not having a clue to being sure.

New comment by Skalman in "Brendan Eich on EME"

Skalman — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 18:17:25 +0000

Hollywood is pushing DRM and requiring its use. Netflix wants DRM (via Hollywood), but Youtube doesn't currently seem to mind being DRM free.

If DRM capability becomes ubiquitous, Youtube might become DRMed, but that's on a longer time horizon.

New comment by Skalman in "ECMA-404: The JSON Data Interchange Format [pdf]"

Skalman — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:41:48 +0000

I frequently use it for settings.

New comment by Skalman in "Show HN: UI Concept – Focus Transition"

Skalman — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:45:33 +0000

You can actually partially detect it with Firefox.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:-moz-syste... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:-moz-syste...

New comment by Skalman in "Show HN: UI Concept – Focus Transition"

Skalman — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 06:34:29 +0000

Oh, didn't know. You could even force highlight colors, by explicitly setting border or outline colors.

New comment by Skalman in "Show HN: UI Concept – Focus Transition"

Skalman — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 05:28:33 +0000

Such a simple idea - but it does make it easier to follow. The only problem I have is that it's very mac-centric. On my system the focus color is orange and it looks a bit off.

I'd suggest to use the highlight color:

  box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px 3px highlight, 0px 0px 2px highlight inset