Hacker News: djacobs

New comment by djacobs in "Show HN: The Reader View of Wikipedia"

djacobs — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 18:51:29 +0000

Totally agreed. Wikiwand has made me excited every time I see a Wikipedia link because the reading experience is so well thought out.

New comment by djacobs in "Surveillance Kills Freedom by Killing Experimentation"

djacobs — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 20:50:39 +0000

This is the way we should be talking about privacy. Using vivid examples that are relevant to everyday people’s lives on both sides of the political divide. Avoiding broad, philosophical-sounding proclamations.

I hope people on HN are taking note.

New comment by djacobs in "The San Franciso Fire Department makes its own wooden ladders by hand"

djacobs — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 00:27:12 +0000

Interesting to see that this headline typo (copied from the Gizmodo article) has lasted on the front page of HN for 9+ hours!

Chalk it up to only reading the beginnings and endings of words?

Equifax admits passport numbers involved in data breach

djacobs — Fri, 11 May 2018 01:32:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vox.com/business-and-finance/2018/5/10/17337260/equifax-data-breach-passports

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17044370

Points: 42

# Comments: 2

Former top official says Fed should ‘Maybe’ create ‘FedCoin’ to rival Bitcoin

djacobs — Sat, 05 May 2018 02:57:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/upshot/should-the-fed-create-fedcoin-to-rival-bitcoin-a-former-top-official-says-maybe.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17000085

Points: 99

# Comments: 106

Mark Zuckerberg’s notes from today’s hearing

djacobs — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 03:17:07 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/10/zuckerberg-hearing-notes-photo-congress/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16807756

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Microsoft calls for dismissal of U.S. Supreme Court privacy fight

djacobs — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 01:42:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-microsoft/microsoft-calls-for-dismissal-of-u-s-supreme-court-privacy-fight-idUSKCN1HA2KH

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16751163

Points: 200

# Comments: 76

Tau Manifesto

djacobs — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 20:45:05 +0000

Article URL: https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16588128

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by djacobs in "Some problems of URLs"

djacobs — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 06:28:14 +0000

I agree, the substance was there, but the story could use some editing and organization. If it were me, it'd look something like:

  1) How people think URLs work, the good parts that people see every day
  2) Abstract problems with URLs, followed by concrete examples, maybe links to prominent related bugs
  3) Suggested fixes for the problems, including what browers are doing at a UX level
  4) Honest look at tradeoffs involved for end users
  5) Remaining complications and unanswered questions

New comment by djacobs in "Show HN: Materia – A modern dev environment to build mobile and web applications"

djacobs — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 19:50:24 +0000

This looks excellent. I've wanted to build something like this for a while, and I'm excited to play around with it.

Nice work!

FBI building fresh case for access to electronic devices

djacobs — Sun, 04 Sep 2016 01:10:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/31/encryption-fbi-building-fresh-case-for-access-to-electronic-devices

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12422126

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Amazon is piloting teams with a 30-hour workweek

djacobs — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 23:49:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/08/26/amazon-is-piloting-teams-with-a-30-hour-work-week/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12370100

Points: 362

# Comments: 284

New comment by djacobs in "It’s No 'Accident:' Advocates Want to Speak of Car 'Crashes' Instead"

djacobs — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 03:29:35 +0000

I had the same reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puK5CwThaq4

New comment by djacobs in "Idiomatic React Testing Patterns"

djacobs — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 20:33:46 +0000

I looked through the patterns and I wonder what makes them 'idiomatic'?

I've found it useful to use wrapper libraries like Enzyme [0] and Teaspoon [1] when testing React components and interactions.

[0] https://github.com/airbnb/enzyme

[1] https://github.com/jquense/teaspoon

New comment by djacobs in "Preact, a fast 3k React alternative"

djacobs — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 04:05:25 +0000

Thanks for the response. If the choice is between manually specifying that (type of) code for every kind of object (and likely moving to a #create factory method) or using a native syntax for class declaration, I can see why people would choose the latter.

New comment by djacobs in "Preact, a fast 3k React alternative"

djacobs — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 20:55:57 +0000

I'm not yet convinced that it's just syntactic sugar. For example, what (generic) code is `super` syntactic sugar for?

Even if it is just syntactic sugar, that syntactic sugar makes it much more approachable for devs who want to use classical inheritance (not that I'd encourage that).

New comment by djacobs in "Show HN: Nativefier – Wrap any web page natively"

djacobs — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 18:58:27 +0000

IMO for web apps that you have open all the time (maybe Asana, Google Docs), native OS navigation and window management is significantly better than tab navigation. Of course it doesn't have as much of a benefit if you do it for every tab you have open.

New comment by djacobs in "GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation"

djacobs — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 22:52:55 +0000

True, a paid service is probably more likely to be around in a few years (in general), but does that matter for distributed source control?

I guess if you depend on non-git features, like issues, there's a chance that there's some lock-in. However, most of the ones I use have a migration strategy [0].

[0] http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/49729/how-can-i-i...

New comment by djacobs in "Never, ever, ever use MongoDB"

djacobs — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 03:19:32 +0000

I think my experience is different from yours (I don't let spikes make it past my own branch), but as far as production goes, we're on the same page!

New comment by djacobs in "Never, ever, ever use MongoDB"

djacobs — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 00:19:43 +0000

I'm all for using tools that don't make bad things easy, but I think threeseed is saying that for hacks and spikes, the "later point" you're referring to might not matter. (I agree that those are the only jobs I'd use Mongo for, too.)

Of course, if you're at a company where those spikes find a way of turning into production code, then it's a different story.