Hacker News: TheAnimus

New comment by TheAnimus in "iPhone X"

TheAnimus — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 09:59:51 +0000

Yes it did an infra-red dot map of the face.

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-iris-scanner-lumia-950-an...

Amazing, -4 for mentioning this isn't a new feature. This is exactly how the kinect works, how windows hello enabled webcams work.

New comment by TheAnimus in "iPhone X"

TheAnimus — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 19:15:52 +0000

I had this feature on my 950 (Windows Phone). It was poor.

Slower and more error prone. Environmental changes such as extreme lighting (being outside) or wearing sunglasses stopped it from working.

Windows Hello and compatible webcams work really well in a stable desktop environment mind. I've just rolled them out across my firm.

New comment by TheAnimus in "I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked"

TheAnimus — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:16:18 +0000

Turns out the solution to every stack overflow post will be

"JavaScript is required"

New comment by TheAnimus in "Ask HN: What is your biggest business expense besides salaries?"

TheAnimus — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 14:28:38 +0000

London, in the City, so yes, it's our fault. But it also adds that kind of prestige that people expect.

New comment by TheAnimus in "Ask HN: What is your biggest business expense besides salaries?"

TheAnimus — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 22:13:21 +0000

Office Space, after salaries and employer taxes is our biggest per employee cost.

New comment by TheAnimus in "Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture"

TheAnimus — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 17:35:32 +0000

The thing is sometimes you find something helpful, but don't think they are exactly an artist. I'm slightly ashamed that I couldn't figure out how to put the batteries in the Amazon wand they'd sent me, a quick search and a YouTube video showed me what the instructions missing hadn't, tug it forcefully.

That kind of thing isn't useful enough for patronage. But it would be nice to be able to throw a nice little tip.

New comment by TheAnimus in "iMac Pro"

TheAnimus — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 20:21:08 +0000

Are there many people who will want the 18-core option, but not have multiple GPUs without a bottleneck of thunderbolt?

New comment by TheAnimus in "Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders"

TheAnimus — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:21:45 +0000

Which is kind of funny, because every pilot knows the limitation of each kind of autopilot. I think a lot of it is public expectation of that kind of name.

Three-person baby licence granted

TheAnimus — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:43:11 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39292381

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13884210

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by TheAnimus in "New seat alert app for pregnant commuters"

TheAnimus — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:48:24 +0000

I did that too.

I'd only been in London about 2 days, I jumped up like a good boy scout, conscious of the fact I was in the "priority seat" (for those outside of London our tubes have the nearest seats to the door reserved for those less able or up the duff).

This lady burst into tears. I tried to apologise, then just got off and walked.

Since then I've firmly put the impetus on those in need to ask.

New comment by TheAnimus in "Microsoft reboots war on sleep"

TheAnimus — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 12:30:23 +0000

But this can be better.

I'll have taken about 8 weeks holiday this year. But for about half of it I'll do 30 min or even 2 hours work. Actually it's been less than half.

That's a pretty sweet deal. I've still got that ability to take a good few contiguous days off, completely relaxing so to speak. But I'm more relaxed after spending 5 min checking on progress in my absence, as I know when I come back to work full time, it won't be hell.

New comment by TheAnimus in "Introducing osquery for Windows"

TheAnimus — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 21:35:43 +0000

This is quite nice to see, when I first heard about osquery, I thought "cool WMI (well WQL) for Linux"

New comment by TheAnimus in "It Costs $30 to Make a DIY EpiPen"

TheAnimus — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 15:06:35 +0000

> The price for EpiPens went up because no one else was able to make a competing product that didn't malfunction or deliver the wrong dose of epinephrine.

Price hasn't gone up as much in the UK where a state monopoly negotiates.

New comment by TheAnimus in "A deportation at the UK border"

TheAnimus — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:46:51 +0000

It's also about having very correct details in this case.

If she had bothered to apply for the correct VISA there wouldn't have been an issue, but they clearly feel they are a special little snowflake because animation API is more important than a standardised work VISA system.

I'm sorry but I strongly disagree with your assertion. Honesty and preparation IS the best policy. Imagine if I'd lied when I was detained in Tampa because of some missing clearance the US Embassy in London had forgotten to do. I had to wait hours in a holding area. I'd paid $200 USD for that. One little lie and the situation would have been far worse.

New comment by TheAnimus in "Apps made for one OS shouldn't insist on aping the design elements of another"

TheAnimus — Fri, 27 May 2016 15:07:46 +0000

Which is true enough. Maybe they should look at iTunes on Windows for a good example of why it's horrible to ignore the host UI designs.

Or maybe QuickTime.

New comment by TheAnimus in "Microsoft Is Acquiring London’s AI-Driven Swiftkey for $250M"

TheAnimus — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 10:36:32 +0000

I find the windows phone keyboard suggestions much better than any other I've used. Despite now having an iPhone 6s from work I still use a WP as my daily go to because it's much better at writing a whatsapp or email message, even if the 'other' apps suck.

I'm also heavily dyslexic, so I might be an outliar.

New comment by TheAnimus in "Monopoly as a Markov Chain"

TheAnimus — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 11:37:26 +0000

But what about the street repairs card?

IIRC it is only 2-3 times the price of a house for a hotel.

The Kotlin Language: 1.0 Beta Is Here

TheAnimus — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 15:26:23 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2015/11/the-kotlin-language-1-0-beta-is-here/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492251

Points: 178

# Comments: 91

New comment by TheAnimus in "Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Review"

TheAnimus — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:16:01 +0000

> Pretty much any CS6 application will being the tablet to its knees and nearly burnt my lap.

That's not what I find with my i7 sp3. Instead I find that it struggles to cool itself when the CPU is running at max for a period of time. Worse when I was living in Singapore I would have to have the AC on if I didn't want it to throttle itself as the ambient temp was 30°C.

New comment by TheAnimus in "Announcing TypeScript 1.6 Beta: React/JSX, better error checking, and more"

TheAnimus — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 10:34:11 +0000

It's not as if it's found it's way in to .ts files, only to .tsx files.

As someone who's organisation has spent a lot of time making our front end in ReactJS this is going to be very useful for us, and the 'corruption' that is the cast operator becoming 'as' will be manageable as it's only in .tsx files.