Hacker News: acvny

New comment by acvny in "Writing a Programming Book in 2021"

acvny — Wed, 12 May 2021 15:01:11 +0000

Good points! Thanks.

New comment by acvny in "Writing a Programming Book in 2021"

acvny — Wed, 12 May 2021 15:00:20 +0000

The author forgot to mention that Amazon kindle publishing take 70% out of your sale price :) Also, that when they print the books, the quality sucks - thick cheap printer paper, toner saver enabled. As a customer I have had very bad experience with books printed by Amazon.

New comment by acvny in "The End of AMP"

acvny — Mon, 03 May 2021 15:05:58 +0000

I have always detested AMP. But there was no other way around - if you wanted to appear in google results on top you had to use it.

New comment by acvny in "India’s second wave"

acvny — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 19:42:50 +0000

Not surprising. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/12/india-thousands-joi...

TikTok Addiction [pdf]

acvny — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 22:10:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Prosenjit-Ghosh-4/publication/348881928_AN_UNUSUAL_CASE_OF_VIDEO_APP_ADDICTION_PRESENTING_AS_WITHDRAWAL_PSYCHOSIS/links/601436d845851517ef268172/AN-UNUSUAL-CASE-OF-VIDEO-APP-ADDICTION-PRESENTING-AS-WITHDRAWAL-PSYCHOSIS.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26856952

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New comment by acvny in "Screw it, I’ll host it myself"

acvny — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 09:34:45 +0000

Completely misleading title and this is basically an ad:

(* Links to Vultr contain my referral code, which means that if you choose to subscribe to Vultr after you clicked on that link, it will earn me a small commission.)

host yourself means - running on your own hardware

New comment by acvny in "The Health Hazards of Plug-In Air Fresheners (2017)"

acvny — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 09:31:52 +0000

You don't have to be very smart to figure that out. I get sick only from the slightest smell coming out of those things.

New comment by acvny in "Janet Yellen to call for global minimum corporate tax rate of 21%"

acvny — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 13:36:28 +0000

This is not necessary. They only have to tax the parent company at 21% and any of it's subsidiaries. If on the other hand a company buys services from its subsidiaries located abroad, then impose a customs tax of 21% for any imports / exports.

New comment by acvny in "How to deal with difficult people on software projects"

acvny — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 15:47:10 +0000

I don't see the Seagull

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull_management

New comment by acvny in "Seasonal energy storage in aluminium for 100% solar heat and electricity supply"

acvny — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:13:57 +0000

350–530 kg Al would be needed per apartment. One question left unanswered is - how many cycles does this system support before it becomes substantially inefficient?

New comment by acvny in "I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service"

acvny — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:11:03 +0000

This promotional video is epic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKxEXZv4G3c

New comment by acvny in "Decades-Long Quest Reveals Details of the Proton’s Inner Antimatter"

acvny — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 20:26:59 +0000

"We learn in school that a proton is a bundle of three elementary particles called quarks..." - do kids learn this in school nowadays? Because I don't remember learning that in school.

New comment by acvny in "Making Games on Your Own as an Engineer"

acvny — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:52:39 +0000

I haven't read the whole article, but making games on your own is really hard. You are either good designer, but bad programmer or the other way around so. I think the easiest if you are a programmer and know a little bit of Unreal or Unity, you should use free assets and not bother with creating assets as this will eat up all your time. It's better if you pair with someone.

New comment by acvny in "United B772 at Denver on Feb 20th 2021, engine inlet separates from engine"

acvny — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 21:52:30 +0000

Must be a bad batch. Please return by post with batch number visible for a refund and let us know what you didn't like about the product

New comment by acvny in "United B772 at Denver on Feb 20th 2021, engine inlet separates from engine"

acvny — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 18:47:04 +0000

Also, the same destination: Honolulu. And only 1 digit difference in registration number (N773UA in 2018 vs N772UA in 2021).

New comment by acvny in "Harvard astronomer argues that alien vessel paid us a visit"

acvny — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 12:40:45 +0000

Enough advertising this guy's new book already

New comment by acvny in "Apple Watch can help track Parkinson's disease symptoms: study"

acvny — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 23:06:54 +0000

Marketing has reached new levels

New comment by acvny in "Email from Jeff Bezos to employees"

acvny — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 01:13:29 +0000

Probably `Cadabra` came from `Abracadabra`: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abracadabra

New comment by acvny in "Google has been testing a replacement for third-party cookies"

acvny — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:22:55 +0000

So they are now rebranding the fact that they are trying to monopolize the ad space?

New comment by acvny in "Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time"

acvny — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 23:00:26 +0000

I can't see the video. Incredible that the actual appearance of the crystal happens in phase transition - almost instantly.