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New comment by ohkaiby in "Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator"

ohkaiby — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:41:32 +0000

sighs unzips ROM files...

New comment by ohkaiby in "How to Interview Engineers"

ohkaiby — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:27:07 +0000

Guys... you can tell this is satire, right?

> First, I cannot myself pass this interview. Last time I tried, I got the correct answer after about forty minutes or so. I could get it down with practice, but it doesn't matter-- I think slower than I type. That's a no hire. The point of the interview is to hire extremely talented engineers, not engineers as talented as me.

The humor is so thick in that paragraph that you could cut it with a knife.

New comment by ohkaiby in "AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation"

ohkaiby — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 05:48:56 +0000

CARRIER HAS ARRIVED

New comment by ohkaiby in "A Python Interpreter Written in Rust"

ohkaiby — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 23:10:10 +0000

Do you have a link to this info?

New comment by ohkaiby in "Ask HN: How do you manage UI/UX for your side projects?"

ohkaiby — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 16:16:01 +0000

One other thing to add is that you can't make a good design without content. Unless you have all of your content ready to visually position/style, don't bother designing yet. I used to try to make the visual layout first without really thinking about content, and it was always a struggle.

New comment by ohkaiby in "Ask HN: How do you manage UI/UX for your side projects?"

ohkaiby — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 16:12:19 +0000

I actually took a 3-month crash course on Visual Design because I was weak in that area (as a front-end developer). Probably one of the best professional investments I have made. The course taught me basically the above list.

I would add knowledge about grids and negative spacing to the above list.

New comment by ohkaiby in "Facebook chooses Canada for Dating feature launch"

ohkaiby — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 19:54:55 +0000

It's gonna be interesting to see how existing dating services who use Facebook/other social graphs (like Coffee Meets Bagel) will react to this new service.

New comment by ohkaiby in "Infant Deaths Fall Sharply in Africa with Routine Antibiotics"

ohkaiby — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 04:58:42 +0000

I'm reminded of a similar notion that Bill & Melinda Gates wrote in their 2018 letter[0]:

"When more children live past the age of 5, and when mothers can decide if and when to have children, population sizes don’t go up. They go down. Parents have fewer children when they’re confident those children will survive into adulthood. Big families are in some ways an insurance policy against the tragic likelihood of losing a son or a daughter. We see this pattern throughout history. All over the world, when death rates among children go down, so do birth rates. It happened in France in the late 1700s. It happened in Germany in the late 1800s. Argentina in the 1910s, Brazil in the 1960s, Bangladesh in the 1980s."

[0] https://www.gatesnotes.com/2018-Annual-Letter (#5)

New comment by ohkaiby in "Dynamic Progamming: First Principles"

ohkaiby — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:33:12 +0000

No, if you look at vanderZwan's explanation for the non-tail recursive call, you'll see that it doesn't build on a finished result of the previous call.

> You have to recurse until you reach n == 0, and only then does the whole sum "collapse".

New comment by ohkaiby in "Designing Websites for iPhone X"

ohkaiby — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 18:01:14 +0000

It's less infuriating if you read it in Jony Ive's voice.

New comment by ohkaiby in "What I've Learned So Far as a Programmer"

ohkaiby — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 17:28:41 +0000

Author made an edit:

> THE BIGGEST LESSON I LEARNED TODAY

> Don’t forget to turn on your caching plugin and CDN. I submitted this blog post to Hacker News and this website can’t be accessed.

> And I HOPE it won’t crash right after I wrote this. I hope! Haha.

Haa... nice.

New comment by ohkaiby in "Ask HN: Best-architected open-source business applications worth studying?"

ohkaiby — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 16:46:41 +0000

GitHub the application is not open source.

New comment by ohkaiby in "How to build a JavaScript package manager"

ohkaiby — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 01:13:32 +0000

I chuckled as well.

New comment by ohkaiby in "Big oil will die when it becomes cheaper to hail an electric self-driving car"

ohkaiby — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 04:55:32 +0000

^ Parent w/ a <1 yr old. Car seats aren't used on planes because a car seat would take up a seat, which costs money. Kids under 2 yrs are free if they sit on your lap at most/all US airlines, so parents would just swap lap-sitting for their kid(s).

Not sure about trains.

I assume that if/when cars are as safe as a plane/train, adults wouldn't even need seat belts but you'd still need a carseat for an infant/toddler because it also stabilizes the child's position. Kids <6mo have no neck control. Kids <10mo can't reliably sit up for long durations. An autodriving car might be safe, but it'd probably still need to make emergency stops / turns. That'd be real bad if there were no carseats.

New comment by ohkaiby in "Silicon Valley CEO Pleads ‘No Contest’ to Abusing His Wife"

ohkaiby — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:17:02 +0000

You mean ‘she’:

https://ballotpedia.org/Allison_M._Danner

https://law.stanford.edu/directory/allison-danner/

New comment by ohkaiby in "What makes the perfect office?"

ohkaiby — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 23:05:39 +0000

Hey, I remember "Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins" from grade school.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Hershel_and_the_Hanukka...

New comment by ohkaiby in "Replacing butter with vegetable oils does not cut heart disease risk (2016)"

ohkaiby — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 07:00:15 +0000

Interesting. I've been taught the opposite due to the low smoke point of olive oil.

I use Avocado oil; it has a high smoke point and seems healthier. Other oils are OK if you don't cook on high heat (use medium heat or lower).