Hacker News: kagia

New comment by kagia in "When No-Code Stops Scaling (2020)"

kagia — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 21:01:43 +0000

Oddly specific numbers, 50k records take 5minutes?

What was the authors methodology?

New comment by kagia in "Ask HN: How to gain practical machine learning skills?"

kagia — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 23:12:36 +0000

I just started working through Google's free course. Tomorrow I'm posting about my day one experience here: https://kagia.github.io/2018/12/29/learning-machine-learning...

As it says on the linked post I'm not learning just for knowledge sake but I very much intend to apply what I learn.

New comment by kagia in "DynamoDB cannot store empty strings"

kagia — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 21:17:19 +0000

You can run it locally for development. Just look for dynamodb-local images on the docker hub.

New comment by kagia in "A Plan to Save a Man's Life by Head Transplant"

kagia — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 16:24:05 +0000

Just a warning, parts of that page may be disturbing and or distressing to some. The references to animal testing are particularly gruesome (to me anyway).

New comment by kagia in "Announcing TypeScript 2.0 Beta"

kagia — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 17:46:39 +0000

I feel that typescript being only 2.0, should be in a position to break things once in a while.

If you pay too much attention to keeping legacy code 'alive' you end up complicating matters with either compiler-flags all over the place or redundant API's i.e win32 api (old+new+newer versions of the same function).

New comment by kagia in "On the (Small) Number of Atoms in the Universe"

kagia — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:22:40 +0000

If 12megapixels can produce 10 to the power 86696638 images, and we came up with a way of enumerating those images, could we then build a function that given anyone of those images return the index of that image within reasonable time with current hardware. ie. "you have just taken 3999999987493th image"?

New comment by kagia in "Google may be considering Swift as a ‘first class’ language for Android"

kagia — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 18:21:55 +0000

This article should be taken with a good pinch of salt. It seems to be more speculation than anything else...

New comment by kagia in "Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads"

kagia — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:59:16 +0000

If only it were April fools...

New comment by kagia in "BMW i8 in WebGL"

kagia — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 17:07:09 +0000

If the author is around, How long did this take? It's slick, but what impresses me most is when I customize the interior from the inside view.

Well done!

New comment by kagia in "Physically Based Rendering Comes to WebGL"

kagia — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:39:51 +0000

It worked really well for me, and I hope to see some more demos!

New comment by kagia in "Show HN: Rant, a procedural text generation language"

kagia — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 12:06:53 +0000

One place I can see this really shining is as part of a script that generates fixtures for Django apps.

New comment by kagia in "From Switch Statement Down to Machine Code (2013)"

kagia — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 15:54:50 +0000

I'm not sure a 'readable' preemptive micro optimization is any more sensible. I think we should limit 'sensible' to preemptive macro and architectural optimization. A programmer should examine what their compiler is spitting out before they decide they can do better.

New comment by kagia in "From Switch Statement Down to Machine Code (2013)"

kagia — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 12:30:09 +0000

>A programmer should not even try to optimize the code that is not proven to be a bottleneck by carefully profiling the whole program

All who haven't taken note, please do!

New comment by kagia in "Linux kernel coding style"

kagia — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 12:26:24 +0000

I doubt everyone agrees to that coding style, I certainly don't. However when submitting code to a project I'd still stick to the prescribed coding style, because I believe consistency in any code base can be just as important as any other measure of readability.

New comment by kagia in "Quantum OS - OS based on Linux which conforms to Material Design guidelines"

kagia — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 07:07:00 +0000

not really. there is nothing wrong with overlapping, and most tiling WM'S are user managed in some way.

New comment by kagia in "Quantum OS - OS based on Linux which conforms to Material Design guidelines"

kagia — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 22:39:03 +0000

>not a swipe at you at all

no problem! :)

New comment by kagia in "Umati: using R and python to study inflammatory speech online"

kagia — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 20:26:13 +0000

I like the fact that they are being cautious about using the term hate speech. It has become a catch-all for anything that's unpleasant, even if harmless to society.

If anyone wanted a background I found this link: http://voicesthatpoison.org/guidelines/

New comment by kagia in "Quantum OS - OS based on Linux which conforms to Material Design guidelines"

kagia — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 19:25:02 +0000

Totally agree with you!

The problem though is getting rid of the desktop would not go down well with the majority. you'd need a way of proving that you can still make multi tasking painless. Currently a desktop environment means I can resize and arrange windows to allow me to work with multiple apps.

One idea is have some sort intelligent system for deciding how much screen real estate is needed for each app and how they can be grouped and arranged into sensible workspaces.

New comment by kagia in "Quantum OS - OS based on Linux which conforms to Material Design guidelines"

kagia — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 18:17:57 +0000

I for one think it's time we saw bold and ambitious attempts at changing the desktop.

Most desktops today are arguably variations of the desktops we were introduced to in windows95 and OSX (v10). The colours, placement and names change but rarely does anything new show up (save for metro desktop).

With wayland and mutter/qt+ this is a great time to try out wild and out-there concepts. It's the only way to break out and really change the desktop.

I can understand peoples frustration; the desktop, after all, wraps up everything we experience when we use our machines. However I will approach this with an open mind, and I certainly hope others will do the same.