Hacker News: rublev

New comment by rublev in "Why Canada's cannabis bubble burst"

rublev — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 06:51:12 +0000

My dealer pulls up within half an hour of texting them, with a full ounce they grew themselves. They know everything about the plant, and breed it for high THC. No delivery fee. Friendly. Great weed. No packaging. No bullshit. And great deals. Most dealer you buy from you won't be paying $280 ($10/h per O). Why would I ever go the "legal" route?

New comment by rublev in "Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intolerant’ Liberal Culture"

rublev — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 01:24:31 +0000

>Am I crazy, and the world has just moved on to be horrible?

Lol I got fired for making a joke after-hours over beers to a guy that wasn't politically aligned. It's wild. To mess with someones livlihood because of a political opinion.

New comment by rublev in "Toronto adds more tech jobs than Silicon Valley in past 5 years"

rublev — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:55:04 +0000

>Its housing is just as unaffordable

What? It's not even remotely close.

New comment by rublev in "Marine experiment finds women get injured more frequently"

rublev — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 20:24:19 +0000

Yeah it has nothing to do with the fact that we're built differently both mentally and physically. Kindly stop concern-trolling.

New comment by rublev in "Marine experiment finds women get injured more frequently"

rublev — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 20:21:22 +0000

I've never seen a female welder, mechanic, miner, or construction worker in my life.

New comment by rublev in "The Legend of Nintendo"

rublev — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 20:33:36 +0000

>they clearly know something most games studios and tech companies don't.

money

New comment by rublev in "Bitcoin estimated to use 0.5% of the world's electric energy by end of 2018"

rublev — Wed, 16 May 2018 17:51:11 +0000

As opposed to the utter waste of multiple resources and everything included in the pipeline between dollar issued and dollar spent?

New comment by rublev in "Leonard Bernstein invented how we do modern classical music"

rublev — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 00:44:31 +0000

One should read the correspondances between Glenn Gould and Bernstein, they are very deep. There's a book I recommend that is a compilation of most of Glenn Goulds letters, they are incredibly beautifully worded.

Bernstein helped motivate me towards classical piano more than anyone. Watch his "The Unanswered Question" series as well.

New comment by rublev in "Why is Ember fading away?"

rublev — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:21:06 +0000

>with React, I'd spend the first couple of days just fiddling around with build scripts.

Yeah a long time ago now. Since July 2016 create-react-app has been available, there are many other scaffolding tools as well.

>Sure, there are now react boilerplates that do this, but there are too many out there to properly evaluate what to use.

Use the one provided by the creators, facebook.

Why not just make it a part of the framework?

React is small (ok, "small"), you can use it out of the box without any build scripts. It doesn't make sense to package it up.

And speaking as someone who's done React for a couple years now and had to port old rails codebases to api-only / react views... yuck, never again. Rails is cluncky and most of the devs I worked with didn't know how anything works 'under the hood'.

New comment by rublev in "Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?"

rublev — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 20:08:31 +0000

Still in beta on my localhost, probably launching in a few weeks. It's a fairly big project even just as an MVP for a single exchange.

New comment by rublev in "Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?"

rublev — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:59:17 +0000

Working on an SMS crypto trading bot where you can text it trading commands according to whatever exchange you connected to. I've been in many situations where I needed to trade and logging into the exchange on my phone is cumbersome and could sometimes take 3+ minutes, and by then the opportunity is gone.

New comment by rublev in "The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees"

rublev — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:59:33 +0000

Company I worked for did M/W/F core hours (5 hours) and the rest from home if need be. Then Tuesdays/Thursdays were work from home.

Unreal. Literally the best feeling ever, no stress at all. The job was hard too but that extra degree of control and self direction made a difference.

People are not rats.

New comment by rublev in "The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees"

rublev — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:56:29 +0000

Yeah I love coming home from my hard as fuck underpaid job to turn on the TV and see idiots kicking a ball for $100 million dollars.

Something is definitely wrong.

New comment by rublev in "DeleteFacebook: Perspective from Mastodon"

rublev — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:08:56 +0000

Delete facebook and 5 seconds later you won't remember most of the people you keep in contact with as those connections don't matter.

New comment by rublev in "Bus Lane Blocked, He Trained His Computer to Catch Scofflaws"

rublev — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 17:29:12 +0000

The concrete jungle is only a dystopia to those who are constantly in a whirlwind of inconvenience and don't have enough money to throw at it.

If you're rich you cover the inconveniences with nice condos, taking cabs, and eating out.

New comment by rublev in "Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charged with Fraud"

rublev — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:37:11 +0000

It matters because fixed fees mean a % of the population will be unscathed by those consequences, and a % will be unable to afford the fine.

New comment by rublev in "How to Study Mathematics (2017)"

rublev — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 15:54:36 +0000

I have absolutely no mathematical background. https://www.reddit.com/r/mathbooks/comments/1ehupq/totally_d...

Here people are saying you need a solid pure math background. I skimmed through it and it gets complex very quickly. Around page 58 with the formulas I get lost.

Thanks though, I think I'll be ready for this after Gelfand and Kiselev. Can't wait.

New comment by rublev in "California-Grown Coffee Is Becoming the State's Next Gold Mine"

rublev — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 19:23:14 +0000

I don't think it is. I don't give a flying fuck about coffee or food or wine or any of that shit, but I can genuinely taste differences in coffee. I'd be surprised if you couldn't.

There's a little roaster in St Lawrence Market where I go and I pickup random bags of whatever coffees for fun, and they are extremely different.

Wine I've never been able to discern. I don't think coffee is in the same league at all.

New comment by rublev in "How to Study Mathematics (2017)"

rublev — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 16:27:13 +0000

I've always wanted to learn mathematics but have no idea where to start, I have no formal education in anything.

I tried the Ivan Savov books and they seem great but I have no way to judge the quality of any resources.

Where do I start as a complete beginner? I want books not online resources like Khan etc.

I would eventually like to get into Geometry but I have no foundation whatsoever, just basic algebra.

New comment by rublev in "Branching Layouts With Ease"

rublev — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:40:38 +0000

78% is not pathetic. All major desktop browser versions support it. It's only a ~4% different prefixed vs not. For where it fails, use flexbox and css as fallbacks. The time I've saved using grid and having to deal with fallbacks far outweighs the thought and effort I'd have to put into the same layout otherwise.