Hacker News: iotscale

New comment by iotscale in "Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day"

iotscale — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 09:00:06 +0000

When I was on-call for a big project, I jumped every time my phone rang. It wasn't a good experience at all.

"We are at the fair, I have 18 customers lined up but I can't take orders. Can you fix this now or should I start taking them on paper?"

You know the joke that atheists don't believe in god until the plane nosedives? That was the moment for me :)

"Oh, I... I need to see the error message before I can say anything. We don't have any errors logged. Hmm... Would you allow me to remote into your device?"

"Can't do that. We lost the internet connection here, sorry."

Ugh.

New comment by iotscale in "Civ 5 AI battle – All 43 Civs on same map [video]"

iotscale — Thu, 24 May 2018 09:11:56 +0000

This is my favorite mobile game of all time. The AI is also very weird (in a good way) and sometimes genius! It feels like the custom maps I used to create with "Age of Empires II" in which I let random units fight against each other.

New comment by iotscale in "StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations"

iotscale — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 13:16:41 +0000

But the GDPR itself is written in legalese. There are many interpretations like yours, but then, without a lawyer, it's a dangerous game to play. The cost of the lawyer may be prohibitive to some small businesses, let alone side-projects.

I'm actually pro-GDPR but this needs to be kept in mind.

New comment by iotscale in "Ask HN: Which is the cheapest TLD for 10 years?"

iotscale — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 13:08:07 +0000

I guess that depends on how many you want to buy. I can't come up with a reason why one would buy many domains with an obscure TLD, especially for private use but that doesn't mean that there isn't one.

New comment by iotscale in "Show HN: VNote, a fresh Markdown note-taking app"

iotscale — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:15:35 +0000

I'm very happy it's not written in {insert technology unpopular among hackers to gather points}.

Nowhere is Electron mentioned and still comes the hate. A close friend of mine (not a web-developer, unlike me) has a very popular app (>10K users) which uses Electron and he got only around 30 performance complaints last year and all of them could be solved without rewriting the damn thing. The app has a giant "Feedback" button in the main view and there are at least 10 bug reports / suggestions per day (I manage the support desk).

This is getting to the levels of this silly Java hate because everyone thought the performance of Eclipse from years ago still is the state-of-the-art for Java development. There are many bad electron-based apps, that is for sure and completely normal because the barrier to entry is so low. Yeah and there is Slack, but don't complain if you gave up IRC for that incompatible piece of... Whatever.

Sorry for the rant.

New comment by iotscale in "Teenagers now better behaved and less hedonistic but lonelier and more isolated"

iotscale — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 11:32:25 +0000

I just thought, to a certain age, it may be required. I'm not a parent so I probably don't know what I'm talking about.

New comment by iotscale in "Teenagers now better behaved and less hedonistic but lonelier and more isolated"

iotscale — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 10:06:07 +0000

IMHO it's bad, as long as a lifestyle is pushed heavily from people who aren't immediate family. Doesn't matter if it's "hookup culture" or waiting for the prince charming to marry.

New comment by iotscale in "Teenagers now better behaved and less hedonistic but lonelier and more isolated"

iotscale — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 09:58:50 +0000

Given enough eyeballs, everyone becomes shallow.

New comment by iotscale in "Illegal Prime Number? (2001)"

iotscale — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 13:02:36 +0000

An illegal prime reminds me of the article "What Colour are your bits?" from Matthew Skala http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

New comment by iotscale in "NeuG USB True Random Number Generator"

iotscale — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 20:55:23 +0000

you can cancel out static noise with multiple readings

New comment by iotscale in "TeaVM – Ahead-of-time transpiler of Java bytecode to JavaScript or WebAssembly"

iotscale — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 08:56:35 +0000

That is correct but we are not talking in the context of the emulation circles.

New comment by iotscale in "TeaVM – Ahead-of-time transpiler of Java bytecode to JavaScript or WebAssembly"

iotscale — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 08:52:53 +0000

An old colleague of mine hated the word "awesome" because, in his words, "it's a word js-kiddies use to exaggerate their little accomplishments".

Guess how he reacted when someone used the phrase "isomorphic js"...

New comment by iotscale in "Apple addresses people saying their iPhones with older batteries are “slower”"

iotscale — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 19:53:50 +0000

Why do they even market those new chips? It's the average performance that matters and you can wait 10 seconds to open an app, as, in the end it didn't change the average performance from the case that you would open it in a second and stare at it 9 seconds being stunned by its speed.

New comment by iotscale in "Ask HN: How do you deal with perfectionism related to programming?"

iotscale — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 19:56:37 +0000

I try to write a first prototype without any regards to best practices. When I'm doing a rewrite (of a prototype, not a full product), by then I already have the structure in my mind and perfectionism then can't get in the way. For example I don't design unnecessarily complex sub systems just to get the flexibility I don't need.

New comment by iotscale in "Razer targets perfect Linux support"

iotscale — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 19:00:39 +0000

it's the same brand, I think if they have the tendency to do this for their keyboard and mouse, who knows what they'll end up doing with their laptops.

New comment by iotscale in "Razer targets perfect Linux support"

iotscale — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 18:38:13 +0000

Well, I think I'll refrain from buying razer because of this: https://mobile.twitter.com/internetofshit/status/83665111681...

New comment by iotscale in "Miyazaki Tribute"

iotscale — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 10:44:57 +0000

I just watched "Perfect Blue", it was really great. I'll keep watching more Satoshi Kon movies if I can find the DVDs. It's really hard to find them.

New comment by iotscale in "Miyazaki Tribute"

iotscale — Sat, 19 Nov 2016 12:20:57 +0000

My only exposure to anime is his films (friend suggested them, first I ignored the recommendation because they were "for kids" and some time later I watched "Spirited away" by luck and you know the rest of the story) and want to explore more, I thought maybe you could have some suggestions from your other favorites?

New comment by iotscale in "Is Model-View-Controller dead on the front end?"

iotscale — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 09:46:24 +0000

AFAIK it doesn't, but I'm just learning. My understanding is the standard way of doing things work if you are creating the most boring CRUD apps but you need to "bend the rules" a bit to make it work for your use case very often - as long as you keep it newcomer-friendly.

New comment by iotscale in "Is Model-View-Controller dead on the front end?"

iotscale — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 09:01:25 +0000

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think what you have is described as an "action dispatcher" these days.

For what it's worth, I think, we can define the whole Flux architecture in somewhat-skewed MVC terms. Not trying to downplay the usefulness of Flux here but if I'm not all wrong, it would've helped many people if we kept at least some of the terms from MVC or MVVM.