Hacker News: mmcallister

New comment by mmcallister in "Remembering Steve Jobs"

mmcallister — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 16:40:10 +0000

> Steve Jobs did not treat his pancreatic cancer when he was first diagnosed and it was treatable

That's his choice, it's _his_ cancer after all

> I don't think that excuses all of the horrible things he did as a human

I think this is a bit of a leap. He's done some bad things sure, but the only ones you mentioned were...working on a yacht, using alternative medicine and getting a liver transplant

New comment by mmcallister in "『 0x61 』- Panasonic and OpenBSD = <3"

mmcallister — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 06:29:57 +0000

I have one of these too, and I honestly can't fault it. Runs Arch + i3 and they're very cheap in Australia since the education department handed them out in schools.

Once things get too sluggish for me I'll see what hardware hacks I can do to bring it back (I also wouldn't mind swapping the charging port to USB-C), but until then it works well for my needs.

New comment by mmcallister in "A succinct email in just a subject line"

mmcallister — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 07:34:54 +0000

I always found these incredibly rude, in my experience it's typically senior management, and specifically those who like to really make you feel like a nameless "human resource"

Though I haven't seen it in recent years with (better) workplace messaging platform, like Slack

New comment by mmcallister in "Making Markets on Kalshi"

mmcallister — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:50:23 +0000

It's interesting that sigma is static and defined ahead of time, how do you determine the initial sigma?

New comment by mmcallister in "418 I’m a teapot"

mmcallister — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:54:31 +0000

iiNet was probably the best job I've ever had, certainly the place where I learnt the most, and had the most fun.

The coffeecam was cute, acb - the one primarily responsible for the coffeecam - also had American candies for sale around it (at least when I worked there at Hay Street)

New comment by mmcallister in "Show HN: I made a Sonic runner game in JavaScript"

mmcallister — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 19:48:45 +0000

Given the answer to their question on how it's written is quite obvious in the provided link, I'd say if they are using an AI it doesn't appear to be parsing the content and maybe only the titles?

New comment by mmcallister in "Proton Mail discloses user data leading to arrest in Spain"

mmcallister — Tue, 07 May 2024 06:46:48 +0000

a minor point but you can't _encrypt_ source IPs, you can only obfuscate or more accurately, proxy.

New comment by mmcallister in "Google lays off hundreds working on its voice-activated assistant"

mmcallister — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 08:36:28 +0000

The other 2% keeps engineers fairly busy, I imagine. Custom congestion control algorithms come to mind

New comment by mmcallister in "Official guide for organizing Go projects and modules"

mmcallister — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 02:59:30 +0000

Compare and contrast this with the Go Standards project-layout repo example[1] - which ironically is not a standard at all.

Personally I prefer a bit more rigidity in how the project is structured (/pkg/, /pkg/internal/, /cmd/) since it is more opinionated and requires less thinking. Typically my repos won't just have a Go backend but also a frontend too, and supporting assets, as well as documentation (designs, decisions, etc.)

[1] https://github.com/golang-standards/project-layout

New comment by mmcallister in "RFC 9454: Update to OSPF Terminology, Changed Master/Slave to Leader/Follower"

mmcallister — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 11:10:46 +0000

OSPF is an interior routing protocol that transmits link state. Link state based routing algorithms aren't a good fit for interconnected networks

New comment by mmcallister in "I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer"

mmcallister — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 12:46:06 +0000

(n)vim would work a real treat on a pi. Building locally might be tricky depending on the codebase, but it's not entirely unreasonable to expect to have a full fledged IDE on a pi (except Android development, lol)

New comment by mmcallister in "Show HN: Lockable – sync locks for distributed systems"

mmcallister — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 10:08:54 +0000

Building software that relies on an incorrect assumption sounds dangerous to me.

There's plenty of critical software in the world, some of which has real world consequences if there are bugs.

New comment by mmcallister in "Ask HN: How do you hire remotely when you have to turn over the crown jewels?"

mmcallister — Mon, 02 May 2022 20:58:00 +0000

This has never, not once crossed my mind. I've worked at two FAANG companies and I'm fairly certain that at least at Google they'd be able to tell you've exfiltrated some code, and even if they couldn't it's morally questionable to be doing that in the first place.

High risk, very low reward

New comment by mmcallister in "Ask HN: Who is the Joe Rogan of coding?"

mmcallister — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 12:04:12 +0000

Terry Davis

New comment by mmcallister in "The Search for a Free/Open Source Mobile Operating System"

mmcallister — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 05:43:00 +0000

What if you have a paid application?

New comment by mmcallister in "Conditionally setting your gitconfig"

mmcallister — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 04:08:34 +0000

This is neat, but I think it's better to use your work provided device(s)/laptop for work, and your personal devices for personal things.

Obviously check your contract, and IANAL but people should be cognizant of the fact that your employer _may_ be able to retain copyright on personal projects if you use a work device (then again some contracts may even try to claim that they retain copyright for work done in personal time on personal devices)

New comment by mmcallister in "Tell HN: Don't put your status page on the same domain as your app"

mmcallister — Mon, 10 May 2021 03:10:44 +0000

I think the _real_ takeaway here should be that your status page should be simple, with as little dependencies as possible, ideally none.

IMHO it should be a static page using Hugo, Jekyll or roll your own if you really have to.

None of this precludes you from using the same domain, though you'd want to use a subdomain, for instance status.product.com

New comment by mmcallister in "Reverse engineering the Nest home/away API"

mmcallister — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 03:49:14 +0000

you don't need to know the IP address , you can just dump the ARP cache and look for the MAC address you need.

on Linux:

  $ arp -n | grep "MAC_ADDRESS_HERE"
  192.168.86.23            ether   MAC_ADDRESS_HERE   C   wlp4s0

if it's in the ARP cache it's "home" (or rather was, within the last 60 seconds, or gc_stale_time)

New comment by mmcallister in "Smash: An efficient compression algorithm for microcontrollers"

mmcallister — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 22:08:41 +0000

> Error establishing a database connection

Hugged to death :-(

New comment by mmcallister in "4x4 Macro Pad Kit"

mmcallister — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 02:44:29 +0000

what programming specific macros do you use?