Hacker News: glwtta

New comment by glwtta in "Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) v4.0 is out [pdf]"

glwtta — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 01:08:09 +0000

Apparently I am also stuck in 2012 - are we not doing cloud and machine learning anymore?

New comment by glwtta in "The most confusing emojis in every US state in 2024"

glwtta — Thu, 16 May 2024 20:17:01 +0000

there are definitely a few missing from the "not used as intended" list

also, are they really counting "rebirth" as an incorrect interpretation of the phoenix emoji? what is even the purpose of a phoenix emoji outside of that context.

and those head-shaking ones are just objectively terribly designed

New comment by glwtta in "US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent"

glwtta — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 20:22:06 +0000

I would've fucking rioted if they picked permanent "standard" time.

I don't care about kids or their bus stops. Also, just put some lights on them, then (the bus stops, or the kids, doesn't really matter).

New comment by glwtta in "Is This Legal?"

glwtta — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:38:36 +0000

The posting seems to be requiring 7-10 years of work experience, not specific to graph databases or any other technology.

New comment by glwtta in "Al Lowe reveals his Sierra source code collection"

glwtta — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 23:42:09 +0000

Why would they? Code from 1987 is of exactly zero interest to someone developing a game in 2013.

New comment by glwtta in "Al Lowe reveals his Sierra source code collection"

glwtta — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 23:39:14 +0000

Where does he claim to care about digital preservation? And I'm pretty sure GitHub would have to remove code posted without permission, anonymous or not.

New comment by glwtta in "A lightweight, high-performance, language-independent job queue system"

glwtta — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 17:19:58 +0000

Hm, I've been looking for a lightweight, language-neutral job queue. RDBMS-backed is my preference since I don't need massive scalability, but do want persistence that's easy to reason about (so not Redis), transparency (so not beanstalkd) and a long-lived history (so not most of the other ones).

But, RDMBS only makes sense if you can use your existing installation, so MySQL-only is a nonstarter.

New comment by glwtta in "Julia Computing Raises $4.6M in Seed Funding"

glwtta — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 14:58:04 +0000

It was faster than everything, and by a huge margin: https://github.com/costajob/app-servers#results

It does seem that immature languages tend to win a lot of benchmarks, likely because they're still cutting a lot of corners. Still, though.

I only wish they picked a more "Enterprise-friendly" name...

New comment by glwtta in "Museum of Soviet arcade machines"

glwtta — Fri, 20 May 2016 21:15:14 +0000

Морской бой was the shit!

New comment by glwtta in "Blockbuster Movies with Male Leads Earn More Than Those with Female Leads"

glwtta — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 15:41:23 +0000

Is this analysis really looking at revenue, without considering the movie budget? That's just a round-about way of saying "most high-budget movies have male leads".

New comment by glwtta in "Airbnb open-sources Caravel: data exploration and visualization platform"

glwtta — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 19:44:03 +0000

seconded. videos are not useful as documentation.

New comment by glwtta in "Everything you learned about the shape of DNA is wrong"

glwtta — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 17:36:51 +0000

"We each have about 20,000 genes, all of which sit together on a molecule of DNA."

Not a great start there...