Hacker News: tyleregeto

New comment by tyleregeto in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

tyleregeto — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:36:40 +0000

Opinions vary, but I've never found Apple software to be particularly good. Their hardware is almost always exceptional.

I'd go further and say I am constantly frustrated by how difficult their software can make basic tasks. I often find many of their UX patterns unintuitive, or even feel user hostile at times. Small example, I really want to view passwords as I type them in. I constantly miss type passwords on touch screens. User error maybe, but frustrating experience.

XCode is my least favourite IDE that I use regularily.

New comment by tyleregeto in "NDP wants Carney to kill U.S. fighter jet contract in favour of Swedish aircraft"

tyleregeto — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:40:27 +0000

The Feb 2nd episode of the "The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge" podcast may be of interest to you, its title is "Should Canada Include Nuclear Weapons In Its Defence Strategy?", and offers a perspective on the subject.

New comment by tyleregeto in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"

tyleregeto — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 04:56:42 +0000

Congrats, so much more than I achieved at that age. Keep going!

New comment by tyleregeto in "FBI recommends using an ad blocker (2022)"

tyleregeto — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 03:59:41 +0000

I would say not very often, but yes, very recently even. I've been researching new backpacking gear this summer, looking on sites that are known to me, so I've been seeing lots of ads for that type of stuff naturally.

One store kept popping up that I was not familiar with. So I clicked eventually, and did some online searching about the company to make sure they are legit.

Turns out they are a local independent store. I've made two purchases from them since, and price compared against them for other purchases. Their ads are more likely to catch my eye in the future now.

New comment by tyleregeto in "FBI recommends using an ad blocker (2022)"

tyleregeto — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 22:55:39 +0000

I don't use one either. I actually think ads are a good system for supporting content, and I do want to support the creators of the content I consume.

I also have a low threshold for obnoxious sites, and will just bail and not return if I get annoyed.

New comment by tyleregeto in "Ask HN: What web frameworks do you use?"

tyleregeto — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 20:34:05 +0000

Being owned by Meta (or Facebook at the time) was a selling feature for me when settling on it. The main reason being that they use it heavily internally, and have a vested interest in its success as a result. They've built it to meet their needs, dogfood features internally, and feel the same pain as everyone else when it comes to breaking changes and backwards compatibility.

This gave me a lot of confidence in React compared to other frameworks at the time I was evaluating it. It turned out to be a great choice now 8+ years later, and I feel the same way today.

New comment by tyleregeto in "Show HN: A color picker for named web colors"

tyleregeto — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 21:10:52 +0000

When I loaded up the link, before viewing the comments in here, the very first thing I did was look for "Rebecca purple", and I was happy to find it. Not really a comment on your remarks, but thought I would share it.

I'm influenced by the having a daughter born around this time, and Rebecca's story sticks with me.

New comment by tyleregeto in "Stockfish.js"

tyleregeto — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 14:37:35 +0000

JS has BigInt support, a quick Google tells me this is supported by wasm. I'm not sure if they are doing that here or not.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

New comment by tyleregeto in "Tracking a Woolly Mammoth"

tyleregeto — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 04:33:01 +0000

Part way through this radio program, they have a conversation with one of the team members. Very interesting stuff. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-frida...

New comment by tyleregeto in "Canada to Ban Sale of New Fuel-Powered Cars and Light Trucks from 2035"

tyleregeto — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 23:38:08 +0000

I mostly agree, this is always my thought about this stuff. As you say, it is so far in the future that a new government will be in power, and can freely reverse these decisions. Or we'll just end up there anyways because that's the trajectory we are already on.

Something more immediate would have a bigger impact, probably a tax, but taxes don't often work in politician's favour. We have rebate incentives for electric cars, but that only really only helps to swallow the price difference. We can't rely on peoples morals only unfortunately.

New comment by tyleregeto in "The Pros and Cons of DRY Code"

tyleregeto — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 23:58:09 +0000

DRY is great guideline. KISS is another one. I find that it is not uncommon for the two of them to butt heads a little, and it can be tricky to find the correct balance. In general, I am finding that I favour repetition over abstraction more and more.

New comment by tyleregeto in "A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship"

tyleregeto — Mon, 04 May 2020 00:58:12 +0000

Interesting article about this, one of Canada's biggest flour suppliers has not run out of flour, but rather bags to put it in. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/robin-hood-flour-baking-yel...

New comment by tyleregeto in "US Customs Database Of Traveler Photos Was Hacked And Stolen"

tyleregeto — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 03:08:11 +0000

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New comment by tyleregeto in "Google Maps Platform"

tyleregeto — Wed, 02 May 2018 22:53:08 +0000

Mapbox is pretty expensive for small commercial apps, $499 flat rate + usage costs. If your commercial usage is on the smaller side, the new Google Maps pricing looks really good.

I was a Mapzen customer, their pricing model was great, very sorry to see it go.

Icculus (Ryan Gordon) Tells Us Everything – Part 1

tyleregeto — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 02:37:51 +0000

Article URL: http://boilingsteam.com/icculus-ryan-gordon-tells-us-everything-part-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14844661

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tyleregeto in "Netflix expected to spend over $6B on original and acquired programming in 2017"

tyleregeto — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:24:07 +0000

There was three parts with 4 episodes each, for a total of 12 episodes. All very good. Sounds like you may have missed the next two, definitely worth watching.

New comment by tyleregeto in "Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test"

tyleregeto — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 00:24:20 +0000

Netflix plays fine in Chrome (maybe Firefox too) using HTML5, it was opt-in at one point not sure about now. I watch in Linux all the time, no Silverlight there.

New comment by tyleregeto in "New Sublime Text update"

tyleregeto — Fri, 13 May 2016 03:01:06 +0000

For what its worth, I've been using the dev channel for a long time and have never had any issues. It's very stable. I'd recommend it.

New comment by tyleregeto in "React v15.0"

tyleregeto — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 01:50:24 +0000

Great, thanks for that info!

New comment by tyleregeto in "React v15.0"

tyleregeto — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 00:24:51 +0000

I thought there was a proposal in the works for adding checksums on script tags. Something like: