Hacker News: spiritcat

New comment by spiritcat in "Principled GraphQL"

spiritcat — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 12:48:03 +0000

"If you just want JSON over HTTP with some status codes"

yes this

Qualifier: have not been able to use graphql yet, and I'd still like to try it out at least before making and judgements

New comment by spiritcat in "Skirting U.S. sanctions, Europeans launch trade mechanism for Iran"

spiritcat — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 23:48:37 +0000

wasn't being sarcastic

New comment by spiritcat in "Skirting U.S. sanctions, Europeans launch trade mechanism for Iran"

spiritcat — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 14:41:23 +0000

No don't send me back to slashdot, I'll be good. Peace wuv coexist.

New comment by spiritcat in "Skirting U.S. sanctions, Europeans launch trade mechanism for Iran"

spiritcat — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 23:34:19 +0000

fwiw, the 'get fucked' part was probably uncalled for. kind of on edge these days.

New comment by spiritcat in "Skirting U.S. sanctions, Europeans launch trade mechanism for Iran"

spiritcat — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 14:40:05 +0000

Yes, but half the world isn't actively trying to destroy most people/nations.

And yes I do recognize it must suck ass to live in Gaza and I feel for them, and hope for a better future where their lives don't suck ass. I have no idea what to do about it though.

I know it's inconvenient for Europeans and progressives who think they can just lift the blockade and stop operations in Syria and everyone will live happily ever after, but when that filters through my ears it becomes "we don't give a fuck if you live or die."

Why should I care about the opinions of people who don't give a fuck if I live or die?

New comment by spiritcat in "How can I download an image using F12 developer tools from a website?"

spiritcat — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:03:19 +0000

see this is why i browse under 'new' sometimes

New comment by spiritcat in "Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?"

spiritcat — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 23:38:18 +0000

The day EA killed Westwood Chat and it's active community and replaced it with their hideous in-game matchmaking was I think the day the internet stopped being fun and weird for me.

Or I maybe just lost my internet innocence, seeing Big Game come in and decide on a whim to toss in the bin the place where I spent most of my after school time. Also where I learned how to un-ban myself by editing the right registry key. :D

New comment by spiritcat in "U.S. Accuses Huawei of Stealing Trade Secrets, Defrauding Banks"

spiritcat — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 23:07:43 +0000

I wouldn't give our leaders that much credit.

New comment by spiritcat in "The subscription-pocalypse"

spiritcat — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 12:32:57 +0000

Would this be an appropriate time to plug FOSS? I can never tell..

New comment by spiritcat in "Bring back the 40-hour work week (2012)"

spiritcat — Sun, 27 Jan 2019 16:57:25 +0000

Couldn't help but wonder what role the union played in the recent GM plant harassment case.

They're gonna hang a noose and GM is still too scared/unable to fire them? Am I misreading this?

But also can easily also see how merit based promotion at a production plant would be used to work workers to the bone. Gotta be some kind of balance.

New comment by spiritcat in "Future JavaScript: what is still missing?"

spiritcat — Sun, 27 Jan 2019 16:44:51 +0000

Roughly speaking, one less place where we need to use lodash.

"or will it just obfuscate bugs in the long run?"

Probably. :shrug emojii:

But more stable in the sense of turning hard crashes into UI quirks.

New comment by spiritcat in "Google Memo on Cost Cuts Sparks Heated Debate Inside Company"

spiritcat — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 16:31:29 +0000

But just to be clear for when this comment gets mined by some future HR department. It is of course very important to have good people making the high level architectural decisions, and you should absolutely hire me for your senior technical positions to maximize the output of all those around me!

It's just the whole needing to give blunt assessments of underlings that may have consequences for their and their families livelihood that I'm not suited for.

New comment by spiritcat in "Google Memo on Cost Cuts Sparks Heated Debate Inside Company"

spiritcat — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 14:01:35 +0000

I guess i should clarify. Useless in a technical sense, not in a bureaucratic sense. You still need them of course.

And I'm sure even the worst at google are far from 'useless.' Figure of speech.

Edit: Possibly better than the alternative overall though. So frustrating to have competent people promoted as you're trying to put out a working product. Cancel those meetings and fix this code!

New comment by spiritcat in "Google Memo on Cost Cuts Sparks Heated Debate Inside Company"

spiritcat — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 11:30:22 +0000

so they keep the smart people doing useful work, rather than convert them to useless managers?

same as it ever was.

New comment by spiritcat in "AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II"

spiritcat — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 04:31:25 +0000

but still, if you want to measure that then play a turn based game. if i could micro as good as the pros i'd be pretty damn good too.

hooking it up to a camera looking at a screen and a robot arm with a mouse would be more fair though.

edit: ok they did have a camera version, but i still want a robot arm.

New comment by spiritcat in "Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store"

spiritcat — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 22:34:08 +0000

how about a foldable small phone?

New comment by spiritcat in "I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days"

spiritcat — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 21:01:10 +0000

Story of my life, watching everyone else quickly come up with the wrong answers. :P

In school would usually (ok, often) get highest score, but took the longest to finish.

New comment by spiritcat in "Concept design for a post-LHC future circular collider at CERN"

spiritcat — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:13:19 +0000

My understanding is that, since we have no idea what's happening down there, whatever it is would be new and exciting.

(feel free to correct)

New comment by spiritcat in "Ask HN: What was the Internet like before corporations got their hands on it?"

spiritcat — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 16:55:18 +0000

Everything was always under construction.

New comment by spiritcat in "Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones"

spiritcat — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 04:30:09 +0000

graph of sales of 4" phones?