Hacker News: ozmaverick72

New comment by ozmaverick72 in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

ozmaverick72 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:59:27 +0000

Can not believe no one has asked the obvious question - is his nickname Tina ?

New comment by ozmaverick72 in "CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models"

ozmaverick72 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:16:28 +0000

Interesting. I have played with OpenScad a bit. This looks similar - i guess the difference is the syntax is python - any other major differences

New comment by ozmaverick72 in "Show HN: I made a puzzle game with Three.js"

ozmaverick72 — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 06:03:07 +0000

So simple and clean and very addictive - well done

New comment by ozmaverick72 in "The Cuboid: A DIY air purifier that's better than a box-fan (2021)"

ozmaverick72 — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 00:43:35 +0000

I'm guessing the smoke from the fires in Canada is responsible for a lot of the interest in this post ??

New comment by ozmaverick72 in "Deadly heart attacks are more common on a Monday"

ozmaverick72 — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 01:22:41 +0000

Is this similar to the story that it rains more on the weekend ? Didn't the analysis show that if you segmented the data into arbitrary chunks it always came back with higher rainfall at the start of end of the period - so if you broken the data up into blocks that went from Wednesday -> Tuesday it would come back and say it rains most on Wednesday. Wonder if something like that is going on here - I am down with the argument about stress and going back to work making it worse on a Monday :)

New comment by ozmaverick72 in "Successful flight trial completion of unmanned aerial vehicle, MAGMA (2017)"

ozmaverick72 — Tue, 16 May 2023 02:00:37 +0000

interesting concept - would have thought the radar return from the twin , almost vertical, tail plane was more significant than that of any other control surfaces they may have been able to eliminate.

To be fair maybe they can eliminate that part of the structure later on.

New comment by ozmaverick72 in "Pop-shoot: Synthwave styled space shooter, inspired by 80s arcades"

ozmaverick72 — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 01:10:07 +0000

That is very cool - like your work. How do you restart the game - i had to use the back button after i died

New comment by ozmaverick72 in "Why are developers expected to estimate tasks at all?"

ozmaverick72 — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 03:08:27 +0000

The difference between the buyer of a house and the buyer of software is that the house purchaser is clearly and succinctly able to communicate his / her desires and expectations. Where as the purchaser of software is making some vague request for functionality with poorly defined boundaries and requirements. There is little meaningful comparison of the two scenarios that can be made.

New comment by ozmaverick72 in "China on track to dominate development of critical future technologies"

ozmaverick72 — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 06:39:32 +0000

This article claims that China is the world leader in 37 out of 44 critical technologies.

China on track to dominate development of critical future technologies

ozmaverick72 — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 06:39:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-02/china-critical-future-technologies-west-aspi-report/102041318

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34992765

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ozmaverick72 in "Ask HN: Do you hate writing self assessments at the end of every quarter?"

ozmaverick72 — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 23:04:22 +0000

Yes I hate this with a passion. Feels so fake trying to justify your existence. Trolling through things you have done and trying to warp them into the stupid criteria to make them fit.

New comment by ozmaverick72 in "Proofs about Programs"

ozmaverick72 — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 08:51:21 +0000

I enjoyed the presentation of the material and the interactivity. Lean looks interesting. My only feedback was that I didn’t get a good sense of what I would know at the completion of the course. Making that clearer might drive up the signup rate

New comment by ozmaverick72 in "Vector Animations with Python (2014)"

ozmaverick72 — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 06:27:38 +0000

Seems to be getting 503 on retrieving some GIFS - i can only see the Japanese flag image and the rest are blank - is that happening for anyone else ?

Ask HN: Kubernetes Worth It?

ozmaverick72 — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:33:21 +0000

To paraphrase Phil Greenspan’s famous LISP quote: “Does any sufficiently complicated micro service architecture contain an ad hoc, informally specified, bug ridden, slow implementation of half of kubernetes?” Thought that might be an interesting way of saying is it worth bitting the bullet and spending the effort to understand and use kubernetes.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33089324

Points: 8

# Comments: 6

New comment by ozmaverick72 in "[dead]"

ozmaverick72 — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 05:38:00 +0000

I created this blog post to compare a developers experience compiling "hello world" style examples in both Ocaml and Haskell. Might be of interest to some of you out there.

New comment by ozmaverick72 in "Dhall: A Gateway Drug to Haskell"

ozmaverick72 — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 23:43:01 +0000

Are Stack / Cabal written in Haskell ? If so I dont think thats a very good advert for the benefits of writing software in Haskell - the quality as an uninformed user would appear on par with a crappy Perl script.

New comment by ozmaverick72 in "Idris 2: Quantitative Type Theory in Practice"

ozmaverick72 — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 01:58:43 +0000

Yip you are right I got that screwed up.

New comment by ozmaverick72 in "Idris 2: Quantitative Type Theory in Practice"

ozmaverick72 — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 01:13:01 +0000

I had a quick read of the paper and I think I got about 10% of the content - which is better than my usual average. My take-away - linear types allow you to express conditions such as this function must not be called with an empty list - QTT types extend linear types and allow you to specify run time dependencies between functions in the type system. I got the rough idea of being able to express a state machine in the type system - gives you the ability to say that this function can only be called in this state - to enter the state, these functions must be called in this order. How did I do ? Is that the rough gist of the paper ?

New comment by ozmaverick72 in "XMonad – The Automated Tiling WM"

ozmaverick72 — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 01:30:10 +0000

I just submitted it as an HN story to give it the attention it deserves

New comment by ozmaverick72 in "Compilers for Contrarians"

ozmaverick72 — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 01:28:34 +0000

This looks like an interesting series of posts about development of compilers and exploring haskell.