Hacker News: abiox

New comment by abiox in "React from zero: a simple tutorial for React"

abiox — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 15:19:58 +0000

hi, i noticed there isn't an option to delete my account, and the faq didn't address this from what i could tell. is there a recommendation here?

New comment by abiox in "Data Structures Reference"

abiox — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 20:08:12 +0000

> who use a different programming language than you

isn't this a bit reductive?

New comment by abiox in "Data Structures Reference"

abiox — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 19:49:08 +0000

> it's a tactic, not a personality trait

that seems like a false dichotomy. you behave as cruel and abusive as you do because it's within you to behave that way.

New comment by abiox in "React from zero: a simple tutorial for React"

abiox — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 19:40:27 +0000

sadly we aren't all as smart and worthy as you are, and don't have a decade old react-like hanging around. some of us even prefer the idea of using an open source library for the various benefits of doing so.

New comment by abiox in "React from zero: a simple tutorial for React"

abiox — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 19:32:27 +0000

that seems like a trivially true statement, if not an outright tautology.

New comment by abiox in "React from zero: a simple tutorial for React"

abiox — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 16:46:01 +0000

> So maybe it's not the language, but the person using it

oh. it would seem this is more about you feeling impressed with yourself, rather than making substantive arguments.

New comment by abiox in "React from zero: a simple tutorial for React"

abiox — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 16:42:24 +0000

vue and angular have plenty of tutorials. react is much more popular (at the moment), which is why one would notice material for it more often.

New comment by abiox in "EFF Sues to Invalidate FOSTA, an Unconstitutional Internet Censorship Law"

abiox — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 23:36:13 +0000

why do you say that?

New comment by abiox in "State of Multicore OCaml [pdf]"

abiox — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 04:40:43 +0000

i wish there was something like `jbuilder new`, but alas. my current impression is that everything in ocaml-land wants you to spend time writing cryptic configuration files and inventing bespoke project structures.

New comment by abiox in "State of Multicore OCaml [pdf]"

abiox — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 19:37:13 +0000

> Rust is beginning to understand that they need more stability

i though rust has been stable since 1.0. am i wrong?

New comment by abiox in "Anti-If: The missing patterns (2016)"

abiox — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 21:15:22 +0000

imho, a get() from cache when you already have the value seems like an unnecessary waste of cycles and network traffic.

plus this arrangement would seem vulnerable to a pathological case where you found the V from the db, but have a full/failed/partitioned cache and end up faulting or otherwise not returning the V.

New comment by abiox in "The Neuroscience of Pain"

abiox — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 18:33:32 +0000

> That is a funny question. It is like asking: what is the evolutionary advantage of a broken leg?

i'm unconvinced... a broken leg isn't a normal biological function, while (afaik) pain is an entirely internal process that is a 'response' mechanism.

> Sometimes things go wrong and the result is pain. There is no purpose to it; it just happened. Not everything has an evolutionary purpose.

the ostensible purpose of 'some' pain is to cause you to stop or avoid doing something damaging, or being aware of a need to seek remedy. for those few people who don't feel any physical pain (congenital analgesia)... life is actually more dangerous.

when it comes to incapacitating levels of pain, things seem to get murky. there is some arguable benefit to adopting a protective posture (covering a wound, adopting a fetal position, etc) to mitigate further harm... but it seems these same behaviors can also increase risk of harm as well, especially when it comes to pain causing reduced situational awareness and other reasoning impairments.

New comment by abiox in "ATMs in India Could Be Hacked Because Banks Haven't Updated Windows Since 2014"

abiox — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 16:57:37 +0000

i suppose what surprises me the most is that someone would use windows in an atm. i would've thought it would've been an rtos or maybe a locked down bsd or selinux.

New comment by abiox in "Zapper: A Very Fast Templating Engine"

abiox — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 22:53:44 +0000

Zapper - One Wicked Cricket

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapper:_One_Wicked_Cricket

New comment by abiox in "Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem with AI"

abiox — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 04:58:35 +0000

is anything in the category of siri-like things not shit?

New comment by abiox in "Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem with AI"

abiox — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 04:56:53 +0000

> None of the things you mentioned are even close to AI.

then what is 'close to AI'?

New comment by abiox in "How SQL Database Engines Work, by the Creator of SQLite (2008) [video]"

abiox — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 07:03:37 +0000

is english a second language for you? 'orthogonal' is frequently used to indicate two things are not directly related or dependent.

> You folks should read the urban meaning of orthogonal

nope, nope, nope. that site's a hive of scum and villainy, and a massive number of entries are just random nonsense.

i'd rather go to wiktionary[0], which includes:

"Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of or irrelevant to each other."

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orthogonal

New comment by abiox in "Filezilla installer is suspicious again"

abiox — Sat, 23 Jun 2018 23:42:24 +0000

> I did, you asked for alternatives, I gave you Rsync and SCP.

afaict, they asked about the impact to the linux build of filezilla (not about alternatives).

are rsync and scp strict supersets of filezilla's features?

New comment by abiox in "New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7"

abiox — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 22:34:52 +0000

they have their moments. they all tend to be good at cheerleading war, for example. msnbc fired phil donohue for being against the iraq war. last election, the washington post (in)famously ran a glut of anti-sanders material in a short time span (16 articles in 16 hours, i believe it was).

New comment by abiox in "New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7"

abiox — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 22:14:38 +0000

does anything necessarily need to be 'untrue'? (a lot of propaganda is 'true')