Hacker News: napierzaza

New comment by napierzaza in "Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam"

napierzaza — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:42:08 +0000

I am also working on a project after being laid off, though I got hired elsewhere. Any suggestions on how to promote your work? I am fairly far away from that but it will be a harder thing for me I think

New comment by napierzaza in "Apple is open sourcing Swift Build"

napierzaza — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 01:27:39 +0000

No one uses Apple platforms - sent from my iPhone

New comment by napierzaza in "Uber charges more if you have credits in your account"

napierzaza — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:54:41 +0000

It was pretty insane that there was such a huge push with #deleteuber and there were so many stories about how terrible they were as a company for customers and employees. And now after just a few short years people somehow completely forgot or believe somehow it's all good because they changed their CEO.

New comment by napierzaza in "iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max"

napierzaza — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 21:23:09 +0000

I don't really get the confusion people have. It's understood that most people don't constantly upgrade every year. They are improving their product, and when you do need a new phone it will have a many features and be competitive with other devices. Yes, there has not been a killer-app in a long time that forces upgrades.

New comment by napierzaza in "What you learn by making a new programming language"

napierzaza — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 15:55:44 +0000

I remember when I was making music. It was really fun and engaging. Then I learned about microcontroller projects for making my own synthesizer. It was fun and it took me two years to build my synth. At the end of it I had not made music for long enough to have lost the knack, and I was sick of even learning how to use the synth because I was worried I would have to debug it. So I just didn't make music ever again. Why consume yourself with some sub project that goes nowhere?

New comment by napierzaza in "Canadians are angry with their biggest supermarket"

napierzaza — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:05:14 +0000

knee jerk conversation has entered the chat It's disappointing to see people just apply whatever thing they are bother by to every situation. It comes off as pretty narrow minded and political.

New comment by napierzaza in "A book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read is being published"

napierzaza — Tue, 07 May 2024 05:15:02 +0000

So the guy writing the book wanted Lolita to be a lot hornier?

New comment by napierzaza in "San Francisco’s rent prices have never returned to pre-2020 levels"

napierzaza — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 04:28:38 +0000

I knew your bias when you happy about the price of living here

New comment by napierzaza in "The changing face of post-pandemic New York City"

napierzaza — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 18:03:19 +0000

My understanding is that generally NOBODY DEFUNDED THE POLICE ANYWAY. The mayor was a cop. I don't think he defunded anything. But it's still used as an excuse. "Someone had an idea of defunding the police, which is why people moved away..."

New comment by napierzaza in "Cristiano Ronaldo faces $1B lawsuit over Binance ads"

napierzaza — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 20:53:53 +0000

How did Matt Damon get away with his?

New comment by napierzaza in "An aborted experiment with server Swift"

napierzaza — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 17:16:24 +0000

I have thought of doing projects with server side swift but only because I know Swift so well. It does seem like the worst thing to do is to try and learn Swift in the non-golden case of being within MacOS.

But ultimately this does seem to be standard issues you might see working with swift and lacking inference but the dev didn't know much about Swift to work his way out of it.

I do agree that the way Package.swift works and how it relates to your imports is really confusing. Not to mention how the name in the Package.swift relates to the package names your importing (they don't, they relate to the repo or directory instead of the Package names in the repo's Package.swift).

It seems like the dev just kind of randomly plugged away and they weren't really willing to learn anything and is holding everything at arm's length.

New comment by napierzaza in "A suicide crisis among veterinarians"

napierzaza — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:28:48 +0000

It seems like one of the main issues is that vets have super easy access to a quick and painless death, as well as extreme familiarity with it. Just like having access to a gun makes you more likely to suicide. In general people with more access are more likely to commit suicide when they feel that way. Not trying to undermine that they also feel extra depressed due to the job though. I've seen a few of my pets be euthanize and it was torture.

New comment by napierzaza in "Unity's oldest community announces dissolution"

napierzaza — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 19:44:56 +0000

It took me a little while to get it but now I do. They want their community to continue on even if some of their members are moving off of Unity.

New comment by napierzaza in "Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node"

napierzaza — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 20:29:34 +0000

People swearing they'd fight to the death for people like Tate are pretty say people. It's not washing that you're not allied with him.

New comment by napierzaza in "L-System Simulations"

napierzaza — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 22:33:02 +0000

I will check it out thanks

New comment by napierzaza in "L-System Simulations"

napierzaza — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 16:54:07 +0000

I've been trying to build plants using procedural generation for a project. I feel like everyone suggests L-Systems but I feel like it's good for making random alien plants that you can vaguely tweak. But they're not good for plants that you actually want to make look like something specifically and grow uniquely and progressively.

New comment by napierzaza in "Google's "free food" is not free"

napierzaza — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:15:53 +0000

It's an advertised perk so sure. Just like they might convince you to work somewhere because it's more geographically convenient for you or it has a day care. It offers better quality of life in lieu of cash money. I know cash is what most americans want. They want it over better health care or fairer lifestyle. But some people just want to live more comfortably instead of being able to tell people how many "figures" they make.

As for the cuts, maybe they decided to be more "honest" and cut that program and just give new hires more money?

New comment by napierzaza in "ACTA will force border searches of laptops, smartphones for pirated content"

napierzaza — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:57:08 +0000

This is annoying, especially since I might very well want to rip the DVDs I own to my laptop so I can watch them on the plane without fumbling with shitty disks.

Also, are TSA agents now capable of understanding what is fair use now since they have trouble with the volume of liquid I am able to bring?

What if someone has a bunch of legally licensed AVIs ? You get side-lined for a 3-4 hours. They should open a little MPAA lawyer's office in the airport. He'll help you negotiate a settlement before you get on the next leg of your flight to Houston.

New comment by napierzaza in "Apple's mind-bogglingly greedy and evil license agreement"

napierzaza — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:53:53 +0000

This is just new people seeing the agreement. The point where he starts yelling about the fact that he might not be allowed into the store was a big indicator. A little research will show you what you can get away with.

The rest just sounds like Apple might mean the actual compiled digital book is their property. Not the actual internal content, but the functional storage and execution of it. They're trying to keep people from cloning a iBook reader, not trying to lock down the author's work. Indeed not clear and not easy to make clear.

New comment by napierzaza in "Rand Paul promises to filibuster PIPA"

napierzaza — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:37:08 +0000

He's still a fink racist enabler.