Hacker News: bytematic

New comment by bytematic in "Colleges must give up federal funding to achieve true intellectual freedom"

bytematic — Sat, 31 May 2025 03:14:33 +0000

same for companies that take federal money

New comment by bytematic in "CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated]"

bytematic — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 21:16:06 +0000

What are the implications of this? No more centralized store of vulnerability information?

New comment by bytematic in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

bytematic — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:08:26 +0000

nice account history

New comment by bytematic in "The Free Movie: Frame-by-frame, handrawn reproduction of "The Bee Movie" (2023)"

bytematic — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 03:35:41 +0000

would be cool without all the trolling

New comment by bytematic in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics"

bytematic — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 23:06:07 +0000

wisconsin?

New comment by bytematic in "I'm taking a year off college to upskill/work. Advice?"

bytematic — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 18:20:42 +0000

It does not take more than a couple years to get fine enough programming skills to make it in the professional world. Do not consider yourself behind, I highly doubt any significant % of engineers knew what cs was when they were in high school. Focusing on personal projects, interning, freelancing while in school will put you waaay ahead of your peers.

New comment by bytematic in "How the Offspring’s Lead Singer Went from Punk to PhD"

bytematic — Wed, 25 May 2022 01:33:46 +0000

I quite like the idea that punk was about annihilation, if you found out the missiles were on their way, you’d probably start saying what you always wanted to.

From Legs McNeil of Punk Magazine: "This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about corrupting every form—it was about advocating kids to not wait to be told what to do, but make life up for themselves, it was about trying to get people to use their imaginations again, it was about not being perfect, it was about saying it was okay to be amateurish and funny, that real creativity came out of making a mess, it was about working with what you got in front of you and turning everything embarrassing, awful, and stupid in your life to your advantage."

New comment by bytematic in "How the Offspring’s Lead Singer Went from Punk to PhD"

bytematic — Wed, 25 May 2022 01:29:17 +0000

Punk is very strongly connected with DIY. Often times you had to do it yourself because money is scarce: printing your own shirts, pressing records, setting up shows, etc.

New comment by bytematic in "I'm an addict"

bytematic — Thu, 19 May 2022 12:29:04 +0000

Yikes

New comment by bytematic in "Ask HN: Learn C++11 or Rust in 2022?"

bytematic — Mon, 02 May 2022 18:37:04 +0000

Build something small in each, you’ll know instantly.

New comment by bytematic in "Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software?"

bytematic — Mon, 02 May 2022 18:31:25 +0000

Yes! Didn’t think I would see it, lichess has made some incredible architectural decisions. And also really brilliant, consistent philosophy.

New comment by bytematic in "EpubPress, turn web content into ebooks"

bytematic — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 17:53:03 +0000

I have a remarkable. Know that the device is designed almost exclusively for writing. It is extremely bare bones when it comes to reading. PDF's an eBooks with code can become a formatting nightmare and it lacks many of the tools that most e-readers come with. It is however, fantastic for writing, and decent at reading if you hack in some custom apps like koreader. You have to remove DRM from amazon epubs though, which I haven't yet done. and can't comment on.

New comment by bytematic in "Yale University IT admin spent $40M college money on luxury cars, houses"

bytematic — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 16:07:10 +0000

Malcom Gladwell did a whole podcast series on this, season 2 of Revisionist History. But the idea is that some colleges like Yale, Harvard, Stanford have mega endowments that mean they can almost never lose money. Some rich people make huge multi million dollar donations just to make big headlines, but some small state college with a tiny endowment could have used that money across a much broader range of students.

New comment by bytematic in "Kaspersky is declared a US national security threat and is banned by the FCC"

bytematic — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 16:03:43 +0000

EDR is the future, not impenetrable by any means but it protects enterprise a great deal. And it allows the network admins some control, which makes everyone feel good.

New comment by bytematic in "Burgeoning bike cities emerge across America"

bytematic — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 18:27:37 +0000

Madison, WI here. Never owned a car in my life

New comment by bytematic in "Chess.com vs. Lichess"

bytematic — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 00:52:41 +0000

Go look at lichess's open source codebase and tell me that isn't a beautiful product

New comment by bytematic in "Thank you, GitHub"

bytematic — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 18:03:08 +0000

Does anyone know more about where Nat is going? I am keenly interested

New comment by bytematic in "Facebook Renames to Meta"

bytematic — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 18:25:48 +0000

I like MANAA

New comment by bytematic in "Gitlab from YC to IPO"

bytematic — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 14:47:59 +0000

Acronyms/Initialisms are great right?

New comment by bytematic in "New Leadership at Blizzard"

bytematic — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 14:25:30 +0000

I'm not sure how much the board could be aware, but I agree the whole leadership needs a 3rd party examination.