Hacker News: ksmithbaylor

New comment by ksmithbaylor in "Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly"

ksmithbaylor — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:58:13 +0000

I can’t help but think of Gary Bernhardt’s 2014 talk, “The Birth and Death of JavaScript”: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

New comment by ksmithbaylor in "Show HN: Actual Budget, a finance app I built over the last two years"

ksmithbaylor — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 18:55:02 +0000

From my understanding, Actual does not maintain any servers that hold user data. I believe this is referencing the fact that currently, data is stored unencrypted on the device itself, but that in the future there are plans to encrypt it at rest on your devices. More details here: https://actualbudget.com/syncing-devices/

New comment by ksmithbaylor in "Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration"

ksmithbaylor — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 10:58:11 +0000

I saw similar results on my MBP, with Chrome scoring ~90 and Firefox scoring ~60. Not enough to outweigh my reasons for using Firefox, but interesting.

New comment by ksmithbaylor in "Ultimate Hacking Keyboard"

ksmithbaylor — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 11:46:20 +0000

I have been looking at this recently with great interest!

A problem I have with all other split layout keyboards is that they place the B key on the left side of the keyboard. However, I type the letter B with my right index finger, not my left. I know this is "incorrect", but it is firmly ingrained in my muscle memory and while I've tried changing it in the past, I've had little success.

I got very excited when I saw the "key cluster" module, since if it were available for the right side, it would allow me to just place my own B key next to N where I want it.

Is this planned? I would buy this in a heartbeat if so.

The Equifax Breach – Now What?

ksmithbaylor — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:48:59 +0000

Article URL: https://axio.com/article/biggest-data-breach-us-history-just-happened-now-what

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15279416

Points: 1

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New comment by ksmithbaylor in "PayPal adds “non-discouragement” clause to their User Agreement"

ksmithbaylor — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 19:27:19 +0000

I was confused by this language too. I think it means that in the context of PayPal being a payment method, you agree not to mischaracterize it in any way.

New comment by ksmithbaylor in "Vim 8.0 is coming"

ksmithbaylor — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 11:53:47 +0000

ca( would work for this as well.

New comment by ksmithbaylor in "A Back Door to Encryption Won't Stop Terrorists"

ksmithbaylor — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 21:58:36 +0000

I think what mangeletti meant was that you can't force anyone not to use strong encryption if it exists.

This smartwatch (prototype) can identify what you're touching

ksmithbaylor — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 13:13:27 +0000

Article URL: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/11/disneys-smartwatch-prototype-can-identify-and-track-everything-you-touch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10552880

Points: 2

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New comment by ksmithbaylor in "Show HN: Parinfer – a simpler way to write Lisp"

ksmithbaylor — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 01:09:33 +0000

Wow! This is really impressive! I can't wait until someone ports this to vim. I might even take a stab at it myself. Great work!

New comment by ksmithbaylor in "Neovim public release 0.1.0"

ksmithbaylor — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 03:27:51 +0000

Just switched and it might be a placebo effect, but everything from scrolling to switching files seems a bit...snappier. Is this due to the async improvements? Do plugins have to opt-in to be async or does the core re-implement previously synchronous functionality to be asynchronous?

New comment by ksmithbaylor in "Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game"

ksmithbaylor — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 18:20:29 +0000

Any bets on how long it will take Twitch to enter "rm -rf /" once the filesystem is set up?

New comment by ksmithbaylor in "Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?"

ksmithbaylor — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:51:26 +0000

I'm a Software Engineer at my company. I used to work on a large Rails project, but now I am on a team where we are building out a smaller product with a React/Flux frontend. I work mainly on frontend stuff right now.

I have a small side project for a family member. He's a commercial beekeeper and needed a way to track information about his hives, so I am making him a mobile app (built with Ionic) that lets him put QR codes on the hives and track everything he needs about them.

My wife and I just had our first baby, and I'm starting Georgia Tech's OMSCS program in the Spring, so I don't have much spare time right now. But off and on I have been learning Clojure/ClojureScript, Haskell, and more about React and its ecosystem. I also am teaching an introductory JavaScript class for a local tech "bootcamp" company, and enjoying it a lot.

New comment by ksmithbaylor in "16 lenses on one camera"

ksmithbaylor — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 12:35:50 +0000

This is a really cool idea! I'd love to see more specs on the 16 individual cameras, but the theory seems solid. The only image I didn't like in the gallery was the macro shot of the chessboard. If you look at the pieces in the background, you can sort of make out different layers (which I presume come from the multiple lenses), and it looks a little unnatural. But for anything besides macro photography, this looks awesome!

New comment by ksmithbaylor in "Show HN: Hacker News desktop app made with Electron and Node"

ksmithbaylor — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 16:16:31 +0000

Just downloaded! I love it. The only thing I was going to say was I wish it had the ability to resize the window and save the size for each time it opened...then I realized you were one step ahead of me and had done exactly that! Very impressive, and a fantastic example of React and Electron. I'm definitely bookmarking this to come back and learn from the codebase later.

New comment by ksmithbaylor in "OnHub"

ksmithbaylor — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:28:53 +0000

TAKE MY MONEY

New comment by ksmithbaylor in "A Miserable Debt-Free Life"

ksmithbaylor — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 16:06:14 +0000

> Until age 38 I was very focused on material accumulation. I had a Porsche 911 (called Helmut), several investment properties, a wife, and several pairs of trousers.

Is anybody else disturbed by the inclusion of his wife in his list of material posessions?

New comment by ksmithbaylor in "Ask HN: What do companies think of programming bootcamps?"

ksmithbaylor — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 13:13:08 +0000

At my company in the Atlanta area, I am on a team of 20 people, 12 of which are developers. Since I started a little over a year ago, my team alone has hired 2 developers fresh out of a Rails bootcamp. The hiring managers are actively seeking "junior" devs (bootcamp or not) in order to invest in their skills and train them in our company culture.

For some background, the company is fairly large (15,000 or so total employees), but has a strong focus on technology and there are approximately 25 "capability teams" including mine that function largely independently and autonomously.

New comment by ksmithbaylor in "Ask HN: JavaScript developer – what do I need to know?"

ksmithbaylor — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 19:48:21 +0000

I have been reading through this awesome book series called You Don't Know JS (youdontknowjs.com), and it's helped me SO MUCH to understand JS at the next level.

I had the immense pleasure of taking a workshop with Kyle Simpson, the author, at a conference last year and it covered much of the material from his books. In particular I found the book on 'this' and object prototypes to be fantastic.

A Use of the Y Combinator in Ruby

ksmithbaylor — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 22:01:12 +0000

Article URL: http://www.sbf5.com/~cduan/technical/ruby/ycombinator.shtml

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9024060

Points: 1

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