Hacker News: illektr1k

New comment by illektr1k in "Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments"

illektr1k — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 02:54:06 +0000

You guys might enjoy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth-default_theory

New comment by illektr1k in "Tesla’s big battery in South Australia may prove the viability of renewables"

illektr1k — Sat, 08 Jul 2017 13:17:11 +0000

I, for one, can't wait for SI Units and their prefixes (Kilo / Mega / Giga / etc) to be adopted globally.

129MWh / 10GWh / 1M people / 12.5G people

New comment by illektr1k in "Libor: the bankers who fixed the world’s most important number"

illektr1k — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 08:30:28 +0000

I use SMS Backup + [1] which saves all my text messages to my Google account allowing me to easily search and archive. It's followed me through android phones for many years, automagically installing as I sign-in for the first time on each 'new' device.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles....

New comment by illektr1k in "Flow vs. Typescript"

illektr1k — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 06:25:16 +0000

Sublime TS support is top notch https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-Sublime-Plugin

New comment by illektr1k in "Programmer's Nightmare – Ruby Prank"

illektr1k — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 08:48:19 +0000

Along the same vein: Things to commit just before leaving your job - https://gist.github.com/aras-p/6224951

New comment by illektr1k in "A FAT32 fragmenter"

illektr1k — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 02:08:21 +0000

Sometimes SysAdmins need relax time too!

https://xkcd.com/303/

New comment by illektr1k in "Show HN: Artful for Mac"

illektr1k — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 21:00:18 +0000

Not the OP, but as a dev I can not thank you enough for your post/feedback. Highlighting areas where the project can be improved is infinitely more useful than getting told the project is "awesome" or even worse "somebody else, who is not me, would buy this" - neither of which improve my project or give me cashflow.

New comment by illektr1k in "Show HN: QKSMS, an SMS replacement app for Android"

illektr1k — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 11:58:55 +0000

Any plans for Pushbullet integration? EvolveSMS is pretty fragile but the only one that supports it at the moment.

https://www.pushbullet.com/

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/06/10/pushbullet-and-evolv...

New comment by illektr1k in "DMCA Takedown Notice for Popcorn Time and Time4Popcorn"

illektr1k — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 20:41:33 +0000

If only git were good at that already...

>> Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency

New comment by illektr1k in "[dead]"

illektr1k — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 11:25:29 +0000

No such thing as bad publicity. You've got tamber.com, time to start getting your product out there and leverage off Rdio's less-than-friendly choice of product name.

New comment by illektr1k in "Servo – A parallel browser engine in Rust by Mozilla"

illektr1k — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:24:23 +0000

I will be the first to admit to having a soft-spot for any program that will quote H.P. Lovecraft on abort/error.

https://github.com/mozilla/rust/blob/master/src/libstd/rt/ut...

New comment by illektr1k in "Ask HN: What are you using as an Angular backend?"

illektr1k — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 09:18:05 +0000

NodeJS + Express.

I've had some good mileage out of SailsJS ( http://sailsjs.com/ ) recently, essentially it is a NodeJS + Express stack with Socket.io and prebuilt ORM/blueprints. Up and running in a matter of minutes and behind the scenes it is still just NodeJS/Express

New comment by illektr1k in "Why do you do open source?"

illektr1k — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:28:35 +0000

Because I can fix bugs.

Years ago, I found a replicatable bug in Adobe Photoshop (CS2?) that required me to delete my config everytime and set PS up how I liked it. Adobe's acknowledgement took two weeks, then a month of triage, followed by a "Yes, we'll have it fixed in the new version when it ships. You can pre-order an upgrade for only $lots" and new version shipped 6 months later.

Yesterday I found a bug in a framework I use. Within 2 hours I'd found the line of source code responsible, fixed it and was on my way again.

New comment by illektr1k in "How To Hire Me (or any other programmer)"

illektr1k — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:18:24 +0000

If you give me a few seconds of your time to say thanks, I probably won't mind spending a few minutes staying late to get a task completed.

New comment by illektr1k in "Ask HN: Any advice for someone getting out of prison after 18 years?"

illektr1k — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:43:39 +0000

Step 1) Get a laptop

Step 2) Start a GitHub account

Step 3) Write code

I care a lot more about what people have created than what they have done in their past lives.

New comment by illektr1k in "Crazy investment offers"

illektr1k — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:10:14 +0000

"I have a great idea for an iPhone app. You'd develop it and we'll go 50/50"

New comment by illektr1k in "Visualization of Flask Commit History (vid)"

illektr1k — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:28:22 +0000

Any info about who made the visualisation?