Hacker News: breily

New comment by breily in "Covid is surging in the world’s most vaccinated country. Why?"

breily — Wed, 26 May 2021 08:00:38 +0000

This article has nothing to do with your hypothesized 'vaccine passport'.

New comment by breily in "Tunneling traffic through DNS, a.k.a free internet in cafes/airports"

breily — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:49:53 +0000

This is also possible by tunneling through ICMP: http://www.cs.uit.no/~daniels/PingTunnel/

New comment by breily in "Ask HN: Help me make HN work well on the iPhone"

breily — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:42:52 +0000

The only improvement I can think of is to set the pre areas to wrap. Right now they completely ruin browsing on the iphone, as they make the screen way too wide and this makes the font way too small.

New comment by breily in "DuckDuckGo is top result for "new search engine""

breily — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:27:14 +0000

Also, you could set the num parameter: http://www.google.com/search?q=asdf&num=1

New comment by breily in "Ask HN: What web framework(s) do you guys use?"

breily — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:08:14 +0000

Thanks, that's always good to hear.

New comment by breily in "Ask HN: What web framework(s) do you guys use?"

breily — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:59:32 +0000

I used to use Django, tried cherrypy and web.py, and have ended up starting to write my own (http://github.com/breily/juno).

New comment by breily in "Ask HN: Which school do you attend?"

breily — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:01:23 +0000

Nice - doing CS here now

New comment by breily in "Simple iPhone Interface for Hacker News"

breily — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:44:37 +0000

Am I the only one who thinks HN works really well on the iPhone? I've never had any problems using it, but as there's like 2-3 of these iPhone versions I guess I'm in the minority.

New comment by breily in "Effective teachers have a gift for noticing what one researcher calls "withitness.""

breily — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:45:33 +0000

Yea, I don't want to get into a huge debate about this either, and the names you mentioned are definitely in the same class as the first picks. My main thought was that while its not a science, the scouts are definitely not just randomly picking players like Gladwell makes it out to be (saying that "there is no way to know who will succeed at it and who won’t" and that "college performance doesn’t tell us anything").

New comment by breily in "Effective teachers have a gift for noticing what one researcher calls "withitness.""

breily — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:24:22 +0000

Out of the 9 years listed it really only happened 3 times that a better QB was left - 2000 (Tom Brady), 2002 (David Garrard - debatable, but he's starting and Carr isn't), and 2005 (Aaron Rodgers). So 6 times out of 9 the best one was taken first - that seems pretty good.

If you go back even further I'd imagine this trend would continue - even Gladwell's main example (Ryan Leaf) was taken second to the best QB playing today (Manning).

New comment by breily in "Ask HN: Do you think primarily in English?"

breily — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:30:53 +0000

I'd noticed this sometimes too, but I think it's something that you can change if you want to. When I was learning german, after a couple years of high school classes I went to a month long full immersion program. When I finished that, I was thinking entirely in german. This stopped over time as I went back to English, but I can still make myself do it sometimes. So with practice/time, you could probably teach yourself to think in something besides English. Though English seems like it might be the most efficient mode for a native speaker.

New comment by breily in "Prioritiz'd"

breily — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:32:47 +0000

Is there a way to log in/sign up besides OpenID? I don't have one, but wanted to use your site. I spent about half an hour trying to figure out which accounts of mine are OpenID enabled, and to get the url for my ID. I keep getting errors like "Open ID server can't be found", etc. so I imagine the urls that I'm putting in the sign up box are not the right ones. Then when I finally get signed up and logged in, later I try to log in with the same url and I get an error. Very frustrating.

Anyways, to summarize: Open ID seems to suck, and its very confusing (though to be completely honest I'm a little drunk which might have made this more difficult for me). I'd imagine most users would appreciate a simple, traditional login (I would have). Anyways, I really wanted to use your site, but after 30 min of failure I've given up. Good luck though.

Edit: For spelling/etc.

New comment by breily in "Rockets help build Chinese bridge higher than Empire State Building"

breily — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:02:37 +0000

This seems pretty innovative, but how do they stop the rockets when they get to the other side? Seems like a very dangerous method.

New comment by breily in "College Stops Giving Students New Email Accounts"

breily — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:12:37 +0000

I do tech support part time for students at my school, and I have to agree with the parent. I'm astounded every day by how bad some people are with computers. We have normal email accounts here, and people still have trouble figuring out to use them. I personally think its a great idea (the first thing I did when I got to school was forward my school account), but I'll bet 75% of the people wouldn't be able to figure it out.

New comment by breily in "19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv"

breily — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:43:22 +0000

In this case if anonymity is to blame then it has to be anonymity of the poster - the victim was live on webcam.

New comment by breily in "Google, iPhone, and Thinking Like a Programmer"

breily — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:40:15 +0000

I haven't done any iPhone development, so I may be wrong here, but doesn't his version not do what the Google one does? How does his code prove that Google's feature could be done with documented API calls when his version uses touch instead of proximity?

New comment by breily in "Dropbox for music"

breily — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:15:36 +0000

Does anyone happen to know of a service like you describe - Dropbox, but made to back up music, with playback/playlists in browser?

New comment by breily in "Dumb people don't know they are dumb. Is there a simple explanation for this?"

breily — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:09:00 +0000

Above-average compared to other professors or compared to the general population? I haven't read anything about their findings but I'd imagine 94% being above average compared to the general population would be on the low side.

New comment by breily in "Ask HN: Review our startup (bitloot)"

breily — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:24:33 +0000

Seconding these criticisms - they make it very difficult to browse the site. A related problem is that you can't right click links to open them in their own tab from the browse page. All in all a cool idea though (not sure I see the business potential though).

New comment by breily in "How I Use My Dell"

breily — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:09:14 +0000

I've never done any serious development on Windows, but I'd imagine you need/want a shell for the same reasons you'd use one on a unix system - using vim, scripting, an array of useful programs (e.g. whatever the Windows version of grep is), etc.