Hacker News: pwfisher

New comment by pwfisher in "Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds"

pwfisher — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 02:46:08 +0000

Test your browser and update your system's certificates: https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/

New comment by pwfisher in "Ask HN: Is Web3 real or marketing hype?"

pwfisher — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 17:01:42 +0000

Copypasta source material.

    You know. I can guarantee that for most, it is getting more difficult to ignore this to the point that questions like this pop up every now and then.

    So their 'worst nightmare' is becoming more real everytime it is talked about. If you believe it is a fad or a hype, just ignore it.

    We all know it won't be the last time we will discuss about it (again) and the same people will come here and comment and talk about it once again.

New comment by pwfisher in "Show HN: 3D first person game rendered in CSS/HTML"

pwfisher — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 22:13:20 +0000

This is super cool! Love it.

Love that the layout is responsive and has mobile, tablet and desktop versions in good web UI style. (FYI, if you close the sidebar and resize to desktop, it's missing.)

New comment by pwfisher in "What harm do minimum wages do?"

pwfisher — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 18:29:46 +0000

Non-paywalled: http://archive.is/zF4ei

Great read. The real labor market is more complex than a simple model of supply and demand. It's like the old physics joke, "I have a solution, but it only works for a spherical chicken in a vacuum."

New comment by pwfisher in "The Fixing-JSON Conversation"

pwfisher — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 13:54:06 +0000

Because other months went to 30 or 31 already, so there was room for it in calendars and people never assumed months are always the same length.

60 seconds in a minute, OTOH, is a very strong assumption in many systems and people's minds.

New comment by pwfisher in "Git bisect (2006)"

pwfisher — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 07:24:54 +0000

...well actually... representing an n-dimensional shape as a 2-dimensional line is precisely what the mathematical term "projection" means. My apologies. Accurate phrasing had less punch.

New comment by pwfisher in "Git bisect (2006)"

pwfisher — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 06:54:42 +0000

This is a revealing peek at the complexity of merged history. You can't project a "git space" onto a line, so a (linear) listing of commits just misleads you into thinking that your history is linear. That complexity is why I always prefer to rebase and keep my history an actual straight line.

TL;DR - Merging is powerful, but comes with a cost. - Rebase is your friend. Keep it simple.

New comment by pwfisher in "“Culture fit” craze is turning tech from innovators to ideological fiefdoms"

pwfisher — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 17:19:31 +0000

The company defaults to polite silence to avoid legal liability. They can't risk saying anything which might be construed as discrimination against a protected class.

New comment by pwfisher in "Criticisms of Angular"

pwfisher — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 16:15:27 +0000

Our company had two Angular codebases, the public site and our internal site. Experience in one taught you nothing about the other because there was no "Angular way" to structure your code.

Having "enough rope to hang yourself" while our devs were just learning Angular led to an unholy mess. Development slowed to a painful crawl.

We hate Angular. We're an Ember shop now. We love Ember!

Angular gives you enough rope to hang yourself. Ember lets you stand on the shoulders of giants.