Hacker News: mryingster

New comment by mryingster in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024)"

mryingster — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 18:22:32 +0000

Location: USA Utah (Provo area) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C/C++, Javascript/Node, Python, Linux/Bash, Resume: https://coastalvectors.com/resume.php Portfolio: https://coastalvectors.com/software.php LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelcaldwell1 Email: michael@coastalvectors.com

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I've been working in corporate environments developing internal diagnostic tools for hardware and automated work flows for build automation. I have enjoyed working on software that interfaces with the hardware. In my free time I enjoy programming games for my kids in Javascript.

New comment by mryingster in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

mryingster — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 19:23:17 +0000

Unironically, the Apple TV is my favorite Apple device. It does exactly what it says it does, is inexpensive, and has a good interface. It just works.

New comment by mryingster in "Battery-free Game Boy (2020)"

mryingster — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 17:35:19 +0000

While true, my prized possession as a kid was my GameBoy Light that was imported from Japan. Other people had regular GameBoy pockets or even colors, but I'd rather have that awesome backlight. My kids still use it to this day to play Zelda.

New comment by mryingster in "Restoring a Vintage Rolex GMT"

mryingster — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 20:22:36 +0000

He is my favorite of the restoration channels. I don't believe anyone comes close to his attention to detail. I wish he put content out more frequently!

New comment by mryingster in "Affinity 2"

mryingster — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 21:23:15 +0000

Interesting. I had the opposite outcome. I didn't like how Pixelmator reinvented the wheel as far as interface goes. I felt like Affinity Photo was a much better lateral transition from Photoshop for my needs. I bought both though mostly to support them. I'm glad we have options that aren't Adobe. I just can't abide the idea of licensing software in perpetuity.

New comment by mryingster in "Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux"

mryingster — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 15:16:34 +0000

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18002626

New comment by mryingster in "Coolest Things I Learned in 2018"

mryingster — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 21:40:40 +0000

Funny. I thought the shorter focal length made his face look more interesting and features look nicer whereas the 200mm lens made his face look like a big block with no definition and large neck. Crazy how subjective something like that can be!

New comment by mryingster in "Myth of the Brown Recluse"

mryingster — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:02:14 +0000

I live in So California, and people around here always talk about black widows, and are always surprised to learn of the existence of brown widows.

I find this odd because I never see black widows around my house, but there are easily a dozen brown widows coming out at night around the base of the outside of my house. Pointy egg-sacks everywhere...

New comment by mryingster in "How Snow Leopard became synonymous with reliability"

mryingster — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 16:30:44 +0000

Oh, I'm sure. I've used the migration tool when going from one mac to another (Specifically from G4 to Intel iMac in 2006) which might clean some things out. Looking at the plists in my ~/Libray, I have some dated as far back as 2001. I also still have my MacOS 9 installed on my main hard disk :-P

New comment by mryingster in "How Snow Leopard became synonymous with reliability"

mryingster — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 15:33:30 +0000

My current OS actually stems back from the Public Beta that I ran on my G3. I've cloned the data from HDD to HDD/Computer to Computer and upgraded the OS every time, and it's currently on El Capitan (because my Mac Pro is no longer supported). I've never run into issues during an upgrade.

New comment by mryingster in "Tasmanian tiger: The enduring belief in an extinct animal"

mryingster — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 17:27:08 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth

I'm shocked that anyone actually believes this in modern days, but it's a fun thing to fantasize about.

There is a fictional series about hollow earth called Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs that I enjoyed immensely. A fun read, not unlike Tarzan.

New comment by mryingster in "Chrome removes Backspace to go back"

mryingster — Thu, 19 May 2016 16:57:35 +0000

At one point I forked Chromium over the click-selects-all in the URL bar. In OS X, this was the only application that behaved that way (until Apple recently followed suit with Safari...). Now I just use FireFox because they give me the option to override the default. I edit URLs far more often than typing in new ones. If I am going to a new URL, I generally type command-l or open a new tab...

New comment by mryingster in "Unicorn Logo Evolution"

mryingster — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 18:34:39 +0000

I found your post much more informative and interesting. The animations I think are detrimental since you can't do a side-by-side comparison.

New comment by mryingster in "Antimony – A fresh look at CAD software"

mryingster — Fri, 29 May 2015 15:52:34 +0000

I haven't found a free, native Mac CAD software that I like as much as Autodesk Inventor for Windows yet, but there are a number of free one available for the Mac.

123Design comes to mind [1]

You can also peruse the comparison of CAD software at Wikipedia. [2]

1. http://www.123dapp.com/design 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_computer-aided_de...

New comment by mryingster in "Harry Potter in Ancient Greek"

mryingster — Thu, 28 May 2015 23:10:21 +0000

I wouldn't know :) It must be a weird task to try to translate something as bizarre as names from one language to another. Harry isn't exactly a distinctive name. It's rather common, like the name John. I wonder, why not pick a traditional Greek name for the protagonist rather than trying to find something that seems similar to the English name?

New comment by mryingster in "Harry Potter in Ancient Greek"

mryingster — Thu, 28 May 2015 23:02:24 +0000

From the article:

"And Harry Potter is Ἅρειος Ποτήρ [Hareios Poter]- ἄρειος [areios] means "belonging to Ares", the war god - appropriate for the young warrior, and ποτήρ [poter] is a Greek word for "cup" or "goblet" - presumably the cup of wisdom from which Harry must quickly learn to drink deeply."

It doesn't look like Aryan was what the translator believes it means?

New comment by mryingster in "Google Maps Pacman"

mryingster — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:46:20 +0000

This is amazing! Thank you! I always get so frustrated when I go to use Google Maps ever since the UI update. The floating drop-down search box infuriates me to no end.

New comment by mryingster in "The billionaire’s typewriter"

mryingster — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:30:38 +0000

How is it a great convention? I'm not trying to be contentious, however I am not sure how that is superior to underlining a link, which is a fairly ubiquitous convention. It seems overly cumbersome. It made me think though that perhaps a superscript would serve the same purpose and be less intrusive.

New comment by mryingster in "New Jurassic World Trailer Hides Improved CGI in Plain Sight"

mryingster — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 17:30:22 +0000

This reminds me of an old Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin discusses verbing words.

http://assets.amuniversal.com/6f34d860df950131725e005056a954...

That's kind of an amazing aspect of English as a language; you can misuse words entirely, yet still convey a message. I wonder if this linguistic flexibility is due to the fact that our language is a mixture of so many other languages with disparate grammatical rules.

New comment by mryingster in "Ask HN: When was the last time you lived 24 hours without the Internet?"

mryingster — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:42:25 +0000

3 years ago is the last time I remember. It was on a 2.5 day camping trip. At the site we went to, there was no cell coverage without going down the mountain, so the cell phone was turned off, and I didn't bother bringing any other devices. It was nice.

It's hard to have that type of disconnected experience any other time than vacation since my job relies on using computers all day. Maybe one of these weekends I should switch off the phone...