Hacker News: jeffmess

New comment by jeffmess in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

jeffmess — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:46:38 +0000

Doubt it: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/24536

New comment by jeffmess in "Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora"

jeffmess — Sat, 11 May 2024 01:02:14 +0000

I can see brown I can see blue I can see violet sky…

New comment by jeffmess in "Rust Foundation restricts usage of word “Rust” and logos"

jeffmess — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 01:59:42 +0000

The title is editorialized but why on earth was this even drafted? It's completely absurd.

New comment by jeffmess in "Earthsea – A Rival to Tolkien and George RR Martin (2015)"

jeffmess — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 10:52:35 +0000

Even though I knew it was the author I read this article in the comedians voice :)

New comment by jeffmess in "How to get your first 100k active users"

jeffmess — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 09:31:19 +0000

Looks interesting but I don't have a Facebook account :/

New comment by jeffmess in "Ask HN: Have you gone vegan or vegetarian?"

jeffmess — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 15:13:35 +0000

I am slowly getting there. After watching the film cowspiracy my wife and I decided to slowly transition, mainly environmental reasons but also because of the way animals are treated. We eat meat maybe once/twice a week coming down from twice daily, and when we do eat meat we try and source the best from small farmers. Transitioning away from meat has been relatively easy, where I personally fall short is dairy. There just isn't a good substitute for cheese and I find the smell and taste of soya milk awful. Hopefully new products will come along...

New comment by jeffmess in "Show HN: Writing Streak – write fiction every day"

jeffmess — Sun, 01 May 2016 21:08:12 +0000

Nice. Now if only we could get GRRM or Patrick Rothfuss to use this tool.

New comment by jeffmess in "Programming languages and Frameworks to learn in 2015"

jeffmess — Sat, 27 Dec 2014 19:54:29 +0000

+1 to Elixir and Phoenix from my side. I have yet to dabble with Phoenix but the short amount of time I've spent with Elixir has been thoroughly enjoyable. I can't wait to rewrite chunks of code at work into small phoenix applications.

New comment by jeffmess in "Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager"

jeffmess — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:22:34 +0000

Welcome to the party!

New comment by jeffmess in "Why Real Estate Tech Is So Attractive For Founders"

jeffmess — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:11:14 +0000

Hi @FollowSteph. You mention that it takes at least 2-3 years to get a good product going. Curiously, how many developers did you have for those initial 3 years?

New comment by jeffmess in "Amazon Promises Package Delivery By Drone: Is It for Real?"

jeffmess — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 19:16:43 +0000

My dog is gonna bite the crap out of that drone when it lands in my yard.

New comment by jeffmess in "Show HN: UI Concept – Focus Transition"

jeffmess — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:26:43 +0000

This is a great idea and executed well but forms should not be complicated. They should be easy to follow. If you need this library to ease users along then perhaps you need to take a look at your forms workflow rather...

New comment by jeffmess in "News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier"

jeffmess — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:35:01 +0000

That's the first thing I thought. Oh the irony.

New comment by jeffmess in "Rethinking Backbone.js View Rendering"

jeffmess — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:43:53 +0000

Why can't people just use regular HTML for markup? Coffeescript is beautiful when you are composing short succinct functions but this just looks like more work for my brain.

New comment by jeffmess in "New Bootstrap switches"

jeffmess — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:18:52 +0000

Maybe it's just me, but switches confuse the hell out of me. Am I switching to turn it off or is it already off? I like the look and feel of this but to me 2 radio buttons is a far more elegant solution...

New comment by jeffmess in "Show HN: Behave.js – Coding Behaviors for textarea elements"

jeffmess — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 08:09:45 +0000

var editor = oh Behave({

New comment by jeffmess in "An Amaz-ing Resume"

jeffmess — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:38:14 +0000

You mean the process where I'm logged in, add some items to my cart and when I click checkout get asked to login again, get to the 3rd screen and I'm told they don't ship to my country? Yeah, painless.

New comment by jeffmess in "An Amaz-ing Resume"

jeffmess — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:00:26 +0000

Where is the painful Amazon checkout process?

New comment by jeffmess in "Hate Java? Maybe you should hate the industries stuck in the 50's."

jeffmess — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:53:32 +0000

I couldn't care what language industries use. As long as they expose a better API than transferring damn text files and I don't have to wait 15 minutes for a response, I'm happy.

New comment by jeffmess in "Plagiarism"

jeffmess — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:04:16 +0000

Scumbag Zee. Steals your content, uploads a non-apology to Google Docs.