Hacker News: penprogg

New comment by penprogg in "New York bans 'poor doors' in win for low income tenants"

penprogg — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 17:44:57 +0000

Wow, it's like you didn't even take the time to process what he said and decided to get outraged anyway.

New comment by penprogg in "Projects the Hard Way – Coding Projects for Early Coders"

penprogg — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 02:39:31 +0000

holy shit it's three hours long

New comment by penprogg in "Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but..."

penprogg — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 21:56:17 +0000

Hey man, all that CRUD needed to make all those shovelware google apps requires a ton of algorithmic knowledge. /s

New comment by penprogg in "Unreal Engine 4.8 Released"

penprogg — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 21:46:38 +0000

Isn't it possible with a little bit of work to get Unity content working on UE4?

How they solder at NASA

penprogg — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 01:34:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vynb_HdEIDU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9683600

Points: 9

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New comment by penprogg in "Ask HN: What's wrong with my launch page?"

penprogg — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 02:29:03 +0000

One problem I have with the page is the contrast of the lettering. I think you the light grey characters could be a little bit darker.

New comment by penprogg in "Why Software Engineering Isn’t Engineering"

penprogg — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 14:05:14 +0000

So I decided to search the definition of engineering on the internet because I've heard this whole "software engineering is not engineering" thing before:

> Engineering (from Latin ingenium, meaning "cleverness" and ingeniare, meaning "to contrive, devise") is the application of scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, design, build, maintain, research, and improve structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes.

So, software "engineering" definitely involves the use of scientific, economic, social and practical knowledge to build, maintain, research, and improve devices, systems, and processes. So that, in my lowly opinion, makes it engineering "in the strictest sense of the term".

Arguing about semantics is extremely stupid if you are not a PHD in linguistics.

New comment by penprogg in "InfluxDB Clustering Design – Neither CP or AP"

penprogg — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 01:24:00 +0000

What is the difference between this and Cassandra? A more powerful querying language?

Cassandra already has Consistency Levels with Replication Strategies. I feel like the only way to get powerful querying out of a system like this would be to have a map reduce layer on top of your db which is what many do to get powerful querying from cassandra.

New comment by penprogg in "Coursera is phasing out free certificates"

penprogg — Sun, 31 May 2015 17:28:06 +0000

And then all of the universities submitting courses to coursera would stop...

New comment by penprogg in "Coursera is phasing out free certificates"

penprogg — Sun, 31 May 2015 17:25:54 +0000

When people are saying the certificate is worthless they mean that when applying for a job, employers do not care if you have completed a mooc or not. A Mooc's value doesn't come from the fact that you finish the course, it comes from the fact that you've learned something new from great teachers. With the knowledge from that mooc you should then do something which you can then show to whomever.

New comment by penprogg in "Obama Urges Lawmakers to Pass NSA Surveillance Bill"

penprogg — Tue, 26 May 2015 23:38:27 +0000

You can copy the link into google and access it through there

New comment by penprogg in "Jonathan James and Aaron Swartz-Two Obituaries One Prosecutor "

penprogg — Sat, 23 May 2015 13:07:12 +0000

Oh those poor government agencies with their millions of dollars in funding. Who will defend them from those teenage hackers that are causing them "trillions" in damages tm.

New comment by penprogg in "Microsoft Surface Hub"

penprogg — Fri, 08 May 2015 16:03:38 +0000

I don't know about the newer smart boards but the old ones sucked hard. This windows surface device seems like it will be using an actual digitizer and it wont be using a projector.

New comment by penprogg in "A multiplayer Tron-like game with curves"

penprogg — Wed, 06 May 2015 02:25:25 +0000

Extremely laggy

New comment by penprogg in "Our company has a therapist"

penprogg — Sun, 03 May 2015 19:20:51 +0000

I would never go to a company therapist. Go out and pay for one yourself. There is a clear conflict of interest for the therapist and while they may seem to be nice it's not worth the risk.

New comment by penprogg in "Riots are destructive, but can lead to social reforms"

penprogg — Fri, 01 May 2015 08:21:48 +0000

While I hate that riots exist, it honestly makes me feel good that there is a group of people in the US that get angry enough with the system to get up and do something.

Every time I hear about protests and think about people standing outside the whitehouse all I can think of is how futile it is. Especially after Occupy Wallstreet where the media did it's hardest to discredit the entire movement.

New comment by penprogg in "The Coming Food Bubble"

penprogg — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 07:06:57 +0000

The argument was money -> bubble It's not very good

New comment by penprogg in "What If Students Could Fire Their Professors?"

penprogg — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 20:14:12 +0000

The problem with this is that society does not accept failure. Fail a few times in college and your GPA is irreparably damaged, you have to spend extra time (and money, oh god the money) retaking courses you "should" have passed on the first go.

I find myself gaining the most from courses where the professor destroys me. I spend all semester struggling with certain concepts and then at some point towards the end, once I've been exposed to the bigger picture, everything falls together and all the previous material I didn't understand now makes sense. The problem is that I've already been evaluated for the material. If I get a D in a course and retake it and get an A should I still have that D on that record, even though I arguably know the material better than someone who got a B on their first go?

While failure is probably the best way to learn, society conditions people to avoid failure like the plague.

New comment by penprogg in "How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one (2013)"

penprogg — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 17:36:46 +0000

I agree, I'm a CS student taking a Digital Design course and programming VHDL is possibly the worst experience I've ever had. (I am very aware that VHDL is not a programming language but a HDL).

New comment by penprogg in "Announcing the First Netflix Recommended TVs"

penprogg — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 17:39:43 +0000

It's not odd that they are more expensive, monitors typically have higher refresh rates and faster response times. Both of which imply more powerful hardware for the monitor's driver.