Hacker News: VilleSalonen

New comment by VilleSalonen in "Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube"

VilleSalonen — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:50:55 +0000

Blu-ray version is definitely not perfect but I wouldn't call it mangled. It is presented in 4:3 which might be an issue for some viewers but it is absolutely the best this show has ever looked: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Babylon-5-The-Complete-Series...

New comment by VilleSalonen in "Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative"

VilleSalonen — Tue, 06 May 2025 06:27:50 +0000

The link points to a Full HD Blu-ray review. Here is the review for the highest quality 4K Blu-ray review: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Sneakers-4K-Blu-ray/343185/

New comment by VilleSalonen in "GIMP 3.0"

VilleSalonen — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 05:15:53 +0000

But UX is bigger than UI. Good UX might simplify some use case so that user might not need to see any UI at all.

New comment by VilleSalonen in "Nikon F-Mount"

VilleSalonen — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 17:31:48 +0000

Autocorrect is very likely the culprit here.

New comment by VilleSalonen in "FFmpeg 4.4"

VilleSalonen — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 17:49:05 +0000

Neither have I. You are right that they are quite similar but not identical.

Ps. Never thought I'd discuss Yle subtitles at Hacker News. Thank you for your comment! :)

New comment by VilleSalonen in "FFmpeg 4.4"

VilleSalonen — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 16:56:03 +0000

According to Yle they only started using Tiresias in 2012. The article doesn't mention which font they were using before. I would be interested in their 90s font as well.

Source: https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2012/01/27/televisiokanavien-t...

New comment by VilleSalonen in "GoPro shows its vulnerability after horrific Q3 earnings"

VilleSalonen — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 08:29:23 +0000

The concept of GoPro Karma is intriguing but based on some early reviews it is a horrible drone. For example see this review by iPhonedo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xmqthgCvxk

Based on this video the price, stability, amount of features and just about everything is worse than my old DJI Phantom 3 Standard.

I wished GoPro Karma would be good but based on reviews I'm not impressed and probably end up going with Mavic Pro even though I just bought GoPro Hero 5.

New comment by VilleSalonen in "The Woman Who Ate Chernobyl's Apples"

VilleSalonen — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 07:21:41 +0000

Don't know about radiation detectors in Russia but Chernobyl is located in Ukraine, not Russia.

New comment by VilleSalonen in "Diary of an atomic bomb technician"

VilleSalonen — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 06:17:27 +0000

If you're interested in reading a more extensive account of history of nuclear weapons in USA, I highly recommend Eric Schlosser's Command and Control: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/29/command-control...

New comment by VilleSalonen in "Lessons Learned: A Year with a Large AngularJS Project"

VilleSalonen — Fri, 24 May 2013 04:34:56 +0000

Can anyone point me to real world AngularJS project with a healthy amount of unit and end-to-end tests? I've read the tutorials from official site and elsewhere on the web but they seem to stop after showing how create a controller with mock $http. As a relatively novice JavaScript developer, I'd like to see more comprehensive examples with mock services etc.

New comment by VilleSalonen in "Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011)"

VilleSalonen — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 06:56:51 +0000

I agree 100%. I would actually be interested in reading an article about fitness but I've decided to steer away from any articles with such bombastic headlines.

New comment by VilleSalonen in "Centurion - A SASS & CSS3 Responsive Web Framework That Scales With Your Device"

VilleSalonen — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 19:39:34 +0000

Is it just me or is The Grid example page broken? This is how it looks on Safari on iOS 6.0.1 on iPad mini: http://imgur.com/3lIns It looks similar albeit smaller on latest Chrome on Samsung Galaxy S3.

New comment by VilleSalonen in "Many Core processors: Everything You Know (about Parallel Programming) Is Wrong"

VilleSalonen — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:34:47 +0000

These edgy attention-grabbing titles are getting a bit too strong in my opinion.

What (Natural) Language To Program In?

VilleSalonen — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:20:58 +0000

Article URL: http://www.villesalonen.fi/2011/what-natural-language-to-program-in/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3324408

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Why Shoot Raw And How To Quickly Use Lightroom For Processing

VilleSalonen — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 09:54:39 +0000

Article URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb9Z0Iq7D7w

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2983554

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by VilleSalonen in "Git Is Simpler Than You Think"

VilleSalonen — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:21:58 +0000

I read through the article waiting for the explanation of the "Falling back to patching base and 3-way merge?" line but unfortunately it wasn't explained. Git didn't become any simpler after all. :(

The Biggest Challenge of Google+: How to Persuade Non-Techie Friends to Join?

VilleSalonen — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 19:44:00 +0000

Article URL: http://www.villesalonen.fi/2011/the-biggest-challenge-of-google-plus/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746217

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Meet Zeo, your personal sleep coach

VilleSalonen — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:43:00 +0000

Article URL: http://www.myzeo.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2745375

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Why Graphics Improvement Still Matters

VilleSalonen — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:18:19 +0000

Article URL: http://www.villesalonen.fi/2011/why-graphics-improvements-still-matter/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2742115

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by VilleSalonen in "MongoDB is the New MySQL"

VilleSalonen — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:48:41 +0000

Apparently I managed to overlook your statement about it not being a replacement. It's just that the title of the post seems to be in contradiction with that.

MongoDB is indeed an interesting software and it's on a promising start. I'll be interested to see where it's going. Maybe one day the title of your post will be true.