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New comment by pikachu_is_cool in "Ask HN: How do I protect my parents from the internet?"

pikachu_is_cool — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 23:26:09 +0000

Get rid of Windows. Problem solved.

New comment by pikachu_is_cool in "Homebrew 1.1.0"

pikachu_is_cool — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 22:24:24 +0000

Switch from Ruby to LuaJIT! I'd wager this is the best package manager out there if not for the slowness of Ruby's VM.

New comment by pikachu_is_cool in "The Steve Jobs email that outlined Apple’s strategy a year before his death"

pikachu_is_cool — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 22:14:55 +0000

iOS is by far the best mobile platform out there, in terms of its development environment. The problem is that everyone is using the crippled version of it.

Cydia/Theos/Cycript were developed by two people and they come together so much better than that shitty Xcode stack it blows my mind. They are so good that iOS being closed source isn't even a con anymore. They are probably the most underrated tools in existence; most people haven't heard of them (let alone regularly use them) because the industry doesn't see un-jailed iOS as an lucrative market. It's a damn shame.

New comment by pikachu_is_cool in "Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux"

pikachu_is_cool — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 19:07:52 +0000

No it's not.

New comment by pikachu_is_cool in "Zcash begins"

pikachu_is_cool — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 21:57:23 +0000

Is there a fork of this with no premine?

New comment by pikachu_is_cool in "Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men"

pikachu_is_cool — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:25:47 +0000

If we're making generalizations here, then women generally don't like hunching over a computer monitor in isolation for 6+ hours every day. Much like how men generally don't like to put on makeup and act in plays.

New comment by pikachu_is_cool in "Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses"

pikachu_is_cool — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 07:12:31 +0000

Or you can just use a subset of it, where privacy is of no concern. Those craigslist-esque groups that have been popping up are immensely useful. Especially with the built-in messenger.

New comment by pikachu_is_cool in "Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone"

pikachu_is_cool — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 00:17:25 +0000

Jailbreaking solves the walled garden issue. What are the millions of other reasons?

New comment by pikachu_is_cool in "LuaTeX 1.0.0"

pikachu_is_cool — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 03:30:10 +0000

I don't have a source, but from what I remember, Microsoft was the main factor that pushed C++ into the mainstream. Same with Google and Python. I guess that's up for debate though. Feel free to correct me.

New comment by pikachu_is_cool in "LuaTeX 1.0.0"

pikachu_is_cool — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 03:15:47 +0000

Yeah, because it would have solidified Lua == 2.1. Instead of Lua == 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, or LuaJIT.

New comment by pikachu_is_cool in "LuaTeX 1.0.0"

pikachu_is_cool — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 02:45:59 +0000

It's interesting to see the trajectory of Lua adoption. The determining factor of the popularity of most languages was at the fate of large companies, (AT&T/C, Netscape/JavaScript, Microsoft/C++, Google/Python). On the flip side, Lua seems to slowly gain more and more popularity over the years. It's more "organic", for lack of a better term.

I really hope a big company doesn't pick Lua up, because I think the fact that it hasn't reached "Eternal September" yet is what makes it such a good language. It has room to breathe.

(The fact that it's beginner friendly, has an ANSI C89 implementation, and has the best/fastest JIT/FFI doesn't hurt either though :P)

New comment by pikachu_is_cool in "Homebrew 1.0.0"

pikachu_is_cool — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 19:15:20 +0000

Unfortunate.

New comment by pikachu_is_cool in "I Used to Be a Human Being"

pikachu_is_cool — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 22:15:05 +0000

I'm in the process of swapping out my phone for my old iPod Touch. It creates a lot of moments where getting access to the internet requires effort (e.g. asking people for their WiFi password, finding/knowing about public places with WiFi, looking up routes in Google Maps and screenshotting it before leaving WiFi, etc).

Doesn't work for everyone, but works for me.

And also I save $50 a month.

New comment by pikachu_is_cool in "Homebrew 1.0.0"

pikachu_is_cool — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 18:30:32 +0000

I guess it's a start. But even still, the most basic of commands take a good 1+ seconds on my machine. What about Ruby makes it necessary to use? What is stopping you guys from moving to something like LuaJIT?

New comment by pikachu_is_cool in "Homebrew 1.0.0"

pikachu_is_cool — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:02:40 +0000

Except for loading the Ruby VM. Takes way too long.

New comment by pikachu_is_cool in "Elon Musk on How to Build the Future"

pikachu_is_cool — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 22:02:06 +0000

This interview was pretty dry to me. It almost seemed rehearsed, as if Elon requested the questions go like this. They only scratched the surface of a bunch of general "big picture" subjects that anyone whose paying attention right now would already know about.

New comment by pikachu_is_cool in "Google Takes on Uber with New Ride-Share Service"

pikachu_is_cool — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 22:53:11 +0000

I, on the other hand, would prefer them to compete on price. I like saving money.

New comment by pikachu_is_cool in "How I Used and Abused My Tesla – What a Tesla Looks Like After 100,000 Miles"

pikachu_is_cool — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 05:06:51 +0000

Of course. That's why I didn't mention that. The university rideshares are extremely pleasant, better than Uber in a lot of ways.

New comment by pikachu_is_cool in "How I Used and Abused My Tesla – What a Tesla Looks Like After 100,000 Miles"

pikachu_is_cool — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 05:05:39 +0000

That doesn't matter. What matters is these automated fleets will have to compete with that en masse, as I'm sure the killer app for ridesharing will come out within the next 10 years.

New comment by pikachu_is_cool in "How I Used and Abused My Tesla – What a Tesla Looks Like After 100,000 Miles"

pikachu_is_cool — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:28:42 +0000

....Until the market adjusts. I imagine a trip from SF to LA will cost $5 within the next 10 years.

To the people who think I'm insane: There are university Facebook rideshare groups in California that offer that trip for $15. Today.