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New comment by k3n in "The 2016 Election"

k3n — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 23:52:53 +0000

> Clinton says different things in public than she does to her friends. She also flip flops. This is not trustworthy.

> Trump is unpleasant, but at least he talks straight.

You seem to imply that since Trump "talks straight", he doesn't flip-flop?

If that's what you're implying, it couldn't be more inaccurate; he has sharply contradicted himself countless times, straight-up denying things he's documented as saying (on TV, Twitter, etc.)

New comment by k3n in "Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript"

k3n — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 04:40:11 +0000

> So I don't think interests will ever align to create a new registry.

Possibly not soon, at least from a technical perspective, but I could definitely see a PR fiasco (security, bias, etc.) causing a loss of confidence in its stewardship.

And I don't think it'd be that big of a disruption if it were to happen; for the hypothetical case of Facebook+Yarn, they're already proxying to NPM, so they could easily continue to do so while also accepting packages that are Yarn-only.

New comment by k3n in "Node.js Examples – How Enterprises Use Node in 2016"

k3n — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 00:11:23 +0000

It's basically free advertising for them, this account has 0 comments and has submitted 100% from risingstack.com -- 12 posts in 2 months. It's obvious they're just trying to drum up traffic (i.e. business).

New comment by k3n in "Chrome DevTools in 2016 and Beyond"

k3n — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 07:27:06 +0000

> Thanks to the V8, DevTools, and Google Cloud Platform for Node.js teams, you can now use all of DevTools’ powerful debugging features to introspect a Node.js app.

New comment by k3n in "New Sublime Text update"

k3n — Fri, 13 May 2016 05:39:07 +0000

Disclaimer: I haven't used any of the 3 extensively, but I do play around in them from time-to-time. The main difference to me is that ST comes as a bare-metal editor with the potential to do just about anything, while Atom and VSC come with some built-in features that just make life easier and the ability to extend it further.

A concrete example would be VSC's git support; out-of-the-box, it's a full-featured git client, and even if you prefer the git cli for most operations like I do, VSC automatically reads the .git directory and then creates a tab that shows your current changelist (modified, staged) with a visual diff of the files. Also allows you to easily do the common stuff like checkout a branch, commit, push, etc.

If you're a big fan of ST, you probably won't like the alternatives unless you have some frustrations with ST, because ST is probably more powerful overall, but compared to Atom & VSC, the learning curve is also quite a bit higher.

New comment by k3n in "Ask HN: What are some examples of beautiful software?"

k3n — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 04:54:33 +0000

Can you provide some more context?

    > JSON.stringify(1)
    "1"

Stored without a decimal for free, seems like it'd be up to the receiver to interpret it correctly.

What if you receive it in JS?

    JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(1))
    > 1

Ok, so it parses an int for free too... thus my confusion.

Regardless, you can still override anything it does considering the second argument to both `JSON.parse()` and `JSON.stringify()` allows you to provide your own function for handling the logic as you see fit.

New comment by k3n in "Curl vs. Wget"

k3n — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 01:06:29 +0000

Underscore CLI looks interesting as well, though I haven't personally had much of a chance to play with it. It does require NodeJS, which might be a deal-breaker for some, but if it's already in your toolchain then it might come in handy.

https://github.com/ddopson/underscore-cli

New comment by k3n in "My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga"

k3n — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 05:10:10 +0000

They've also been spamming reddit pretty hard. As a mod of a programming sub, I've had to add their domain to the automod spam list for post spam, and then report a user or two to /r/spam for comment spam (and are now shadowbanned) . Kind of surprised to learn that they were YC.

New comment by k3n in "4chan discusses HN"

k3n — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 03:29:29 +0000

I believe there are simply 2 submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9787986

New comment by k3n in "Anti-Patterns Every Programmer Should Be Aware Of"

k3n — Mon, 11 May 2015 06:07:16 +0000

I really like Spolsky's take on it:

> If it's a core business function -- do it yourself, no matter what.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000007.html

New comment by k3n in "Bidding farewell to Google Code"

k3n — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:42:37 +0000

Google hates anything that requires a human's touch, and per the article:

> Lately, the administrative load has consisted almost exclusively of abuse management.

They see Google Code as a time-sink, and they're probably right, and it's not surprising to me that they'd drop something that is no longer serving it's intended purpose, but instead has negative implications for their model. Keeping it going forward would require even more hands-on humans, so they scrap it.

As for the deep links, one of the Google Code devs did mention[1]:

> I work on Google Code, and we will be putting a service in place to redirect deep links to project homepages, issues, etc. to their new locations.

His comment also contains a link to a wiki with more information on how to opt-in to this service.

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/03/farewell-to-go...

New comment by k3n in "Marissa Mayer Has Completed Step One"

k3n — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 20:13:53 +0000

> Her time at Google was not spent working on any projects that produced notable success or revenue.

Her CV begs to differ: she was VP of Search Products and User Experience, and then held key roles in Google Search, Google Images, Google News, Google Maps, Google Books, Google Product Search, Google Toolbar, iGoogle, and Gmail.

New comment by k3n in "Reddit"

k3n — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:16:12 +0000

As a mod of /r/javascript (for about 6 months now), I'm flattered. The sub really is easy to mod though; yes, we get a couple off-topic & spammy posts every once in awhile, but by-and-large, the JS community there runs itself really well.

New comment by k3n in "Building modular applications with Riot.js, the 1kb MVP library"

k3n — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 18:13:34 +0000

What a great response from the developer.

I was already leaning towards 'no' regarding the project, but this has sealed the deal.

New comment by k3n in "“Vacations are for the weak”"

k3n — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 17:38:18 +0000

I've also personally known several who got canned for taking too much "unlimited" vacation time, even though the amount they took was far from extraordinary.

New comment by k3n in "Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows"

k3n — Sun, 22 Dec 2013 01:18:20 +0000

Do you know how it compares to the old Google Desktop search? I miss that...

New comment by k3n in "Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows"

k3n — Sun, 22 Dec 2013 01:17:14 +0000

Foobar2000 is a great project, it's tremendously efficient (I think it uses 10-20mb when running), and the plugin feature allows you to extend it however you wish.

New comment by k3n in "Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows"

k3n — Sun, 22 Dec 2013 01:13:58 +0000

IMO it has a different place than GIMP, and they actually co-exist on my system. GIMP is more of a PhotoShop clone, whereas Paint.NET is more of a PSP clone and/or MSPaint on steroids. I've found that PS/GIMP are usually best for creating a production-quality image from scratch or for touching up full-color photos, but Paint.NET is best for doing informal graphical work (mock-ups, screenshot annotations, etc.)

New comment by k3n in "Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a Super-Productive Programmer (2011)"

k3n — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:33:50 +0000

Also doesn't mention his JS-based linux: http://bellard.org/jslinux/

New comment by k3n in "Facebook set to finally launch auto-play video ads in news feeds"

k3n — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:57:32 +0000

> If your only form of communication is random updates/photos from them that you don't actively seek, then you don't really care in the first place do you?

Well that's a rather hasty judgement...

Firstly, I didn't say it was my only communication. Secondly, it does a lot to help fill in the gaps between meetings/conversations.

> Nobody is too busy for a short phone call once in awhile.

And nobody said phone calls are the only -- or even preferred -- means of communication.