Hacker News: zenocon

New comment by zenocon in "Google shows off what ChatGPT would be like in Gmail and Google Docs"

zenocon — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 04:36:41 +0000

This guy gets it.

New comment by zenocon in "Google shows off what ChatGPT would be like in Gmail and Google Docs"

zenocon — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 04:32:03 +0000

We have come full circle. Clippy is back.... "It looks like you're trying to write a letter to your wife, would you like help with that?" OMG

New comment by zenocon in "CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line"

zenocon — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 01:48:39 +0000

Seems to be in line with my fav Postgres tool pgcli: https://www.pgcli.com/

New comment by zenocon in "CIA malware and hacking tools"

zenocon — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 20:26:29 +0000

How can one not have a whole giant mountain of cynicism with all we've become aware of in the last few years? We could just as easily turn the tables and call you irresponsibly naive.

New comment by zenocon in "Mark Zuckerburg comments on Peter Thiel controversy regarding Trump donation"

zenocon — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 01:15:00 +0000

I feel equally as bad that this person has been fed a narrative and hasn't gone out to debunk the propaganda and find out what is really going on behind the curtain. We can have a disagreement, sure, but when the argument is just shouting "sexist, racist, homophobe, xenophobe", etc. it's clear there's no real political discourse to be had, which is sad because there's a boatload of disgusting politics and corruption being exposed right now.

New comment by zenocon in "Walmart Canada stops accepting Visa cards"

zenocon — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 01:10:48 +0000

I build processor integrations and am working on several new ones now for EMV. I can confirm Square's pricing is ridiculous compared to what's out there. Bear in mind there are only like 6 companies in the US that actually process cards, but there are several thousand payment processing companies who are all taking a slice.

New comment by zenocon in "Thousands of Hip Hop Mix Tapes, Why Not"

zenocon — Wed, 18 May 2016 13:11:49 +0000

http://datpiff.com is another good source for mixtapes, but it's cool that he took the time to clean these up, catalog them and throw them up on the archive.

New comment by zenocon in "Go best practices, six years in"

zenocon — Mon, 02 May 2016 03:17:51 +0000

> I think a testing library can be a great addition, since it can turn a three-line if check into a one-line assertion.

Totally concur with this. I feel like all these people complaining about "bloated test frameworks" either haven't written a lot of tests, or are just fine with repeating themselves in test code, or they end up writing their own version of a test framework anew in every project. So much simpler and sane to grab an off the shelf solution for test code.

New comment by zenocon in "My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”"

zenocon — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 23:05:08 +0000

it sounds to me from reading that article that her use of it is somewhat problematic.

New comment by zenocon in "How I fixed a bug in Atom"

zenocon — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 17:54:02 +0000

Thanks for the tip -- yea, I have go-plus installed. It is helpful, but still isn't ideal to have to save the file in the middle of trying to initialize a slice.

New comment by zenocon in "How I fixed a bug in Atom"

zenocon — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:36:25 +0000

Here's another one that needs to get fixed with Atom. Try writing this in the editor with syntax set to Go:

expected

func someFunc() {

        aSlice := []string{}{

 	}

}

actual

func someFunc() {

        aSlice := []string{}{

}

The end bracket on the slice's initializer never indents correctly when you type it and hit . It always defaults to the first character of the next line. It seems insertNewLine somehow is not able to grok the idea of more than one set of matching brackets.

Edit: issue filed https://github.com/atom/bracket-matcher/issues/209

New comment by zenocon in "What PostgreSQL has over other open source SQL databases: Part II"

zenocon — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 15:29:26 +0000

Use JetBrains 0xDBE -- still available now as early pre-release for free.

New comment by zenocon in "What PostgreSQL has over other open source SQL databases: Part II"

zenocon — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 15:28:11 +0000

Most people don't get this and they over-engineer the f#$%k out of everything.

New comment by zenocon in "Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Recordings of K-Mart In-Store Music from 1992"

zenocon — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 23:59:10 +0000

The whole vaporwave community is going to have a field day with this stuff.

New comment by zenocon in "Rebuilding Our Infrastructure with Docker, ECS, and Terraform"

zenocon — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 10:38:47 +0000

I just setup something similar for one of our api services as a trial to see how it would work out. My biggest gripe with ECS is that it currently does not support dynamic port mapping between ELB and a container instance. For example, if your service listens on port 8080, and ELB terminates port 443 and forwards to a container, then you can only have one container instance per EC2 cluster node, b/c spinning up two containers on the same node results in a port resource conflict.

This makes the whole solution fairly similar to just using auto-scale to spin up a new EC2 instance per app.

I know this is a major gripe right now with ECS, and hopefully Amazon is working on a solution.

Other than a few other frustrating gotchas, ECS has been pretty nice. I do like the idea of putting central config in S3 and copying config files over to cluster instances with a user data script (how they recommend you pull from private docker repo).

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/...

New comment by zenocon in "A new approach to web performance"

zenocon — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 10:21:12 +0000

> I disagree - most publishers I've seen (including large and mid-level) have some of the most bloated HTML with megabytes(!) of javascript and CSS just for rendering + all the other stuff you mentioned. They are definitely not optimized.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/01/business/cost-...

New comment by zenocon in "From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users’ Online Identities"

zenocon — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 01:24:32 +0000

It sucks that it has come to this. I am afraid to do certain types of searches. The other day, I wanted to learn more about "Azan" -- the Muslim morning call to prayer that is often broadcast over loudspeakers from a mosque. I find the topic interesting and started poking around, but it landed me on several websites that made me start to feel uncomfortable that I was going to incite some trigger. I'm betting most people in my neighborhood aren't searching for this information, and I don't really want to be flagged. Pre-Snowden, I wouldn't have given it a second thought and thought it ridiculously paranoid. Now, I am very careful how I use the computer when it is connected to the wider network...and I think this is really sad and Orwellian.

New comment by zenocon in "From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users’ Online Identities"

zenocon — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 01:16:07 +0000

Wouldn't it be fantastic if there were a coup in the CIA/NSA/GCHQ, etc. of all tech people who just started deleting data on a massive scale surreptitiously. When the dept. heads were like, "WTF happened to the numbers on all the porn viewers...they just kinda shrugged their shoulders and said...'dunno..guess people got bored with porn'"...

Replace porn with '*' and now we're really cooking...

New comment by zenocon in "What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell"

zenocon — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 22:50:40 +0000

I find articles like this pretty useful and always bookmark them. They are useful for me when I've already invested the time to learn the rudimentary basics of a language; after that, each of these tips usually provides an 'a-ha' moment and saves me from learning something the hard way...but I wouldn't start reading this before getting yourself to at least an elementary understanding of the material.

New comment by zenocon in "Stochastic rain generator from the author of myNoise.net"

zenocon — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 23:14:35 +0000

strange, the thunder sounded like a train rolling in... was very cyclical.