Hacker News: jollygoodshow

New comment by jollygoodshow in "Chess in SQL"

jollygoodshow — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:35:09 +0000

Great showcase. Cool to see how any 2d state can be presented with enough work.

Just FYI your statement for the checkmate state in the opera game appears to be incorrect

New comment by jollygoodshow in "Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year"

jollygoodshow — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 10:51:06 +0000

Care to provide a source for that? TFA just mentions that the chief statistician wants three years of data for significance.

New comment by jollygoodshow in "Push Ifs Up and Fors Down"

jollygoodshow — Sun, 18 May 2025 09:24:27 +0000

So say I have an set of elements to render (A,B,C) but they can can come in any order or number (C,B,A,B). If I want to render in the given order, how would I approach this for the best performance implementation?

New comment by jollygoodshow in "Building an AI That Watches Rugby"

jollygoodshow — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 16:33:37 +0000

Most pros now have the vests, but also they tend to have additional tech in their mouth guards. This is mostly for CTE monitoring, but I imagine that there's other data that can be extracted

New comment by jollygoodshow in "When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option"

jollygoodshow — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 20:32:57 +0000

How do you nominate which account to 'queue' up those transactions against? And what benefit does not logging in have when you have to login anyway to do actually do something? I'd rather everything be kept (relatively) secret and secure

New comment by jollygoodshow in "Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title"

jollygoodshow — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 09:32:49 +0000

I think your argument here actually favours Fischer's dominance. ELO metrics don't matter as were talking about the best players of the respective eras

New comment by jollygoodshow in "We are unable to refund mistaken purchases, and/or if you don't like the game"

jollygoodshow — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 06:34:08 +0000

If they like buying stuff from that store then clearly they did, this is the problem: even when users exercise their rights they still get punished

New comment by jollygoodshow in "Bolt has a cool web interface and they really don't want you to use it"

jollygoodshow — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 14:05:01 +0000

Its typical to have a different set of engineers responsible for the web app. Certainly the case if you're not a tiny startup.

Sabotage feels pointless given you're still competing against other native apps. Also I don't even know how you would 'sabotage' the competition, your average app engineer doesn't moonlight as a blackhat hacker.

New comment by jollygoodshow in "UK Government Guidelines on Documenting APIs"

jollygoodshow — Sun, 22 May 2022 14:44:59 +0000

I don't think they expect you create an exhaustive list of things the API doesn't do. I think instead that if there's missing functionality from what you could call a 'complete' API, it's useful to call that out. E.g this API is for processing images, but we don't support PNG

New comment by jollygoodshow in "When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code"

jollygoodshow — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 09:44:42 +0000

But time is the important part here - a single parent raising two kids is not going to have time to code at home versus a twenty-something year old with no responsibilities and dependants who has an abundance of free time. Selecting in that manner can also end up being a discrimination (those from poorer backgrounds are more likely to need to care for relatives, same goes for women, who on average do ten hours more of unpaid care than men a week)

New comment by jollygoodshow in "Unlearning perfectionism"

jollygoodshow — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 20:20:44 +0000

Does the state of being someone who strives for excellence instead of perfection not carry with it it's own downsides? I know the article is more about unlearning perfectionism, but I'd also want to know what I was getting myself into if I did decide to change and if I would prefer it: e.g better the devil you know, though this is probably tinged by my resistance to change...

New comment by jollygoodshow in "Willingness to look stupid"

jollygoodshow — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 21:19:03 +0000

I think there's a very big difference between asking simple questions (especially when gaining an understanding of a situation) and asking actually stupid questions (unrelated to the topic or questions that have already been answered). This article is claiming the former as the latter and saying "Even when I'm stupid I'm so smart"

New comment by jollygoodshow in "Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres"

jollygoodshow — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 07:11:28 +0000

Brazen assumption that the senator they voted for is the one in power. It is a democracy after all, they could have been on the wrong side of it

New comment by jollygoodshow in "The Lazarus heist: How North Korea almost pulled off a billion-dollar hack"

jollygoodshow — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 09:35:57 +0000

For those interested in some of the technical details on the malware see: baesystemsai.com/2016/04/two-bytes-to-951m.html