Hacker News: bluesmoon

New comment by bluesmoon in "We got a $60k tax penalty for a zero-revenue side project"

bluesmoon — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:22:08 +0000

Go with S-corp.

New comment by bluesmoon in "Google Safe Browsing incident"

bluesmoon — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:45:09 +0000

Exactly! For a web dev in 2025 to still not know security best practices that have been around for 20+ years is a failure on the part of the dev.

New comment by bluesmoon in "Google Safe Browsing incident"

bluesmoon — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:41:32 +0000

Github discovered the same thing a long long time ago which is why you now have the github.io domain.

New comment by bluesmoon in "Anscombe's Quartet"

bluesmoon — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:53:42 +0000

I did a talk on Cognitive Biases in performance measurement and included Anscombe's Quartet (among other things) in the section on developer bias: https://speakerdeck.com/bluesmoon/we-love-speed-understandin...

New comment by bluesmoon in "Couchers is officially out of Beta"

bluesmoon — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:28:33 +0000

yeah, that's about the time I quit couchsurfing and limited my interactions to community meets. Then it pretty much died out. I couldn't tell if this is the same folks trying to do it right or different folks who believed in the original mission of CouchSurfing.

New comment by bluesmoon in "Couchers is officially out of beta"

bluesmoon — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:22:40 +0000

Wait, is this a rebrand of couchsurfing.org?

New comment by bluesmoon in "Internet usage pattern during power outage in Spain and Portugal"

bluesmoon — Mon, 05 May 2025 14:42:19 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. It's more correct to say that traffic drops off for 3-4 hours rather than everyone goes offline for 3-4 hours. It's likely to be staggered based on the slope of the curve at that point.

New comment by bluesmoon in "Internet usage pattern during power outage in Spain and Portugal"

bluesmoon — Mon, 05 May 2025 14:39:37 +0000

That's a fair criticism. The data suggests that there are different breaks spread out over that 3-4 hour period, not one break of 3-4 hours. I've reworded it accordingly.

New comment by bluesmoon in "Internet usage pattern during power outage in Spain and Portugal"

bluesmoon — Mon, 05 May 2025 13:27:33 +0000

Thank you for your personal story about this. It helps to put things in perspective.

New comment by bluesmoon in "Internet usage pattern during power outage in Spain and Portugal"

bluesmoon — Mon, 05 May 2025 13:23:09 +0000

I have it on my TODO list to look a little more into that. It caught me by surprise when I pulled up the data for Germany.

New comment by bluesmoon in "Take the pedals off the bike"

bluesmoon — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 02:01:20 +0000

It's like the author has never heard of balance bikes, but they're very common, and have been for over a decade. FWIW, I taught my kid to ride when he was 3 by putting him at the top of a wheelchair ramp and letting him go. Took him 5 seconds, and he was riding around the park by himself by the second attempt. He'd never been on a bike before.

New comment by bluesmoon in "Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?"

bluesmoon — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:33:45 +0000

Not specifically game related, but adjacent. Sonic Pi (https://sonic-pi.net/) is designed for making music specifically with kids in mind, and they might accidentally learn a whole bunch of programming concepts as a side-effect.

New comment by bluesmoon in "Toasts are bad UX"

bluesmoon — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:54:52 +0000

I came here thinking there was a new recommendation for making toast, or at least a recommended type of bread to use, but I found nothing edible.

New comment by bluesmoon in "3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development (2011)"

bluesmoon — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:29:30 +0000

Nice. Reminds me of the PC Game Programmer's Encyclopedia from back in the 90s/early 2000s: http://qzx.com/pc-gpe/index.php

New comment by bluesmoon in "3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development (2011)"

bluesmoon — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:28:43 +0000

Julia supports Complex numbers as a built-in type.

New comment by bluesmoon in "The weirdest bug I've seen yet"

bluesmoon — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 21:12:40 +0000

Reminds me of the time back in 2010 when a piece of CSS on the Yahoo Search page would cause a complete desktop crash on Red Hat Linux: https://tech.bluesmoon.info/2010/04/can-website-crash-your-r...

To the author, did you ever consider contacting the Chrome dev team about this? They're pretty responsive to bug reports.

New comment by bluesmoon in "Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)"

bluesmoon — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 18:51:52 +0000

Reminds me of the 500 mile email (2002): https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

New comment by bluesmoon in "Ask HN: Has anyone here learned COBOL for fun?"

bluesmoon — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:55:19 +0000

I can't say that I specifically learnt COBOL for fun because I did it in 1997 or so in India when the entire Indian IT industry was bidding on a host Y2K migration projects. I only graduated college in May 2000, so I never actually used COBOL to solve any Y2K problems, however, I did figure out that you could use a large number of paragraphs in the SCREEN SECTION to build animation frames and use that to build fun animations. It was tedious though, so I wrote a C++ program to generate the SCREENs for the COBOL program.

New comment by bluesmoon in "Office of the President of Mongolia: Top to bottom text on the web"

bluesmoon — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 19:35:14 +0000

Hangul is phonetic, but doesn't have the capability to represent all phonetic sounds of a language. For example, Hindi has 4 distinct letters and consequently sounds for the each of D and T (D: ड ढ द ध, T: ट ठ त थ), which all correspond to the single Hangul letter diot (ㄷ). I have Korean friends who write their names in the Chinese script because they don't have the necessary letters to represent the sounds.

New comment by bluesmoon in "Epochalypse"

bluesmoon — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 07:48:03 +0000

Perl counts from 1900, so the year 2000 was actually stored as 100. You'd get 2 digit years in the 1990s and suddenly 3 digit years after 2000. The solution was to arithmetically add 1900 to the year before rendering. Newer perl functions would handle that internally.