Hacker News: cheponis

New comment by cheponis in "I Knew It"

cheponis — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:04:42 +0000

The fourth option is to pay more.

New comment by cheponis in "JavaScript = C + Lisp"

cheponis — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:47:08 +0000

More like SyntaxOf(C) + subset(Lisp)

New comment by cheponis in "Python best practices"

cheponis — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:58:44 +0000

I read a study that showed that 2,3, or 4-space indents were equivalent for readability. Therefore, I always use 2.

New comment by cheponis in "New malloc in OpenBSD helps spot 33 year old bug in yacc"

cheponis — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:36:15 +0000

I think lots of people run Antlr these days. http://www.antlr.org/

New comment by cheponis in "Neil Young’s answer to iTunes"

cheponis — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:48:09 +0000

I am rather bothered by a lot of the comments here. Have any of you actually talked with Neil about these issues? I have. He's an extremely passionate promoter of high-quality sound. I truly feel sorry for those who cannot tell the difference between 192kbps MP3s and CDs. I can always hear the difference with my headphones and eq settings. But Neil is not satisfied with CD-quality; he wants higher quality than that. At the time I chatted with him (several years ago now) he was leaning toward 24-bit 192K samples/second, as I recall. This was before Blu-Ray.

Since the original article was so vague, and we don't have a particular product to critique, can we at least give Neil the benefit of the doubt? His heart is definitely in the right place (and, in case you're wondering, he's more than just a bit of a geek - he's a first-class geek! - And not too shabby a musician, either...)

New comment by cheponis in "Interview With the Man Who Could Destroy Photography"

cheponis — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:29:58 +0000

I can think of half a dozen ways to defeat this, as any hacker could. Seems to me to be much ado about nothing.

Bill Gates - The Exit Interview

cheponis — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:38:06 +0000

Article URL: http://go.pcmag.com/billgates

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=229562

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by cheponis in "Never Before Seen Bill Gates Photos"

cheponis — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:07:13 +0000

I understand your point completely, and I agree. I, too, am an exceedingly awesome world-renowned hacker who has been unfairly treated here. PG doesn't really care, or he likes it this way, or he's too busy doing other things. We need to build a TRUE hacker's community, and this website isn't it.

Remember: the internet routes around damage.

New comment by cheponis in "Ask YC: Voting and Karma (Call to action)"

cheponis — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:10:56 +0000

Actually:

Upvote = "I'd like to see more comments like this" || "I agree with this".

Downvote = "I'd like to see fewer comments like this" || "I disagree with this".

New comment by cheponis in "The argument against "downvote". A slight violation of the First Amendment"

cheponis — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:19:38 +0000

His reference to the First Amendment is clearly allegorical - is that not obvious?

New comment by cheponis in "Ask PG: Are people getting more liberal with their downvotes?"

cheponis — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:48:10 +0000

Well, my version of Hacker News has no "down button". Is my browser broken?

New comment by cheponis in "Obama: I will be the Democratic nominee"

cheponis — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:36:13 +0000

how does one "mod down"? I see only and "up" button. Thanks.

New comment by cheponis in "Vernor Vinge: Signs of the Singularity"

cheponis — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:40:32 +0000

AI is, by definition, the set of problems that are not yet solvable by computers. Ergo, all AI is fantasy. Nevermind that AI has beaten the world chess champ, is used every day for pattern recognition, stock trading, and a myriad other uses.

Those who do not prepare for the coming Singularity are going to be blindsided by it when it arrives.

New comment by cheponis in "Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types"

cheponis — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:16:21 +0000

Yes, just like a horoscope!

New comment by cheponis in "NASA - Phoenix has landed"

cheponis — Mon, 26 May 2008 06:48:24 +0000

My first computer ran at 87 kHz (!) - an IBM 1401. I wrote a compiler for a Python-like language for it, as well as an Operating System.

You kids today are spoiled with multi-GHz machines.

New comment by cheponis in "The Future Without IPv6"

cheponis — Mon, 26 May 2008 01:41:51 +0000

The problem, of course, is if the "host" is actually a huge collection of machines that hide behind a single IP of a NAT.

New comment by cheponis in "How to Make Common Lisp go Faster Than C"

cheponis — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:47:24 +0000

We can hack around the scribd censorship. Everybody who aubmits a .pdf knows it will be converted into the useless scribd format. So, the original submitter needs to immediately post a comment that is the original .pdf link.

If HN scribd damage occurs on that link, then we will find other ways to route around that damage, for example, by using tinyurl.

Down with scribd!!!

New comment by cheponis in "How to stay very, very dumb. It's a fact: TV sitcoms destroy your brain."

cheponis — Sun, 18 May 2008 23:33:08 +0000

Aren't you, then, the Poster Child for this article?

New comment by cheponis in "Adobe releases Flash Player 10 beta"

cheponis — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:22:15 +0000

I cant' wait for Flash to be replaced by something fully open-source; HTML5?

New comment by cheponis in "CLPython - an implementation of Python in Common Lisp"

cheponis — Sat, 10 May 2008 10:50:52 +0000

Why?