Hacker News: handrake

New comment by handrake in "Open 7400 Logic Competition: The BrainFuck Machine (2012)"

handrake — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 06:30:54 +0000

I completely agree. I really want to talk about bf interpreter I wrote in Python, but I always shy away not being able to spit its name.

New comment by handrake in "Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook for Paternity Leave"

handrake — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 06:27:41 +0000

I think it's the right thing to do. If you don't take everything he does upside down, this can't possibly be bad. I believe he chose the number wisely without making it too short, which would send a message across taking a full leave is not such a good idea, or making it too long only reminding everyone that he is the one.

New comment by handrake in "Io Programming Language (new website design)"

handrake — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 06:19:07 +0000

Please visit the web site for Go language and try to adopt their design because yours simply is not acceptable in every way. I don't wanna click menus just to find out what language paradigms are for your language because I absolutely expect to find them on the first page...

New comment by handrake in "MIT professor Noam Chomsky criticized the killing of Osama bin Laden"

handrake — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:20:51 +0000

Yeah, there were some technical difficulties.

New comment by handrake in "Japan Starts to Recharge After Two Lost Economic Decades"

handrake — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:18:12 +0000

Exactly. I've been wondering why Bitcoin wasn't taking off on the consumer side but I think I now understand. Sadly, by its inherent structure, Bitcoin will never take off as a good means of exchange as real currencies do.

New comment by handrake in ""DRM-Free" Scares the shit out of me"

handrake — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:39:37 +0000

What does he want?

New comment by handrake in "Japan to increase military spending"

handrake — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 05:14:55 +0000

Well, that's sort of my point. Some Japaneses don't seem to know or care about their history. We keep hearing how their government is systematically trying to avoid mentioning what really happened back then internally through their so-called 'history textbook reform' and externally by denying war crimes which even their past government had accepted as facts.

New comment by handrake in "Japan to increase military spending"

handrake — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:05:17 +0000

This could be a bit of a stretch, but if German government decides to increase military spending for economic recovery, wouldn't Poland and France be alerted and ask Germans to reconsider? Or it's totally different now from back then and let Germans to play with Leopards and U-boats again all they want?

New comment by handrake in "Japan to increase military spending"

handrake — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:06:17 +0000

After seeing how Japanese government handled Fukushima accident, I as a Korean don't feel very safe with them wanting to play with a bigger gun. If Japanese government doesn't or can't take care of its own people, how do I believe it will care so much about world peace?

New comment by handrake in "Japan to increase military spending"

handrake — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:57:36 +0000

But I, as a Korean, (and I'm sure many other Asians too) can't help myself but to consider it as a big threat to the region's peace as I see tensions getting worse and worse between Japan and China/Korea especially on their maritime boundaries. Of course, you may have something on your own to say but still I don't think you can say Japan is making the right move every step of the way to the world peace.

After looking back to what happened from military expansion of Japanese imperialism back in WWII, I'm sure you understand why other Asian countries oppose to the idea and will stay that way.

New comment by handrake in "Amazon Has the Most Generous Shareholders in the World"

handrake — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:10:36 +0000

I think MS was pretty much the same way until very recent. Maybe companies really start making money when they stop being innovative.

New comment by handrake in "Github-Integrated fluxflex Aims At Making Cloud Hosting Easier And Cheaper"

handrake — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:10:20 +0000

I tried various apps from their pre-configured list, but nothing works yet. Disappointing so far.

New comment by handrake in "The Rise and Fall of the Independent Developer"

handrake — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:46:25 +0000

well the best way to do this would fix the current situation with patent reform...

New comment by handrake in "Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+"

handrake — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:55:26 +0000

I think Google simply sucks at anything remotely related to social networking.

New comment by handrake in "Cloud horror"

handrake — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:17:35 +0000

Isn't that what they are trying to do with iCloud?

New comment by handrake in "Enough Is Enough"

handrake — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:33:56 +0000

Well then, trolls would start 'hiring' these inventors (maybe as a contractor for just a period of legal battles) and keep pursuing their lucrative business.

New comment by handrake in "Mailgun (YC W11) Raises $1.1 Million For Its "Twilio For Email""

handrake — Fri, 13 May 2011 20:15:37 +0000

I can see that on the top of their list already. Somebody has to fix this problem with less-complicated solution than PGP.

New comment by handrake in "Why Donald Knuth Checks E-mail Only Once Every Three Months"

handrake — Wed, 11 May 2011 20:29:51 +0000

I thought he'd use perfect Bayesian spam filtering algorithm which he secretly developed that can bang out every non-urgent not-so-much-worth-reading email.

New comment by handrake in "In Fifty Days, Payments Innovation Will Stop In Silicon Valley"

handrake — Wed, 11 May 2011 13:29:07 +0000

I completely agree to this. PayPal somehow has been evading this problem for a decade but finally the government is stepping in to square away this mess. How many horror stories have we heard about PayPal locking up people's accounts for no good reasons?

New comment by handrake in "GNU Hurd in Google Summer of Code 2011"

handrake — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:01:52 +0000

It's one of my dreams to see it ship and I use it as my primary OS.