Hacker News: lylejohnson

New comment by lylejohnson in "'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40"

lylejohnson — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:28:50 +0000

I also tend to associate "Bloom County" with "Calvin and Hobbes". I think I was reading both of them around the same time.

New comment by lylejohnson in "My Salary History"

lylejohnson — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 22:51:17 +0000

Low cost of living

New comment by lylejohnson in "Ursula K. Le Guin has died"

lylejohnson — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 22:30:31 +0000

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le...

New comment by lylejohnson in "The day I accidentally killed a little boy"

lylejohnson — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 15:31:32 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

New comment by lylejohnson in "What Made the SR-71 Blackbird Such a Badass Plane (2015)"

lylejohnson — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 20:17:44 +0000

The first I remember reading about the "Blackbird" was in the _The Uncanny X-Men_, during the Claremont & Byrne run in the early 80's. Their jet was modeled on the SR-71, although I don't recall if they explicitly mentioned that model number.

New comment by lylejohnson in "Riot – Full-text search engine in Go"

lylejohnson — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 18:06:10 +0000

Not to mention http://riotjs.com/.

New comment by lylejohnson in "Is Uncle Bob serious?"

lylejohnson — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:25:59 +0000

The Atlantic article that Uncle Bob was writing in response to lists several specific examples of software failures that did, or could have, resulted in loss of life: a failure of the 911 system; air traffic control systems; medical devices.

New comment by lylejohnson in "HashiCorp and Google: easing secret and infrastructure management"

lylejohnson — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:48:56 +0000

I'm currently taking advantages of SaltStack's GPG renderer to store secrets in our version-controlled Salt code (see https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/renderers/all/salt....).

New comment by lylejohnson in "Show HN: Sleeping Beauty, a 7-day roguelike game"

lylejohnson — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 17:38:38 +0000

Can someone explain how the combat is supposed to work? I suppose that if I had more experience with these kinds of games it might be obvious.

New comment by lylejohnson in "Eaten by a Grue: podcast on Infocom games, text adventures and interactive fiction"

lylejohnson — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 03:30:10 +0000

Didn't see a link here, so I'll drop one for "Get Lamp", a documentary about text adventures.

http://www.getlamp.com

New comment by lylejohnson in "Automattic open sources Simplenote"

lylejohnson — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:54:55 +0000

"Ditto". Longtime user (of the iOS app) and have never lost a note that I can recall.

New comment by lylejohnson in "Google Fonts Redesigned"

lylejohnson — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 03:42:35 +0000

Looking through the "Classic Quotes" list, it's apparent that MegaHAL was a big They Might Be Giants fan.

New comment by lylejohnson in "Things I was unprepared for as a lead developer"

lylejohnson — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 03:15:35 +0000

My interpretation: Assuming the work was outsourced to cheaper laborers (e.g. in India), OP may have felt that his job was at risk. By sabotaging the efforts of those offshore workers and making them appear incapable, he hoped to discourage management from outsourcing that work.

New comment by lylejohnson in "Universal asks Google to take down 127.0.0.1 for piracy"

lylejohnson — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 13:32:13 +0000

"If DMCA claims were expensive... the garage bands and individual artists/musicians would be left out of the game completely, they couldn't use DMCA to take down their music."

New comment by lylejohnson in "The Yuri Gadyukin Wikipedia Hoax (2013)"

lylejohnson — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 09:38:02 +0000

By the end of the article it had crossed my mind that Boyter and Ducker (the perpetrators of the hoax) were themselves fictitious characters, and that the article itself was part of a larger hoax.

New comment by lylejohnson in "[dead]"

lylejohnson — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 14:22:45 +0000

This is so over the top that I read it as satire (not good satire, but satire). Is this serious?

New comment by lylejohnson in "Ask HN: Good books on debugging?"

lylejohnson — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 15:34:44 +0000

I have read it, and it's quite good. Was about to post the link myself until I saw that you had.

New comment by lylejohnson in "Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand"

lylejohnson — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:11:48 +0000

Whoosh.

New comment by lylejohnson in "Working at Netflix"

lylejohnson — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 12:47:18 +0000

Probably not in her list of "favorite firing" stories.

New comment by lylejohnson in "Ask HN: What new or hot technology do you recommend learning?"

lylejohnson — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 15:34:54 +0000

> Try and calculate the enormous waste of both time and money from memory leaks caused by code written in C and C++. Rust solves this...

This seems like an unusual language feature to highlight --- don't most modern programming languages solve this problem with various implementations of GC or memory management? N.B. I am not at all familiar with Rust and so maybe I'm missing some important context...