Hacker News: rorrr

New comment by rorrr in "A Comparison of Automatic Speech Recognition Systems"

rorrr — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 15:46:47 +0000

What ever happened to the seemingly amazing MS Research system that was demoed in 2012?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu-nlQqFCKg

New comment by rorrr in "The PyCon Incident"

rorrr — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:32:36 +0000

Adria Richards is an evil cunt.

SendGrid is a shit company that I would never want to work for.

New comment by rorrr in "Diamonds Are Bullshit"

rorrr — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:37:52 +0000

Same with my wife. Told her about blood diamonds, and how the price is artificially inflated. She agreed. Still got the diamond ring.

New comment by rorrr in "Linode NextGen: The Hardware"

rorrr — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:44:26 +0000

DB in RAM still requires to write to disk, which is often the bottleneck, not the reads.

New comment by rorrr in "Linode NextGen: The Hardware"

rorrr — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:43:26 +0000

32GB of RAM is $220 on Newegg.

New comment by rorrr in "Chart.js - open source HTML5 charting library"

rorrr — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:06:59 +0000

Why would you call it a HTML5 library?

This is a canvas JS library.

New comment by rorrr in "Andrew 'Weev' Auernheimer Faces Jail"

rorrr — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:02:56 +0000

> In many countries simply accessing a public server without consent is illegal

1) Set up a public server

2) Wait for google bot to show up

3) Press charges against google

4) Sue in civil court

5) Profit.

New comment by rorrr in "How I Met 75 Investors and Raised $650,000"

rorrr — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:34:23 +0000

A) What did you give up for $650K?

B) $650K seems such a low amount of money, it's barely enough to hire 2-3 senior level developers for a year, and rent an office space. I have no idea how you guys launch startups with such small amounts of money.

New comment by rorrr in "Show HN: Our local Pinboard startup project"

rorrr — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:35:36 +0000

Absolutely horrible design.

New comment by rorrr in "SimCity’s Sims Don’t Seem That Smart After All"

rorrr — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:50:46 +0000

No, it's not just him. Yoda conditions are hard to read, because they don't follow the natural language. You don't say "If 5 dollars is more than what I have...", instead you say "If I have less than 5 dollars ...".

New comment by rorrr in "Ask HN: How to deal with someone ripping off your design?"

rorrr — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:50:24 +0000

Why? They are stealing OP's copyrighted works and posting them on their website.

New comment by rorrr in "75% of a human skull replaced with 3D-printed material "

rorrr — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 05:43:20 +0000

Fossils just got a lot more interesting.

New comment by rorrr in "Thai character ก็็็็็ (ก) gets rendered in a strange way"

rorrr — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 01:07:52 +0000

Chrome on Windows 7 here, renders most of them as boxes.

New comment by rorrr in "Bitcoin blockchain issue - Mt Gox Bitcoin deposits temporarily suspended"

rorrr — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:47:07 +0000

I don't understand why 0.7 gets the preference though, considering that it's the version with the DB bug in it.

New comment by rorrr in "The Fireplace Delusion"

rorrr — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:45:20 +0000

390 over three years.

Again, why are you only talking about children deaths, one group that's not even supposed to have access to guns? That's cherry picking.

New comment by rorrr in "The Fireplace Delusion"

rorrr — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:14:53 +0000

A lot more people die from gunshots than people drown, even if you count all drownings, not just pool-related (in the US, of course).

You cherry-picked one child-dangerous item in the house. Yay for "logic".

New comment by rorrr in "Chess CAPTCHA"

rorrr — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:10:59 +0000

You are not making any sense.

New comment by rorrr in "Chess CAPTCHA"

rorrr — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:32:40 +0000

So you are, literally, arguing for security by obscurity. "Oh, my captcha is unique, therefore nobody will bother".

There are easier to implement unique captchas, than chess.

New comment by rorrr in "WebGL Terrain Flyover Demo"

rorrr — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:26:51 +0000

I used to write Pascal a decade ago. Does it still have endless begin-end statements?

New comment by rorrr in "Here come the encryption apps"

rorrr — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 22:25:48 +0000

> I don't understand how Matthew can write a comparative review of encrypted chat clients and include one for which he has no technical information, not even a binary

Well that's the point. If there's no source, don't trust that crypto app.