Hacker News: natmaster

New comment by natmaster in "Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing"

natmaster — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 06:24:54 +0000

Why do you need major performance increases for old looking games that are already maxing out your monitor's refresh rate? Next you're gonna say programmable shaders are overkill.

New comment by natmaster in "GitHub Alternatives"

natmaster — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 20:37:33 +0000

Steve Ballmer is no longer CEO. Companies are run by people - they are not people.

New comment by natmaster in "The Rise of the Thought Leader"

natmaster — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 22:20:54 +0000

It is not sufficient to advance understanding and ideas beyond the rest of civilization. These ideas must be communicated as well.

New comment by natmaster in "Firefox Network Monitor Reloaded – Part 1"

natmaster — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 06:33:42 +0000

If you think having more lines of code makes something slower then you should disabled the JIT in your browser and see the amazing performance wins of javascript being interpreted with less lines of code!

New comment by natmaster in "The future of MDN: a focus on web docs"

natmaster — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 17:20:07 +0000

Google sucks and you're complaining to Mozilla? I can't believe people have become so complacent with search they will start blaming great content on the internet for being hidden by shitty algorithms.

New comment by natmaster in "React v15.5.0"

natmaster — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 23:03:00 +0000

This is the prep for fiber. They're releasing something with deprecation warnings so when they have to completely remove those things in 16 (w/ fiber), everyone will be ready.

New comment by natmaster in "Password Rules Are Bullshit"

natmaster — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 22:27:29 +0000

The worst rules are the ones that don't let you use non-alphanumeric characters - and these are banking sites!

New comment by natmaster in "Safari 10.1"

natmaster — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 22:28:33 +0000

They're still super late to this party. But good to see they're finally implementing this.

New comment by natmaster in "Announcing Pipenv"

natmaster — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 02:45:09 +0000

This is cool - it's like yarn for python! :)

New comment by natmaster in "Why Is Obama Expanding Surveillance Powers Right Before He Leaves Office?"

natmaster — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 18:09:13 +0000

Rep. Ronald Ernest 'Ron' Paul Republican Nay Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich Democratic Nay

Nay: 66

Like Sanders is any kind of special snowflake. You don't have to get socialism to get someone against mass surveillance.

New comment by natmaster in "U.S. Labor department sues Google for compensation data"

natmaster — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 07:01:27 +0000

Large companies actually do better in terms of diversity.

As far as doing things, there is definitely many things to be done! You are right that the problem starts well before college. In America there is a culture that being CS is nerdy, and not girly. This is largely in part due to Hollywood's attempts, but this can be combated at a more local level.

New comment by natmaster in "Is the Era of Great Famines Over?"

natmaster — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 17:27:36 +0000

Yeah, screw progress. Breadlines for all!

New comment by natmaster in "VR Resources"

natmaster — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 23:28:48 +0000

VR and AR are the future of HCI. Facebook wants their stock to continue going up and Mark wants to continue being relevant.

New comment by natmaster in "Bill Gates et. al. launch massive clean-energy fund to fight climate change"

natmaster — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 06:03:38 +0000

Dear God, you aren't suggesting that perhaps the government isn't the solution to everything and that in fact volunteerism could be viable?

New comment by natmaster in "Why we chose Vue.js over React"

natmaster — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 18:44:44 +0000

Turns out javascript is a quite reasonable language and already does that great.

New comment by natmaster in "Generals.io – Capture enemy generals to defeat them"

natmaster — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 19:56:10 +0000

Why does it not register my clicks most of the time? And when it does it's delayed by a whole second. Makes me do things I didn't intend.

New comment by natmaster in "Maine Ranked Choice Voting Initiative Approved"

natmaster — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:30:57 +0000

Whereas in an untruthful system like first-past-the-post - the winner could be someone who was #2 on 100% of the country's wishlist. But they voted for them because they were told their #1 had no chance.

New comment by natmaster in "Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]"

natmaster — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 23:52:10 +0000

The person I am replying to claims DT's message is clear, so I was hoping they might explain the part that I cannot understand.

New comment by natmaster in "Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]"

natmaster — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 22:11:27 +0000

Really? Can you explain what this means then?

"All vetting of people coming into our country will be considered “extreme vetting""

New comment by natmaster in "All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware"

natmaster — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 23:17:05 +0000

And in this case, it's even more important than just being the first from a market perspective. Being first here allows Tesla to acquire a ton of data for their ML to churn on. Data is the monopoly that makes tech companies like Facebook so valuable today. Facebook open sources most of their infrastructure, and anyone can copy their designs because they're fully public.