Hacker News: shamas

New comment by shamas in "Apple fined $8.5M for illegally collecting iPhone owners' data for ads"

shamas — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 02:11:42 +0000

?? They've always taken data to sell ads, although they usually try to sell things from within their own ecosystem. Don't drink the koolaid

New comment by shamas in "Against 3x Speed"

shamas — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 06:09:54 +0000

I do this, and I'm constantly in need of book recommendations. Please help

New comment by shamas in "js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read."

shamas — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 12:35:35 +0000

What is your automated deployment pipeline for this kind of website?

New comment by shamas in "js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read."

shamas — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 12:29:36 +0000

Why would most js heavy companies want content to be long lived? What's the benefit to them? If they're concerned about making data accessible then they'll open an API that they hold the keys to.

New comment by shamas in "js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read."

shamas — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 12:25:55 +0000

Why? Why should you be in a position to dictate to twitter how to operate. It's a multi-million dollar company with many smart people working away on the product. Who are you? If you just want walls of text and a completely unengaging product, stick to hackernews.

New comment by shamas in "js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read."

shamas — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 12:23:33 +0000

Why would you browse the internet this way? Why not just enable the scripts and close the site if it's annoying?

New comment by shamas in "Why I’m Using C"

shamas — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 13:15:13 +0000

That does give some food for thought. Of all the new language features, the elements I really need —functors, asynchronous syntactical sugar, and static null analysis— don't require much of the bloat found in many modern languages.

New comment by shamas in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)"

shamas — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 15:41:07 +0000

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HYPR is looking for a seasoned Fullstack Software Engineer who brings the very best to join our stellar team. This role is at HYPR’s world headquarters located in New York City. Relocation assistance for the right candidate will be provided.

This is a truly fullstack role helping across all major products. - Backend server automation Py+Shell - Backend development using latest Java+Kotlin frameworks - Frontend using ReactJS+Redux tech

Offering a great work life balance and offering high levels of ownership over projects.

This and other jobs listed at https://angel.co/hypr-corp/jobs/506271-full-stack-engineer

I'm a lead engineer at HYPR, please feel free to DM me via my profile here.

New comment by shamas in "Ask HN: Tricks to Avoid Eye Problems?"

shamas — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 02:44:40 +0000

Eye stretching exercises. Focus on something as close as possible (in good light) then slowly track out to something at infinite distance, one eye then the other then both.

Additionally, make sure the contrast on the screen matches your surriundings! There's no reason to have your brightness very high at all, and brightness is different from contrast.

New comment by shamas in "New in Chrome 70"

shamas — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 12:09:01 +0000

It can be used to access a company's own hardware.

New comment by shamas in "Google YOLO clickjacking"

shamas — Sat, 12 May 2018 01:35:14 +0000

I'm perhaps not understanding the significance of this. Is the issue that if you go to a shitty scam site and start clicking things you might have issues?? I don't see how that's an issue to be solved by a browser.

Leaking your image and email is a huge issue though.

New comment by shamas in "Google YOLO clickjacking"

shamas — Sat, 12 May 2018 01:31:51 +0000

Yeah, that took me a while to figure out just now. But I still don't see how that's an issue, I'm browsing on ycombinator.com, not ashittyiframesite.com

New comment by shamas in "Google Chrome whitelisted the “top 1000 sites” and broke less popular sites"

shamas — Wed, 09 May 2018 10:33:06 +0000

Where the whitelist is stated https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/improving-autoplay-c...

I was really excited about this change, I'm a little disappointed that there wasn't more consideration of these niche web developers.

Google Chrome whitelisted the “top 1000 sites” and broke less popular sites

shamas — Wed, 09 May 2018 10:27:35 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/05/chromes-autoplay-video-blocker-is-accidentally-killing-web-based-games/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17028758

Points: 4

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New comment by shamas in "The Future of Software Is No Code"

shamas — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 12:49:58 +0000

I feel like CRUD web apps are pretty much automated already. You load in React or Vue or whatever, then you just write CSS and HTML in a copy paste style where you're copying from your brain. In fact! The automation has gone so far that people even specialize in using these new automation tools.

Typically they're referred to as designers and web engineers.

Dumb advertisement article...

New comment by shamas in "Software Complexity Is Killing Us"

shamas — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 01:44:38 +0000

There are more technologies between C and a platform where you drag drop things... Who the hell develops with a drag drop interface?

New comment by shamas in "U.S. customs agents are searching more cellphones"

shamas — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 01:35:15 +0000

You are wrong. Airports are not in the USA, so USA laws don't apply there. They can do whatever they wish, but they obviously generally act along the lines of acceptability. Please correct me if I am wrong.

New comment by shamas in "Australia's Economy Is a House of Cards"

shamas — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:15:47 +0000

This is a fine example of what I was saying, this is people cramming money into something with the hope of getting rich in a short period of time. People getting in knew it was a high risk gamble. Not to mention that the tech industry is now one of the biggest on the planet. Is it still a bubble?

Edit: attempt to add clarity.

The core of what I'm trying to say is almost any increasing asset is labelled as a bubble now days. I'm not denying that there aren't shady investments that appear and collapse all the time, some are enormous, like the tech bubble.

But it requires further classification. There are gambling bubbles built by thousands of agents where some have seen astronomical profit, but then there seems to be more stable "bubbles" like all of the bubbles mentioned in the article.

A bubble isn't a bubble, not without further clarification.

New comment by shamas in "Australia's Economy Is a House of Cards"

shamas — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 04:15:33 +0000

People have been crying "bubble" my entire life, and I'm yet to see one actually "burst".

The only things close to bubble bursts were scam driven things like the sub-prime mortgage collapse in the USA.

New comment by shamas in "Simple React Patterns"

shamas — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 13:12:07 +0000

Correct me if I'm wrong, but these patterns don't seem very much like a Redux way to do things. A lot of things feel somewhat implicit too. For example, I stopped just spreading my state into the child component, opting to be explicit nearing verbose instead.