Hacker News: milesf

New comment by milesf in ""why the lucky stiff" disappeared 15 years ago today. Here's the last talk [video]"

milesf — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 00:19:48 +0000

Watch the last part of this video where he describes his very last project, a card game to help teach coding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ihzA8v89U&t=1560s

Does anyone remember him? He had a huge impact on my life back in 2006 when I was trying to learn Ruby to use Ruby on Rails.

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Thanks Jonathan for all the foxes, and thanks to whoever is maintaining his legacy: https://whytheluckystiff.net/

"why the lucky stiff" disappeared 15 years ago today. Here's the last talk [video]

milesf — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 00:17:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ihzA8v89U

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41295633

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Richard Stallman Resigns from MIT Csail and the Free Software Foundation

milesf — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 20:47:01 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/16/computer-scientist-richard-stallman-who-defended-jeffrey-epstein-resigns-from-mit-csail-and-the-free-software-foundation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20999890

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Make School Summer Academy Cancelled After Seven Years

milesf — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 18:46:19 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/make-school/pausing-the-make-school-summer-academy-b4d1d0de7579

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19290486

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by milesf in "Firm Caught Fabricating Russia Data Used by NBC to Claim Russia Supports Gabbard"

milesf — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 04:58:24 +0000

This is happening too often.

New comment by milesf in "Unicorns are setting up their own venture capital funds"

milesf — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 22:18:34 +0000

"When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing."

  - Bernard Baruch

Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol

milesf — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 23:46:20 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_Protocol

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17922831

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by milesf in "Facebook abandons Aquila, its internet drone"

milesf — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 03:51:54 +0000

Iridium has finished launching their Low Earth Orbit satellite system using SpaceX's Falcon 9 http://www.spacex.com/news/2018/05/22/iridium-6grace-fo-miss...

New comment by milesf in "No Thanks, Google. I'll Speak for Myself"

milesf — Wed, 09 May 2018 21:00:29 +0000

Yeah, the telemarketing people who clog up the phone lines and interrupt dinner times all over the planet won't see the benefit of this at all

DHH Releases Stimulus JavaScript Framework

milesf — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 03:06:01 +0000

Article URL: http://www.i-programmer.info/news/167-javascript/11578-stimulus-javascript-framework-released.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16443866

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Stimulus: A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have

milesf — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 03:05:07 +0000

Article URL: https://stimulusjs.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16443860

Points: 163

# Comments: 62

New comment by milesf in "Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10"

milesf — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 15:20:01 +0000

Welcome to the 90's Microsoft. Glad you could make it.

No one has used telnet for over 20 years. The fact that it took Redmond over 20 years to incorporte an SSH client proves to me that they really aren't as security conscious as they claim to be.

New comment by milesf in "The Bitcoin Flaw: Monero Rising"

milesf — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 19:54:53 +0000

What's so surprising about that? All cryptocurrencies are still very experimental. Nothing shocking about that.

New comment by milesf in "The Bitcoin Flaw: Monero Rising"

milesf — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 19:37:17 +0000

What are the current crop of cryptocurrencies that are truly anonymous? The list I have so far is: Aeon, DASH, Komodo, Monero , NAV Coin, PIVX, Verge, Zcash, Zcoin, and ZenCash.

Any others?

Edit: Added Aeon

New comment by milesf in "Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-V Cores a Year"

milesf — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 22:30:10 +0000

I remember RISC's back in the late 80's/early 90's. CISC's bullied them away and we've been stuck in Intel's quagmire every since. Anytime there's an attack on the status quo, the established players feign concern and beat back the attack then return to the way things were (remember Negroponte's $100 laptop and the netbook response?)

No idea how this will pan out.

New comment by milesf in "Bitcoin Blows Past $9,000"

milesf — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:24:54 +0000

What scares me is not the success or failure of BitCoin. What I find troubling is the spirit of BitCoin is paving the way for the exact opposite result.

The idealism is to produce a system for faster, cheaper, and censorship-resistant way to transact. BitCoin is actually becoming unusable for that. It's slower than Etherium, the fees continue to climb when measured against the US Dollar, and the privacy issues are not being addressed.

Sadly, no one will pay any attention to this while the price continues to climb. Only when the price crashes will folks come to their senses, just like when MintPal was hacked which destroyed VeriCoin and when The DAO collapsed with people voting to roll back and fork.

New comment by milesf in "Anatomy of a Haskell-Based Application, Revisited"

milesf — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 04:28:14 +0000

Love this bit: "...we are happy that we chose Haskell, a wonderful language that enables large refactoring with ease, perhaps even turning what could be unthinkable architectural changes in other languages into pure tedium."

Anatomy of a Haskell-Based Application, Revisited

milesf — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 04:27:30 +0000

Article URL: https://tech-blog.capital-match.com/posts/3-anatomy-of-haskell-web-app.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15754232

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Reset, Rebase Workflow

milesf — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 17:59:55 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/deliveroo-engineering/reset-rebase-workflow-33ca2a0767ab

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15436015

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by milesf in "Britain Moves to Criminalize Reading Extremist Material on the Internet"

milesf — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 08:24:40 +0000

Where is the actual text of the law? Link or it didn't happen.