Hacker News: victorvation

New comment by victorvation in "Graphite is joining Cursor"

victorvation — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 22:36:35 +0000

Except for the undismissable "Pay use more to enable AI reviews" nag that Graphite places above your CI checks and assigned reviewers.

New comment by victorvation in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

victorvation — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:15:18 +0000

The TikTok CEO will also be sitting in the same row as Zuck, Musk, and Bezos.

Git performance results on a large repository

victorvation — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:38:42 +0000

Article URL: https://public-inbox.org/git/CB5074CF.3AD7A%25joshua.redstone@fb.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39389330

Points: 1

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New comment by victorvation in "Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension"

victorvation — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 23:21:38 +0000

Facebook engineers on HN are not sending out C&Ds.

New comment by victorvation in "Google is considering removing alert()"

victorvation — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 22:01:48 +0000

Contrary to what seems to be Google's belief, most websites are _not_ continuously deployed SPAs with a team of engineers who work on each release. The indifference shown to actual developers here is staggering.

New comment by victorvation in "Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company"

victorvation — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 21:58:41 +0000

Well, "Defence" would, as the intended product is not necessarily peace...

New comment by victorvation in "Tips for a Better Life"

victorvation — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:32:16 +0000

Same vibe from #43:

> Deficiencies do not make you special. The older you get, the more your inability to cook will be a red flag for people.

In 4 Seattle residents have used the city’s free coronavirus testing sites

victorvation — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 04:50:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/1-in-4-seattle-residents-has-used-the-citys-free-covid-19-testing-sites/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25413679

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by victorvation in "Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge grants emergency stay"

victorvation — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 20:00:03 +0000

Freelance writers, both bloggers as well as longform investigative journalists.

New comment by victorvation in "Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal"

victorvation — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 22:12:44 +0000

I could see Jio making a play, especially with their recent injection(s) of capital.

New comment by victorvation in "Facebook reports second quarter results"

victorvation — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 22:02:04 +0000

The original goal of reducing news prevalence was to show less outrage/clickbait and show more friends and family content. Of course, hindsight shows that the move was of limited efficacy, but it's disingenuous to suggest that it was done in order to 'squeeze journalists'.

New comment by victorvation in "Doordash and Thousands of Other Companies Passively Send Your Data to Facebook"

victorvation — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 21:35:10 +0000

This is correct. Nothing overtly nefarious is happening here (above the baseline level of telling FB who your customers are in order to figure out how much ROI your campaign had).

> Facebook is effectively grading their own homework here and ignores other marketing campaigns that may have contributed to the action

One thing I'd add is that FB is _still_ incentivized to accurately attribute actions. Over-attribution (and thus over-estimation of ROI) would give FB more spend in the short term, but would hurt them in the long term by causing auction inefficiencies.

This is the reason direct action campaigns on Google are perceived to be low(er) value: last click attribution disproportionately favors AdWords.

The Twitter Hack – What Happened?

victorvation — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 20:21:53 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@lucky225/the-twitter-hack-what-exactly-happened-d8740d33c1c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23863408

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by victorvation in "Wikimedia enacts new standards to address harassment and promote inclusivity"

victorvation — Tue, 26 May 2020 22:16:32 +0000

It's much more reminiscent of BB-style forums where moderators were part of the community and would explain their actions at the time of enforcement. This is unfortunately un-scalable, and so larger communities turn to strictly enforced rules with zero flexibility a la Reddit or moderation via machine classification like FB, Twitter, and YouTube.

New comment by victorvation in "Show HN: React Native scrollable bottom sheet native animations gestures 60FPS"

victorvation — Sat, 23 May 2020 08:44:19 +0000

In my opinion bottom sheets are actually a far superior experience to the previous pattern of dialogs/modals or push screens:

- The user doesn't lose their navigation stack because they can tell the bottom sheet can be dismissed, they know where they "came from"

- The user keeps visual context on whatever triggered the bottom sheet, because they can still see what's behind it

- The user doesn't get forcibly navigated away from whatever they were browsing, they know that once whatever they're doing in the sheet is done, they can "go back".

My only complaint is that Apple added them to stock apps in iOS 12, so many iOS users got used to the pattern, but didn't provide an easy way to give the same experience for developers which creating a need for libraries like this.

New comment by victorvation in "The Great CoffeeScript to Typescript Migration of 2017"

victorvation — Sat, 16 May 2020 03:18:41 +0000

Thank you as well Jeremy, for helping us realize how useful JS could be with a proper stdlib in underscore, or how JS could be evolved with Coffeescript.

Part of the magic of JS in those days was observing how one OSS project (see: underscore, async, Q, Backbone, Node, Babel, Browserify, etc) could have such a profound impact on the JavaScript ecosystem.

Google only has one Developer Advocate working on Chrome Extensions

victorvation — Fri, 15 May 2020 23:16:48 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/DotProto/status/1261155320740499456

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23198629

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by victorvation in "Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension"

victorvation — Wed, 13 May 2020 21:35:39 +0000

Not a tiny app by any means, but we were definitely small enough that we were surprised at the level of depth in their analysis.

New comment by victorvation in "Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension"

victorvation — Wed, 13 May 2020 19:14:08 +0000

I've seen cases where Apple will actually decompile/debug your app and point you the exact feature / method / line that they find unacceptable. Despite all of my other complaints about iOS ecosystem, they _do_ keep their App Store walled garden fairly well tended.

New comment by victorvation in "Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com"

victorvation — Fri, 08 May 2020 21:28:50 +0000

As mentioned in the blogpost, they use code splitting and bundle hashing to actually maximize usage of browser cache.