Hacker News: edhebert

New comment by edhebert in "Solving Wordle in 3.64 guesses on average, 99.4% of the time"

edhebert — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 01:06:53 +0000

For the creator of Wordle and their partner, who obviously have some love of word puzzles, REBUS (a picture to word puzzle) would be a familiar word.

New comment by edhebert in "Changing how I review code"

edhebert — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:58:44 +0000

The latter would be a very useful code commit message, (the line #55 may be excessive), both for the author and the reviewer.

New comment by edhebert in "Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020)"

edhebert — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 12:07:04 +0000

Sometimes the discrete unit I am looking to listen to is the album, not just a song.

New comment by edhebert in "Pianists for Alternatively Sized Keyboards"

edhebert — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 14:12:46 +0000

The Linnstrument captures the dynamic range of strike and release velocity, as well as pressure and aftertouch direction; translated to MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression).

As someone with relatively small hands for piano, I have been enjoying the wider range of intervals with one hand provided by the Linnstrument's layout.

New comment by edhebert in "Amazon wins streaming rights for Thursday Night Football"

edhebert — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 02:08:18 +0000

Local games are simulcast over the air.

New comment by edhebert in "MA, CA take the top spots in Bloomberg's index of innovative states"

edhebert — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 17:04:06 +0000

NASA?

New comment by edhebert in "Ask HN: I don't like my new job, now what?"

edhebert — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 15:47:12 +0000

I once got this advice as, "Either change your organization or change your organization."

New comment by edhebert in "The Physical Web"

edhebert — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 16:51:08 +0000

The project's ethos is very similar to Rob Pike's 'dream setup' that he describes in his usesthis interview, http://rob.pike.usesthis.com/

New comment by edhebert in "Update on Julie Horvath's Departure"

edhebert — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 04:15:57 +0000

Well, it sounds like they tried to sweep things under the rug.

New comment by edhebert in "Git 1.9 Release Notes"

edhebert — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 22:02:54 +0000

vc-diff works pretty well.

New comment by edhebert in "Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only"

edhebert — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 02:06:39 +0000

  $ ack --thppt

  _   /|
  \'o.O'
  =(___)=
     U    ack --thppt!

New comment by edhebert in "Keyboard innovation is making them worse"

edhebert — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 13:37:45 +0000

Try remapping it so that the Command buttons, i.e., the keys next to the Space Bar, are Control. This was the position of the old Symbolics machines. To my hands, it makes Emacs much more efficient, since the rest position for the thumbs can be between the Space Bar and the Control keys.

New comment by edhebert in "NFL, MLB Warn That Aereo Could Trigger End of Free TV Game Broadcasts"

edhebert — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 20:45:32 +0000

How is that a win/win?

New comment by edhebert in "37signals valuation tops $100 billion after bold VC investment (2009)"

edhebert — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 21:04:34 +0000

By asking a Scotsman.

New comment by edhebert in "Using Historical Data To Rank The Top Magic: The Gathering Cards"

edhebert — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:36:39 +0000

And following suit, Jace the Mind Sculptor.

New comment by edhebert in "Working hours: Get a life"

edhebert — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:07:35 +0000

What about the sort of person that needs to make sure their child is picked up from day care?

New comment by edhebert in "GitHub was down"

edhebert — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 02:51:02 +0000

What I would like to see is an analogue to offlineimap for GitHub's project management services.

The protocol could even be email based.

e.g. a pull request is an email with the git formatted patch attached. Issues are emails with discussions as threaded mail/news, etc.

New comment by edhebert in "Show HN: Zipline - algorithmic trading in open source Python"

edhebert — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:06:38 +0000

I'm one of the co-maintainers of the project.

You're right that there is a chasm between backtesting and actual trading.

The title may be a little future thinking, we are working on adapting the event/stream-based backtesting engine to drive live trading.

Updating the description to help declare intended goals of being a wider algorithmic trading suite.

New comment by edhebert in "Wayland (X11 replacement) 1.0 Officially Released"

edhebert — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 05:45:34 +0000

I'm curious, is the naming related to the two neighboring towns in MA?

New comment by edhebert in "TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha"

edhebert — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:01:17 +0000

If backup files are giving you an issue, you can change the behavior of emacs so that it saves backup files in a separate directory, instead of the alongside the file that is being edited.

(setq backup-directory-alist `(("." . "~/saves"))) (setq tramp-backup-directory-alist backup-directory-alist) (setq backup-by-copying t)