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New comment by honestlyidk in "8K is now being broadcast in Japan"

honestlyidk — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 19:33:52 +0000

there is actually a standard distance away from a screen that determines maximum viewing pleasure , I think it is 10ft but that is a rule of thumb it changes due to screen size.

https://www.crutchfield.com/S-2baTDHKQBkY/learn/learningcent...

I think it has something to do with full vision of the screen at any time so your its centerted and a particular percentage of your field of vision. I couldnt find the study which was for sports and movie watching but I bet such a standard is even more important for gaming.

Basically relatively speaking your screen should be the same size in your field of view but the fact that its bigger allows for better detailing.

4000px from 5 feet doesnt look at good as 8000px from 10 feet even thought they fill up the same area in your field of view

New comment by honestlyidk in "EventStore: Open-Source, Functional Database with Complex Event Processing in JS"

honestlyidk — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 21:27:40 +0000

rewrites are really the on thing all programers enjoy doing. If it works dont touch it, should have caught it sooner. Make the next project better and move on.

New comment by honestlyidk in "Harvard Converts Millions of Legal Documents into Open Data"

honestlyidk — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 21:25:26 +0000

And arron swartz is dead. Not sure how many of the docs made public are ones that we was trying to hack in to. That incident will always leave a bitter taste in my mouth.

New comment by honestlyidk in "Ask HN: Is it worth getting into distributed systems after 12 years full stack?"

honestlyidk — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 21:22:19 +0000

Well thats because you are not a full stack engineer. If you were you would understand. Its pretty simple. You have backend , you have front end , you have database. Full stack enginner has experience and implements features across all these technologies. A bit of dev ops environment knowledge is probably also good because you have to worry about the connection between all these environments in order for you to do your work.

Sure there is a quality trade off, being jack of all trades but this industry is very elastic. You can have a great frontend engineer with only 2 years experience and an ok one with 6 years experience. Time in field doesnt really gauge skill well. Its more about the challenges one takes on and the variety of problems they solve with their code.

New comment by honestlyidk in "Ask HN: Is it worth getting into distributed systems after 12 years full stack?"

honestlyidk — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 21:15:11 +0000

"Is it worth getting into the the subject? It would take a major commitment in time and efforts. Would it help with better career opportunities?"

I guess its an opportunity cost. What else would you be doing besides that. with 12 years of experience Id hope that you have some understanding about the subject already and arent completely in the dark. I guess with 12 years I would say it should take you no time to pick it up cause I would expect you to already be well into APIs and Oauth.

I wouldnt hurt your career opportunities. But I guess you could do something more established like get a data science degree or work with embedded systems to work with robots. Its really about what you want. But doing this is better than doing nothing.

Technically I think that a lot of people do it for a cool factor rather than for a need. You can add uncessary complexity without benefit. I dont find there to be too much deep complex ideas about it.

Basically you are performing separation of concerns across a network vs doing it by creating different class files, this allows you to offset query load to an entire set of servers which helps scaling. But your company also has to pay of another set of servers.

New comment by honestlyidk in "Ask HN: Is it worth getting into distributed systems after 12 years full stack?"

honestlyidk — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 21:05:01 +0000

no one really wants this. This is not a game changer in purchasing any kind of device.

New comment by honestlyidk in "How to implement strings"

honestlyidk — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 21:01:58 +0000

All those are is a set of verification functions tied to strings ... we really dont need native data types representing this. Im not sure why you are not able to find a lib/function that easily verifies such things. Programing languges are the basic foundation which should be concerned with performance , organization and making sure freedom is given to the programmer. These are all specific edge cases for the programmer to define not for the programing language to worry about.

Would you rather they speed up the compiler/interperter or add edge case string classes? Its not like there isnt a trade off. This is a bottom of the barrel concern.

New comment by honestlyidk in "IBM acquires Red Hat"

honestlyidk — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 23:10:47 +0000

That blog post from cormier scares me. Its so cheerleading and the use of "we" like any one besides the employees at RedHat get a piece of that buyout. "Opensource is here to stay." ... Im not holding my breath. But I am bullish on the possibilities. If IBM doesnt F this up I hope they realize that people dont have negative feelings about them like Amazon and Google. People want a tech company that is more tech and less politics. IBM dont do anything special just have a simple payment structure with a product that works.

New comment by honestlyidk in "Show HN: Toodles – Project management directly from the TODO's in your code"

honestlyidk — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 22:46:21 +0000

looks like the team was lazy in some regard or some other negative adjective if "lazy" is too mean: -dev has extra time -queue has tasks ready to be done -dev doesnt do tasks becuase they are not specifically assigned to them

I will some times look into tasks that are assigned to other people just to get an understanding on how I would solve the problem and learn the rest of the code base. I wouldnt assign it to myself unless I get approval because that would be stepping on others toes. If a dev doesnt like actively coding and isnt interested in fixing problems for the company that is not a problem with the layout that is the problem with the devs attitude.

lazy , unmotivated how ever you slice it, its unproductive. Ill say this is one reason why working at a company you enjoy is important. You should be happy to make they company better in general with small touchups or performance refactor overhauls. What good is a "todo" list if its just a list of things people wont do.

New comment by honestlyidk in "The rise of the robot farmer"

honestlyidk — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 20:35:37 +0000

once again op doesnt deliver

New comment by honestlyidk in "Fake news ‘as a service’ booming among cybercrooks"

honestlyidk — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 18:43:16 +0000

Is this something that requires government oversight or is it just a business plan/strategy. If the latter then the free market should tell you that your plan is right or wrong. If it requires government overshight I would say its inherently flawed. "Fake news" isnt a problem the problem is a lazy populace that take any word for granted as long as the production value is good enough.

Fake news is how free speech is supposed to work. People get to say what they want and the populace decides for themselves what is right or wrong. Liable and slander are still in effect.

New comment by honestlyidk in "Antiwar Movement Spreads Among Tech Workers"

honestlyidk — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 19:16:32 +0000

As bluntly as you want to state that it doesnt become a better of an argument. What would be your alternative. The above poster seems to have given a pretty clear reason why we would want the military to take on these tasks (variety of skill in personel). Do you have a cheaper better way?

This sound like the most efficient thing that the government has done. Its probably also a good way to instill compassion in our ranks by having them perform civilian tasks. Instead of everyone just being something they shoot or dont shoot in these countries.

New comment by honestlyidk in "America Is Drowning in Milk Nobody Wants"

honestlyidk — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 19:10:17 +0000

you are completely steering the conversation away from what the original topic is. Its not like the post you replied to came out of no where with "I think milk and cheese is best". Most notably lactose intolerance which is not uncommon.

New comment by honestlyidk in "To become a software consultant, avoid letting clients pay you for code (2017)"

honestlyidk — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 14:52:59 +0000

I love writing code. Ive gone out of my way to study health of eyes and tendons so I can code as long as possible. I never want to be the manager.

New comment by honestlyidk in "Ex-Google engineer describing the company's role in China censorship"

honestlyidk — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 14:41:55 +0000

>If he wanted an honest discussion he shouldn't be passing notes around like it's highschool. The memo apparently ended up being pass by more and more people. That's not how you approach this or many topics that are sensitive.

You are making the perfect the enemy of the good here. Your idea of "honest discussion" and claim that how not to approach topics that are sensitive is completely subjective. You are trying to silence his voice (just like google is silencing many chinese voices). You dont make the rules about how someone gets to speak.

I dont think he was productive in his desires but I do believe that he was candid , genuine and I would never tell someone they dont get to epxress their honest thoughts.

Think of the past decades with gay rights , trans rights and you want to tell someone they cant express their thoughts and need to keep their ideas in the closet. Is bigotry from the LGBTQ crowd allowed but we cant be bigoted against them? This double standard keeps us all back from making a truly free society. It seems google and and from your argument that this freedom is subjected and carefully tailored from elite that designate what voices should be heard and silenced.