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New comment by oakejp12 in "There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]"

oakejp12 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 23:30:30 +0000

I can beat this “supergenius” - I hire a professor that knows exactly how to teach and what to teach. This professor isn’t rolling the dice every time I ask them a question. Boom.

New comment by oakejp12 in "Super Intelligence"

oakejp12 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:48:58 +0000

Nothing like trying to read text and you have tons of meaningless animations that are distracting your attention.

Joe needs to stop vibecoding so much.

New comment by oakejp12 in "Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio"

oakejp12 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:10:55 +0000

> Apples largest competitive advantage has always been and always will be - trust.

Lmao

> Many of you think you are so smart on topics outside of your domain

Turn the mirror around

New comment by oakejp12 in "AI, Tools and Transformation"

oakejp12 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:22:54 +0000

So you’re working two jobs now?

New comment by oakejp12 in "Why Sam Altman Won't Be on the Hook for OpenAI's Spending Spree"

oakejp12 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 16:35:19 +0000

Doesn’t seem pretty boring and unreasonable to me to hate a Nazi and who’s contributing to building a mechahilter.

At least, these were previously American values to hate these people.

New comment by oakejp12 in "Patagonian Welsh"

oakejp12 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:57:59 +0000

I don't think anyone appreciates anything from anyone who spends hours "daygaming" like a 40 year old virgin

New comment by oakejp12 in "Patagonian Welsh"

oakejp12 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 04:20:54 +0000

I'm not sure what you're subjective observations have to do with facts, but ok?

New comment by oakejp12 in "Patagonian Welsh"

oakejp12 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 03:51:41 +0000

> In average, better looking than non-welsh average.

> unlike the mapuche tribe people, who have produced the local criminal and ugly population

Your observations are horribly racist.

New comment by oakejp12 in "Patagonian Welsh"

oakejp12 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 03:31:44 +0000

What an incredibly weird comment.

New comment by oakejp12 in "Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?"

oakejp12 — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 03:14:42 +0000

No one in the financial industry seriously considers crypto except for the fact that they can use it to siphon money from the unfortunately disillusioned and the idiotic.

As a financier and a programmer, I'm happy people keep pouring money into it because I can win more games. As a human, it's really sad to witness.

New comment by oakejp12 in "How we made our AI code review bot stop leaving nitpicky comments"

oakejp12 — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:37:38 +0000

I'm mostly asking to see how I can adjust my workflow with juniors because I sometimes find myself drowning trying to maintain a decent codebase - not trying to be accusatory.

I generally use MRs as an opportunity to give feedback like how you'd get feedback on a set of math problem statements. I inferred from "rarely do I ever really leave commentary" that you're not using MRs as a training tool. How else do you train junior engineers?

For context, I work in the financial industry where mistakes are costly and users are hostile so the "accept & merge" workflow may not be for me.

New comment by oakejp12 in "How we made our AI code review bot stop leaving nitpicky comments"

oakejp12 — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 20:50:03 +0000

Are the junior programmers that you hire that good that you don't need training or commentary? I find I spend a lot of time reviewing MRs and leaving commentary. For instance, this past week, I had a junior apply the same business logic across classes instead of creating a class/service and injecting it as a dependency.

This, improper handling of exceptions, missed testing cases or no tests at all, incomplete types, a misunderstanding of a nuanced business case, etc. An automatic approval would leave the codebase in such a dire state.

New comment by oakejp12 in "Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships"

oakejp12 — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 19:14:42 +0000

I'd be interested in reading that Axios-wrapper if it's openly available.

New comment by oakejp12 in "Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading"

oakejp12 — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:38:09 +0000

> A standard CS program will cover statistics

> graphics is a very common and popular elective

I find these statements to be extremely doubtful. Why would a CS program cover statistics? Wouldn't that be the math department? If there any required courses, it's most likely Calc 1/2, Linear Algebra, and Discrete Math.

Also, out of the hundreds of programmers I've met, I don't know any that has done graphics programming. I consider that super niche.

New comment by oakejp12 in "Challenging projects every programmer should try (2019)"

oakejp12 — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 03:56:30 +0000

I just do both.

New comment by oakejp12 in "Understanding Deep Learning"

oakejp12 — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 23:23:22 +0000

The PDF figures for 'Why does deep learning work' seem to point to 'Deep learning and ethics' and vice versa.

New comment by oakejp12 in "Juan de Pareja: from Diego Velázquez’s slave to distinguished artist"

oakejp12 — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 13:31:51 +0000

> anyone could end up in that situation

What do you mean by this? The wealthiest and most influential of ancient Greek society could also end up as slaves in their own communities?

New comment by oakejp12 in "Money, money, money (and investing) (2015)"

oakejp12 — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 03:59:01 +0000

Oh wow, I had the exact opposite reaction. Very close to a childhoold in poverty - lost my family when I was 5, adopted, homeless, etc. - but when I graduated college, my apartment rent was $2000 in DC, I was vacationing in Norway, and eating and drinking at the most expensive restaurants. I made a bet that I was going to make decent amount of money in salary, and that bet has paid off. Debt-free from university, sizeable retirement accounts and savings, etc. Now, I wasn't able to afford to buy a home or condo at 25 like my peers, but I thought I was okay given I was starting over.

I realized I lived through a peculiar hell when I was young, so I definitely made up for it buy working hard, playin' hard.

Introduction to Debugging Memory Leaks in Java

oakejp12 — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:48:30 +0000

Article URL: https://johanoakes.com/blog/12/04/2020/java-debugging-memory-exceptions-part-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25583221

Points: 2

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New comment by oakejp12 in "The Silicon Oligarchy"

oakejp12 — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 12:08:13 +0000

> that phrase is exactly what I would love to hear from authorities as black business owner

If you want your fellow neighbors gunned down, you should move to China! You'd absolutely love it there! You'd love to know their government murders their dissenters. I think you'd have a little trouble being a black business owner, but the pros outweigh the cons.