Hacker News: maxidog

New comment by maxidog in "The Beauty of Roundabouts"

maxidog — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:35:08 +0000

I have no idea what this means but I love it!

New comment by maxidog in "It's OK to hardcode feature flags (2025)"

maxidog — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:13:29 +0000

I’m currently reverse engineering a large enterprise app and the feature flag bloat is truly astounding. Imho excessive feature flag complexity is a symptom of management who are indecisive and mistrusted by the developers.

New comment by maxidog in "Long division verified via Hoare logic"

maxidog — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 10:28:41 +0000

Lol, thanks for that, was worried I was being too negative!

New comment by maxidog in "Long division verified via Hoare logic"

maxidog — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 21:00:19 +0000

I studied “computation” at Oxford 92-95 while CAR Hoare was still there and basically all they taught us about computers were these formal methods. They actually thought it would revolutionise programming and looked down at anything else as “hand-waving”. Think the syllabus was abandoned only a few years later thank goodness.

New comment by maxidog in "Apple TV 4K Gets A12 Bionic"

maxidog — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 21:16:42 +0000

Actually it goes straight back to the Apple TV remote without having to unlock. Not sure what the time limit is but it works after the device has gone to sleep and otherwise locked itself.

New comment by maxidog in "How Covid brought the future back"

maxidog — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 08:39:02 +0000

6% return peak bubble to peak bubble is in no way reassuring.

New comment by maxidog in "The Quantum Origin of Time"

maxidog — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 22:13:49 +0000

Am I unusual in being constantly surprised when people assume time's arrow in everyday conversation? I can never quite accept the sheer oddness and asymmetry of it.

New comment by maxidog in "Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development"

maxidog — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 13:24:24 +0000

Nope, that really was the end of the story.

Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development

maxidog — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 09:01:48 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@WhatALongHandle/hi-its-google-corporate-development-d0c77fd69191

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8878754

Points: 1227

# Comments: 278

New comment by maxidog in "Bringing SSD Performance to the DIMM form factor"

maxidog — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:56:09 +0000

Yes, it works for writes and support is built-in to current processors. It's faster than conventional file access.

New comment by maxidog in "Bringing SSD Performance to the DIMM form factor"

maxidog — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:15:14 +0000

Is that fundamentally different from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory-mapped_file ?

New comment by maxidog in "Neutralizing the iOS camera click sound through active sound cancellation"

maxidog — Fri, 23 May 2014 22:13:44 +0000

Especially weird considering the hack is totally unnecessary. You can take a picture without making a shutter sound using AVFoundation.

New comment by maxidog in "Just Tap Your Phone On Every Wall and This App Will Draw a Floorplan"

maxidog — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:13:37 +0000

Gizmodo says this uses GPS but there's no way that's accurate enough, is there?

Just Tap Your Phone On Every Wall and This App Will Draw a Floorplan

maxidog — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:13:13 +0000

Article URL: http://gizmodo.com/just-tap-your-phone-on-every-wall-and-this-app-will-dra-1548674446

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7442387

Points: 5

# Comments: 4

New comment by maxidog in "Malcolm Gladwell's Reponse to the Culturalism Post"

maxidog — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 07:26:42 +0000

What a pros-and-cons evaluation of a culture misses is that cultures are "self-modifying code", with the weakest attributes constantly being revised. Few cultures are modernising as quickly as Korean. After all, Korean Air decided that Korean Air had a problem.

Where this process of introspection and change falls down is with expats and their children, who have detailed knowledge of and an exaggerated respect for the culture they left behind but are unable to play a role in changing it. Culture becomes a museum exhibit to these people. (I would be surprised if 'The Korean' lives in Korea.) As someone who knows lots of Koreans but few Korean Americans, I can say that after a few bottles of soju and speaking their native language, nobody is more aware of and passionate about resolving the problems in their own culture than a Korean.