<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: slinkyavenger</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=slinkyavenger</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:52:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=slinkyavenger" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slinkyavenger in "Mixing Swift and C++"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Both criticisms are pointless -<p>1. Borg precedes K8s and likely is tightly coupled with Google's backend infra - that's to say, Borg gets architected around Google's existing workflow and new backend development is written around Borg's workflow.<p>2. GoLang was never intended to be an OS-level programming language. It was created to enable more robust, efficient, and rapid development in a particular space. It would be just as silly to argue that Google's three OS projects all eschew Dart.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2023 23:45:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36841246</link><dc:creator>slinkyavenger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36841246</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36841246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slinkyavenger in "Ask HN: Why do web sites not place the cursor for input?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Backspace has traditionally been a back button shortcut. In a similar complaint, the current key combo to navigate back across all platforms doesn't perform that action when a textbox is focused.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2023 23:17:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36840988</link><dc:creator>slinkyavenger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36840988</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36840988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slinkyavenger in "Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Using collusion without knowing what it means... Businesses make business deals all the time. If I had a company that made an inferior product and wasn't able or willing to invest time and resources to improve it, you know sure as hell I'd look to sell that product IP off before my competitors take all of my marketshare anyway and my company gets nothing for years of pre-existing work.<p>That's a sensible business move that lets them allocate resources to their strengths. To believe it's some kind of secret or illegal deal is pretty naïve. It's obviously not a mistake either - Hipchat is technologically behind other products on the market, and Atlassian has other core products that are doing really well (JIRA, for example).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:05:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17622440</link><dc:creator>slinkyavenger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17622440</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17622440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slinkyavenger in "Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm sure there's a fair amount of business logic between what's in the database and what's delivered to the presentation layer. Pulling from a database means that the new company has to reverse engineer Hipchat's API implementation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2018 23:58:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17622411</link><dc:creator>slinkyavenger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17622411</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17622411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slinkyavenger in "Ethernet over barbed wire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a nice callback to early phone infrastructure, which leveraged barbed-wire fences to bring service to those who lived in rural areas: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbed_wire_telephone_lines" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbed_wire_telephone_lines</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2017 23:36:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15910579</link><dc:creator>slinkyavenger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15910579</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15910579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slinkyavenger in "Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Android-on-Windows compatibility layer<p>This was one of the big mistakes made by OS/2 when they were competing against Windows. They created a compatibility layer for Windows applications, which meant that developers never wrote native apps for their platform, leading to a very poor user experience and gave Windows a leg-up on its competition. I doubt Microsoft wants to make the same mistake.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2017 16:50:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15435433</link><dc:creator>slinkyavenger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15435433</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15435433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slinkyavenger in "Show HN: Unix-like personal webpage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just a quick nitpick, I would like to see the links expand to their entire <p> parent elements, so the entire box is a clickable link, not just the text inside.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2017 19:52:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14791808</link><dc:creator>slinkyavenger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14791808</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14791808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slinkyavenger in "The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My most hated at the moment? Those ads that hijack page scrolling and don't let go until you've scrolled the ad past. Wouldn't be a huge problem if it didn't totally fuck up my browser's scrolling functionality and lag things out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2017 06:33:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14512337</link><dc:creator>slinkyavenger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14512337</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14512337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slinkyavenger in "Fluent Design Is Microsoft's New Metro UI for Windows and More"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seemed like overkill until I remembered their hololens work. Now it makes perfect sense and seems like a smart play.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2017 17:31:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14317873</link><dc:creator>slinkyavenger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14317873</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14317873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slinkyavenger in "How Three Kids with No Experience Beat Square and Translated Final Fantasy V"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's about the same as how you'd approach modern programming, except instead of watching variables you'd watch registers and addresses in RAM/VRAM and work backward from there. Hell, you could even look specifically for instructions that manipulated those addresses.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2017 16:51:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14257581</link><dc:creator>slinkyavenger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14257581</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14257581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slinkyavenger in "Facebook told advertisers it can identify teens feeling 'insecure', 'worthless'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I remember reading about this a few years ago, and observed network activity using Facebook. They certainly did capture what you type but fail to post. I would put serious money on them mining that data, too, since it can reveal someone's true uncensored thoughts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2017 23:12:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14242625</link><dc:creator>slinkyavenger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14242625</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14242625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slinkyavenger in "Sent to Prison by a Software Program’s Secret Algorithms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, it is what we do with insurance. The crux of the matter is that driving is a privilege, incarceration is a restriction on/revocation of a person's rights.<p>Healthcare is a good demonstration of where lines are blurred (at least in the United States). Some view it as a right, others don't.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2017 23:07:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14242585</link><dc:creator>slinkyavenger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14242585</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14242585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slinkyavenger in "OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There has to be a space between the OS and X for it to work for me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2016 20:00:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11897026</link><dc:creator>slinkyavenger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11897026</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11897026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slinkyavenger in "Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's about the journey, not the destination. But are you seriously suggesting he change it to a clickbait URL?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2016 17:33:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11745430</link><dc:creator>slinkyavenger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11745430</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11745430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slinkyavenger in "Got Fired? A list of do's and don'ts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As far as explanations are concerned, I've always heard that you should create a company and claim to do freelance work between getting fired and finding a new job. Any other tips?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2016 19:24:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11638994</link><dc:creator>slinkyavenger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11638994</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11638994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slinkyavenger in "A radically simple idea may open the door to a new world of antibiotics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We certainly do have to keep developing totally new antibiotics. Problem is many of the new antibiotics that we have are tweaks on existing antibiotics. We're in such a rush to have something useable that side effect profiles get nastier and bacteria develop resistances to entire families of antibiotics.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2015 22:53:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10673341</link><dc:creator>slinkyavenger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10673341</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10673341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slinkyavenger in "Ask HN: Any advice for a programmer who has hit rock bottom?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The depression doesn't help, but this sounds more like stress. Don't know how much it will help, as I don't suffer from depressin, but occasionally I'll get myself into a rut like that, and I found a few things that help.<p>Sleep at night. No more late nights, give your brain a rest before bed. Limit your caffeine to the morning - and no naps either. Sleep a full 8 hours, and willingly go to bed early enough that you have an extra hour of leeway in the morning. You'll feel tired until your body adjusts, but it will.<p>Get some cardio in - go for a run, ride a bike, or swim. Do something to get your heart rate up. Your body will naturally reward you, and will help calm you down mentally. Pay attention to your body, and add more cardio as you can tolerate it.<p>Keep a day-to-day list of things that you have to accomplish, and update it as part of your morning routine. I would recommend the Bullet Journal method, since that's been working for me. This will help you keep on track and see what you've actually accomplished.<p>Break down tasks that seem too daunting into smaller portions. Something that may sound simple like deploying an application can be overwhelming until it's broken down into smaller steps. Smaller steps also lead to more frequent wins, which will act as encouragement since you'll get to see progress.<p>And finally, don't expect to get so many things done per day. Focus on one or two things and work on them. If you add more than that, you'll just compound your stress which will turn into a vicious cycle because you'll constantly feel behind on your work.<p>Good luck, you're in a spot that plenty of people have been in, including myself, but even if this isn't it, there /is/ a way out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2015 21:57:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10402262</link><dc:creator>slinkyavenger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10402262</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10402262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slinkyavenger in "Creating a Unix Application Using the Win32 API (1998)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The point about WCHAR size reminded me of how little browser security mattered back then. Kinda interesting to think about how the internet was so fresh that there wasn't such a focus on a secure application. I wonder how many buffer over/underflow exploits were completely ignored.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:01:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10304882</link><dc:creator>slinkyavenger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10304882</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10304882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slinkyavenger in "Forcing suspects to reveal phone passwords is unconstitutional, court says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From what I've read in the past, it doesn't cover your thumbprint. [1]<p>Thumbprints are physical, so they don't get the same protections. It's kind of like having a physical key to a physical lock. It's not self-incrimination for law enforcement to take that key and use it in the lock.<p>Same with writing your passcode on a piece of paper. It's no longer a matter of self-incrimination if they find that and use it.<p>[1]: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/virginia-judge-police-can-demand-a-suspect-unlock-a-phone-with-a-fingerprint/" rel="nofollow">http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/virginia-judge-po...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2015 16:31:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10279091</link><dc:creator>slinkyavenger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10279091</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10279091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slinkyavenger in "Google launches Uber rival RideWith"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All of their interests and investments are all justified because it either drives people to look at advertisements or it generates more information about the users to make their ad platform more valuable.</p>
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