<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: nickcoury</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nickcoury</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:19:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nickcoury" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nickcoury in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I reference Jakob's Law at least once a week, which says users use not your site most of the time. So if it works like most other sites then users will intuitively understand it. And if you do something different users will struggle to learn it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:27:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744702</link><dc:creator>nickcoury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744702</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nickcoury in "iPod Linux (2017)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A lot of watches now have Bluetooth music playback, both smart watches and sport watches.<p>I can also still manage to fit an iPhone 12 Mini comfortably in many running shorts in the small rear key pockets or back zipper pockets. Some running waistbands also work well. But it's hit and miss vs old mp3 players that weighed next to nothing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:23:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44508652</link><dc:creator>nickcoury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44508652</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44508652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nickcoury in "Ask HN: 9-yo son wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's just him so far. Built in his spare time over the last several years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2024 02:59:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39037094</link><dc:creator>nickcoury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39037094</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39037094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nickcoury in "Ask HN: 9-yo son wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Plugging my friend's side project: <a href="https://quickga.me/" rel="nofollow">https://quickga.me/</a><p>Fully 3D online game engine with multiplayer. Most of the game is made in the interactive click and drag mode, but has modes for extra logic and ultimately a full JS scripting engine if needed. Kind of like Roblox but far simpler on the dev side.<p>This shows the end to end development of a soccer game: <a href="https://youtu.be/6a1NmNhoO0M" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/6a1NmNhoO0M</a></p>
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<p>This 4 part series is related and excellent. <a href="https://developer.chrome.com/blog/inside-browser-part1/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://developer.chrome.com/blog/inside-browser-part1/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2023 00:43:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37877107</link><dc:creator>nickcoury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37877107</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37877107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nickcoury in "Anime.js – A lightweight JavaScript animation library"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The native Web Animations API supports this with setting currentTime relative to the total duration.</p>
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<p>When Web Sockets were still not finalized, I was writing a C# program using them but there wasn't a functional library available. There was however a nice open-source Java implementation. I copied it into Visual Studio, changed all the file extensions, and spent half an hour hitting build then fixing syntax and import red squigglies. It eventually built successfully and happily sent data to a NodeJS front end for years.</p>
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<p>My favorite front end interview did this exact thing.  The interview started with an issue taken straight from the Preact GitHub codebase.  The interviewer provided the issue text and the commit right before it was fixed to pull down onto my machine.  I had an hour to figure out how to build and reproduce the issue, Take in the high level structure of the code base, figure out how to drill down in a debugger to find where the issue itself was occurring, then propose a fix for it. Took the whole hour but was both extremely satisfying for me, and I imagine very insightful for the interviewer.</p>
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<p>Yes, there's at least one option for that now!<p><a href="https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 13:33:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31040044</link><dc:creator>nickcoury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31040044</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31040044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nickcoury in "Ask HN: I joined a FAANG and it is awful"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've worked at two different FAANG companies, and have a different view than some of the other commenters here.  It sounds like you want to grow, learn, and advance, and I don't think you'll be happy kicking back and coasting.<p>The first piece is that mobility is high between teams at almost every FAANG company.  At my first one, I moved 3 months later because the initial team wasn't a great fit for me maintaining a lot of slow moving legacy systems.  I moved to a team working on much more greenfield projects with more attention on the products themselves, and I thrived for several years.  See what your options are to talk to other teams and move to one that aligns better with what you want to work on.<p>The other related piece to this is that because mobility is so high, there do tend to be certain teams or areas with higher turnover and lower quality hires in some cases.  No one wants to work on hard to maintain and neglected products, most good engineers that start there move on, and so it becomes a self-perpetuating cycle.<p>There are likely some extremely brilliant people to learn from at the company (even if not in your team), so try to seek out and find them in teams with openings.  I agree it's easier to move after a year, but if the fit is really not right you can likely get an exception going to a team with an understanding manager (who you would enjoy working for anyways).  Set up some non-formal meetings based on the internal job board and be open with all these experiences and concerns.<p>Finally, the internal toolset is a real challenge, but I've come to take a slightly less pessimistic view on it.  First off, the internal tooling tends to be worse on an individual workflow level, but accepting it has largely been better for me than fighting it (in most but not all cases).  It's slower than a modern toolset, but still usually productive once you embrace what it's good at.  The flip side is there are usually good reasons it's evolved to where it is today.  Some of these reasons have to do with the scale of how many teams are working together, and understanding that will help explain why it is what it is.  The other reasons are just that some of these companies have now been around a long time, and shifting to something better would be quite painful organizationally, meaning it's not ideal but the alternative would also be painful for the organization at a whole.  You're new to it, so are at the opposite end of that.</p>
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<p>This is in line with the point of the original comment, which wasn’t just about investing money. That comment mentions self-development but it’s the general principle of reinvesting gains in something that is increasing in value.<p>In your case you are reinvesting gains from your music career back into your music career which is currently increasing in value. The principle is that this will let your career grow at increasing rates.</p>
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<p>Presumably it comes from a combination of things, e.g.
1. Streaming higher quality video. 
2. Using mobile more often instead of needing to find WiFi. 
3. Changing behavior to do things that you couldn’t before on a slower connection. 
4. Faster rate of consumption due to faster load times.</p>
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<p>I’ve always thought (or have been unaware of) a formal economic way of talking about this. Years ago I came up with my own definitions. “Altruism” can be defined as the part of your utility that increases because someone else’s utility increases. If you get no personal satisfaction out of something intrinsically but get satisfaction because someone else is happier, that is 100% altruistic. If you get some satisfaction but also some from the external benefit, you could tease out where it lies between 0 and 100%.<p>This also leads to another concept of “Malice” which would be the positive utility you get from others losing utility.<p>The crux to me is that often utility is talked about as only what you intrinsically get. Doing selfless things isn’t without benefit, it’s just without direct benefit and I have seen little ability to quantify it in economic terms.</p>
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<p>Yes, I could have been more clear about meaning “current generation”. The implication being the phones that will have a long life of support and relevance. When the SE came out it was using Apple’s latest iPhone processor. You can still buy a new SE but it will be deprecated by Apple and run newer software for a lot fewer years than the current-gen X phones. Likewise a couple years from now when the 7 and 8 are out of software support the only options will be large phones if Apple doesn’t reintroduce a smaller phone.</p>
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<p>I'll cross my fingers your speculation is correct.<p>There will now be an "apparent absence of good alternatives" in the iPhone camp too.  The SE will be nearly EOL hardware soon, and the smallest iPhone is now a 5.8 inch screen.  The minimum price point is also now $750 for current hardware.  The SE was partially a low cost option for emerging markets as I understood it, so either they're planning on previous year hardware as the affordable option, or they'll need to release something that doesn't cost so much soon.</p>
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<p>My reading of it was the opposite:
> Pedestrians must yield the right-of-way to vehicles when crossing outside of a marked crosswalk or an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection.<p>If a pedestrian is inside a crosswalk they almost always have the right of way.  Outside a crosswalk it is not the case.</p>
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<p>Agreed, the subsidized corn is also used as cheap feed for low quality meat. On the flip side fruits and vegetables receive the lowest subsidies. Plus the lower cost of unhealthy foods decreases demand for relatively more expensive healthy foods, lowering demand which drives prices up even higher. Tough to keep perishable foods when people don’t buy them as quickly. It’s a self reinforcing cycle to the bottom.</p>
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<p>I just built out an Alexa skill using one of these! Great source for ideas when you don't know where to start. Open sourced on GitHub.<p><a href="https://github.com/nickcoury/alexa-adopt-a-pet" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nickcoury/alexa-adopt-a-pet</a></p>
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<p>I had an Acer Aspire 751 with Atom Z520 and the GMA500 GPU you mentioned.  It always had terrible driver support in Windows 7.  When I updated to the Windows 10 insider preview before it was released, it was unusable.  Huge graphics glitches all over the place, text would disappear entirely in some programs, random scrambled blocks of the screen that changed as you navigated.  By the time Windows 10 was officially released it had been improved, but still wasn't great.  Not surprising that this piece of hardware isn't a good candidate for support in the future.</p>
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<p>It's a real thing.  Freakonomics talked about it in one of their recent podcasts. Basically, clinical trials often exclude or under sample women for a number of reasons including the confounding factors of menstrual cycles, pregnancy complications, etc. This has received increasing attention lately and is getting better, but a ton of the current scientific wisdom is based on underrepresentative samples.<p><a href="http://freakonomics.com/podcast/bad-medicine-part-2-drug-trials-and-tribulations/" rel="nofollow">http://freakonomics.com/podcast/bad-medicine-part-2-drug-tri...</a></p>
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