Hacker News: staircasebug

New comment by staircasebug in "Stack Overflow is almost dead"

staircasebug — Fri, 16 May 2025 18:03:35 +0000

Fair point, but large, popular and well maintained/healthy repos would likely be better to learn from than SO. Lots of stack overflow convos have moved to GitHub issues as well.

New comment by staircasebug in "Stack Overflow is almost dead"

staircasebug — Thu, 15 May 2025 21:55:32 +0000

They're learning from working code in GitHub, IDE "co-pilots"...

New comment by staircasebug in "SoftBank's new AI makes angry customers sound calm on phone"

staircasebug — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 02:22:01 +0000

Sounds like something that can be applied to the call center operator voice as well.

New comment by staircasebug in "Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way"

staircasebug — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 19:51:47 +0000

Good point. Might be nice to have some redundancy if a game controller is used for a mission critical component, but apparently, the US military approves.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/19/16333376/us-navy-military...

New comment by staircasebug in "GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023"

staircasebug — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:30:16 +0000

Step 1 towards, "we will be using Teams for day-to-day collaboration".

New comment by staircasebug in "Senators want to mandate anti-piracy technology across the web"

staircasebug — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 15:52:41 +0000

Likely, one would need to follow the "donations" to see who's really in charge.

New comment by staircasebug in "Leaked Scripps records reveal automated mark-ups for hospital care"

staircasebug — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 21:23:23 +0000

US healthcare is most definitely not free market.

New comment by staircasebug in "Why we chose Vue.js over React"

staircasebug — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 17:10:07 +0000

Any developer familiar with mustache templates, Backbone and/or Angular should immediately pick up Vuejs templating. For me and most others I've heard from, the cognitive overhead was minimal.

New comment by staircasebug in "Amazon bans incentivized reviews tied to free or discounted products"

staircasebug — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 21:46:11 +0000

About time, but I think it would be beneficial to have a way of filtering these "paid" reviews or not counting them towards the overall rating. Something for everyone ...

New comment by staircasebug in "UX Issues That Will Make Or Break Self-Driving Cars"

staircasebug — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 06:58:09 +0000

Agreed on the latency with the driver.

Let's also think about the diminishing skills that we'll experience once automation takes over the majority of our driving. Imagine taking 3-4 weeks off from driving and then being asked to take the wheel under a difficult circumstance.

New comment by staircasebug in "Used ThinkPad Buyer's Guide"

staircasebug — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 01:32:41 +0000

Same. The touchpad on my x230 was terrible--hours of forum searching and 2 driver updates never fixed it. I'm happy that I learned to use the nub, but it just felt ridiculous that Lenovo hadn't figured out how to make a functioning touchpad.

New comment by staircasebug in "Flipboard releases React Canvas"

staircasebug — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 20:15:39 +0000

Amazing and buttery smooth on my Android/Chrome, but as of now, there are big accessibility hurdles to overcome with Canvas and that's concerning.

New comment by staircasebug in "Google Play Store: Browsing with Firefox is no longer supported on Android"

staircasebug — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 19:30:30 +0000

If you visit Gmail with Firefox on Android, Google will serve up a low-fidelity, non-ajax version of the site/app... a very poor user experience vs Android Chrome. I feel like this is done intentionally as Safari on iOS gives the same user experience as Android Chrome.

Also, Google search omits many filters and feature options in Firefox and again, it seems intentional since Safari on iOS offers the same UX as Android Chrome.

New comment by staircasebug in "I'm About as Good as Dead: The End of Xah Lee"

staircasebug — Fri, 16 May 2014 15:42:37 +0000

From a certain perspective, one could view those as accomplishments in relation to all he has learned/accomplished and contributed within the coding community.

New comment by staircasebug in "Talk of an Internet Fast Lane Is Already Hurting Some Startups"

staircasebug — Wed, 07 May 2014 14:15:55 +0000

"causing real issues for carriers where they have to spend a lot of money upgrading networks, and pushing fiber deeper into their networks"

I've been reading over and over again how the ISPs should already have this upgrade money allocated and available to spend on network infrastructure upgrades.

You've Already Paid $2,000 For A Fiber Connection You'll Never Get - http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060131/2021240.shtml

New comment by staircasebug in "Scientists Make First Embryo Clones From Adults"

staircasebug — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 19:36:14 +0000

Probably not all. Moral issues generally stem for religious & cultural upbringing. China is a country that has minimal issues with human cloning.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/science/20tier.html

New comment by staircasebug in "Co-founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years"

staircasebug — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 16:26:48 +0000

My memory is fuzzy about this, but at that time, the mpaa/riaa/etc had been coming down real hard on YouTube. Without the G or another big boy coming in, their ship would have been in a precarious situation with all of the lawsuits rolling in.

New comment by staircasebug in "As Competition Wanes, Amazon Cuts Back Discounts"

staircasebug — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 04:22:39 +0000

Just seems like typical retailing to me. Non mass-market books don't get discounts. If someone is really searching to purchase "Jim Harrison: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1964-2008", they're probably going to buy it with or without the discount attached.

Btw, Kindle price of "Born to Lose" is $9.34 at the moment. Seems like a good discount to me.

New comment by staircasebug in "Edward Snowden asylum: Bolivian president's plane diverted - live coverage"

staircasebug — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 01:46:37 +0000

No Snowden on board? Hiding in the smuggler cargo bays, perhaps?

New comment by staircasebug in "NSA E-Mail Eavesdropping"

staircasebug — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 15:31:40 +0000

All this makes me wonder if the NSA has the ability to tap your medical records. Has this reach been talked about?

In their terms, nothing is off limits, correct?