Hacker News: m0wfo

New comment by m0wfo in "Show HN: Learn iPhone and iPad development in less than an hour"

m0wfo — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:27:55 +0000

Love how this ranks immediately above Jeff Atwood's "Serving at the Pleasure of the King". HN kids are as fickle as they are retarded.

New comment by m0wfo in "LLVM IR is a compiler IR"

m0wfo — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:23:38 +0000

IMHO, YMMV, etc. Oh man it's so easy to wind up HN kids with anecdotes.

New comment by m0wfo in "LLVM IR is a compiler IR"

m0wfo — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:12:08 +0000

Just as a naive consumer of its facilities, I find LLVM produces binaries from C and ObjC code which are smaller and faster than their GCC equivalents. I'm attempting to write my own front-end as well, which is easier than I had expected. I don't care what the black box does, c.f. "The user doesn't care"(TM).

New comment by m0wfo in "In Praise of Bad Steve"

m0wfo — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:12:06 +0000

Apparently he died of an extremely rare variant of pancreatic cancer called node.js

New comment by m0wfo in "Steve Jobs has passed away."

m0wfo — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:29:12 +0000

Apple was born out of obsession and makes some of the finest hardware around, running BSD with a touch of class that is unrivalled. But as my granny would say, there are no pockets in a shroud... poor Steve.

It's nice to have a sexy laptop, but life's just too damn short.

Better living through fib functions

m0wfo — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:29:06 +0000

Article URL: http://chris.mowforth.com/better-living-through-fib-functions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3066627

Points: 1

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New comment by m0wfo in "The Humble Programmer by Edsger W. Dijkstra"

m0wfo — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 01:15:08 +0000

Heh, one of my lecturers was ranting about the millions wasted on research grants for testing methodologies when it's proven that they can't formally confirm program correctness. Old Edsger had a lot of foresight in that respect. Still, he's gloriously ambiguous about what he considers a 'modest and elegant programming language'.

New comment by m0wfo in "Fixing the callback spaghetti in node.js"

m0wfo — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:17:35 +0000

And in a lot of other languages writing in CPS incurs a performance penalty (lucky for me it seems to be < 1 order of magnitude in clojure); I assume this is the case in node.js too?

New comment by m0wfo in "USBTypewriter - new and groundbreaking innovation in the field of obsolescence."

m0wfo — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:36:51 +0000

Not a windows key to be seen :)

New comment by m0wfo in "Groupon IPO on hold"

m0wfo — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:31:19 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardonicism

New comment by m0wfo in "In wake of riots, British PM proposes social media ban"

m0wfo — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:18:14 +0000

What worries me as much as the double standard, i.e. scorning Iran, China etc for their crackdown social networking sites is that the conservatives have the unequivocal support of Labour on this issue.

Not only is there no criticism coming from the political left in the UK, but their obsession with deploying intrusive computer systems during their previous period in office suggests a power like this would have been enacted far more quickly were they still in charge.

New comment by m0wfo in "MTV News covers "The Internet", video from 1995"

m0wfo — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:17:32 +0000

I didn't realise Coolio used to moonlight as an IT consultant.

New comment by m0wfo in "Sublime Text 2 Build 2091"

m0wfo — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:39:12 +0000

Powerpoint obviously.

New comment by m0wfo in "Long hours and zombie-like employees at Gameloft Auckland"

m0wfo — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:15:53 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35-hour_workweek

New comment by m0wfo in "33GB of public domain JSTOR articles, and a manifesto"

m0wfo — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:11:41 +0000

Only just realised Eircom has blocked access to TPB in Ireland at the request of the 4 major record labels. The fact that this HN post is tangential to the issue of music piracy annoys me. Another step closer to censorship.

New comment by m0wfo in "Fire the workaholics (2008)"

m0wfo — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:24:31 +0000

I bought the book ("Getting Real") when it came out and it brought home a lot of truisms of starting up in the 21st century. But 'Firing all the workaholics' isn't as simple as that:

I've worked in places where people with no lives (and more importantly no equity in the company) spent most of their waking lives in the office because it was there- they obviously didn't have a whole lot going on in their lives, maybe needed some kind of social acceptance or maybe a combination of the two.

I've also worked in places with a fantastic buzz [where I've had no equity in the company]' where I slept on the floor to get a job done.

I've also worked for a startup doing 100+ hour weeks end to end just to get ourselves started (not naming any company names).

The latter two I enjoyed and did of my own volition; the first I didn't. If DHH is talking about losers who are several orders of magnitude less productive than my counterparts then fair enough; but sleeping on the floor is the manifestation of obsession. If you wanna stop that, go ahead you Danish wanker.

New comment by m0wfo in "Get-shit-done - Easy way to stop distractions"

m0wfo — Wed, 04 May 2011 16:58:21 +0000

This will obviously leave me continuously trying to access hacker news while preventing me from doing so. My continued attempts will block all other operations [i.e. work] hence creating a race condition.

Far preferable is the event-driven technique whereby I make a cursory attempt at doing some real stuff until the HN bot tweets something of fleeting interest, at which point I defer said real stuff to a background thread to be completed in an asynchronous fashion.

New comment by m0wfo in "Amazing way Chinese recycle millions of cellphones every year"

m0wfo — Wed, 04 May 2011 09:38:15 +0000

Sounds like Nokia palming off its RoHS obligations to a cottage economy which luckily for them seems to be thriving. You couldn't do this in Europe or America.

New comment by m0wfo in "Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash"

m0wfo — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:29:50 +0000

So each Heroku app is valued at about $2000?