<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: theootz</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=theootz</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:12:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=theootz" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theootz in "Google I/O 2013"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If by some chance they decide to add more later, can find them with:<p>for (var a in ww.mode.modes) { var b = ww.mode.modes[a].pattern; var c = b != null ? b.toString(2) : ''; console.log(a, b, c.length > 0 ? Array(9 - c.length).join('0') + c : ''); }</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:27:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5441778</link><dc:creator>theootz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5441778</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5441778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theootz in "Why Every Office Should Switch To Walking Desks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But maybe it's better in terms of posture for your body, over all? You may burn the same number of calories, but you're up straight, and your joints and muscles are doing something. I'm sure that must be beneficial on its own</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:31:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5315993</link><dc:creator>theootz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5315993</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5315993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theootz in "As of today, App.net is a freemium service"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If anyone has an extra invite, would love to have one please: ootz0rz+hn@gmail.com</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:47:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5280803</link><dc:creator>theootz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5280803</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5280803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theootz in "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Eclipse+CDT provides some of the same features as well. Very useful :)<p><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/" rel="nofollow">http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:29:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5037354</link><dc:creator>theootz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5037354</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5037354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theootz in "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>C is (more specifically) a 3rd generation language, and when I was going through high school I remember it always being on the list of high level languages. It's more recently now I think, that we consider it otherwise...</p>
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<p>Some of the middle is clickable, if you can find it :/</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 04:30:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5019346</link><dc:creator>theootz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5019346</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5019346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theootz in "Do you want Instagram to sell your photos? Let them know: 1 (888) 966-9371"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You have to delete your content, and then delete your account, BEFORE the policy comes into affect. With the way things are worded apparently, if done afterwards, they can still keep data on their servers even if your account is gone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:43:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4939483</link><dc:creator>theootz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4939483</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4939483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theootz in "Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My thoughts exactly when hearing of the news, but I doubt it'd actually happen :( They'd probably have to get rights from Zahns publisher or Dark Horse or whomever owns it, I'd think. I don't think this purchase counts as an umbrella IP grab for all offshoots too?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:36:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4719792</link><dc:creator>theootz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4719792</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4719792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theootz in "Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Related to bookmarks...<p>I no longer use Firefox and have long since switched to Chrome, but in doing so my bookmarks have become effectively useless. What I mean by this is, in Firefox, one of the greatest (and probably underused) features was the ability to tag individual bookmarks instead of simply pushing them into a single folder.<p>This meant that, when I wanted to revisit a bookmark later on, I simply had to start typing in the tags (which I always made broad and diverse). By typing in more and more tags that I thought would likely relate to the article I wanted to reach, it would narrow it down. I never had to remember what the article was called, or where it was, or anything like that.<p>Now if this automatically happened while bookmarking? Some intelligent manner in which the page could be skimmed for keywords or something. Bookmarking and retrieval becomes much simpler...<p>Just wanted to throw that out as something to consider :)<p>(Now, one Chrome, I usually just leave tabs open or try to organize into folders and fail miserably :/ )</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:20:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4717696</link><dc:creator>theootz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4717696</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4717696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theootz in "How to Crack the Toughest Coding Interviews"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sorry, but what's CLR?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2012 07:04:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4705620</link><dc:creator>theootz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4705620</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4705620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theootz in "Lessons for uncultured web developers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I personally love using the ISO format as well.<p>As for the iPhone vs Android thing, the graph used by OP is a bit misleading (it's restricted to AUS only). I'd take a look at these ones instead: <a href="http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-ww-monthly-201108-201208" rel="nofollow">http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-ww-monthly-201108-...</a> or <a href="http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201108-201208" rel="nofollow">http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201108-20120...</a> for worldwide.<p>I guess he's trying to highlight how it's different in different places around the world though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 08:44:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4498877</link><dc:creator>theootz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4498877</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4498877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theootz in "Microsoft.com New Design Preview"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not true: <a href="http://www.mono-project.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.mono-project.com</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 08:08:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4175719</link><dc:creator>theootz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4175719</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4175719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theootz in "QBasic's Gorillas in coffescript"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very cool to see that this awesome game was this first foray into programming for others, as it was for me :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 20:59:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4123821</link><dc:creator>theootz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4123821</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4123821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theootz in "Git a Fork in My Syllabus, It’s Done"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why not just make it a wiki instead? Most wiki's have version control, but also offer a lot more formatting options and the like. Plus better linking, easier to edit (imo), less up-front technical knowledge, etc...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:35:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4072577</link><dc:creator>theootz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4072577</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4072577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theootz in "Light Table funding successful, including Python support (over $300k raised)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I always loved the amount of power in java IDEs (Eclipse, for me) for refactoring code...made things so much easier.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2012 01:20:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4056629</link><dc:creator>theootz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4056629</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4056629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theootz in "Light Table funding successful, including Python support (over $300k raised)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And what's wrong with Python?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:26:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4056180</link><dc:creator>theootz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4056180</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4056180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theootz in "20 lines of code that beat A/B testing every time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's no point in continuing to run A/B testing indefinitely once a winner has been chosen, and like-wise there is no point in running this indefinitely either.<p>Sure the OP advocates "set and forget", but it seems simply silly to do this indefinitely. Obviously, after a while, you're going to want to check in on the results and prune out low performers.<p>Is that not the entire point of all these different testing methodologies to begin with?<p>Also, if you were to follow the same "set and forget" strategy with A/B, you'd have a 50% chance of showing the 0% CR design, where-as it's only 10% with this method.<p>Seems like it wins out in both cases to me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 22:10:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4040256</link><dc:creator>theootz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4040256</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4040256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theootz in "Front End Performance Case Study: GitHub"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Would have been interesting to see if the quotes made an impact or not, as well. I can't see it making that much of a difference...</p>
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<p>That's glorious :o I've only recently begun messing around with SVGs, but it seems the more I use them, the more amazing they become.<p>That said, I really do wish there was better browser support for them. Having to embed them as objects instead of images, for example, is a tad bit lame :/ And then you're still left with anything before IE9 (I think?) unable to see them. On the mobile-end, the same goes with anything before Android 3... Or weird buggy behaviour when you're applying things like hover effects to parts of the image, etc...<p>It's definitely promising though</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:25:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3900669</link><dc:creator>theootz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3900669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3900669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by theootz in "GMail: designer arrogance and the cult of minimalism"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pretty horrible list IMO...<p>1) Try a different theme, it may help if it really affects you that much. But this is the only one I somewhat agree with as being possibly an issue; but nothing I really thought of when first looking at the new UI<p>2) The marker is more than far enough away to make it easy to scan through IMO. This feels far too subjective to just throw out and be like "yea this is definitely a bad change" without doing some testing first. Either way, you can disable this from settings. (Disable snippets iirc?)<p>3) This too can be disabled: go to settings and change it to text labels instead of graphical labels?<p>As much as I used to hate the new look too, I think it's improved enough since its first iteration to get out of the way and let me do my thing. Though, I still <i>REALLY</i> hate the fact that you can't click on the "Google" logo at the top left to go back to the main page for whatever application you happen to be at. I have no idea why they would remove that...</p>
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