Hacker News: kanja

New comment by kanja in "The big bet on "tiny homes" to fix homelessness"

kanja — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:31:21 +0000

These advocates are paid in proportion to how bad the problem is. They're advocating in this way to ensure their income isn't interrupted by solving the problem they're being paid to fix.

New comment by kanja in "Python Coroutines with Async and Await"

kanja — Wed, 20 May 2015 13:38:14 +0000

This is pretty great - One feature I really liked from go was channels and the ability for goroutines to communicate with each other. Anyone know there a pep open for a similar idea in the python world?

New comment by kanja in "Cryptomarkets Are Gentrifying the Drug Trade"

kanja — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 21:01:17 +0000

Did they seriously spoil the ending of breaking bad in the first sentence?

New comment by kanja in "Fortheon – A multi-language cloud application platform"

kanja — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:28:56 +0000

No python support?

New comment by kanja in "Sexist culture and harassment drives GitHub's first female developer to quit"

kanja — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 19:48:19 +0000

I think we're all in agreement that increasing the diversity of viewpoints going into a decision will lead to an overall stronger result.

New comment by kanja in "Apple rejects Tank Battle 1942 for depicting Germans and Russians as "enemies""

kanja — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:11:30 +0000

My Great-aunt didn't make it out of the camps. WW2 isn't a gray area by any honest interpretation.

New comment by kanja in "A JSON field type for Django"

kanja — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 17:16:23 +0000

Hopefully this will soon be added to django core - it's one of the goals as part of Marc Tamlyn's kickstarter to improve postgres support in django.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mjtamlyn/improved-postg...

New comment by kanja in "Investors prefer entrepreneurial ventures pitched by attractive men"

kanja — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:14:42 +0000

This was a little harder to find than I expected:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16555779

"These findings demonstrate that female facial appearance holds detectable cues to reproductive health that are considered attractive by other people."

Found via http://asutriplehelix.org/node/99 which also cites some other related papers

EDIT: I really, really enjoy finding cases where something I assumed to be true is questioned on the grounds of scientific correctness. It is always a wonderful opportunity to bring my thinking closer to reality, no matter if my assumptions are true or false.

New comment by kanja in "Being alone"

kanja — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 19:43:42 +0000

It's no wonder he has such trouble socializing. When you wear self loathing on your sleeve like that, people will respond accordingly. It's wonderful to want to make a better world, but when everything you say, think, or do needs to be excused and caveated you can't help but internalize that.

New comment by kanja in "Things that suck in AngularJS"

kanja — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:38:38 +0000

The ember docs have improved immensely over the past few months - they're currently significantly better than the angular docs.

New comment by kanja in "EmberFire: Official Firebase bindings for EmberJS "

kanja — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:54:11 +0000

here's the blog post on it: https://www.firebase.com/blog/2013-10-22-firebase-bindings-f...

New comment by kanja in "Django Vanilla Views 1.0 released."

kanja — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:17:58 +0000

I guess I'm in the minority - I really like the class based views for simple crud work. Obviously function based views are a better fit for things that are outside of the simple. but I've had a lot of luck using CBV to simplify crud work.

Interested to try out django vanilla views

New comment by kanja in "Why does Hackbright only accept women into the program?"

kanja — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:57:02 +0000

A compelling argument for what? I think they have the right to be sexist. I just think it's crazy to try and brand it as something else. Just be honest.

New comment by kanja in "Why does Hackbright only accept women into the program?"

kanja — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:45:30 +0000

They don't allow men in because they're sexist. There is not some special exemption for some classes of people, there are no pigs that are more equal than others.

They feel the sexism is acceptable given the circumstances. In a world where college enrollment for women is significantly higher than enrollment for men I don't agree, and I think many others don't agree either.

New comment by kanja in "Tit Stare – We wish to apologise"

kanja — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 02:23:29 +0000

I can't wait for the similar apology from lulu

New comment by kanja in "Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page"

kanja — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 21:10:43 +0000

Love the easter egg - try "haveabreak" or "up up down down left right left right b a"

New comment by kanja in "Craig Zucker: What Happens When a Man Takes on the Feds"

kanja — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 00:55:53 +0000

Home of the brave, land of the free

New comment by kanja in "Tomorrow's Ember 1.0 Release: Things to Know"

kanja — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 23:53:13 +0000

Because it doesn't - here's a great article examining the scope of the two.

http://eviltrout.com/2013/06/15/ember-vs-angular.html

It's great to make the decision to focus on simplicity over scope - that's a good, defensible choice and I don't think anyone here will fault you for it. But an honest understanding of the extra features you gave up to make that choice will go a long way.

New comment by kanja in "Tomorrow's Ember 1.0 Release: Things to Know"

kanja — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 23:48:18 +0000

This is fantastic news - I'm just finishing up my second Ember app now and I have to say it's pretty amazing how it works. It's a large system with some complex parts, but once you get a handle on what's going on, you can make some truly elegant code. I've been doing javascript/jquery as part of web development for 5 years now, and shifting to ember from raw jquery is as transformative as shifting from cgi scripts to django

New comment by kanja in "Float Like a Butterfly: Why AngularJS beat out Ember.js in our stack"

kanja — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:10:32 +0000

This article is flat out wrong about the claims it make on ember-data - an optional dependency. It's trivial to pull data via a standard jquery ajax call and use plain old objects rather than first class models.