Hacker News: raimondious

New comment by raimondious in "Carmack: Has early Scratch experience led to fulfilling careers?"

raimondious — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:32:19 +0000

Learning to code isn’t really the point of Scratch. But it does have lasting effects on those who immerse themselves in it, and especially when they immerse themselves in the community. Hear from some of them on the podcast out of the group that created Scratch: https://youtu.be/5h709icMHt4

New comment by raimondious in "Coding Isn't Programming"

raimondious — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:09:47 +0000

The headline implies the content is a waste of time to engage with.

New comment by raimondious in "Hedy: Textual programming made easy"

raimondious — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:52:28 +0000

No comments but From Burnout to Breakthrough is a conversation with the creator of Hedy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40582437

New comment by raimondious in "Stimulation Clicker"

raimondious — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:20:14 +0000

Except perhaps the most well known contemporary art museum in the world: https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/798

New comment by raimondious in "Combining 15s interval whole-sky-camera photos to form a 4y spanning keogram"

raimondious — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 02:39:58 +0000

I don’t know if this is sufficient but there was just a StarDate about the topic https://stardate.org/podcast/2024-12-3

New comment by raimondious in "Texan construction workers put a rocket up Team SpaceX over 'unpaid bills'"

raimondious — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 17:44:46 +0000

Not just you… Seems like it might be a Britishism? I think it’s saying something like “construction workers light up SpaceX”, like say bad things about them?

New comment by raimondious in "Pyrophone"

raimondious — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 12:54:19 +0000

Not an Amazon Fire phone?

New comment by raimondious in "Do It Yourself Blind Repair"

raimondious — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 20:04:21 +0000

Really appreciate all the info about making blinds safer for kids organized into one place. Good link for sending to parents.

New comment by raimondious in "Xeact 0.0.69: A Revolutionary Femtoframework for High Efficiency JavaScript Dev"

raimondious — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 11:45:18 +0000

Oh no

New comment by raimondious in "Xeact 0.0.69: A Revolutionary Femtoframework for High Efficiency JavaScript Dev"

raimondious — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 03:47:40 +0000

Yes

New comment by raimondious in "Facebook, Ray-Ban debut picture-taking smart glasses"

raimondious — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 19:58:03 +0000

No, at least not in the US: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/

New comment by raimondious in "Use Phoenix Channels"

raimondious — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 20:54:28 +0000

Apparently I'm out of the loop, but it took a fair amount of reading to discover that Phoenix is a framework for Elixir. It's only mentioned in passing on the Phoenix project's homepage, very easy to miss.

Just strikes me as odd and makes it less approachable. Most other projects I've encountered present themselves as a part of the language's ecosystem where it seems like it's assumed here. E.g. React calls itself a JavaScript library.

New comment by raimondious in "Fastly Outage"

raimondious — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 10:43:44 +0000

Normally you configure your a record to point at the cdn as the cdn is the thing that gives you multiple points of failure (caches all over the world). Hard to have a fallback to that. Running multiple cdns would be extremely expensive. Cdn caches are kept useful by traffic running through them, so hard to have a backup for that too.

New comment by raimondious in "Isamu Akasaki, inventor of first efficient blue LED, has died"

raimondious — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 20:02:40 +0000

Yes! One of my first hobby electronics projects as a kid was adding a blue LED to an RC car just for the cool factor.

New comment by raimondious in "Goodbye IFTTT"

raimondious — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 18:47:07 +0000

FWIW the screenshot is of Blockly, not Scratch.

New comment by raimondious in "Implementing a Neural Network from Scratch in Python"

raimondious — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 19:56:20 +0000

Here's one! https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/26682825/

New comment by raimondious in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)"

raimondious — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 15:27:15 +0000

Scratch | Senior Backend Engineer | Cambridge, MA | Full-time | On-site

We are seeking a curious and enthusiastic software engineer to join our Scratch team at the MIT Media Lab. Scratch (scratch.mit.edu) is a free visual programming language and global online community where children can create and share interactive media such as stories, games, and animations. Here at the Lifelong Kindergarten research group (MIT Media Lab), we are passionate about creating technology that enables kids to think creatively, work collaboratively, and reason systematically. We’re looking for engineers who enjoy collaborating as much as coding and who thrive in an environment of continual iteration and improvement. Located in the MIT Media Lab, the Scratch team works amid a giant pit of LEGO bricks – so a love for creative making (and tolerance for a bit of a mess) is a must!

Our Stack: * Node.js * Redis * Elastic Search * Percona MySQL * Ansible * Fastly * Travis-CI * Jenkins * GitHub

https://www.media.mit.edu/about/job-opportunities/senior-bac...

New comment by raimondious in "Kids can now learn to code with Pocky, the delicious Japanese snack"

raimondious — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 16:41:10 +0000

It looks like this translates Pocky in different positions to lines of code and then executes that code. This is too many levels of abstraction even for me to make sense of as a professional programmer... I like where their heart is but I think this would be a terrible introduction to coding.

New comment by raimondious in "AirBnbWhileBlack Highlights Discrimination Faced by Black Travelers"

raimondious — Fri, 06 May 2016 18:22:17 +0000

I was impressed too!

New comment by raimondious in "The Western diet has nearly killed our ancestral microbiome"

raimondious — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:26:42 +0000

That's why the concept of "derailing" evolution is silly. There's no set course for evolution to be derailed from... in fact that's the entire basis of the concept of evolution. Diet and medicine are just evolutionary pressure, just like every other part of the environment since life began.