Hacker News: j_horvat

New comment by j_horvat in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Arabia and the UAE"

j_horvat — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:00:56 +0000

Agreed, the company chasing infinite growth convinces itself that it must work with these repressive regimes. How could we not acquire these users! We need to keep growing, and growing! It shows that under capitalism there are no morals, no humanity, only profit and growth. When push comes to shove human rights abuses are forgivable, failure to maximize profit is not.

New comment by j_horvat in "The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis"

j_horvat — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:43:04 +0000

Anyone who works for Palantir or this corrupt administration should be blacklisted from the industry

New comment by j_horvat in "Adopting RxJava on the Airbnb App"

j_horvat — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 15:14:31 +0000

+1 for Grokking RxJava, really great set of intros, especially from an Android perspective. Gonna pile my two cents on this as well. I think the easiest place to add RxJava in an existing Android app would be your networking code. Square's Retrofit works really really well with Observables and you can do some very interesting things that imo are more immediately graspable than say writing reactive UI code.

https://joluet.github.io/blog/2014/07/07/rxjava-retrofit/

This is a short post that I think nicely shows how Retofit+RxJava fit together

New comment by j_horvat in "Ask HN: Are there any examples of profitable Google Chrome extensions?"

j_horvat — Fri, 29 May 2015 13:21:32 +0000

There are paid licenses for the standalone chrome app (not the extension) that let you do extra things like pre/post JS processing on requests. I think the licenses are also tied to their new sync feature which would let you sync a collection of requests (say all your API requests) across your team.

New comment by j_horvat in "How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life"

j_horvat — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 17:19:46 +0000

Really? No sympathy? Did you read the article? Obviously what she said was inappropriate but there are very few people that should be dragged through the mud as roughly as she was. Especially over less than 140 characters.

Should she have lost her job? Yeah probably being in such a high profile position. But should she be reviled as an truly awful person when her only crime was an ill-conceived tweet? I don't think so personally, and it scares me that we are willing to judge and condemn people for so little.

New comment by j_horvat in "The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing"

j_horvat — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 20:28:12 +0000

I'd tend to agree with you, I don't think its the same. I'm in university for SEng right now and my father has been in IT since before I was born (in 93). I've been surrounded by technology my whole life, but instead of Amigas and Apple IIs it was Windows 95 on some nameless, beige machine.

I have fond memories of learning how to interact with the family PC but nothing close to what I read about the original days when home computing and hacker culture was growing. It makes me envious to a degree, like I love programming and all that comes with it but when I read pieces like this that evoke so much fond emotion attached to the skill...I don't know...its a little foreign. To me programming and computing in general is this thing that I am good at, that brings me happiness because I like to solve problems but to people like the author it seems like something more. A dear loved one that will always warm their heart.

I'm not sure it will ever be the same as it was back then, to be a pioneer...

New comment by j_horvat in "Slack raises $120M Led by Google Ventures and KPCB at $1.12B Valuation"

j_horvat — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:48:41 +0000

Hm, that's a shame about the notifications. Their Mac desktop app (obviously doesn't apply that much to you) is pretty decent, I just keep it in the same workspace as my email client. I just see it as another way of communicating mostly, nothing necessarily too special. My favourite feature though is their service hooks, we have separate channels for Twitter (posts anytime our Twitter posts or gets @mentioned), Github for any activity on our repos, so I get notifications anytime someone pushes, creates an issue, etc. Obviously GH already sends email but this way all the communication is centralized, plus I hate email notifications.

New comment by j_horvat in "The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video]"

j_horvat — Sat, 19 Apr 2014 13:58:55 +0000

I was lucky enough to hear Gary give this talk in January at CUSEC and it was even better in person. Everyone in the room was clearly hanging off his every word, the actual technical content was pretty insightful and his humour was spot on.

New comment by j_horvat in "W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards"

j_horvat — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:07:01 +0000

I know, this needs to get to the top.

New comment by j_horvat in "Identicons"

j_horvat — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 20:08:13 +0000

https://identicons.github.com/jhorvat.png I like how mine looks like an H (my last initial)

New comment by j_horvat in "Identicons"

j_horvat — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 20:05:05 +0000

Looks like Frank from Donnie Darko

New comment by j_horvat in "US Immigration recognizes League of Legends players as pro athletes"

j_horvat — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 17:07:24 +0000

Totally agree sorry if that came across differently in my comment :)

New comment by j_horvat in "US Immigration recognizes League of Legends players as pro athletes"

j_horvat — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:32:41 +0000

Avid LoL scene follower checking in, most players are in fairly good shape. With the scene getting more serious and professional most teams are getting coaches that mandate healthy diets and exercise as part of a team's training, since you know healthy body healthy mind. So while the game might not be that physically intensive (though it definitely can be really stressful) most players do at least undergo some kind of physical 'training'.

Obviously differs from team to team and there are some overweight pros as well.