Hacker News: VT_Drew

New comment by VT_Drew in "Gas Pump Skimmers"

VT_Drew — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 20:41:49 +0000

This is only true if you use a credit card. A debit card on the otherhand, carries a lot of liability.

New comment by VT_Drew in "What Science Says to Do If Your Loved One Has an Opioid Addiction"

VT_Drew — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:10:07 +0000

The "science" on treating Opioid addictions at this point would just be reaffirming what we already know with mountains of "anecdotal" evidence. You want to solve the Opoid problem? Legalize Ibogane, DMT, Psilocybin, and MDMA, it is that simple.

New comment by VT_Drew in "Yes, Python is Slow, and I Don’t Care"

VT_Drew — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 13:39:39 +0000

>I'm enjoying TDD a lot

Meh, test are great in so far as they can help you not break things if you upgrade the framework, or langauge in the future. But other than that I have to agree with Kent Beck's sentiment of "I get paid for code that works, not for tests".

https://istacee.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/kent-beck-i-get-pai...

If I had started out trying to learn Django using TDD as in this tutorial:

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000754/index.ht...

I never would have learned Django. I would have given up with the ridiculous slow progress of results and functionality.

New comment by VT_Drew in "Nginx Unit"

VT_Drew — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 20:12:41 +0000

>the config files were always messy.

How? It so much cleaner and simpler than Apache. I don't get this sentiment.

New comment by VT_Drew in "Central Banks Can’t Ignore the Cryptocurrency Boom"

VT_Drew — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:42:51 +0000

>Money as we know it depends on the authority of the state for credibility, with central banks typically managing its price and/or quantity.

More accurately stated:

Money as we know it depends on the authority of the state for credibility, with central banks typically manipulating its price and/or quantity.

Which is why Cryptocurrency is attractive in the first place.

New comment by VT_Drew in "Ask HN: What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI?"

VT_Drew — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 18:31:31 +0000

Game Theory would probably be more valuable to understand than graph theory. Just my 2 cents.

New comment by VT_Drew in "Docker Is Raising Funding at $1.3B Valuation"

VT_Drew — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 20:49:23 +0000

$21 a month per user.....to host it on my own hardware....no thanks. If I am hosting on my own hardware then you get a one-time-fee, none of this subscription nonsense.

New comment by VT_Drew in "Ultrafast wi-fi on horizon – scientists send data at 100x current speeds"

VT_Drew — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 20:38:26 +0000

>high-frequency radiation

Am I the only one concerned with this? I mean it's great that they were able to do this, but I would like some comprehensive studies by various institutions and universities to come to a consensus that this wouldn't have any long-term health side effects.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/416066/how-terahertz-wave...

New comment by VT_Drew in "The Man Behind AMD's Zen Microarchitecture: Jim Keller"

VT_Drew — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:22:06 +0000

He basically building off his work at AMD, there was an announcement about a month ago that Telsa will use Zen chips for their self driving cars, surprise surprise. Who would have thought the guy that was lead the effort to design Zen has opted to use those chips in his new project at a another company.

New comment by VT_Drew in "The Man Behind AMD's Zen Microarchitecture: Jim Keller"

VT_Drew — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:16:17 +0000

And Apple was more than Jobs and Woz, but they get all the credit.

New comment by VT_Drew in "Marijuana use holds three-fold blood pressure death risk: study"

VT_Drew — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 18:20:46 +0000

>But guess how easily you can get marijuana, even where it's illegal

Guess how easily you can get any drug.....even in prisons. If we can't keep drugs out of prison then what chance is there to keep it out of the general public?

The war on drugs is over. Drugs won. Legalize them all, provide accurate labeling, and tax it. There is nothing left to "debate".

New comment by VT_Drew in "Out of all major energy sources, nuclear is the safest"

VT_Drew — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 18:30:23 +0000

Can we just stop with this nonsense? If you have a byproduct that has be buried in special containers in the desert, and that land can't be used, and there are people actually trying to come up with symbols that indicate danger that could span all language and culture in case a meteor hits the earth and civilization slowly rebuilds then finds the site, then it isn't "safe" be any stretch of the imagination.

New comment by VT_Drew in "Americans don’t need more degrees, they need training"

VT_Drew — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:59:20 +0000

MissionU does something very similar (charge nothing up front and take X% of your salary for X years after you graduate) http://www.missionu.com/ It is really a great model, the "school" doesn't get paid if you don't get a job after graduating.

Higher Education in it is current form has limited time left. Universities will have to evolve or die. Student loan debt is completely out of control and University's aren't preparing kids for real jobs.

New comment by VT_Drew in "By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation"

VT_Drew — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 18:50:57 +0000

MIT wasn't running NAT before now? WTF? Talk about a security nightmare.

New comment by VT_Drew in "Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B"

VT_Drew — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 13:53:13 +0000

Good old investors, so short sighted, they only care about the next 3 months. Whole Foods probably would have been better off as private company, especially with the culture they were trying to create.

New comment by VT_Drew in " Tim Cook Says Apple Is Focusing on an Autonomous Car System"

VT_Drew — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 14:28:00 +0000

Hopefully Tesla would never sell to Apple. I think Apple makes some good products, but I hate how closed their ecosystem is. Tesla has open sourced it's patents, which strongly goes against Apple's philosophy.

New comment by VT_Drew in "Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim"

VT_Drew — Tue, 23 May 2017 17:57:35 +0000

ZZ also works as save and quit.

New comment by VT_Drew in "FBI Investigation: “Louie Louie”, The Song (1964)"

VT_Drew — Wed, 17 May 2017 15:18:21 +0000

Even in 1964 there was lots of wasteful government spending, it has only got worse over the years.

New comment by VT_Drew in "The alarming state of secure coding neglect"

VT_Drew — Wed, 03 May 2017 14:56:53 +0000

>In most fields there is little incentive to change things when the company itself isn't too affected in case of hack

This is correct. As long as the risk isn't too high then companies will just take the risk and accept a hack as the "cost of doing business". Much like Goldman Sachs expects they will get fined by Governments, but they don't care because the money they make far outweighs the fines imposed.

New comment by VT_Drew in "Write Fast Apps Using Async Python 3.6 and Redis"

VT_Drew — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:41:06 +0000

>One of the common complaints people have about python and other popular interpreted languages (Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, etc) is that they’re slow.

Proceeds to show an animation of posting a blog post that performs no faster than if it was built using Django.