Hacker News: jdludlow

New comment by jdludlow in "First 26 pages of Neal Stephenson's new novel Seveneves"

jdludlow — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 18:58:38 +0000

The first time I read Anathem it was certainly slow to get through the first 200 pages, because I kept referencing the glossary to learn the vocabulary. The 2nd and 3rd times I read it the entire book flowed much more smoothly, and even the beginning was quite enjoyable.

New comment by jdludlow in "The tree was the oldest living thing on Earth, and they cut it down"

jdludlow — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:37:20 +0000

Can we please knock it off with the linkbait titles?

New comment by jdludlow in "[dead]"

jdludlow — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 13:34:59 +0000

I get a completely blank page when js is disabled.

New comment by jdludlow in "FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition"

jdludlow — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 03:14:19 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5395215

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8046186

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6712425

New comment by jdludlow in "Have I been pwned? Check if you have an account that has been compromised"

jdludlow — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 20:18:17 +0000

True. I was more referring to it being a confirmation that this is an email address that anyone cares about.

If I wanted to be truly malicious I'd have my online checker return a "Nope, you're all good" and then add that email address to the short list of accounts to go after.

New comment by jdludlow in "Have I been pwned? Check if you have an account that has been compromised"

jdludlow — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:59:06 +0000

I'm not sure how that would help. They would have to generate a matching hash on their end, giving them a lookup table to work backwards from hash to email address.

Now if they wanted to supply a list of hashes to the public, then you could check your own without knowing any of the other addresses used to generate the remaining hashes.

New comment by jdludlow in "Introducing Swift"

jdludlow — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 18:07:22 +0000

Presumably 0, since there are already people who can legitimately claim multiple years of experience with Swift.

NSA Searched Americans’ E-Mail, Phone Calls, Clapper Says

jdludlow — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 01:44:39 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-02/nsa-searched-americans-e-mail-phone-calls-clapper-says.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7520371

Points: 6

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New comment by jdludlow in "Doctors Inject HIV Into Dying Girl. The Reason Why Will Amaze You"

jdludlow — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 15:58:36 +0000

This linkbait style of headline writing really needs to die.

New comment by jdludlow in "[dead]"

jdludlow — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 16:53:26 +0000

Keywords humor

This isn't news.

New comment by jdludlow in "OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to keep the lights on"

jdludlow — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 17:11:57 +0000

  > The OpenBSD project uses a lot of electricity for running the
  > development and build machines.  A number of logistical reasons
  > prevents us from moving the machines to another location which might
  > offer space/power for free, so let's not allow the conversation to go
  > that way.

I don't understand this comment. If the choice came down to moving versus shutting down entirely, why is moving an unacceptable answer?

New comment by jdludlow in "Cloud IDEs: The importance of being open"

jdludlow — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:19:27 +0000

The chart that is included is ridiculous. There's no label on the Y-axis at all, and zero indication of what it is we're supposed to take away from it.

Professor Tufte is weeping somewhere.

New comment by jdludlow in "A Clojure Crash Course"

jdludlow — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 16:26:10 +0000

I can't speak to the Clojure introduction, because I was already semi-familiar with the language. However, I found your site via Google a few weeks ago when I was looking for an introduction to Emacs + Clojure. Having gone down this road several times in the past, I have to say that this is the best tutorial I've ever found on that topic.

The repl and window examples were just what I needed as a complete Emacs newbie. The Emacs chapter was similarly good. It seemed to be aimed at someone who wanted to start writing code quickly. This is the first time in years that I've worked through an Emacs tutorial without firing up vim to edit a config file (at which point I usually realize that I won't be switching to Emacs that day).

Thank you for taking the time to write all of this.

New comment by jdludlow in "Why I no longer contribute to Stack Overflow"

jdludlow — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 16:22:02 +0000

It looks like user Tobu already fixed it, but that is quite ridiculous.

New comment by jdludlow in "Has StackOverflow saved billions of dollars in programmer productivity?"

jdludlow — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 04:27:04 +0000

On multiple occasions I've searched for an answer, found it on S.O., thought "this seems vaguely familiar," and then realized that it was my own answer from a couple years prior.

Saved me time the second time around I guess.

New comment by jdludlow in "Electric Car owner charged for stealing electricity from school"

jdludlow — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 14:40:28 +0000

Already covered on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6844702

New comment by jdludlow in "Billionaire develops mass water-heating system to warm the ocean in his backyard"

jdludlow — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:05:08 +0000

Yes. No one uses the word "egress" unless they're installing basement windows, and I would hope that when I crack the billion mark I don't need two assistants to towel me off when I'm done swimming.

New comment by jdludlow in "Rejecting Billions, Snapchat Expects a Better Offer"

jdludlow — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:08:21 +0000

Oh. They're selling emoticons for $10M per month. Excuse me while my brain implodes.

Thank you for clearing that up though. I had no idea that such things existed.

New comment by jdludlow in "Rejecting Billions, Snapchat Expects a Better Offer"

jdludlow — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 15:52:37 +0000

how much money can be made selling stickers in messaging apps

I'm not trying to be difficult; I really don't understand this statement. Are you talking about paper-and-adhesive stickers, like my kids use to plaster Strawberry Shortcake everywhere? What do those have to do with messaging apps?

New comment by jdludlow in "We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals"

jdludlow — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 20:46:55 +0000

Get a job from the 37 Signals site building a competitor to the 37 Signals site.

https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/8