Hacker News: plonh

New comment by plonh in "Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook for Paternity Leave"

plonh — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 16:02:37 +0000

Rich people need pooor laborers to create the wealth they get 50% as capitalists and consumers.

New comment by plonh in "Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook for Paternity Leave"

plonh — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 15:57:13 +0000

Facebook has had the most, and pressured others to copy.

New comment by plonh in "ARRIS Cable Modem Has a Backdoor in the Backdoor"

plonh — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 03:10:26 +0000

Why does cable company need special powers that my DSL provider does not need?

New comment by plonh in "Google Picks Diane Greene to Expand Its Cloud Business"

plonh — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 02:57:07 +0000

Google thinks bebop is better than whatever they could do internally (including finding people to hire up) to build a comparable product for that budget.

New comment by plonh in "Counting up vs. counting down"

plonh — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:19:15 +0000

if you are thinking about "<0" on an unsigned type, you better be scratching your head already.

New comment by plonh in "Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyright notices to customers"

plonh — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:14:32 +0000

This is Yodlee, the USA's largest financial API for consumer products (Mint, etc), endorsed by all large banks and investment firms. They have millions of users.

New comment by plonh in "John McCain wants to outlaw encryption that the US government can't crack"

plonh — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 03:43:45 +0000

You are ignoring the bandwidth differences between protocols.

New comment by plonh in "Free and Freer Monads: Putting Monads Back into Closet"

plonh — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 03:39:46 +0000

That's Inversion of Control , not Dependency Injection .

New comment by plonh in "Free and Freer Monads: Putting Monads Back into Closet"

plonh — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 03:33:30 +0000

This is literally textbook Design Patterns stuff. Haskell gives you executable machine-checkable design patterns, instead of just comments.

New comment by plonh in "Why I love knowing I have high-functioning autism"

plonh — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 03:28:04 +0000

Is it a disorder to have no hearing? Too have so much hearing that your neighbors keep you up at night?

Is being very short a disorder? Being very tall? Having short legs with long arms?

New comment by plonh in "Why I love knowing I have high-functioning autism"

plonh — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 03:26:15 +0000

Consider: there are two diagnoses, OCD and OCPD. Both cover Obsessive Compulsive behaviors.

OCD is the Disorder where OC behaviors ruin your life and cause you distress.

OCPD is when you like your OC behaviors, but other people don't . It is a Personality Disorder, because your personality is socially "wrong".

New comment by plonh in "Software Totemism"

plonh — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 22:21:35 +0000

Suckless.org disproves the authors thesis. Heck, UNIX itself disproves the thesis. A project can grow to include more compatible components, without needlessly cluttering each component. Finishing one program is not the end of all software development.

New comment by plonh in "Software Totemism"

plonh — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 22:18:13 +0000

There used to be a concept called "professionalism" where people didn't let their personal cultural biases crowd out contributors, and people applied their humanity problem at hand at work, and engaged in unrelated conversations on breaks and after work, not disrupting people who are working on the project.

New comment by plonh in "Software Totemism"

plonh — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 22:14:38 +0000

You think its "phony" when someone shows up at X conference transparently focused of talking about X?

You think its selfish when some knows how we wants to help, and wants to find the people he wants to help?

I feel like I am taking crazy pills, where technical content gets zero attention in a technical project. It sounds to me like the conference are getting taken over by vacationers who want to have a party week (possibly soft-embezzled by expensing an employer) pushing out people who care about the project.

It reminds of when the college resume padders took over the high school math club, and instituted a substantial membership fee to finance a trip to a math competition where they didn't actually compete, and I had to create a new club to gather people for math activities.

New comment by plonh in "Software Totemism"

plonh — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 22:07:41 +0000

Having lunch with your coworkers gives you 250 chances per year to have an important work-related conversation. A conference offers precious little time, so it is important to be efficient in getting people together who have things to say to each other.

New comment by plonh in "The Original EPCOT Project: Walt Disney's prototype community"

plonh — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 22:02:21 +0000

Disney was anti-Communist. He wasn't anti-autboritarian. He was rather authoritian.

New comment by plonh in "Can a Wandering Mind Make You Neurotic?"

plonh — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 16:26:04 +0000

Did memento mori comprehend death in the modern way, or did it assume an afterlife that completely changes the meaning of death?

New comment by plonh in "Can a Wandering Mind Make You Neurotic?"

plonh — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 16:23:04 +0000

Depressive thinking existed before the Internet.

New comment by plonh in "Lego City – NYC Hudson Yards"

plonh — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 16:03:28 +0000

> Air quality, noise levels, energy and water usage

This is not the surveillance you should worry about.

New comment by plonh in "Turing Tarpit"

plonh — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 15:57:41 +0000

Ironically, that 66 page document is a massively overcomplicated discussion of the simple idea that inessential mutable state causes problems.