Hacker News: delan

New comment by delan in "Dark corners of Unicode (2015)"

delan — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 07:03:10 +0000

That’s neat! I made this tool for Unicode in general: https://www.azabani.com/labs/charming/

New comment by delan in "How to contribute to an open source project on GitHub"

delan — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 22:26:24 +0000

> corporate logos, octop^Hcat

Only two logos appear in the entire pull request process, and those are the two small silhouettes that you see on every page.

> CoC shoved in your face on every commit

Codes of conduct? While they are becoming fairly prevalent, the GitHub interface has no special understanding of them.

New comment by delan in "Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)"

delan — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 14:55:09 +0000

> free accident compensation

New Zealand?

New comment by delan in "CloudFlare, SSL and unhealthy security absolutism"

delan — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:37:30 +0000

Full Speed has existed since USB 1.0 — it’s “full” relative to USB 1.0, where the only other option was Low Speed — but I agree that the name was a poor choice.

New comment by delan in "GNU Taler 0.0.0 released"

delan — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 16:52:48 +0000

Why is it a matter of course?

New comment by delan in "The Idiocy of Hacker Keyboards (2010)"

delan — Mon, 02 May 2016 15:45:08 +0000

Some of their other writing seems to be of a similarly low quality. Another of their pages [0] seems to mirror a post [1] that they had sent to comp.lang.lisp, where they describe their difficulty with finding out the identities behind some blogs in sufficient detail.

> PS it annoys me to no end when one cannot easily find the name of the author on blogs, when the blog author clearly didn't meant to be anonymous. Is there a reason you didn't want it spelled it out?

This turns into a small rant against handles, which, if you set aside the jargon, are essentially nicknames.

> (i despise hacker culture, where these “hackers” idiotic-namesake prefer to go by “handles” or abbrevs (e.g. “RMS”, “ESR”, “JWZ”) or whatnot insider-fashion fuck. But that's just me.)

One person seemed a bit annoyed by them, so they then responded with a larger rant [2] that proposes that “hackers” are a strict subset of the people who like to tinker with computers, without ever clearly describing what it is about “hackers” that they “despise” — concluding:

> It is this group of people, i despise. More accurately: i despise their general style and outlook. I despite them. Fuck them. FUCK hackers. FUCK their hacking. Fuck their mothers. Scumbags.

At this point, I’d have dismissed them as a troll, but they went to the effort of buying a domain name and everything!

[0] http://xahlee.info/Netiquette_dir/whats_hacker.html

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.lisp/VQF8CIUIotg/q...

[2] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.lisp/VQF8CIUIotg/P...

New comment by delan in "The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install"

delan — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 16:27:35 +0000

“We absolutely, most certainly, should NOT ship libraries with operating systems.”

Try telling me that the App Store has UI standards

delan — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 00:36:02 +0000

Article URL: http://www.kye.id.au/blog/2016/4/13/try-telling-me-that-the-app-store-has-ui-standards

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11484791

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Real mode demo inspired by CMatrix in 187 bytes

delan — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 02:52:45 +0000

Article URL: https://bitbucket.org/delan/matrix86/src/5b48331410e3e5071ebdf424da319887eaf89da6/matrix86.s

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11294655

Points: 10

# Comments: 4

New comment by delan in "Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript"

delan — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 07:43:22 +0000

With progressive enhancement, Twitter could provide basic functionality with full page loads and the like, and use JavaScript to replace these with a better user experience.

New comment by delan in "Lesbians tend to earn more than heterosexual women"

delan — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 20:17:42 +0000

That a person would continue to work for a given rate does not imply that they don’t mind working for that rate. There are many reasons why one might continue. They may not be trained in another occupation. They may not have the money to choose to stop working in an effort to make a statement about their rate. They may even want to continue working despite their objections about how much they’re being paid.

New comment by delan in "Lesbians tend to earn more than heterosexual women"

delan — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:47:55 +0000

If you only look within a given occupation, sure, the disparity isn’t as wide, but that fails to answer some important questions: why do the choices that women (or any given group) make result in them being paid less overall? Should they essentially be punished for those choices, particularly when you consider the power that money buys? Are some of the occupations that are dominated by women undervalued and underpaid, such as teaching and nursing? Consider watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV9zBAotFeo

New comment by delan in "Ripping Graphics"

delan — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 12:40:45 +0000

To avoid having to wait for some of the page’s resources to time out: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Object-Oriented Programming is Bad

delan — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:52:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10928159

Points: 15

# Comments: 5

New comment by delan in "OpenBSD laptops"

delan — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 04:33:16 +0000

The effect of fragmentation on file systems on SSDs is minimal, and fragmentation is not related to TRIM. http://askubuntu.com/a/537211/1624

New comment by delan in "os.js: JavaScript Cloud/Web Desktop Platform"

delan — Wed, 30 Dec 2015 13:00:01 +0000

2016 is less than 48 hours away. Why is curl http:// | sh still a thing? Why is the Windows installer delivered without HTTPS, and does it really have no digital signature, or have I been MITM’d? I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t touch this with a barge pole, let alone a computer.

New comment by delan in "Why I don't care about Edward Snowden"

delan — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 16:06:30 +0000

To see the page, you’ll need to disable HTTPS Everywhere for senate.gov, as the site’s broken over HTTPS.

New comment by delan in "Rich’s sh (Posix shell) tricks"

delan — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 02:51:40 +0000

That’s more true for Linux than other Unix-like systems. Solaris comes with Bourne, FreeBSD comes with that and csh defaulting to Bourne, OpenBSD comes with those and pdksh defaulting to pdksh, and so on.

Why are we still putting up with scam ads and fake news stories?

delan — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 17:53:51 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@robleathern/why-are-we-still-putting-up-with-scam-ads-and-fake-news-stories-ed3100992579

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10727091

Points: 9

# Comments: 5

New comment by delan in "MTProto, the symmetric encryption scheme used in Telegram, is not IND-CCA secure"

delan — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:40:21 +0000

This article is based on Jakobsen’s master’s thesis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10713064