Hacker News: SpiderX

New comment by SpiderX in "Facebook buys Karma"

SpiderX — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:33:59 +0000

New comment by SpiderX in "It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code"

SpiderX — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:21:54 +0000

He may have changed only a single line, but making the queue 4 months instead of 3 could break other parts of the system. Perhaps the "save data" and "backup" functions assume 3 as well, so you'd lose data. Perhaps other assumptions are made in the code, so with a 4 you'll end up with buffer overflows. Those test and security people are in the process to catch these issues before there are problems. It may seem a trivial change, but people make assumptions all the time.

New comment by SpiderX in "Carmageddon seeks Kickstarter cash comeback"

SpiderX — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:02:15 +0000

If you played the sequels, you would be in doubt.

New comment by SpiderX in "Help Google just nerfed us out of the blue"

SpiderX — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:06:38 +0000

Buy ad words or quit complaining about it. You act like you are entitled to search ranking. You aren't.

New comment by SpiderX in "Pizza Delicious Bought An Ad On Facebook. How'd They Do?"

SpiderX — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:11:23 +0000

"new customers" is not a valid metric for a restaurant or a pizza place. You want new customers, sure - if you are a small place just starting up. What's important though is repeat customers. Perhaps if they marketed to people who 'like' them on facebook, those customer would more frequently visit that restaurant, thus increasing revenue. Just because they got no new customers doesn't necessarily make the campaign a flop.

New comment by SpiderX in "Russian satellite's 121-megapixel image of Earth is most detailed yet"

SpiderX — Mon, 14 May 2012 22:57:01 +0000

It's a single photo of the entire earth from space. 121 megapixels is good, but it's only 10x the 12 megapixel sensor of my current camera. It's good, but it's not Gigapixel good. However, it is the highest resolution single photo that contains the whole earth in it. You can find better ones that are stitched together, but none that are a single image from a single instance in time.

New comment by SpiderX in "Python Web Programming"

SpiderX — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:22:16 +0000

Aspen, Rocket, Tornado - granted a lot of these have C modules for speed, but they are Python. There are several others.

New comment by SpiderX in "The Coming Meltdown In College Education & Why The Economy Won’t Get Better Soon"

SpiderX — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:30:26 +0000

I didn't get a scholarship, I might have been offered one if I took the college aptitude tests, but I didn't feel like going to college at the end of high school - I was sick of high school as it was, nothing but cliques and kids picking on me. I hated it. I didn't want another 4 years of the same stuff. So, I probably wouldn't have gone to college even if I was offered a scholarship. However, now I am considering going to college, (many years later) and I doubt anyone would give me a scholarship now. I've become a successful programmer just from teaching myself.

New comment by SpiderX in "Somebody please, for the love of god, fix shipping/couriers"

SpiderX — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:17:07 +0000

That's just completely dumb.

Definition of a court:

an open space enclosed wholly or partly by buildings or circumscribed by a single building

In other words - a cul-de-sac.

Lane: a strip of roadway for a single line of vehicles

So, your community must be full of braindead idiots who never went to school to learn what words mean.

New comment by SpiderX in "Bitcoinica hacked. ~$100k USD stolen."

SpiderX — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:23:55 +0000

Hacked, or the guy who created the site just stole customers money? There's really no way to tell.

New comment by SpiderX in "Infinite complexity in 4096 bytes"

SpiderX — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:44:43 +0000

Synchronizing with the music is easy if you generate the music yourself.

New comment by SpiderX in "IAmA a malware coder and botnet operator, AMA"

SpiderX — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:42:37 +0000

Not to mention, his block count on btcguild at a specified date.

New comment by SpiderX in "Toothless No More – Researchers Using Stem Cells To Grow New Teeth"

SpiderX — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:25:31 +0000

Well, the way I see it, it would create as many jobs as it destroys. Why would you fill in a tooth when you could just replace it by a grown one? You'd need to have your tooth pulled, then get your skin scraped for the cells to start the tooth bud. You'll have to have another appointment to implant the tooth bud, and followup visits to check on the progress of the growth.

New comment by SpiderX in "JQuery knobs"

SpiderX — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:53:28 +0000

Yes, I'm referring to a 'knob' interface, not this emulation. This is more of a round slider bar.

New comment by SpiderX in "Using A Kalman Filter To Make Sense Of Noisy Data"

SpiderX — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:45:24 +0000

Too many slow javascripts on too many pages, the web is ridiculous these days.

New comment by SpiderX in "JQuery knobs"

SpiderX — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:30:42 +0000

Not even then. Touch interfaces pay no attention to the rotation of a single point, so this would require two fingers, and if even then, you couldn't rotate it more than 180 degrees (try it without lifting up your hand). Scrollbars seem to win as far as touchscreens are concerned. Also, it's dependent on the visual indicator. For example, to set something at 50%, you need to move the visual indicator to the 50% mark. So, you'd need to first determine whether the indicator is clockwise to the mark, or counterclockwise, and rotate in reverse accordingly. Contrast that with a slider - if you want it at 50%, no problem, just put your finger at the 50% mark and you're done - muscle memory can help with this.

New comment by SpiderX in "TCP doesn't suck, and all the proposed bufferbloat fixes are identical"

SpiderX — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:14:46 +0000

I'm curious if the problems he mentioned are applicable to IPV6 or not.

New comment by SpiderX in "HTML9 Responsive Boilerstrap JS"

SpiderX — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:53:37 +0000

Yea, when I was a wee programmer, I made a "class" for socket.h which was just a wrapper that mapped things to a class, so when you wanted to create a socket connection, you just created an instance of that class, and start using it. It was pretty dumb, but I thought it was cool at the time. I should have overridden the << and >> operators but I was just happy that my "send" and "receive" worked. That was when I was 21, about twelve years ago. Now you see these kids doing something similar, but they have a website on which to place their experiments. I don't hate on them because I was there once myself, but I don't pay them much attention either.

New comment by SpiderX in "Once"

SpiderX — Tue, 08 May 2012 21:59:29 +0000

I don't click on any links that are not descriptive enough, mr nbashaw. Please, when you submit your link please describe or hint at what exactly I will see if I will follow the link.

New comment by SpiderX in "Application Cache Is A Douchebag"

SpiderX — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:04:41 +0000

Heaven forbid if you didn't mention that you "cringed" instead of speaking up.