Hacker News: niggler

New comment by niggler in "Tesla Smashes Earnings And Revenue Expectations"

niggler — Wed, 08 May 2013 21:50:56 +0000

Now TSLA is up 21% (67.90 last trade)

New comment by niggler in "Unreal JavaScript"

niggler — Wed, 08 May 2013 12:56:31 +0000

What happened to the original title "Unreal JavaScript"? The biggest focus of the article is emscripten, not asm.js.

New comment by niggler in "Plot.ly: Matlab for the Web"

niggler — Wed, 08 May 2013 01:46:35 +0000

Retina macbook pro early 2013, chrome 26. Zooming some of the plots is noticably slow (and zooming out of the Hopf Bifurcation plot occasionally causes chrome to stop responding)

If there’s any confusion regarding my name …

niggler — Tue, 07 May 2013 18:31:41 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.nig.gl/post/49867911701/if-theres-any-confusion-regarding-my-name

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5669833

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by niggler in "Two.js"

niggler — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:17:21 +0000

How does this compare to raphael (http://raphaeljs.com/) ?

New comment by niggler in "How to Spread The Word About Your Code"

niggler — Tue, 07 May 2013 13:00:47 +0000

None of your statements contradicts points from my comment, my post, or the coding horror post. If you are releasing code and not putting in a license or doing so improperly, don't expect others to use it. CH focused on one facet (missing a license) while I focused on a different facet (how to add a license properly)

New comment by niggler in "Jony Ive is Not a Graphic Designer"

niggler — Mon, 06 May 2013 23:56:39 +0000

"... will we have to endure over the next month"

So long as people click on those pages, everyone with even the most minute point will write to their hearts' content. I'm surprised that this page didn't have a million ads on it

New comment by niggler in "Bill Gates: A lot of iPad users are 'frustrated'"

niggler — Mon, 06 May 2013 21:37:20 +0000

There are proper keyboards for the ipad (this is being typed on a logitech ultrathin keyboard ipad cover)

I haven't tried the surface version of office, but the web versions of office definitely lack features compared to the desktop versions (for example, array formulae)

New comment by niggler in "How to Spread The Word About Your Code"

niggler — Mon, 06 May 2013 18:54:03 +0000

It's better to be safe than sorry, as the saying goes. I've never been burned personally. I'm also pretty sure that anyone working for a large software company is warned about using third party code or snippets found on expertsexchange or stackoverflow or random blogs.

Normally people are well intentioned, but sometimes you stumble upon repos with very strange licenses (for example, a javascript repo that has operating system restrictions https://github.com/stephen-hardy/xlsx.js/issues/8 ).

It's usually not of a concern for most people working on small projects (after all, another party has to notice and then decide to take action), but if you are trying to enter an industry with a highly litigious incumbent then you should make sure your ducks are in a row first.

New comment by niggler in "How to Spread The Word About Your Code"

niggler — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:43:10 +0000

I wish licensing was emphasized more in this discussion.

Including a license is the #1 reason myself and many other people stray away from code on the internet. I won't touch a project if it's not stated properly.

And to be clear, just writing that your project is MIT licensed or sticking it in a package.json or making a small remark in your README doesn't cut it. You need to follow the terms of the license you wish to use (my comment on the matter: http://blog.nig.gl/post/48848761220/just-saying-something-is...)

(always a good read: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/04/pick-a-license-any-...)

New comment by niggler in "Rent-a-coder hilarity (2008)"

niggler — Mon, 06 May 2013 05:04:01 +0000

Unfortunately, the situation has only gotten worse in 2013

New comment by niggler in "Emacs v. Vi Is Rooted in the Love of Lisp"

niggler — Mon, 06 May 2013 04:27:39 +0000

    set -o vi

sets vim bindings for bash (and there's a similar thing for the libreadline)

Building Excel in the Browser

niggler — Sun, 05 May 2013 19:48:51 +0000

Article URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHlElf1aJJY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5659509

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by niggler in "I don’t understand American healthcare – doesn’t mean I shouldn’t provide it"

niggler — Sun, 05 May 2013 16:03:06 +0000

To clarify: it is an excise tax and applies to the _gross sale price_, not the profits (so even if the division runs at a loss, they still have to pay). http://www.irs.gov/uac/Medical-Device-Excise-Tax:-Frequently... I'd agree with your skepticism if it were affecting net (after employee salaries etc).

> And besides, it doesn't invalidate the ethical point that it is right to privide medical insurance, even if true.

Your original point was "There are no good reasons to be against the Act", so my response was pointing to a reason why someone would be against the act: I'm pretty sure that being laid off due to a regulation is a pretty good reason to be unhappy

New comment by niggler in "I don’t understand American healthcare – doesn’t mean I shouldn’t provide it"

niggler — Sun, 05 May 2013 15:53:05 +0000

There are many americans working at medical device companies that will be affected by the 2.3% medical device tax. Zimmer, for example, cited the medical device tax as the reason for firing a thousand workers a few years ago.

New comment by niggler in "Genetic algorithms, Mona Lisa and JavaScript + Canvas"

niggler — Sun, 05 May 2013 14:31:05 +0000

Both reference http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolut...

New comment by niggler in "Enable tab-completion in the interactive interpreter by default"

niggler — Sun, 05 May 2013 14:28:55 +0000

on OSX you need

    readline.parse_and_bind('bind ^I rl_complete')

SquadEdit: web-based collaborative code editor

niggler — Sun, 05 May 2013 14:22:44 +0000

Article URL: https://squadedit.com/#

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5658393

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by niggler in "Elon Musk admits Tesla's math was wrong"

niggler — Sat, 04 May 2013 06:13:29 +0000

"an accomplished CEO admitting to a mistake earns 'em more karma and credibility than not."

To you, maybe. To investors? Absolutely not.

New comment by niggler in "Ask HN: Why can't I login to HN via Firefox?"

niggler — Sat, 04 May 2013 04:23:22 +0000

Some people are incapable of introspection. Sadly, including some of the more active people on HN.