Hacker News: joebobfrank

New comment by joebobfrank in "First Steps for VR on the Web"

joebobfrank — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 23:24:03 +0000

Chrome is expressing intent to implement VR APIs

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink...

New comment by joebobfrank in "Show HN: Hack corporate purchasing"

joebobfrank — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 17:25:45 +0000

Well full disclosure, I'm a friend of the developer's and warned him that asking his beta users to comment would look sketchy.

However, to be fair, all he did was share the link to the HN post on facebook and ask for comments, so all of the comments you see here were actually written by the users out of their own volition, they were just made aware of the post.

New comment by joebobfrank in "2048"

joebobfrank — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 19:00:06 +0000

Even lower: 20148

http://imgur.com/28YNfDS

That's pretty damn near optimal, might have had an extra 2 when doing the final collapse, can't remember.

New comment by joebobfrank in "Project Tango"

joebobfrank — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 02:37:31 +0000

Such a boring and cynical way to see the world. Even if the technology is used to target ads to you more effectively, how exactly is this a bad thing? How are you being harmed?

New comment by joebobfrank in "Project Tango"

joebobfrank — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 02:26:21 +0000

If you don't want to show something in the map you yourself create of your own home, then just don't include it in the map.

Having point cloud data of your home in general is a complete non-issue, I'm sure most of the time the government already has floor plan data for your home.

New comment by joebobfrank in "Project Tango"

joebobfrank — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 02:22:54 +0000

Seriously?! This kind of talk sounds just like conspiracy theory to me. If the worst case you can come up with for this tech is that the DEA will be able to find pictures of drug paraphernalia YOU YOURSELF take pictures of and upload, then I really can't see why you take issue with this tech. Just don't turn the room mapping service on to take pictures of stuff you don't want online; you're still in control here. Besides, if the government really has it out for you as an individual, they won't need pictures of the inside of your house to justify searching it, I'm sure they can come up with any number of other reasons. Do you put stickers over your phone camera to prevent the DEA spying on your room to see your drug paraphernalia? No? I didn't think so.

The possible benefits of this tech are tremendous, and far outweigh any crazy conspiracy theory downsides.

New comment by joebobfrank in "University of Waterloo Students Win Facebook's Hackathon"

joebobfrank — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 04:40:17 +0000

Exactly, I'm a student at waterloo, and there were over 900 job postings for Software/Computer engineers. It's pretty much impossible for a student to read through every one, so you have to make sure yours stands out.