Hacker News: blahman2

New comment by blahman2 in "Child's play"

blahman2 — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 17:52:38 +0000

to be honest you are missing the forrest for the tree. start a flamewar somewhere else.

New comment by blahman2 in "The U.S. drops out of the top 10 in innovation ranking"

blahman2 — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:16:05 +0000

Many of the comments here show why critical thinking is a useful skill esp with articles such as this one, but given how much volume there is nowadays, and the fact that we are not all subject matter experts, it becomes a bit cumbersome.

I wish these articles had a "Ways in which our claim could be wrong" section. Maybe every article should. E.g. Here is what i think, but here are aspects of it that I haven't looked into that could make me change my stance.

At the very least, you'd know the author made some effort to be truthful, and not just sensationalist/misled.

Perhaps we can have a browser extension that aggregates and ranks crowdsourced feedback on articles such as this one? :P

New comment by blahman2 in "Volvo Promises Uber Fleet of 24,000 Self-Driving Taxis by 2019"

blahman2 — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:05:43 +0000

does that mean that if your software is 'hidden behind a paywall' i am allowed to distribute it freely once i get to it?

New comment by blahman2 in "Why Ageism Never Gets Old"

blahman2 — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 14:35:16 +0000

It was a substantive comment,and I agree I could have been nicer. The negative emotional overtone was a part of the message

New comment by blahman2 in "Why Ageism Never Gets Old"

blahman2 — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:35:36 +0000

How about y'all stop complaining about everything

New comment by blahman2 in "Google pulls YouTube off the Amazon Echo Show"

blahman2 — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 15:14:23 +0000

The story is actually on the verge.yay amp links.

Privacy--: Yahoo is now a part of Oath

blahman2 — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 16:28:53 +0000

Article URL: https://policies.yahoo.com/ie/en/yahoo/privacy/euoathnoticefaq/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15212885

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by blahman2 in "Work at the edge of your range"

blahman2 — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 15:52:08 +0000

"Unless, of course you ruin your voice, but let's not think about that possibility."

Yeah, of course. Let's not think about it. Except for we should.

Here is my view. Introduce balance in your life - push yourself for a limited amount of time per day, pursuing a specific goal, and do it intelligently. Like when you are in the gym - lift more than you should for longer than you should and get to enjoy 6 months of tendonitis.

It is not because you are weak/dumb. It's because your approach is weak and dumb.

New comment by blahman2 in "Design patterns implemented in Java"

blahman2 — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 17:13:00 +0000

Thank you! The code and the docs look great!

Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience do the people you manage keep making?

blahman2 — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:49:34 +0000

This thread seemed pretty successful - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15033156 . Let's see what the impressions on the other side are.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15038424

Points: 36

# Comments: 21

New comment by blahman2 in "Roman Ruins Found in France Are Called ‘Exceptional’"

blahman2 — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 16:57:10 +0000

Such discoveries (yes, of similar or greater quality) are made so frequently in the southern parts of the Balkans / Italy that they are almost skipped in the news. Yet, when it happens in France it makes the NYT and the event is 'exceptional'.

New comment by blahman2 in "Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records"

blahman2 — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 03:22:38 +0000

I gotta say, as fucking annoying as I find most of you people on other topics, I am so thrilled to see your support for a cause such as this one. You almost killed the cynic in me :) Go hackers!

New comment by blahman2 in "Cicada: A Distributed Direct Democracy and Decentralized Application Platform"

blahman2 — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 19:23:07 +0000

"...And that is a good thing. If they can be influenced in a bad way quickly, then they can be influenced in a good way..."

Are you just interested in making arguments for arguments' sake? Besides that, all of your comments are good examples about why direct democracy is not a always a good idea - because most people don't have enough time/desire to think issues through, and yet they are willing to be adamant about their opinions on them.

New comment by blahman2 in "How to Tell the Truth"

blahman2 — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 16:54:27 +0000

Please be that guy more often.

New comment by blahman2 in "Show HN: Juggernaut – Experimental Neural Network in Rust"

blahman2 — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:48:47 +0000

Keep going! I really like being able to follow projects that start small, as opposed to 'here is my 10000 line toy project.

That being said, you will probably get some flak, probably because of the insane amounts of rust evangelism people on hn have had to deal with

New comment by blahman2 in "Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading"

blahman2 — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 16:57:54 +0000

I get it - sorry, meant to playfully Sunday afternoon troll you.

Ever since I moved from C to Java (I like low level stuff but the company I joined is such) I have been having one of three major problems - logic bugs, too many frameworks, causing bugs due to lack of in depth understanding of each one of them, and GC bottlenecks. Of all of them, I hate the GC ones the most.

New comment by blahman2 in "Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading"

blahman2 — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 16:13:55 +0000

Go back to rust-land now :D

New comment by blahman2 in "“Let her speak please”"

blahman2 — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 15:26:58 +0000

By making everything so dramatic you will end up scaring all women away from science.

New comment by blahman2 in "Tesla's Musk Paid at Least $593M in Income Taxes in 2016"

blahman2 — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 19:35:53 +0000

it is even more depressing to read what racists like you have to say everywhere

New comment by blahman2 in "Marc Andreessen: “Take the Ego Out of Ideas”"

blahman2 — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 13:27:48 +0000

1 hour commute is fine? No. There were all these visions about how with the advent of the Industrial revolution people would have to work half a day because that's how long it would take them to finish their norm. Instead, they were asked to produce twice as much.

Now we have our 'great' thought leader try to convince us about the virtues of hard work and 1 hour commute again.

How about "Put the type of Ego in your ideas that will remove the need for you to have a job in a few years"? Because jobs will be going away, and we don't need an even more hard core rat race in the US.