Hacker News: taybin

New comment by taybin in "Jira Is Turing-Complete"

taybin — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:53:55 +0000

That is exactly what i did last week. Got praised for it.

New comment by taybin in "DAG Workflow Engine"

taybin — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:34:51 +0000

What makes it production ready? What's the code coverage on your tests? There are only seven commits in this repo as of this comment.

New comment by taybin in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

taybin — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:03:40 +0000

I don’t. What are you referring to?

New comment by taybin in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

taybin — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:01:11 +0000

Music is something you can do without formal training. Much like how you can be a terrible programmer but still create popular software. Just like how maybe what the world wanted at some moment was a slow PHP alternative to moveabletype, maybe the world also wanted sped up, stripped down, 60s girl band songs, without complicated rhythms and harmonies.

Not trying to say that Wordpress v1 was terrible software written by terrible programmers, but I hope you get my point.

New comment by taybin in "RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001)"

taybin — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:10:15 +0000

No mention of “baz”

New comment by taybin in "What the interns have wrought, 2018 edition"

taybin — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 13:15:25 +0000

They don't post the bad photos onto instagram. You really need to figure this out or you're going to be chasing other people's dreams. All your comments just talk about how you want to make more money, when you're already making a lot of money.

New comment by taybin in "What the interns have wrought, 2018 edition"

taybin — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 04:11:13 +0000

This is the sort of race where once you get to the end, you realize you were racing against yourself. Stop comparing your blooper reel to their highlight reel. It's not healthy. I guarantee there are people envious of your life.

New comment by taybin in "The Implementation of the Icon Programming Language (1986)"

taybin — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 03:32:10 +0000

I have this book. I read it while working on my senior project, which was adding the Actor concurrency model to Icon. A pretty easy read. The Icon language was so innovative. It was my secret weapon in college.

New comment by taybin in "Bill Gates warns on future disease epidemic"

taybin — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 20:43:25 +0000

How do we know that they don't? I'm sure they have procedures for biological warfare responses.

New comment by taybin in "Any stories of employees with equity successfully taking home over $1m? $500k?"

taybin — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:34:15 +0000

It's a good question. My bias is that it often does not, and that the current investors make sure it does not. However, it also isn't in people's interest to advertise that they have a lot of money suddenly, so I'm not sure we'll see some good answers here.

New comment by taybin in "Online gambling firm Bet365 has swapped Java for Erlang"

taybin — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 19:16:33 +0000

Who wants to hire some 'wah, syntax is hard' programmers?

New comment by taybin in "There exists a classical model of the photon after all"

taybin — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 20:21:20 +0000

"if the fundamental particles are just quasiparticles in a superfluid quantum vacuum"

well obviously.

New comment by taybin in "The Expert in a Year Challenge"

taybin — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 15:20:13 +0000

It will be interesting to see how well Gladwell's claim stands up to empirical testing.

New comment by taybin in "How does ActiveRecord#find work?"

taybin — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 16:00:05 +0000

Maybe we can get Morgan Freeman to narrate the source code of TeX.

New comment by taybin in "Twitter Confirms New Google Firehose Deal"

taybin — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 02:48:53 +0000

Ugh. I avoid twitter like the plague already. Luckily it'll be easy to ignore in the results.

New comment by taybin in "The torus is the product of two circles, cubically"

taybin — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 19:59:24 +0000

Cool. Now multiply a circle with a pyramid. Yes, a 3D pyramid.

New comment by taybin in "What it’s like living in the coldest town on Earth"

taybin — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 18:02:00 +0000

The ground is frozen solid.

New comment by taybin in "GitHub's “hub” tool rewritten in Golang"

taybin — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 20:43:35 +0000

Isn't it more lines of code now?

New comment by taybin in "What can I only do in Erlang?"

taybin — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 17:34:55 +0000

He learned prolog at the lab?

New comment by taybin in "The Hypercard Legacy"

taybin — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:22:42 +0000

I completely agree. Natural Language style programming with AppleScript is incredibly difficult. I don't think hypertalk was that much better.