Hacker News: spatten

Yahoo Is Selling TechCrunch

spatten — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:59:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/633950/yahoo-selling-techcrunch-regent-acquisition

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43440769

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by spatten in "Find the oldest line in your repo"

spatten — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:50:53 +0000

I ran into that too. Turns out that you need to add in the path you want to search when invoking the command. If it's your current working directory, use `.`

New comment by spatten in "Just 2 cans of soda per week is too much – even if you exercise"

spatten — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 20:26:43 +0000

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/...

(I'm just going on Googling here, not an expert)

From reading that link, I think it works like this:

A hazard ratio of 1.0 means "no hazard, or no difference from the control".

A hazard ratio of 1.21 means "21% more hazardous than the control"

Roaring Bitmaps: What they are and how they work (2022)

spatten — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 22:38:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vikramoberoi.com/a-primer-on-roaring-bitmaps-what-they-are-and-how-they-work/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39610044

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by spatten in "The lost ways of programming: Commodore 64 BASIC (2020)"

spatten — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 19:13:44 +0000

In C64 Basic, "$" declares that a variable is a string, like this:

``` A$ = "Hello World ```

So you say this as "A-string equals Hello World"

I still pronounce "$" as string however many years later

Cloudflare’s view of the Rogers Communications outage in Canada

spatten — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 23:33:38 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-view-of-the-rogers-communications-outage-in-canada/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32029360

Points: 14

# Comments: 0

Three Pillars of Reproducible Builds

spatten — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 19:19:48 +0000

Article URL: https://fossa.com/blog/three-pillars-reproducible-builds/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30604954

Points: 82

# Comments: 14

Exponential Growth

spatten — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 19:13:32 +0000

Article URL: https://longform.asmartbear.com/docs/exponential-growth/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30570846

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by spatten in "Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves found at residential school"

spatten — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 01:07:31 +0000

There are many people still living who were teachers and administrators at these schools.

If we believe that this was genocide (and I think it's pretty obvious that it was), then they should be held accountable for their crimes.

The fact that they haven't been speaks volumes.

Code Quality Challenge

spatten — Mon, 10 May 2021 17:41:54 +0000

Article URL: https://tuple.app/code-quality-challenge

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27108678

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Betelguese Fades More

spatten — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 01:48:34 +0000

Article URL: https://astroblogger.blogspot.com/2019/12/betelgeuse-fades-more.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21849028

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Fifth Google worker-activist fired says company is targeting the vulnerable

spatten — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 20:59:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/17/fifth-google-worker-activist-fired-in-a-month-says-company-is-targeting-the-vulnerable

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21818771

Points: 14

# Comments: 1

Why Did Greenland’s Vikings Vanish? (2017)

spatten — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 18:49:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-greenland-vikings-vanished-180962119/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21631393

Points: 60

# Comments: 33

Basecamp’s chat sucks, and I like it

spatten — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 19:13:09 +0000

Article URL: https://heavymelon.blog/2019/11/21/basecamp-chat-sucks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21598177

Points: 35

# Comments: 9

The Sudafed Solution to America's Vaping Problem

spatten — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 00:24:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-06/the-sudafed-solution-to-america-s-vaping-problem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21488474

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by spatten in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2019)"

spatten — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 21:38:03 +0000

Location: Vancouver, Canada

Remote: Yes -- I've been working remotely for > 5 years.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Javascript (Node, React, jQuery, Backbone, Meteor, and a wide range of other Javascript frameworks), Serverless, Erlang, LaTeX, AWS, Ansible.

Resume: https://linkedin.com/in/scott-patten/

Email: scott@scottpatten.ca

I'm one of the founders of Leanpub (https://leanpub.com), and I'm looking for something new (don't worry, Leanpub is just fine). Leanpub is a well-loved, profitable company that has paid over $8 million in royalties to authors, and I was one of the people who built it from scratch.

At Leanpub I was responsible for the book generation engine, our Markdown parser, devops and infrastructure and the main Rails app. I jumped in on the React side of things when needed. I figured out requirements, talked to customers, did support and wrote documentation.

I have more than a decade of experience in software development with a wide variety of technologies. I'm interested in finding a position where I can have an impact on the company, learn constantly and be a part of a great team. I'm looking for a remote-first or extremely remote-friendly company.

Blood pressure drugs work far better if taken at night

spatten — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 17:32:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/oct/23/blood-pressure-drugs-work-far-better-if-taken-at-night-study-shows

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21336864

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Machine Learning Deployment

spatten — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 23:22:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/10/4/machine-learning-deployment

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21168649

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by spatten in "Primitive Technology: Adobe wall (dry stacked) [video]"

spatten — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 03:38:37 +0000

I had wondered what happened to his videos, as I hadn't seen an update in my RSS feed for a while. Turns out he's just stopped updating his blog!

I've got some videos to catch up on :)

New comment by spatten in "Battery Power's Latest Plunge in Costs Threatens Coal, Gas"

spatten — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 18:42:40 +0000

I think it was this one: http://rameznaam.com/2019/04/02/the-third-phase-of-clean-ene...