Hacker News: ice109

New comment by ice109 in "John Scalzi: Being Poor (2005)"

ice109 — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 02:15:48 +0000

congrats on being an unempathetic ubermensch. I'm sure that's worth a lot.

New comment by ice109 in "The Problem with F# Evangelism"

ice109 — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 00:18:24 +0000

that kind of thing is a collosal mistake in my opinion - just on the face of it I/o at compile time seems very wrong.

New comment by ice109 in "Rustgo: Calling Rust from Go with near-zero overhead"

ice109 — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:41:08 +0000

what are the things that you can tweak?

New comment by ice109 in "Porting 4.5K lines of C to Go"

ice109 — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 10:45:17 +0000

too bad sometimes it doesn't resolve pointers correctly

New comment by ice109 in "Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?"

ice109 — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 12:26:09 +0000

the arxiv tip is a very good one indeed

New comment by ice109 in "How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe"

ice109 — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 17:58:18 +0000

chord

New comment by ice109 in "Must answer questions before posting comments to prove you understand news"

ice109 — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 17:32:27 +0000

>i look forward to the day when people just stop trying to correlate everything both positive and negative to race, gender, age, and any other attribute other than "are you a good person" and "can you do this job well"

completely abstracted of the rest of history maybe that'd be possible. the problem is that black people in antebellum south were prevented from learning to read. so really it went something like: let's not teach black to read and then require literacy in order to vote.

>oh well. requiring literacy for something as important as an election is not obstructionist, IMHO

i would gladly wager that an overwhelming majority of voters don't read more than 10,000 words about any given election and get most of their data from television/radio/speech. so tell me why literacy is of paramount importance?

New comment by ice109 in "Must answer questions before posting comments to prove you understand news"

ice109 — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 14:57:26 +0000

are you like totally ignorant of how literary tests (and poll taxes) were used to disenfranchise minorities

New comment by ice109 in "Ask HN: Does a fledging startup need AWS"

ice109 — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 22:30:43 +0000

I've done a fair amount of "command line" ops so I'm comfortable with it but the question what will migration be like when we do move to an iaas?

New comment by ice109 in "Ask HN: Does a fledging startup need AWS"

ice109 — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 22:27:46 +0000

maybe mvp isn't there right word. we have demos we've developed locally and we're going to start pilots.

Ask HN: Does a fledging startup need AWS

ice109 — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 21:02:36 +0000

I'm about to start work on beta release for my startup and trying to decide whether to go with AWS (EC2 instances and RDS) or some other vps (maybe digital ocean or even lightsail). Obviously the reason is to minimize spend - we have runway of about 6 months. For people who've done this: did you eventually migrate to AWS? How painful was the migration?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14882991

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New comment by ice109 in "I’ve Had a Cyberstalker Since I Was 12 (2016)"

ice109 — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 15:53:45 +0000

cited research aside this is asinine. let's pretend we could regress "did smile" on "genetics" and "culture" and inspected the coefficients of the covariates (i.e. investigate treatment effect). we would find that the effect of culture was much much much stronger than genetics.

New comment by ice109 in "China Is Engineering Genius Babies (2013)"

ice109 — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:21:14 +0000

this doesn't really mean anything? you would find similarly high iq people around anyone with the power and the money to acquire them.

New comment by ice109 in "More Good Programming Quotes (2016)"

ice109 — Sun, 23 Jul 2017 16:17:26 +0000

no i'm not. you cherry picked. tell me how readable this module is

https://github.com/databrary/databrary/blob/master/Databrary...

with gems like

https://github.com/databrary/databrary/blob/master/Databrary...

and

https://github.com/databrary/databrary/blob/master/Databrary...

and

https://github.com/databrary/databrary/blob/master/Databrary...

and

https://github.com/databrary/databrary/blob/master/Databrary...

New comment by ice109 in "Raising a Truly Bilingual Child"

ice109 — Sun, 23 Jul 2017 02:48:43 +0000

I speak shit Spanish (very weak third language) and even I can get the gist of what they're talking about. I'll admit all the stuff around the rolling rs is very hard to make out though.

New comment by ice109 in "Raising a Truly Bilingual Child"

ice109 — Sun, 23 Jul 2017 02:41:17 +0000

I don't understand this. as long as it's obvious that you're multilingual people don't hold it against you when you make mistakes. on the other hand I have a friend whose bilingual with no accent in English and has trouble some times. people must think there's something wrong with him.

New comment by ice109 in "Should Go 2.0 support generics?"

ice109 — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 23:16:22 +0000

one annoying thing about go error handling aside from the copious `if err != nil` statements is that if someone somewhere doesn't handle an error there's no way to find! yes I know about errorcheck or whatever that library is called but I think it's silly you'd leave something like that up to a library.

New comment by ice109 in "More Good Programming Quotes (2016)"

ice109 — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 23:13:06 +0000

this is like 90% `data` and `case`. show me a language where type declaration and case statements aren't readable.

New comment by ice109 in "ARKit + CoreLocation [video]"

ice109 — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 12:17:35 +0000

>Core Location provides services for determining a device’s geographic location, altitude, orientation, or position relative to a nearby iBeacon.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corelocation

New comment by ice109 in "ARKit + CoreLocation [video]"

ice109 — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 12:05:55 +0000

>relative to a nearby iBeacon

where is the iBeacon in the parking lot?