Hacker News: dungle6

New comment by dungle6 in "We need to document macOS"

dungle6 — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 17:23:50 +0000

That is indeed the argument and I don't think it is necessarily a bad one.

Academic papers are both jargony and written in specialist notation and are not generally accessible to lay people without background in the field. I don't see how it is really much different.

New comment by dungle6 in "App sizes are out of control"

dungle6 — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 03:13:55 +0000

> SVG graphics are clean, result in NO blur at all. They don't even need any Truetype-style hinting. You've probably looked only at early non-conforming implementations using bad approximations.

This huge wall of text but apparently you don't understand the subject matter all that deeply. Why wouldn't SVG need hinting? Truetype needs hinting and it's a vector format as well.

New comment by dungle6 in "Qbrt – Cross-platform HTML/JS desktop apps using the Firefox Gecko runtime"

dungle6 — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 02:06:20 +0000

Don't forget better UX. The whole practice of UX is utter hogwash. Comparisons between 3 or 4 (or 100) solutions that are shitty at baseline is not honest at all.

New comment by dungle6 in "TSA will require separate screenings for electronics larger than a cell phone"

dungle6 — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:02:20 +0000

I have NEXUS and I agree it is worth it. But the relevant question is that TSA pre is not difficult to get. If someone (US citizen or PR with relatively clean record) wants to blow up a plane with themselves on it then I don't see how TSA pre stops them.

New comment by dungle6 in "Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web"

dungle6 — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:33:38 +0000

Yes, all you're saying is it is possible to make shitty native apps too. So that would explain your results. Native isn't a magic wand, but except for the simplest of things web will not be as good. The cracks still show in things like Google docs and sheets and overall those are pretty good as far as web goes.

New comment by dungle6 in "Why I’m Learning Perl 6"

dungle6 — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 12:27:31 +0000

I have no idea where this incredulity even comes from you tools, nor the claim from TFA which was patently absurd. Pretty much every fucking major language not listed has green threads if not built into the core (Python, Ruby) provided as a well known library (Java, C++). And any new language it's pretty much table stakes.

The article claim is so ridiculous it's not even wrong and you go on to snark about a Haskell counterexample. What a complete asshole.

New comment by dungle6 in "The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills"

dungle6 — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 17:38:58 +0000

If you have excellent credit you can simply not pay and make them do the work. I had a $1500 dispute. I was getting tired of wasting time. When it went to collections I drafted the standard leave me alone. The funny thing is now the collection company has screwed up twice on some things. It is their prerogative to sue. I doubt they will. If they do it, it will be annoying but I can respond in kind with a countersuit. Oh and the credit score? Dropped about 40 points into the upper 700s. Annoying, but not worth just rolling over and paying.

You can of course negotiate as well.

New comment by dungle6 in "Pokémon Go Fest attendees to get refunds as technical issues break the event"

dungle6 — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 20:23:18 +0000

Deployment of cell sites at events like stadiums for sporting events and outdoor music festivals is pretty common for years and years. Unless you're a hermit you almost have certainly seen a COW at one point or another. Cf Wikipedia mobile cell sites, especially COW.

New comment by dungle6 in "Pokémon Go Fest attendees to get refunds as technical issues break the event"

dungle6 — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 20:18:31 +0000

20k is actually not that many people as far as these things go. Over 50k in that confined stadium area and you really start hitting some hard limits with current cell tech. 20k should have been no problem with careful planning.

New comment by dungle6 in "Flowmatic (1957) [pdf]"

dungle6 — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 17:03:52 +0000

The words are 36 bits. 3 12 bit characters (the analogue to a byte)

New comment by dungle6 in "Archiveteam are backing up SoundCloud"

dungle6 — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 13:57:53 +0000

All you can eat is actually quite specific, but for knuckleheads like yourself it is usually clarified in writing in other places. It's all you can eat while at the establishment.. not all you can take. They don't advertise it as "unlimited" either as many places in busy markets have a posted time limit. This is clearly part of their terms of service as most buffets I know both clearly state that you can't use takeout containers and many have a posted price for taking out food by the pound or piece. You are not digging yourself further dude.

New comment by dungle6 in "Cloudflare’s fight with a “patent troll” could alter the game"

dungle6 — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 03:19:06 +0000

Lol I'm not a lawyer and I am not really interested in the legal distinction between idea and implementation, because if a non practicing entity can buy a patent that amounts to a few flowcharts you're just arguing silly semantics as far as I'm concerned.

New comment by dungle6 in "Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the Wizard of Schenectady"

dungle6 — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 23:31:54 +0000

Well the actual transform is due to LaPlace. Steinmetz didn't really work out any new math but he certainly pushed it's practical application forward.

For better or worse most engineering students learn it as a Laplace transform with very little mention of Steinmetz.

New comment by dungle6 in "Hire a former SoundClouder"

dungle6 — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 23:16:05 +0000

There absolutely is no shortage. The distribution issue is taken out of the picture by looking at large firms like Google and Apple that can hire broadly. Google prides themselves on their interview system that has a high false negative rate. If there were any kind of shortage, they would probably be desperate to improve their hiring efficiencies. They are most definitely not concerned with that. On the other hand it is always in the buyers best interest to bitch about a "shortage" especially when they have regulatory influence. Why wouldn't they want to lobby for anything that can bring supply prices down? The day you see blog posts about Google or Facebook streamlining their interview processes (for both type I and II errors), I'll concede.

New comment by dungle6 in "Where Do Type Systems Come From?"

dungle6 — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 23:01:59 +0000

Lolwut?

New comment by dungle6 in "How a 20-year-old kernel feature helped USDS improve VA’s network"

dungle6 — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 21:05:52 +0000

They're probably looking for much kids/fewer years experience (they keep bloviating about being startup like after all). Based on GS pay they cap out at a salary that is not very high for an industry veteran (they talk about steps being skipped only in "exceptional" circumstances). I guess they assume that if you've got all those years and are still applying you must not be very good. A GS15 is only 128k in the costly DC area. I work for a nonprofit in a much much lower cost of living area and make about that and I'm nowhere near the top of any payscale!

Oh and no relo assistance either lol. To work in the capital of corruption. Sorry but I would have to be braindead to surround myself by that environment knowing I was just a blue collar lackey. And if equivocating "public" service and being Trump's bitch works for you, I am happy for you.

New comment by dungle6 in "Sony plans to make vinyl records again"

dungle6 — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 15:55:56 +0000

Lol.. other than the one side part (turtle anyone?) what you're proposing is a laserdisc. Ie an actual thing. They're not coming back either because they died. Vinyl never died it just declined. Simplicity of playback equipment is a big reason why. Also nothing stops anyone from putting a CD in a 12 inch jewel case or sleeve of some sort.

New comment by dungle6 in "Sony plans to make vinyl records again"

dungle6 — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 15:43:17 +0000

> out of a sheet of paper and a needle

Don't do this with any vinyl you care about. It will destroy it pretty good. Microgroove records since the 50s were made for a fine tipped stylus, not a needle.

New comment by dungle6 in "Efficient music players remain elusive"

dungle6 — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 17:01:14 +0000

Wonder why you're downvoted. This is entirely true. Bitching about efficiency of music players on Windows without mentioning foobar2000 (which isn't exactly obscure) is pretty fucking silly.

New comment by dungle6 in "Efficient music players remain elusive"

dungle6 — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 16:51:35 +0000

There is something seriously wrong with Clementine on osx, which is unfortunate. Ui consumes tremendous CPU and is laggy as hell. This is a known, reported issue but has not been fixed. It is a shame also because there isn't a decent lightweight player for Mac even close to foobar. Foobar on Mac works well but audio in wine is a mess.