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New comment by huntedsnark in "The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor"

huntedsnark — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:41:11 +0000

The Half-life 2 Combine Solider armor. It almost looks silly like they're wearing a pillow, but it lets you tack on a ton of protection for your center mass without affecting mobility as much.

New comment by huntedsnark in "Wells Fargo Bet on a Flashy Rent Credit Card. It Is Costing the Bank Dearly"

huntedsnark — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:04:58 +0000

This anecdote and using the word "deadbeat" is oft repeated but doesn't really have much basis in reality (even the article you linked doesn't cite any sources for the term). Credit card transaction fees generate revenue regardless of when you pay.

New comment by huntedsnark in "Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit"

huntedsnark — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:25:21 +0000

I had interpreted the parent comment to be about gameplay, but those are all fantastic points about matchmaking and the related QoL improvements. It absolutely is taken for granted because I forgot Halo 2 was the first to do _all_ of that well, and in one complete package.

New comment by huntedsnark in "Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit"

huntedsnark — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:09:34 +0000

> Halo 2 was the most innovative online game of all time

In what ways exactly? Competitive online FPSs with strong modding communities were already more than a decade in full swing on the PC.

New comment by huntedsnark in "Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe"

huntedsnark — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:00:06 +0000

> Snide remarks about astroturfing are also off topic here.

How is that off topic when there are literally people in this thread from Canva arguing the framing and not the main point he made? Everything you disagree with isn't off topic.

New comment by huntedsnark in "An Introduction to LiteStack for Ruby on Rails"

huntedsnark — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:30:30 +0000

Yeah I think it's one of those features that people generally steer away from. Ironically, if you stick to the "Rails way" of doing things I don't think you would ever encounter it.

New comment by huntedsnark in "Safari releases are development hell"

huntedsnark — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 03:27:47 +0000

Wherein people who only develop in Chrome cry about web standards

New comment by huntedsnark in "Better alternatives to git submodules"

huntedsnark — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 13:25:27 +0000

Can you not use the `path` option in each Gemfile for local development? https://bundler.io/v1.12/man/gemfile.5.html#PATH-path-

New comment by huntedsnark in "How does it know I want CSV? – An HTTP trick"

huntedsnark — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:21:59 +0000

I'm kind of shocked by how poorly understood basic HTTP stuff like this is for HN audience based on the comments and article itself. My filter bubble must be tuned to "web."

New comment by huntedsnark in "SF poop-testing startup, once compared to Theranos, charged in $60M fraud scheme"

huntedsnark — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 02:05:51 +0000

This is exactly the kind of tactic/hack that PG/Y Combinator actively encourages for that stage of startup is it not?

New comment by huntedsnark in "Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating"

huntedsnark — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 04:39:26 +0000

Missing the issue by a mile: It's the place data not the maps, and you're required in the ToS to use Google's maps if you want to display their data geospatially. When Factual/Foursquare/Facebook/Apple (who all use a blend of each other's place data) overtake Google's data quality there then we can talk about the decline of maps.

New comment by huntedsnark in "Surrealist painting found in recycling bin at German airport"

huntedsnark — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 01:51:02 +0000

Nip in the "bud" not "butt" as long as we're offing exacting critiques ;)

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/nip+in+the+bud

New comment by huntedsnark in "Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”"

huntedsnark — Fri, 29 May 2020 19:01:17 +0000

The national guard does not work like that. Also, no the military cannot just shoot people on the spot for being in the area of looting, it is not a "statement of fact." You just made this up and pulled it out of thin air so don't respond with "well prove it" or some other BS. Quit being a racist troll and reflect on your hateful little life.

New comment by huntedsnark in "Write Libraries, Not Frameworks"

huntedsnark — Sat, 09 May 2020 04:41:12 +0000

I liked this piece, but came out of it more on the side of frameworks, oddly, than libraries. I went into it with a bias ostensibly shared by the author based on the title but here we are. Probably different priorities or values in terms of what constitutes 'shipping' I would guess based on our respective backgrounds.

New comment by huntedsnark in "Update from Chef"

huntedsnark — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 19:06:30 +0000

Many people are upset about the child separation and detention policies which were not standard under the Obama administration as opposed to deportation. Conflating the two seems to embody the same intellectual dishonesty you're railing against.

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/09/711446917/fact-check-trump-wr...

New comment by huntedsnark in "The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kanji in the wild"

huntedsnark — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 04:06:20 +0000

'Tosche Station' and 'power converters' obviously - see 90% is all I need!

New comment by huntedsnark in "Lefthook: Knock your team’s code back into shape"

huntedsnark — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 19:18:53 +0000

This seems so backwards to me. Why not do it as part of your CI process where you're not foisting unnecessary tooling on your developers local machines? The lag involved in spinning up and running the commit hooks is noticeable and disruptive especially if you commit often and rebase locally.

New comment by huntedsnark in "NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A Lie From Google'"

huntedsnark — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:20:14 +0000

> just plain censorship

Who are they censoring, themselves? The word "Censorship" has been so abused in the past few years it has ceased to have any real meaning in casual conversation.

You can read their rationale for removing it rather than updating it here: https://www.npr.org/sections/ombudsman/2018/04/12/601650762/...

> Turpin said, "In order to fix the problems, we would have essentially had to construct a different story," a process that he said would have been "intellectually dishonest. There comes a point that you can't fix a story appropriately." He said the decision was not made lightly; "we believe strongly we don't want to disappear material for any reason if we can possibly keep from taking it down."

New comment by huntedsnark in "Re: Moving from PHP to Go and Back Again"

huntedsnark — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 15:47:23 +0000

> I have never had a framework project where I didn’t end up fighting the very system that was supposed to make development “easy”.

Not always, but often, I find this attitude in developers who either refuse to read documentation, or just entrenched in their ways and too stubborn to try it someone else's way.

Is every project you're starting really so cutting edge that the problems others have solved and come to a consensus on don't apply to you? Perhaps, but maybe you should also be taking a look in the mirror and making an honest assessment on just how difficult you are to work with.

New comment by huntedsnark in "What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video]"

huntedsnark — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 15:58:54 +0000

I don't understand the conflation of Rest/JSON with NoSQL. The most popular frameworks for the dynamic languages you cite all use SQL with strong schemas out of the box. Come to think of it I'm not sure why we're even associating Rest with JSON specifically or any content type for that matter when one of the major points of Rest is content-negotiation via media types. You can even implement a messaging concept with Protbufs in a strictly "rest-like" fashion.