Hacker News: richardk

New comment by richardk in "OS Technologies to Watch"

richardk — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 11:36:13 +0000

Also perhaps worth mentioning Baserock (http://wiki.baserock.org) which can reproducibly build an OS from sources in git and deploy the resulting artifact to various popular targets, kvm, virtualbox, openstack etc.

Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence

richardk — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:58:50 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nickbostrom.com/ethics/ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4592989

Points: 1

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New comment by richardk in "Linus Torvalds responds to what killed the Linux desktop"

richardk — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:06:06 +0000

I personally felt that the "What killed the Linux Desktop" article was completely irrelevant.

It seems there's always going to be some people who complain that GNU/Linux isn't 'good enough' or whatever, and as a community we should simply ignore these people.

New comment by richardk in "What killed the Linux desktop"

richardk — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:32:12 +0000

For what it's worth, GNU/Linux never really was about some desktop conquest, so this whole discussion "What killed the Linux desktop" is quite absurd.

That aside, what we have here is a thread apparently devoted to shitting on the work of people who built something for fun and gave it away for free.

Good job folks!

New comment by richardk in "Whatever you like doing, do it"

richardk — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 21:55:48 +0000

Going into my final year at Edinburgh uni, studying Comp Sci.

I've always felt that I'm not nearly as talented as the folks around me, however I've loved computers since I was 10, I'm still in love and I'm always writing programs.

Ever since I realized I'm not the most talented at comp sci (mainly the mathematics) I've had problems with my self-esteem. As such, I find this article incredibly comforting. Thank you!

New comment by richardk in "Say No to Reproduction: Your declaration of your stance"

richardk — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 22:18:49 +0000

Yeah, because ice cream the sky and the sea are things I experience once in a blue moon... pretty sure I see the sky everyday, eat ice cream most hot days and I live by the coast, so...

In any case, those were obviously examples, like I need to argue why life is awesome...

If you don't want to discuss it on HN, then don't post to HN...

Bell System Technical Journal

richardk — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:38:12 +0000

Article URL: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol57-1978/bstj-vol57-issue06.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4409915

Points: 1

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New comment by richardk in "Say No to Reproduction: Your declaration of your stance"

richardk — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:52:45 +0000

Sorry, what?

Life is awesome, the sky, the sea, ice cream - all of it. I'm only sorry that I don't get to stay here longer.

Sure we suffer sometimes, and some people suffer more than others. But to insist that we stop reproducing in an attempt to end human life just to avoid pain...

And as for purpose, find your own purpose.

New comment by richardk in "Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News.."

richardk — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:08:52 +0000

On the other hand when I criticized Chris Granger's "LightTable" I was told that I was a "hater" followed by several statements suggesting that Chris should ignore folks like myself: the "haters".

So I'm not sure, perhaps it is more about who you are than what you say. In any case, I have noted the general fall in quality of articles here, but, there's still some interesting stuff now and again... c'est la vie!

New comment by richardk in "Operating System Development"

richardk — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:49:36 +0000

Been dabbling with OS stuff for a while now, looking at xv6 sources and using Tanenbaum's Minix book.

Have got to say I'm very excited about this site, it looks incredibly useful.

New comment by richardk in "LightTable detailed critique: Concept vs Reality"

richardk — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:11:22 +0000

I'm not familiar enough with Clojure to comment.

New comment by richardk in "LightTable detailed critique: Concept vs Reality"

richardk — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:05:50 +0000

I'm not sure about others, but I wouldn't give my money to any software project that didn't describe in detail how it might overcome such glaring design challenges.

New comment by richardk in "LightTable detailed critique: Concept vs Reality"

richardk — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:29:03 +0000

Also even if the code were indeed based on just basic numerical or string primitives, how would the 'instant feedback' work if the code were in a long, tight loop or did heavy cpu intensive stuff?

I think this is a critical point, has the author of LightTable considered what would happen with instant feedback for less trivial pieces of code?

Besides that, I think this critique is fair, because honestly when I saw LightTable, it seemed like smoke and mirrors. I have a friend quietly writing an innovative new text editor, I expect it will be more 'ground-breaking' than LightTable, but I don't see him trying to take everybody's money.

Programming and Social Interaction

richardk — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:34:49 +0000

Article URL: http://peternixey.com/post/13165192133/what-the-effects-of-a-stroke-suggest-about-the-effects

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3868606

Points: 1

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New comment by richardk in "Phrack Issue #68"

richardk — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:03:33 +0000

Sure, I just get the feeling that you're lucky to find such jobs (jobs where you can do what you love and still love doing it).

New comment by richardk in "Email is not broken, we are."

richardk — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:52:01 +0000

This article is a wake up call, thank you.

New comment by richardk in "Phrack Issue #68"

richardk — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:02:49 +0000

As a student taking a CS degree for fun, I think the 'Happy Hacking' article is fairly insightful. Not of the best quality, perhaps, but insightful none the less.

New comment by richardk in "Computer Scientists Build Computer Using Swarms of Crabs - Technology Review"

richardk — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 08:31:27 +0000

The title seems pretty misleading: it seems they only built an AND and an OR gate, I wouldn't really call a couple of logic gates a Computer.

Still, building logic gates using crabs, very good. :)

New comment by richardk in "Notch live coding 0x10c"

richardk — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 21:25:49 +0000

Techno's nice, but I prefer this kind of thing for when I'm making something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDTovW5Pb2w

New comment by richardk in "[dead]"

richardk — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:58:36 +0000

I think most people probably don't care so much about karma, since it doesn't really mean an awful lot.

However, getting negative karma hurts, for some reason. Often if I'm down voted, I assume I've done something wrong and either try to fix my comment or remove it altogether.

I hope no one down votes this comment down just to see if I remove it. :)