Hacker News: dschobel

New comment by dschobel in "How Doctors Die (2013)"

dschobel — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 01:37:45 +0000

Unfortunately such a common phenomenon that it has a name: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughter_from_California_syn...

New comment by dschobel in "“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”"

dschobel — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 08:32:37 +0000

The issue was never one of safety, the odds were never high that you would be on the receiving end of one of these SWAT attacks. The issue is the rights of citizens and their protection from unwarranted searches and unreasonable uses of force.

Australia has it's own issues on that front, look up Labor's recent proposal of data retention for electronic records or the infamous great firewall of Australia.

And as far as government's with regulatory zeal go, you've hit the motherload.

It's a lovely country (I've spent the last three years in Sydney and really and truly loved it) but don't kid yourself about the level of government intrusion in every. last. bloody. thing. It's maddening.

New comment by dschobel in "Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating healthfully"

dschobel — Mon, 20 May 2013 00:07:37 +0000

"I'm of the opinion that there is nothing wrong, or rather that the population is acting entirely naturally and appropriately given their adaptation to specific evolutionary conditions, which have changed drastically in the last 100 years. I doubt controlling marketing material will have a long-lasting effect, but anything is worth a shot. It is a very serious problem."

Which is it then, 'nothing wrong' or 'serious problem'?

New comment by dschobel in "Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating healthfully"

dschobel — Mon, 20 May 2013 00:05:32 +0000

You knock the gluten avoiders and follow that up by saying you became healthy by staying to the periphery of the grocery store where the fruits/veggies/meats/dairy are (and not the grains/gluten)...

I think you just contradicted yourself entirely.

New comment by dschobel in "Ask HN: Google workers, sister is visiting S.J. Can she tour the Googleplex?"

dschobel — Sat, 11 May 2013 03:02:43 +0000

Don't under-estimate the value of spotting CS legends (Norvig, Thrun, all of the old Bell Labs guys, etc) wandering around.

I was massively impressed when I visited.

New comment by dschobel in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)"

dschobel — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:40:11 +0000

so I'm curious-- has anyone ever made or received a job offer via these HN hiring threads?

New comment by dschobel in "Callbacks are imperative, promises are functional"

dschobel — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 04:23:33 +0000

if you want this on the JVM today and can abide Scala, see: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/dataflow.html

New comment by dschobel in "Apply to seventh batch of Hacker School"

dschobel — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 06:31:55 +0000

+1. Another ex-professional dev (for +6 years) who left to do Hacker School here.

A lot of the students seem to have at least a few years of experience under their belt but it totally runs the gamut; you'll meet everything from people a few months into the hacking pursuit to people with decades of experience. And yes, it's a staggeringly amazing program. :)

New comment by dschobel in "Apply to seventh batch of Hacker School"

dschobel — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:51:39 +0000

"Not a way to run a discussion forum if one is interested in dialogue, and conversation."

and yet you bragged about flagging the submission...

New comment by dschobel in "Apply to seventh batch of Hacker School"

dschobel — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:36:01 +0000

Why do you see a positive incentive to female applicants as an implicit disincentive to male applicants?

New comment by dschobel in "40 Years After an Acid Attack, a Life Well Lived"

dschobel — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:37:52 +0000

How hard would it be for HN to filter posts like this? There are only so many permutations of "Why is this here? / What does this have to do with HN?" possible...

New comment by dschobel in "It's all who you know?"

dschobel — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 05:15:44 +0000

Let's take your theory and run with it, say that Derek was 100% lucky, that he's a hack, a fraud, just a product of some lucky circumstances, even so-- how on earth can you bemoan his simple message of encouragement?

The message is literally: reach out and try to make as many connections with other humans as you can and maybe even help them out if it's within your capacity. _That's_it_

Now have a good long think about how cynical of a person you'd have to be to complain about that message.

New comment by dschobel in "Vipassana: 10 days of solitude and insights gained from it"

dschobel — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 01:26:13 +0000

http://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-do-a-weekend-Vipassana-retr...

5th result on google for "vipassana retreat, bay area"...

New comment by dschobel in "Advanced Vim Registers"

dschobel — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:50:46 +0000

I wonder what the complexity of a plugin would be that watches you use vim and tells if you're doing an anti-pattern?

My only gripe with vim is that the discoverability of features is god awful because :help is so overwhelming.

New comment by dschobel in "Advanced Vim Registers"

dschobel — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 06:37:23 +0000

wow, capital register appending is super useful. lots of good tips in this one.

thanks for posting this!

New comment by dschobel in "Introducing Humble Indie Bundle 7 (with Legends of Grimrock and more)"

dschobel — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:37:59 +0000

I have to say that 'Indie Game the movie' is absolutely fantastic. It's the programmer's 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi'. (with added bonus points for their DRM-free delivery).

Well worth your $10 through http://www.indiegamethemovie.com/ or whatever you pay through this bundle. Go watch the trailer and then buy it in some form.

and for reference: 92% on RT

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/indie_game_the_movie_2012/

New comment by dschobel in "Windows 8 Arrives"

dschobel — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:03:53 +0000

failing? MS has been holding 70% to 85% of the desktop market for decades, even by conservative estimates.

Git 1.8.0 released

dschobel — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 02:08:23 +0000

Article URL: http://git-blame.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/git-180.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4681539

Points: 22

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New comment by dschobel in "Tax Cuts Don't Lead to Economic Growth, a New 65-Year Study Finds "

dschobel — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:43:07 +0000

Societies are complex systems and managing them efficiently is actually (gasp) quite difficult.

This is _precisely_ the core tenet of conservative fiscal policy. The idea of coordinating any economy of non-trivial size from a central position is a fool's errand and invariably puts drag on the economy.

New comment by dschobel in "Black Swan Farming"

dschobel — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:52:51 +0000

Link: http://www.automaticfinances.com/monkey-stock-picking/

On October 7, 1998 the Journal presented the results of the 100th dartboard contest. So who won the most contests and by how much? The pros won 61 of the 100 contests versus the darts. That's better than the 50% that would be expected in an efficient market.