Hacker News: rschmitty

New comment by rschmitty in "Show HN: Papa Parse 3"

rschmitty — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:43:13 +0000

Steve jobs (who stole it from Picasso, who took it from ?) said "Picasso had a saying -- 'good artists copy; great artists steal' -- and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."

This was later "clarified" by Bud Tribble: "If you take something and make it your own ... it's your design and that is the dividing line between copying and stealing."

My history teacher in high school had a simple challenge to get an A for the entire year, skipping all tests and quizzes, and free pass to sleep during class: "Give me a 100% unique idea"

Obviously everyone tried and everyone failed. There are no unique ideas, only innovations upon existing and past work of others.

So I find it odd anyone would downvote you for the truth!

New comment by rschmitty in "Amazon Cognito"

rschmitty — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:46:42 +0000

> A different approach to this would be to put more control of these things into the hands of end-users such that they provide the 'backend' into which you (the developer) load your application.

User Dependency Injection!

New comment by rschmitty in "Dropping Loot"

rschmitty — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 11:34:17 +0000

> It made it impossible for the player to seek certain items. Let’s say you’ve got a good kit of armor except you really could use some high quality boots. How do you fill in that gap?

In many games, believe it or not, is a actually intended. Once certain mobs start dropping certain items, people start camping only those mobs and ignoring everything else causing a large bottle neck for the population (in the case of multiplayer only obviously).

Additionally, say you give a mob 0.01% chance to drop The Sword of a Thousand Truths. And of course everyone wants the The Sword of a Thousand Truths. So every day you go out and farm these kobolds until your fingers are numb rather than exploring the world.

Finally, by providing a clear path to getting what you want, you will likely max out sooner and stop playing until the next content patch, which in turn means less revenue for your game

New comment by rschmitty in "We put $200k into a site that sucks. Please destroy us with your criticism"

rschmitty — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 21:55:49 +0000

Would also love to know where the money went specifically. Seems insane (also do you need another website built for 200k?)

New comment by rschmitty in "Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s"

rschmitty — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 11:32:58 +0000

Ooh good catch!

New comment by rschmitty in "Show HN: Marketplace for Bootstrap themes and templates"

rschmitty — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 10:54:35 +0000

1 year and that is all they have (and not very diverse) says a lot about the Foundation market.

New comment by rschmitty in "Inspecting Yosemite's Icons"

rschmitty — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 10:50:31 +0000

> The consistency and pattern behind the new icons is well thought out, and the use of subtle lighting effects (the blue and orange undertones) is great art direction

Made me think they copied the current "hot" of colors, just like going flat after everyone else

http://www.slashfilm.com/orangeblue-contrast-in-movie-poster...

It's not that I super dislike it, more than I always thought of apple as a leader instead of follower when it came to design and perhaps I didn't realize how much they lost talent wise.

The only thing I truly don't like is notepad lost its full on yellow 'notepad paper' look. The difference between notepad and pages was very obvious prior, now it is subtle

New comment by rschmitty in "Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s"

rschmitty — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:40:08 +0000

Needs keyboard arrow navigation :)

New comment by rschmitty in "My Treadwater Desk"

rschmitty — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 14:20:32 +0000

I enjoy cold showers from time to time. But as someone who just moved in to a new home and forgot to schedule gas turn on in advance leaving us without hot water, a true "ice cold" shower leaves you literally breathless.

I've never felt my body react in such a way.

New comment by rschmitty in "Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 3"

rschmitty — Tue, 20 May 2014 17:13:51 +0000

Because that is a huge fuss to do what practically every other app can easily do by dragging the border, including other windows apps.

Sometimes you need to change your prompt to be a different size and an annoying 5 step thing is a big fuss

New comment by rschmitty in "George R.R. Martin Writes Everything In WordStar 4.0 On A DOS Machine"

rschmitty — Wed, 14 May 2014 17:53:40 +0000

That computer is not connected to the internet.

New comment by rschmitty in "How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds"

rschmitty — Fri, 09 May 2014 12:33:47 +0000

Oh I thought about that, but how are you going to target the lobbyists and bad telcos without harming actual customers on those providers who may very well be against this whole debacle.

Government branches likely have a block of IPs while lobbyists I doubt are registered like that :)

New comment by rschmitty in "How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds"

rschmitty — Fri, 09 May 2014 11:21:44 +0000

White house, supreme court, how about anything from the government?

New comment by rschmitty in "The Domain Market is a Mess"

rschmitty — Wed, 07 May 2014 20:38:25 +0000

Mainstream public, the other TLDs are not popular at all. Especially true when you don't include the www. as part of the url.

Internet audience sure, not as big of a deal (but still a deal).

I'm sure as each year goes by and older people die out/adapt .com won't be that big of deal

New comment by rschmitty in "Web Framework Benchmarks Round 9"

rschmitty — Sun, 04 May 2014 01:20:56 +0000

thank you!

New comment by rschmitty in "Programming Is a Dead End Job"

rschmitty — Sat, 03 May 2014 18:18:31 +0000

That is a bit of a reach to call it blue collar.

I have blue collar friends from high school who envy what programmers do and make and I do what I can to try and persuade/teach them to learn to code and make a better life for themselves.

New comment by rschmitty in "Web Framework Benchmarks Round 9"

rschmitty — Thu, 01 May 2014 19:08:18 +0000

Could you make the error log accessible? Some of the frameworks appear to just bleed errors left and right. Be interesting to see if they are real errors or just misconfiguration

New comment by rschmitty in "Web Framework Benchmarks Round 9"

rschmitty — Thu, 01 May 2014 17:36:57 +0000

It's open source benchmarking. There are instructions on how to submit a language-framework of your choosing.

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks

New comment by rschmitty in "One of my Drupal sites was hacked"

rschmitty — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:09:07 +0000

Sorry, I should have clarified. A new VPS/image/machine. I would not simply create a "new site" on the box that got hacked as I too would assume evil is lurking outside of apache.

Douse it with gasoline and toast some marshmallows as I spin up a new instance imo :)

New comment by rschmitty in "One of my Drupal sites was hacked"

rschmitty — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 09:56:20 +0000

Rather than trying to undo the damage (will you ever be 100% sure you caught everything?) why not create a new site (edit: as in a new VM/box/image from scratch) and import your data fresh.

If I was hacked and files were placed on my server, including a 'web shell' I would be very afraid I don't catch everything and it just gets re-hacked.

Unless this is just a pure curiosity adventure in deobfuscation... then nevermind :)