Hacker News: mr_justin

New comment by mr_justin in "Building a walkie-talkie for remote work"

mr_justin — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 02:49:49 +0000

I love the idea of taking well understood analog concepts and applying them to the digital remote workplace, but man, forced sync calls coming in on a whim without my control to ignore them sounds like my absolute worst nightmare.

New comment by mr_justin in "CircleCI Security Incident"

mr_justin — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 03:02:30 +0000

Nobody deserves this, but lordy I have lost days of dev time to Circle in the last several years.

New comment by mr_justin in "How Snowflake Rebuilt Its AWS Stack on Azure"

mr_justin — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 01:10:45 +0000

This is a lot of upfront work, and signing up for continuous maintenance, computing costs, dealing with vendor-specific oddities, and a host of other concerns. Whatever is gained from this (being able to sign AWS phobic clients) must be substantial.

New comment by mr_justin in "Formula 1: Building the world’s fastest cars"

mr_justin — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 20:51:40 +0000

Absolutely. I mean, could you imagine F1 drivers having to negotiate the track with the 911s, Astons & Corvettes? They'd throw a damn hissy fit.

Not only does it make the race exciting from logistics/entertainment perspective, but at any given time there are multiple first place battles occurring. It's hugely entertaining.

New comment by mr_justin in "Formula 1: Building the world’s fastest cars"

mr_justin — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 19:17:24 +0000

For me, endurance racing (WEC) is quite a bit more fascinating and impressive than F1. Racing a car on the cutting edge of race technology for 2 hours is one thing, but 24 hours is a whole different ballgame.

New comment by mr_justin in "95 years after disappearance, the USS Conestoga is found"

mr_justin — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:52:15 +0000

The Farallons are a pretty intense little outcropping just off the coast. Doesn't make it any more appealing that it's a mecca for Great Whites.

New comment by mr_justin in "NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?"

mr_justin — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 02:59:57 +0000

It's not that anyone has forgotten, it's that a lot of people never learned how to in the first place. Every programmer community is riddled with these problems but the NPM world seems to be the worst. The ruby gem "american_date" annoys me to no end. It's just a highly-specific implementation of Time#strptime. Gah

New comment by mr_justin in "42 as a Service"

mr_justin — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 17:05:46 +0000

Ha! Reminds me of something I did a long time ago: http://whatis7times.thenumber6.com/

New comment by mr_justin in "Google Calendar Redesign: It's Goddamn Terrible"

mr_justin — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:34:03 +0000

Standard lightbox image technique, pretty nice once you get used to it. Click image to expand, click almost anywhere to collapse.

New comment by mr_justin in "Advice From An Old Programmer"

mr_justin — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 02:53:26 +0000

Quick, somebody called to question the effectiveness of your statements when you lace them with arrogant statements! Attack them!

New comment by mr_justin in "The State of Ruby and Testing"

mr_justin — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:05:34 +0000

The colors are very hard to differentiate with the larger datasets, such as the 2 testing frameworks charts.

New comment by mr_justin in "Meet Craiggers: It Blows Craigslist Out of The Water"

mr_justin — Mon, 02 May 2011 22:14:16 +0000

The part where you enter something to search for and it takes over 10 seconds for a result.

New comment by mr_justin in "Try(), try() again in Rails"

mr_justin — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:29:17 +0000

> I know I sometimes forget about it, and I’ve looked at enough code from other developers to know that I’m not the only one.

I think by and large, most people don't use it not out of forgetfulness, but out of disdain for willy nilly calling methods on objects without knowing what might happen.

New comment by mr_justin in "Sitting All Day: Worse For You Than You Might Think"

mr_justin — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:08:20 +0000

Unless you already have feet (plantar fasciitis is super common) problems, in which case it will make things much worse.

New comment by mr_justin in "The Joy of about:blank"

mr_justin — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:42:35 +0000

That page might be the hardest webpage to load.

New comment by mr_justin in "How can you reduce your emails by 50% a day? "

mr_justin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:02:00 +0000

I like the simplicity of using an alt email account that sends you daily digests. OtherInbox is an example, though I do not endorse that service in particular.

New comment by mr_justin in "Create A Clean and Stylish CSS3 Contact Form"

mr_justin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:23:54 +0000

Yes but if you want to float the label and have it cleared in the next "row", that's where the separation of elements comes in handy.

New comment by mr_justin in "Create A Clean and Stylish CSS3 Contact Form"

mr_justin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:26:08 +0000

I opt for a P around both the label and the field, gives greater CSS hooks and encapsulates each form area nicely.

New comment by mr_justin in "Windows 8 Plans Leaked: Numerous Details Revealed"

mr_justin — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:50:37 +0000

According to one of these slides, "humans" is short for "mainstream consumers".

http://msftkitchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Windows-8-...

New comment by mr_justin in "Ask HN: Which Android Phone to Buy?"

mr_justin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:27:11 +0000

Approach this with care. I just bricked my G1 with DangerSPL. Followed the steps exactly, never made it past the SPL flash.