Hacker News: nfoz

New comment by nfoz in "Two hackers one keyboard two ways"

nfoz — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 04:40:45 +0000

The Amiga had support for this in circa 1985. You could play 2-player competitive lemmings which was a game like nothing I've seen since.

New comment by nfoz in "Encrypted Client Hello"

nfoz — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 22:13:24 +0000

Are you familiar with https://pi-hole.net/ ?

In my house I want DNS resolution to be performed by my own DNS resolver (https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound), after I block ad domains.

DoH circumvents that.

New comment by nfoz in "AI-generated art lacks copyright protection, D.C. court says"

nfoz — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 21:26:31 +0000

What? Capitalism is just fine without the artificial notion of copyright.

We can pay labourers for their time producing works. We don't need pay-per-copy.

New comment by nfoz in "Facebook to block news for some users in Canada"

nfoz — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 15:13:00 +0000

> I don't base my choice on what media to absorb on superficial criteria like the country of origin

Other countries, including the USA, advertise and hype their own content. Your preferences are deeply influenced by the country of origin, because advertising works.

New comment by nfoz in "The .zip TLD sucks"

nfoz — Fri, 12 May 2023 19:13:23 +0000

This is the deliberate reason why this TLD exists.

ICANN sold out the internet.

New comment by nfoz in "A senior engineer's guide to the system design interview"

nfoz — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 17:00:21 +0000

If my house had a pest problem, I would need to hire an expert in pest-control. I need to do that without being an expert myself. How should anyone be able to hire someone with more experience than themselves, in your view? I've sometimes had to 'hire my own boss'.

Maybe the criteria for the problem was less "did they check these boxes" and more "could they be a collaborative mentor willing to work with even the junior members on the team" in the context of designing a system.

New comment by nfoz in "A senior engineer's guide to the system design interview"

nfoz — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 04:57:39 +0000

What's the sour taste -- what's the problem? Like, what's wrong with being interviewed by someone with less experience than you?

New comment by nfoz in "Roald Dahl: Original books to be kept in print following criticism"

nfoz — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 20:49:42 +0000

I know, but they don't. Outside of creative tech/art spheres, most people don't know much of anything about copyright, and telling them about "works expiring into the public domain" seems to violate their preconceived ideas about "property". It's tragic.

New comment by nfoz in "Roald Dahl: Original books to be kept in print following criticism"

nfoz — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 18:23:39 +0000

Most people I know don't have any concept that copyright does or should expire. They think if Disney makes a movie, it's Disney's movie forever.

New comment by nfoz in "AI translates Hokkien, an unwritten language, for the first time"

nfoz — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 04:38:13 +0000

You moved the goalpost from "in-depth conversation" to "order a cheese burger".

New comment by nfoz in "JetBrains Ring UI"

nfoz — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 21:10:08 +0000

Adobe didn't create Flash. They bought out Macromedia.

New comment by nfoz in "Duck typing is safe (2020)"

nfoz — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 05:27:24 +0000

With interface-typing, is there a right way to use the type system to declare "this function takes a (statically-certifiable) positive integer", not because it would fail to output a value for other numbers, but because its output would be incorrect or meaningless?

In scientific programming I've often wanted that, to push asserting particular constraints on values to the caller and/or the type system (whether that's compile-time or runtime type checks). But those constrained types would always match the interface of their unconstrained forms.

New comment by nfoz in "Duck typing is safe (2020)"

nfoz — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 05:18:21 +0000

I'm not sure if this counts, but where I run into this sort of problem it's with conventional methods/operators, like `operator+`. I've had lots of bugs over the years from something doing string-concat or list-append instead of integer+, or vice-versas.

New comment by nfoz in "A brief rant on the future of interaction design (2011)"

nfoz — Fri, 27 May 2022 15:24:55 +0000

Using synthesizer hardware is a joy of an experience.

New comment by nfoz in "A brief rant on the future of interaction design (2011)"

nfoz — Fri, 27 May 2022 15:22:54 +0000

Could you share your model for this? How well does it work? I've considered doing the same.

The set of laptops I'm willing to run non-macOS on is limited by the set of laptops that have physical touchpad buttons, and that's a diminishingly small market segment :(

New comment by nfoz in "Duck Chess"

nfoz — Thu, 19 May 2022 03:39:17 +0000

Love this!

Unrelated, but reminds me of another story featuring Chess and a Duck, and also relevant to the HN audience, which relates to the old videogame Battle Chess: https://bwiggs.com/notebook/queens-duck/

New comment by nfoz in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone"

nfoz — Tue, 17 May 2022 17:34:22 +0000

"selfie"? Video-calls are especially normalized now, since the pandemic. My family and friends use video-calls more often than voice-only calls now.

New comment by nfoz in "Google gives Europe a ‘reject all’ button for tracking cookies"

nfoz — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 16:19:12 +0000

"Do not track me" IS the reasonable default expectation of user intent, to be fair.

New comment by nfoz in "Bizarre space circle captured in unprecedented detail"

nfoz — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 23:43:29 +0000

Is that not ego? "We're better than a cab".

It would be ego-less if they called it CabApp or something.

New comment by nfoz in "Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4"

nfoz — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 23:01:01 +0000

Is it better to work at Google that has all your emails and search history?