Hacker News: wolco

New comment by wolco in "Google, nobody asked for a new Blogger interface"

wolco — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 03:46:01 +0000

Debugging? If you could write to disk and suddenly can't.. you are out of diskspace.

If you can't tab complete you are out of diskspace.

Migrating for additional storage? Why not add additional storage..

New comment by wolco in "91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018)"

wolco — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:24:37 +0000

Doesn't this hurt the poor while enabling the rich to continue being wasteful.

New comment by wolco in "Statement Regarding the Zen Programming Language"

wolco — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 15:05:08 +0000

Sort of but only the new parts would fall under gpl the rest bsd.

New comment by wolco in "Your Language Sucks, It Doesn’t Matter"

wolco — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 19:29:02 +0000

I doubt you could write unmaintainable insecure php code. I'm positive you could write error prone garbage in any language.

New comment by wolco in "Feds: IBM did discriminate against older workers in making layoffs"

wolco — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 18:58:27 +0000

To hire back young people on contract would cost more than the entry level salaries they hold.

New comment by wolco in "Google says its carbon footprint is now zero"

wolco — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 17:54:26 +0000

Wouldn't they be cheaper as businesses invest to use less carbon over time.

New comment by wolco in "Google says its carbon footprint is now zero"

wolco — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 17:52:41 +0000

As a child in the late 80s it was the three r's. Then the bluebox program became the focus.

New comment by wolco in "Google says its carbon footprint is now zero"

wolco — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 17:49:35 +0000

If they didn't receive those high salaries they wouldn't be able to take those personal trips. The more employees the higher the multiplier. So what are we exactly offsetting.

New comment by wolco in "Free hosting providers for static websites in 2020"

wolco — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 17:34:07 +0000

Amazon doesn't belong on the list because it's a limited trial one year. Plus if you go over the limits you are charged.

You can game some free resources over the trial period if you are careful. Not the best for set and forget.

New comment by wolco in "I lost €4k in a Facebook scam"

wolco — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 16:50:33 +0000

No I have an older relative who creates a new account every other week for whatever reason.

Think of how many accounts are created for games reasons. Some games require friends taking action to progress. Some allow friends to send prizes like lives/money/resource.

New comment by wolco in "The technical interview is an ego trip"

wolco — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 02:13:37 +0000

It would be more impressive if you solved it right away.

New comment by wolco in "The technical interview is an ego trip"

wolco — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 00:11:07 +0000

Can you come back in a year and share?

New comment by wolco in "I don’t have time for coding challenges"

wolco — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 23:32:45 +0000

Are you sure? I mean the 10 years of success spent over various companies projects on resumes have a high false rate because after they took your coding test they didn't do as well as you thought they should? Did you hire any of them and did they out perform your initial assessment.

If you didn't hire them and compare them to new hires who have bad resumes but did well on your test how would you know?

You can't objectivity judge a candidate by your test results only. Otherwise your test is just randomly filtering people. Until you do that you don't know how effective your test is. You could be flipping a coin and getting the same results.

New comment by wolco in "I don’t have time for coding challenges"

wolco — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 23:17:38 +0000

This only makes sense if they want top talent. Usually they want cheap/easy to push around talent and for that you need a screener that filters out the best and whoever remains will have the strength to deal with bully managers or lack of requirements

New comment by wolco in "Docker Considered Harmful (2016)"

wolco — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:39:38 +0000

Docker doesn't run on windows 10 without virtualization enabled in the bios. The computer a purchased last year didn't have support for this feature and there is no way to run docker.

New comment by wolco in "Relativty – An open-source VR headset"

wolco — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 14:55:48 +0000

The people in the know who believe it's obvious will be the same people who know the price of an oculus.

As for the rest of us. We neither know the price of an oculus $150? or that an oculus isn't as open source as other products.

Valid point for the rest of us.

New comment by wolco in "Relativty – An open-source VR headset"

wolco — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 13:45:27 +0000

It is a valid retort and trying to hide that fact when comparing doesn't do it justice.

New comment by wolco in "Vue.js Creator Evan You Interview"

wolco — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 02:10:44 +0000

He would probably double that by selling t-shirts.

New comment by wolco in "Vue.js Creator Evan You Interview"

wolco — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 02:09:14 +0000

This is new and exciting but we must understand the use case. For solo developers on projects with a huge amount of github stars this might make sense. It enables you to work on the project full time.

The tailwind project model seems like it would pay better. The profit amount might make for sense for the pretty popular project vs the extremely popular project. It's a compromise because you stop working on the core project and start building these additional businesses that take time/effort away the project.

Corporate backing would make sense but enterprise has picked react. Vue lives because it's a great framework that is easily assessible not because it started as a corporate sponsored project with a popularity boost buildin.

New comment by wolco in "The Humiliating Practice of Sex-Testing Female Athletes"

wolco — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 23:28:21 +0000

The dangers in some sports when people are at different levels is great. Football, hockey even baseball can result in death.