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Coding Like a Hacker

erric — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 17:23:30 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@caleb89taylor/coding-like-a-hacker-in-the-terminal-79e22954968e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18258280

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by erric in "Ask HN: Best 19“ rack for home use?"

erric — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 03:25:28 +0000

I miss the Netherlands! But I don’t miss IKEA there. Their delivery drivers couldn’t find their asses with both hands, a flashlight, and GPS.

New comment by erric in "Ask HN: Best 19“ rack for home use?"

erric — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 03:22:58 +0000

Why not just a standard aluminum Chatsworth Rack?

New comment by erric in "Prepare for changes to macOS Server 5.7.1"

erric — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 15:50:19 +0000

You can run MacOS in a VM as long as it’s on apple hardware.

New comment by erric in "SR-71 Blackbird 'Speed Check'"

erric — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:06:32 +0000

That was really entertaining. I personally find his written account a little more vivid, but it was nice to hear it directly from the pilot.

New comment by erric in "Discovery of Galileo’s lost letter shows he edited his ideas to fool Inquisition"

erric — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 17:23:51 +0000

He’s paid tribute to in the recent version of Cosmos.

New comment by erric in "Apple becomes the first $1T company"

erric — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 17:11:20 +0000

Metric, Imperial, or Shit-ton?

New comment by erric in "Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux"

erric — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 13:59:40 +0000

`“Hiri” can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer.`

Is it really expensive for a dev to get a cert from apple? I don't develop so i've never looked.

New comment by erric in "The Admiral of the String Theory Wars (2015)"

erric — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 10:29:11 +0000

I inferred doing the computer support was something he just liked to do. Everyone needs a hobby :)

New comment by erric in "California Supreme Court blocks Prop 9 ballet measure"

erric — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 01:08:50 +0000

For those who cannot read the original article in Europe[0]

[0]https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Splitting-up-Ca...

New comment by erric in "TSA screeners win immunity from flier abuse claims: U.S. appeals court"

erric — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 12:07:08 +0000

That's the point, there are _other_ jobs they should have taken because these jobs were knee-jerk reactionary responses that shouldn't exist to begin with.

I don't support McD's however I'm sure you could be describing a generic fast food place. You really can't compare working fast food to working for the government. People work for the government for a whole lot more different reasons then working fast food type jobs. For one, it's 100x easier to get a job at McDriveThrough then it is to get hired on as a federal employee. I'm talking from personal experience here.

I didn't say anything about molesting children. You are confusing my comment there with someone else's. I'm also not calling anyone names.

At the very _best_ what I'm describing are inefficiencies in our system, and anyone who's working for that system is part of the problem.

New comment by erric in "Elon Musk revealed as one of the largest donors for a House Republican PAC"

erric — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 10:17:06 +0000

Not defending him, but I would imagine people in his position play and pay to both parties.

New comment by erric in "This visual timer changes the way people think about time"

erric — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 10:11:49 +0000

And for those of us that are colorblind, it’s not terribly useful.

New comment by erric in "TSA screeners win immunity from flier abuse claims: U.S. appeals court"

erric — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:08:37 +0000

This is just one of the many problems with the TSA: their policies are randomly and inconsistently enforced.

New comment by erric in "TSA screeners win immunity from flier abuse claims: U.S. appeals court"

erric — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:01:12 +0000

>probably already hate their job

These are people who chose to opt into a career where they perpetuate security theater on to millions of fellow citizens, waste our time, offer no tangible benefit, and collect a paycheck and pension for the privilege of doing so.

I _hope_ they hate their job.

New comment by erric in "He might demonstrate “hidden knowledge” – like how a stranger’s loved ones died"

erric — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 23:13:15 +0000

This is a joke right? The author is talking about evil spirits and demonic possession as being legit diagnosis as a board certified psychiatrist. He should lose his license.

>Is it possible to be a sophisticated psychiatrist and believe that evil spirits are, however seldom, assailing humans

No. No it is most certainly not.

>Fundamentalist misdiagnoses and absurd or even dangerous “treatments,” such as beating victims, have sometimes occurred, especially in developing countries. This is perhaps why exorcism has a negative connotation in some quarters.

It has negative connotations because it’s make believe and hog wash.

>One cannot force these creatures to undergo lab studies or submit to scientific manipulation; they will also hardly allow themselves to be easily recorded by video equipment, as skeptics sometimes demand.

If you can’t measure, study and quantify something, it isn’t real.

New comment by erric in "Cargo bikes as symbolic markers of egalitarian gender roles"

erric — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 07:46:42 +0000

The major problem with biking in the US, is cyclists are not first class citizens. Having lived in The Netherlands for two years and Portland Oregon (which has a fairly progressive bike culture) for sixteen years, there is no comparison.

There is no political or financial willpower to make the kinds of changes that would make cycling more pervasive and safe for both drivers and cyclists in the US.

New comment by erric in "Show HN: A Build System for Packaging Applications in LXC Containers"

erric — Sun, 08 Jul 2018 00:45:00 +0000

CoreOS rkt also looks like a good competitor to docker.

New comment by erric in "Show HN: A Build System for Packaging Applications in LXC Containers"

erric — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 13:18:21 +0000

Can you give examples as to why it’s better vs Docker?

New comment by erric in "Mark Zuckerberg and his empire of oily rags"

erric — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 15:12:59 +0000

Paging Joshua Bell[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Bell