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New comment by phazmatis in "What to know before debating type systems (2010)"

phazmatis — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:57:40 +0000

Have you done any Android development? Do you have any confidence that Android isn't held together with duct tape and baling wire under the hood? I sure don't.

New comment by phazmatis in "Python without an operating system"

phazmatis — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 17:31:38 +0000

This seems to be a trend - python, before it erlang-on-metal. Is there a stable higher-level language runtime that runs on bare metal (that I can boot in a VM)? Or, better yet, something that compiles arbitrary LLVM code into .ISOs for deployment?

New comment by phazmatis in "Parents with annual family incomes below $125,000 will pay no tuition"

phazmatis — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 03:50:01 +0000

Heard of STEM?

New comment by phazmatis in "Ask HN: I am the dumbest person in the room. What should I do?"

phazmatis — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 20:40:19 +0000

You might be the smartest person in the room, as you've only stated that you have the least experience.

New comment by phazmatis in "Ask HN: Elance or Odesk?"

phazmatis — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 22:22:38 +0000

oDesk has mainly repeat clients who don't get frustrated by the 20+ bots/agencies/morons for every 1 real applicant.

New comment by phazmatis in "The Terrible Technical Interview"

phazmatis — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 08:16:00 +0000

Unless a software developer is tasked with deciding which version control system to use or for some odd reason has to do a deep dive into the philosophy/design of subversion, why on earth would they bother to know this? You might as well ask if they prefer Cherry MX Blue or Brown. I don't know SVN but if it's anything like Git, there are 100 ways to use it, exactly 5 of which are useful to 90% of developers on any given day.

New comment by phazmatis in "Dear Dr. Stallman: An Open Letter"

phazmatis — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 22:45:44 +0000

Observation: People have been writing this exact letter since day 1 of the GNU project.

New comment by phazmatis in "The College Gap No One Is Talking About"

phazmatis — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 22:38:48 +0000

For all of our talk of meritocracy, we're still just following multi-millennia-old social programming. Having "Harvard" next to your name in any way gives a force multiplier to anything you want to do in life.

New comment by phazmatis in "All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two"

phazmatis — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 18:38:51 +0000

Fun fact: Noscript loads and parses all javascript and then just stops it from running against the live DOM. Decreases page render time, sure. Prevents exploits? Don't think so.

New comment by phazmatis in "Watch Four Years of Oil Drilling Collapse in Seconds"

phazmatis — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 19:37:22 +0000

It would be nice if they had thought to include natural gas drilling. The fact that they didn't leads me to believe that natural gas production hasn't also declined, and would have made their little timeline rather boring.

New comment by phazmatis in "A female computer science major at Stanford: “Floored” by the sexism"

phazmatis — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:22:21 +0000

"you're there to work" is perhaps the most overlooked aspect of jobs in tech. Startups are promoting this sick group dynamic where everyone is expected to become best buddies slash drinking acquaintances slash family with their coworkers, to try to hang on to talent just a little longer.

New comment by phazmatis in "If a Startup Founder Does This, Don’t Take the Job"

phazmatis — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 07:21:38 +0000

If a Startup Founder Offers Stock, Don't Take the Job

Fixed.

New comment by phazmatis in "Reactions to “Has modern Linux lost its way?” and the value of simplicity"

phazmatis — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 03:03:03 +0000

Fantastic post.

New comment by phazmatis in "Hacked. A Short Story"

phazmatis — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:33:31 +0000

Exactly. Does your business model care if your server is running apache or nginx? No? Then why the hell isn't that automated, baked, and tamper-proofed? We'll know we've arrived when the only feasible attack is sneaking malicious code into a git repo and hoping no one notices.

New comment by phazmatis in "Apple has lost the functional high ground"

phazmatis — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 06:58:20 +0000

In mavericks, I could hit command-space and start typing, and knew that even though the spotlight box hadn't popped up yet, my text was being captured. Now in yosemite, it's more like... hit command-space, start typing "chrome", wind up with a box 1.5 seconds later filled in with "ome". This is only a problem on my i5 mac mini. My macbook pro (same year - late 2012) is just barely fast enough to pop open the window in time to capture my text input. But that just shows that their UI stack is too deep to provide the kind of snappy user interactions they are shooting for.

New comment by phazmatis in "Americans aren't getting married, and researchers think porn may be to blame"

phazmatis — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 03:21:24 +0000

Because only men look at porn. Crap article.

New comment by phazmatis in "The danger of using Gmail as storage"

phazmatis — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 18:35:52 +0000

A good reason to always throw a password on archives.

New comment by phazmatis in "The Rise and Fall of the Full Stack Developer"

phazmatis — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 22:20:18 +0000

I like to put my culinary and sock-puppetry skills on my resume under the devops section.

New comment by phazmatis in "The Rise and Fall of the Full Stack Developer"

phazmatis — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 22:15:23 +0000

Full stack: Someone who can build one (1) stack which fulfills the business requirements. Database to backend to frontend(s). If you're using rails and Django at the same time, and your full stack engineers have to take on an unnecessary cognitive load, that's your problem.

New comment by phazmatis in "Making a brain for my model plane"

phazmatis — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 01:52:12 +0000

Laggy pop-in scrolling, autoplaying sound with no way to disable, yep this article ain't for me.