Hacker News: mmacvicarprett

New comment by mmacvicarprett in "Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem (2022)"

mmacvicarprett — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:29:10 +0000

How to quickly kill a language primarily meant for technical computing.

New comment by mmacvicarprett in "Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem (2022)"

mmacvicarprett — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:27:39 +0000

Do you mean any specific library?

New comment by mmacvicarprett in "Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime"

mmacvicarprett — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:48:42 +0000

Can they pay with stock?

New comment by mmacvicarprett in "Brazil's top court rules US laws do not apply to its territory"

mmacvicarprett — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 02:14:50 +0000

“those providing material support to human rights abusers face sanctions risk themselves.” The irony, this comes from a government with strong ties to Saudi Arabia, Israel and El Salvador.

New comment by mmacvicarprett in "Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store)"

mmacvicarprett — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 21:53:21 +0000

I am a paying user! the app is really good, it helped me as an adult starting piano 2 years ago.

Main feature request would be to generate the notes from a score, focusing in the intervals, ranges and patterns the score uses. Doing random notes feels weird, it helps with quick recognition but feels very different to what my head wants to do while playing.

New comment by mmacvicarprett in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

mmacvicarprett — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 16:29:16 +0000

I think the point is that China does not present itself as the paladin of free spech and individual liberties.

New comment by mmacvicarprett in "Dust XP1 switches to GPT-3.5-turbo, is now free to use"

mmacvicarprett — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 15:37:32 +0000

"Mr X is an experienced software engineer with over 500 connections". ChatGPT learns from the best bullshit as well.

New comment by mmacvicarprett in "The words you choose within an app are an essential part of its user experience"

mmacvicarprett — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 13:38:33 +0000

Apple makes great hardware, good OSs, horrible apps, indecent websites. Also, they use a very preechy way of advising, which for me means they think they are right, instead of looking at the market to tell us what works or not.

New comment by mmacvicarprett in "Unity merges with IronSource"

mmacvicarprett — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 15:11:52 +0000

As of today, unity is worth 10-12bi, Ironsrc intended to go public at around 11bi last year, now they are being acquired at 4.4bi. Ironsrc main competitor, AppLovin is worth 12bi. Ironsrc 2021 revenue was 553m, Unity revenue was 1.1bi. However, Ironsrc had a net income of 21m and Unity had a net loss of 531m. Both hold around 0.7bi and 1bi in cash respectively.

So is Ironsrc much smaller? I do not think so.

New comment by mmacvicarprett in "Ask HN: What stack for a multiplayer board game?"

mmacvicarprett — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 14:19:19 +0000

This platform looks very cool! https://www.boardible.com/

New comment by mmacvicarprett in "I hate what video games have become"

mmacvicarprett — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 14:36:15 +0000

You are missing one big and relevant point, the goal is not to get money for every small change but that now nobody needs to pay $20 to play the game. It is done to grow the game but by drastically increasing its reach. For a competitive multiplayer game that is a very good thing.

New comment by mmacvicarprett in "Ask HN: Alternative ways to move a dog, human, and some baggage overseas?"

mmacvicarprett — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 19:06:39 +0000

+1 I moved from Chile to the US and then from the US to Brazil, the experience was ok. Everyone goes in the same plane.

The only part that was harder was taking the dog out in Brazil. In the US he was delivered to US in the Luggage area, in Brazil we had to go to the cargo areas and deal with some bureaucracy. Knowing how it will work in advance can save a lot of time, potentially get a service in the destination country that knows how to do it in case it is needed.

New comment by mmacvicarprett in "Mysterious object unlike anything astronomers have seen before"

mmacvicarprett — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:18:21 +0000

It is just an alien intergalactic VOR

New comment by mmacvicarprett in "Fake vaccine cards are everywhere. It’s a public health nightmare"

mmacvicarprett — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 17:09:09 +0000

What is preventing the US from putting a QR in those cards as many other countries?

New comment by mmacvicarprett in "Ask HN: I’m starting a new job and things feel off. Am I overreacting?"

mmacvicarprett — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 20:03:54 +0000

The higher the role in the hierarchy, the more common is for me to see involving the new person as soon as possible, specially if there is a rare opportunity, like participating in an offsite or event that could provide a lot of context and happens close (some weeks before) the starting date. Many the times the new hire himself request it.

Said that, if you are not comfortable doing it, you shouldn't. It would be a warning signal if they make a situation about it. I wouldn't make it a thing of whether you should be compensated or not but in the future I would expect the same consideration when you ask for an hour here and there as well. It is about trust.

The HR and IT things are more common than you believe, shit happens. That might or might not mean that some processes are not working well, just send the feedback. I do not see why you feel obligated to wait for the FedEx package if they did not ask you if you could wait for it. It makes me feel you are not comfortable being candid.

New comment by mmacvicarprett in "Study finds no detrimental effects of psilocybin in 10mg or 25mg dose"

mmacvicarprett — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 22:45:54 +0000

This is a great insight of a consequence that is unlikely to be considered.

New comment by mmacvicarprett in "Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test"

mmacvicarprett — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 19:39:56 +0000

Not surprising, the candidate did fail at acknowledge who the interviewer was to adapt their answers. It was a recruiter reading answers from a sheet, the simpler you keep it the highest the chance of passing the stupid test.

New comment by mmacvicarprett in "Rust Moderation Team Resigns"

mmacvicarprett — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 16:58:09 +0000

It means the leadership is willing to accept responsibility, not just accepting negative feedback but also working with others to correct the behaviors. In this case I would say it would involve admitting a violation happened and to say what will be done differently in the future.

I can see how this can be extremely complicated, depending on the type of CoC violation people tend to be extremists, forget about being constructive (to assume good intentions) and immediately grab the pitchforks.

New comment by mmacvicarprett in "One painful meeting with Steve Jobs"

mmacvicarprett — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:00:44 +0000

I think you are missing the point, knowing is not about conviction but facts. OP put emphasis in it, he not just think he knew. If you say you know something it is expected that you have reasonable arguments and evidence to back them up. It is fine if you are wrong but if you do it without anything to show then you are just bullshitting.

New comment by mmacvicarprett in "Dropbox Engineering Career Framework"

mmacvicarprett — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 12:47:38 +0000

Nice page, quite generic. My experience is that in practice such frameworks do not help much.