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New comment by x1024 in "Why Lisp is now an acceptable scripting language"

x1024 — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 15:33:48 +0000

Because four times now you've said "I know more than you" and have provided nothing of substance to back your claims. I know this is HN and "what you say" means more than "what you do", but hipster bravado will only get you so far.

New comment by x1024 in "Why Lisp is now an acceptable scripting language"

x1024 — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 13:44:24 +0000

And you're clearly the arbiter that gets to tell people what they do and don't know. I guess pretending to be competent online helps you, in some way.

New comment by x1024 in "Why Lisp is now an acceptable scripting language"

x1024 — Sat, 26 Mar 2016 23:52:41 +0000

"The site went down, but it's not my fault. Even though I'm the guy coding it". ok, 10x.

New comment by x1024 in "Why Lisp is now an acceptable scripting language"

x1024 — Sat, 26 Mar 2016 20:45:07 +0000

"Weak programming"?

New comment by x1024 in "Why Lisp is now an acceptable scripting language"

x1024 — Sat, 26 Mar 2016 20:44:41 +0000

No, I hadn't read the article. The site was down...

New comment by x1024 in "NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?"

x1024 — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:08:56 +0000

[citation needed]

It's really nice how we once again depend on "I think some guys do it like this" for performance. What happened to standards?

What's next? SEO for code?

New comment by x1024 in "Microsoft chatbot is taught to swear on Twitter"

x1024 — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 14:50:24 +0000

Well... what did they expect? Seriously! There is no shortage of experimental evidence of what happens when a bot is trained by "the Internet".

New comment by x1024 in "NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?"

x1024 — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 12:37:48 +0000

Case in point: the left-pad package has quadratic complexity.

New comment by x1024 in "iPhone SE"

x1024 — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 18:30:11 +0000

Wut... Because the iPhone 5S had great design?

Contrary to the popular meme, not all people buy Apple because they're shallow appearance-obsessed hipsters.

New comment by x1024 in "We only hire the trendiest"

x1024 — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 11:42:57 +0000

The OP's point is that "This only works if you pay the appropriate amount". If you go with that process, but discard the "money" variable, you'll only interview the people who got rejected from every one of the well-paying companies.

New comment by x1024 in "We only hire the trendiest"

x1024 — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 11:41:40 +0000

Hell, at this point I'd be happy with "command-line python". I've seen a few-too-many "Rails, but only in RubyMine" devs.

New comment by x1024 in "GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in"

x1024 — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 11:38:14 +0000

Guy, you're wrong. You can keep arguing, but that won't change reality.

New comment by x1024 in "Twitter shut down Emojitracker's access"

x1024 — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 08:37:05 +0000

The only way for them to get developers on their platform is to wait for the next generation of developers. Literally nobody will base anything on their stuff now, and this has been the case for a good few years.

New comment by x1024 in "The Speed of a Unicorn"

x1024 — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 15:29:24 +0000

Either "Games aren't real software", "If it's not in the US, we mostly don't care" or "Real Unicorns take VC and get acquired by Facebook, Microsoft acquisitions don't count".

Pick your poison.

New comment by x1024 in "Show HN: Using Google AMP to build a Medium-style Jekyll site that loads in 65ms"

x1024 — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 06:29:28 +0000

That's really weird... It kind of tells me that they don't have confidence in the platform. Dogfooding is important, kids!

New comment by x1024 in "Marissa Mayer Wants Three More Years to Turn Around Yahoo"

x1024 — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 14:05:02 +0000

Because the Messiah complex is finally dying?

New comment by x1024 in "FBI May Demand iOS Source Code, Signing Key"

x1024 — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 19:22:24 +0000

Sure. Just like we did with SOPA. Wait...

New comment by x1024 in "Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments"

x1024 — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 07:54:08 +0000

That's a bit suspicious, really. A feature like "Reactions to a comment" doesn't take two years to implement, even with all the scaling considerations. And people have been complaining about that for at least two years.

New comment by x1024 in "Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments"

x1024 — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 07:52:56 +0000

"Facebook does this way, so we do it this way."

New comment by x1024 in "How Changing WebFonts Made Rubygems.org 10x Faster"

x1024 — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 11:24:30 +0000

Because a developer-centered website needs custom webfonts, right? Even at the expense of performance.

If only designers would learn that their job is not to paint a pretty picture, but to provide a good experience...