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New comment by zomgbbq in "Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model"

zomgbbq — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 23:58:45 +0000

I would love to use this for E2E testing. It would be great to make all my assertions with high level descriptions so tests are resilient to UI changes.

Seems similar to the Amazon Nova Act API which is still in research preview.

New comment by zomgbbq in "Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial"

zomgbbq — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:24:11 +0000

Sounds like a problem AI could solve filtering patent applications before they make it to a person.

New comment by zomgbbq in "SEC subpoenas PayPal over its USD-pegged stablecoin"

zomgbbq — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 16:25:41 +0000

This coin is issued by Paxos. Paxos, by the way, hands down has the worst interview process of any company I've spoken to in my 30 years of working in engineering. So while I am rooting for regulated stable-coins as a technology, I have to admit some feelings of schadenfreude.

New comment by zomgbbq in "Launch HN: Second (YC W23) – AI bots that add features to web apps"

zomgbbq — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 18:45:01 +0000

FYI you have an onboarding bug. If you don't complete the Github onboarding after creating an account there's no way to recover.

New comment by zomgbbq in "Beauty at the intersection of humanity and AI images"

zomgbbq — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:16:33 +0000

A process of generating beautiful images that are a collaboration between a designer/artist and assisted by Dall-E AI in the style of Annie Leibovitz.

Beauty at the intersection of humanity and AI images

zomgbbq — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:16:33 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Stephen_Parker/status/1569742985272729600

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32843460

Points: 14

# Comments: 2

New comment by zomgbbq in "Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?"

zomgbbq — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 03:17:11 +0000

This was the beginning of an avalanche that led to most of the remaining engineers at Atari to leave and try to start their own third-party game companies to follow in the success of Activision.

New comment by zomgbbq in "Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?"

zomgbbq — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 01:29:20 +0000

Atari in 1983 went from the leader in video game production to completely imploding. In 1979, four of their best programmers left after demanding equity in the sales and were refused. Their CEO Ray Kassar famously said, "You’re no more important to those projects than the person on the assembly line who put them together. You’re a dime a dozen. You’re not unique. Anybody can do a cartridge.". They left and formed Activision which led to a sequence of failures by Atari until they finally died unable to compete with the likes of Intellivision, Colecovision, and Commodore.

New comment by zomgbbq in "Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow"

zomgbbq — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 12:01:40 +0000

It's over the top comments like this that make me visit ycombinator less and less each week.

SimpleSource – Never implement UITableViewDataSource again

zomgbbq — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 10:30:12 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Squarespace/simple-source

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17372900

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zomgbbq in "Apple Developer Program Membership Fee Waivers Now Available"

zomgbbq — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 23:42:39 +0000

The reason Apple doesn't do this is they want to make the AppStore a safe-place and a worry free experience. If anyone can run whatever they wanted for whatever length of time they want, then it opens the door for malicious apps to exist. It's a trade off between safety/experience and flexibility. For folks like my Dad, who I took away his PC and replaced with an iPad, it's been great. I just don't worry about malware, viruses, or trojans he might install on his iPad because the odds are he can't get into too much trouble.

New comment by zomgbbq in "Go vs. Swift [pdf]"

zomgbbq — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 02:54:55 +0000

I'm going to answer but I should preface by saying I'm not going to try to proselytize you to Swift. If it doesn't work for you and you're happy with Objective-C, then by all means do what makes you happy and keeps you productive. I have a couple of apps that have about 50k lines of Swift, one also with 60k lines of Objective-C and another with 40k lines of Objective-C. We use MVVM as well as a fairly involved mechanism of VM abstraction with intercommunication using RAC. Common code is in a cocoapod as well as other third-party dependencies otherwise the other target is the iOS app itself. I think LOC is a poor metric to measure complexity, but it does have a relevance to compile time. Others have also said that Swift and Xcode are not perfect, but as an engineer programming in Swift makes me quite happy.

New comment by zomgbbq in "Go vs. Swift [pdf]"

zomgbbq — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 23:58:32 +0000

I hear this argument a lot that it's not production ready but my personal experience does not agree. I use Swift in production for several apps with relatively large codebases that sustain many hundreds of thousands of sessions per day. I would agree that a full clean/rebuild is not as fast as Objective-C and that the incremental build system sometimes seem as though it is compiling more files than you'd like. However, for most part the incremental build system is fine and in daily use it is not a problem. I could never imagine going back to writing objective-C again when I compare the net gains we've realized coding in Swift. The readability and succinctness of the language, as well as catching bugs at compile-time rather than run-time, is a huge benefit. Value-based programming, functional(-ish) programming, and protocol extensions have made my code so much easier to maintain and test, as well.

New comment by zomgbbq in "Show HN: I made Linkpack, a filesystem-based link organizer for iOS"

zomgbbq — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 14:15:27 +0000

I appreciate the straightforward and simple website that gets right to the point.

New comment by zomgbbq in "-2000 Lines of Code"

zomgbbq — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 01:18:06 +0000

Similarly, the number of git-commits is also a poor judge of how much work was done. When CI builds automatically build release notes based off of the git-log since the last successful build, this can be deceiving.

New comment by zomgbbq in "The Lessons Google Ventures Learned from Secret"

zomgbbq — Wed, 06 May 2015 16:14:25 +0000

Are the founders legally obligated to return the $6MM they took off the table or is it a moral obligation? (Or is there no obligation whatsoever) And if it is a moral obligation, what would incentivize them to do so - is it to save their reputation in the future?

New comment by zomgbbq in "Mac Apps That Use Garbage Collection Must Move to ARC"

zomgbbq — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 21:54:55 +0000

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/...

New comment by zomgbbq in "My voice is my passport"

zomgbbq — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 17:27:33 +0000

I've used voice authentication with Nuance's SDK before and having a cold or gaining weight does not affect the verification process. It is based on acoustioc signatures in your voice and not necessarily a precise recreation of the original recording. This isn't a problem with this approach.

New comment by zomgbbq in "Working at Netflix"

zomgbbq — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:43:43 +0000

Are engineers constantly afraid of losing their jobs? How does this affect their willingness to accept risk?

New comment by zomgbbq in "Dirty Coding Tricks"

zomgbbq — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 23:35:09 +0000

We once had a game demo that was crashing every time we tried to exit the game. Inserted an exit(0); in the shutdown code and it never crashed again.