Hacker News: swerveonem

New comment by swerveonem in "The Next American Car Recession Has Already Started"

swerveonem — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 01:43:28 +0000

That and we have taken massive depreciation hits, which makes is less desirable to sell or trade if you financed a bunch of your purchase.

New comment by swerveonem in "The Next American Car Recession Has Already Started"

swerveonem — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 01:42:18 +0000

Nah, low center of gravity with nimble handling is better. I'll take an all wheel drive S4, ATS, C class or 3 series over an SUV any snowy day. Sport sedans have swagger too, the only swaggerific SUVs are the Escalade, Cullinan, Urus, Porsche SUVs. But those are out of the price range most of humanity can afford to buy within. I have never had a problem seeing traffic.

New comment by swerveonem in "Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?"

swerveonem — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 16:28:11 +0000

I run a gitlab instance and use issues and milestones.

New comment by swerveonem in "The Titanic Was on Fire for Days Before the Iceberg Hit"

swerveonem — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 00:47:31 +0000

What percentage of ships had fires in their coal holds on the day the titanic launched, by your estimation? I'm struggling to understand how rare a persistent coal fire was during that era. Would they in deed be forced to burn the coal, would this also force a high speed? If I'm to believe what LEO has me, speed is an enormous factor in all accidents, one of the most impactful variables, reduce it to 0 and you get the authors point.

New comment by swerveonem in "Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview"

swerveonem — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 04:34:32 +0000

Did the offer any moral or ethics explanation? How did they justify this on a human level? That always interests me about this sort of decision, surely they had many meetings on the topic, what would those minutes look like?

New comment by swerveonem in "Ask HN: Have you ever inherited a codebase nobody on the team could understand?"

swerveonem — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 01:53:47 +0000

Being able to solve those problems like "it ain't no thing" is part of being a senior developer.

New comment by swerveonem in "Ask HN: Starting a career in security at 40?"

swerveonem — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 19:19:53 +0000

You could take a pay cut learn the business at another firm then start your own shop in two years, #win.

New comment by swerveonem in "Why Standing Desks Are Overrated"

swerveonem — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 18:32:47 +0000

Standing desks might be but adjustable desks are not. Who wants their neck at the same angle all day everyday for years?

New comment by swerveonem in "Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more powerful"

swerveonem — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 21:58:24 +0000

What king of large system does not have smaller components that are relied upon?

New comment by swerveonem in "Qt Design Studio 1.0"

swerveonem — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 00:59:31 +0000

Wysiwyg?

New comment by swerveonem in "A mysterious grey-hat is patching people's outdated MikroTik routers"

swerveonem — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 15:59:43 +0000

They wouldn't trust the sender they would assign a dev to inspect the referenced file, decision making would start at that point.

New comment by swerveonem in "310 Bitcoin challenge has been solved"

swerveonem — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 00:34:05 +0000

You are devious. Then execute a massive spearfishing attack.

New comment by swerveonem in "Ask HN: What are some great projects to gain experience in InfoSec?"

swerveonem — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 21:29:52 +0000

Check out the Kali distro

New comment by swerveonem in "Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjecture"

swerveonem — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 23:14:41 +0000

Will others fork his proof to fill in the gaps? Is there a github for maths proofs?

New comment by swerveonem in "Yale study finds twice as many undocumented immigrants as previous estimates"

swerveonem — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 23:13:16 +0000

Documents issued by the federal government, mostly a social security number or Visa or green card.

New comment by swerveonem in "Stories – Medium clone built with Rails"

swerveonem — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 19:41:16 +0000

They have not moved on, rails has matured and now requires less public debate.

New comment by swerveonem in "Manhattan DA's office drops more than 3,000 open marijuana cases"

swerveonem — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 00:09:57 +0000

Out of how many open cases total?

New comment by swerveonem in "Companies worry more about access to software developers than capital"

swerveonem — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 15:02:58 +0000

Often the best batches of resumes come from international staffing companies, they are often faster and more efficient at putting butts in seats than the smaller staffing companies that focus on local talent s.

New comment by swerveonem in "GIMP receives a $100K donation"

swerveonem — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 18:07:30 +0000

While what you say may be true, it's trivia. If one of those devs who attempt a fix learn a little and make a more significant contribution later in life. Only hindsight is 20/20.

New comment by swerveonem in "Rails, still?"

swerveonem — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 18:29:28 +0000

If you truly had to rewrite from scratch you did something wrong, the APIs are not vastly different.