Hacker News: qualitytime

New comment by qualitytime in "C64 Keyboard Prototype"

qualitytime — Thu, 03 May 2018 19:07:38 +0000

LOL, not even close.

New comment by qualitytime in "Answers to front-end developer job interview questions"

qualitytime — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 17:03:43 +0000

What a b_ll_x reply to a sensible comment.

Mate, the personal website url you list in your HN profile don't work.

Funny that this is about frontend.

New comment by qualitytime in "VLC 3.0 release"

qualitytime — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 19:51:02 +0000

Backdoors.

New comment by qualitytime in "ECMAScript 2018: final feature set"

qualitytime — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 21:20:14 +0000

Funny how the "final feature set for 2018" is nailed near enough Feb 2018.

Call me stupid, when I'll get whiteboard tested on these shiny new concepts, but I really don't (and you shouldn't also) give a rats ass about all of this.

New comment by qualitytime in "Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans"

qualitytime — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 23:00:24 +0000

"In his novels Dick was interested in seeing how people react when their reality starts to break down. A world in which the real commingles with the fake, so that no one can tell where the one ends and the other begins, is ripe for paranoia."

Reminds me of the recent Hawaii false missile alert.

New comment by qualitytime in "Ask HN: What books have most influenced the way you see the world?"

qualitytime — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 19:21:19 +0000

Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse

New comment by qualitytime in "A prime number whose binary representation looks like a giraffe"

qualitytime — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 09:11:39 +0000

Thanks for the clarification.

New comment by qualitytime in "A prime number whose binary representation looks like a giraffe"

qualitytime — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 12:05:43 +0000

Was that a downvote? For asking a question? Jeez.

New comment by qualitytime in "A prime number whose binary representation looks like a giraffe"

qualitytime — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 21:23:41 +0000

"write a short program that checks if a file is a prime number."

What do you mean? I tried googling but failed.

New comment by qualitytime in "Continuous low-power music recognition"

qualitytime — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 11:36:07 +0000

These are one kind of HN posts that drive me up the wall.

You say less power to get us to buy more?

How about saving all that energy and using it for real world building.

New comment by qualitytime in "Python decorators they don't tell you about"

qualitytime — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 19:55:56 +0000

Mate, you've got some broken images on your homepage.

New comment by qualitytime in "Python decorators they don't tell you about"

qualitytime — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 19:28:07 +0000

I've been exposed to decorators (starting with Java) and have 'gotten' them and I will proudly admit that I despise decorators and don't think they are great at all.

New comment by qualitytime in "SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System"

qualitytime — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 16:24:05 +0000

The Enterprise was a British dream 80s computer that most people could not afford.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_(computer)

New comment by qualitytime in "Fitbit Firmware Modifications and Data Extraction [video]"

qualitytime — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 12:13:03 +0000

There once was Pebble.

You could write dev apps in a straightforward easy to program no lock-in no review workflow.

And then guess who buys them out and flushes all that dev goodness in the toilet?

Yes, fitbit.

New comment by qualitytime in "Whole of England to be mapped with lasers"

qualitytime — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 18:54:01 +0000

Does not work in Firefox????

New comment by qualitytime in "Free electron laser – A fourth-generation synchrotron light source [video]"

qualitytime — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 19:00:17 +0000

Watched all the video.

Really Great.

Thank you!

New comment by qualitytime in "One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meetings waste time"

qualitytime — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 11:03:09 +0000

The sites are not "responsive".

This particular site starts with a relatively small font and not responsive which I'm sure makes it a pain to use on small displays.

New comment by qualitytime in "Computer latency: 1977-2017"

qualitytime — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 10:35:08 +0000

Cool hack with Arduino HID. What light sensor are you using?

New comment by qualitytime in "Update: Looking Glass Add-On"

qualitytime — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 10:14:36 +0000

"and were all concluding a week's worth of meetings where everyone was getting face time with collaborators and hashing out in person what we're doing for the next 6 months."

Yeah, maybe you should concentrate on the week ahead.

Mozilla is 10% share (and going down) on desktop, near 0% on mobile/tablet.

We must have an alternative to Google, Microsoft and Apple.

All the heads who were responsible for this gaff should be let go and go to Google/Microsoft/Apple, they will do well there with like minded suits.

New comment by qualitytime in "FoldingText – Plain text productivity for Mac users"

qualitytime — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 08:54:11 +0000

Yes, 1992, by a classmate friend of mine Jamie Lokier!

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/folding.el