Hacker News: zacharypinter

New comment by zacharypinter in "Glish: A version of English where every word is only one syllable"

zacharypinter — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:51:36 +0000

https://youtu.be/_ahvzDzKdB0?si=gBeFVZypCDLUoMNf

New comment by zacharypinter in "Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?"

zacharypinter — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 16:49:56 +0000

Very cool!

New comment by zacharypinter in "Show HN: Snipper – Lets you collaborate on the same code in real time"

zacharypinter — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:16:21 +0000

Neat!

Minor typo at the bottom:

s/wite/write

New comment by zacharypinter in "My Increasing Frustration with Clojure"

zacharypinter — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 17:10:46 +0000

Of all the people in the world I can think of with the inability to think outside the box, Rich Hickey has to be at the bottom of the list :)

New comment by zacharypinter in "Top developers can have a life outside coding"

zacharypinter — Sat, 21 May 2016 15:30:38 +0000

He's reading and commenting on a Hacker News post about jobs on the weekend. Seems like that answers at least part of your question.

New comment by zacharypinter in "After reading “Rails is yesterday’s software”, I need to reply"

zacharypinter — Wed, 11 May 2016 14:44:37 +0000

It seems to me that a version of the Innovator's Dilemma might apply to software frameworks as well.

By the time a project gets large enough it starts optimizing for its major stakeholders. New use cases or new ways of rethinking common use cases come along, and the small libraries that approach it from scratch have a narrowly-defined advantage. If the advantage is significant enough (e. g. virtual dom for browser UI), then new frameworks start being written around them, bringing back some but not all of the features of the older frameworks.

At some point (different for each user/use case) the newer frameworks have enough functionality that people start considering them over the older ones for new projects. When enough of that happens, the older frameworks start looking like yesterday's software.

New comment by zacharypinter in "Leap Motion: Orion [video]"

zacharypinter — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 17:31:15 +0000

You're probably thinking of Magic Leap, which is a completely different company from Leap Motion.

New comment by zacharypinter in "So you want to write a package manager"

zacharypinter — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 23:50:49 +0000

Just wanted to say this was an awesome article. I have no immediate need to write a package manager, but it was a great overview of an interesting and tricky domain. Thanks!

New comment by zacharypinter in "Google to Fold Chrome Operating System into Android"

zacharypinter — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 03:29:41 +0000

That's where I thought they were heading when ChromeOS got support for running Android apks.

New comment by zacharypinter in "Who's Who: Using machine learning to identify the cast from Parks and Recreation"

zacharypinter — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 16:12:28 +0000

I tried this image:

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTY2MjQ2MzAwOF5BMl5Ban...

And it suggested Nick Offerman :)

Cool exploration though!

New comment by zacharypinter in "The sky's gone dark"

zacharypinter — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 16:03:20 +0000

I believe there's an Anime series around this idea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes

New comment by zacharypinter in "The Man Who Created Second Life Thinks We Can Make an Earth-Sized Virtual World"

zacharypinter — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 19:37:09 +0000

"Riding this wave of virtual reality expansion, Rosedale’s new company, High Fidelity, is developing the successor to the Second Life experience."

New comment by zacharypinter in "Atom 1.0"

zacharypinter — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 16:18:51 +0000

See also: "minimalist web browser" and the history of Firefox :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#History

New comment by zacharypinter in "SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition"

zacharypinter — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:34:21 +0000

Very cool announcement.

It strikes me that this is a pretty good insurance policy against a poor implementation of Hyperloop being used as an argument against its feasibility. SpaceX/Musk gets to put out a proof of concept track and pod without committing to building the full thing themselves.

New comment by zacharypinter in "Oculus Rift"

zacharypinter — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 18:34:55 +0000

They mentioned finger gesture detection (thumbs up, pointing, etc). Maybe that's part of it?

New comment by zacharypinter in "Send Money to Friends in Messenger"

zacharypinter — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:16:57 +0000

At this point, I just want one of these pay-with-your-phone solutions to win and be ubiquitous.

The current situation is almost comical. "Do you have Venmo? Haven't set that up yet, can you send over Paypal?. No, what about Square Wallet? Nope, what about Gmail?"

New comment by zacharypinter in "On meta-design and algorithmic design systems"

zacharypinter — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:17:42 +0000

Nice!

I've thought about using a pattern generator to set the background image of my IDE/editor based on the current file name. It'd be fun to see if any side benefits come up, such as:

* Knowing immediately/intuitively if you've switched to the wrong file.

* Triggering the context/ideas you had when you last opened that particular file.

New comment by zacharypinter in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)"

zacharypinter — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 18:29:17 +0000

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We're looking for strong developers who love to code in a variety of languages (Python, Node.js, React, Coffeescript to name a few) tackling every portion of the stack. If this sounds like you, learn more at http://www.vessel.com/careers or email careers@vessel.com

New comment by zacharypinter in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)"

zacharypinter — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 21:59:23 +0000

Vessel - Video Focused Venture Backed By Benchmark, Greylock and Bezos Expeditions (San Francisco, CA - Full-time No Remote)

We’ve been busy building a service whose mission is to delight consumers and content creators alike.

New comment by zacharypinter in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)"

zacharypinter — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 14:04:49 +0000

Vessel - Video Focused Venture Backed By Benchmark, Greylock and Bezos Expeditions (San Francisco, CA - Full-time No Remote)

We’ve been busy building a service whose mission is to delight consumers and content creators alike.