Jernik
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2 years ago
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on: How the Cheesecake Factory defied the restaurant industry’s rules of success
I worked on the system sysco uses for their order guide management, and we had a bug that let anyone order cheesecake factory cheesecakes for a brief moment and that was a red alert issue for us
Jernik
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2 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Why would Google sell Google domains to Squarespace?
This was also why I chose gDomains, and I'm very sad that they're getting rid of that product now. I guess I'll have to look at my options again soon.
Jernik
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4 years ago
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on: Delightful React file/directory structure
What about changes that don't cause test failures? A really quick one I can think of is a pure addition. Lets say you have tests for Feature A in 3 places. You add a thing to Feature A, and find 2 places where Feature A is tested, add tests to those, feel like you did your due diligence and move on. Co-located tests would fix this problem
Jernik
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4 years ago
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on: Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good
It looks like the poster is the author here, so hopefully he sees this feedback. Please, please, please pick a better contrast ratio for your text. Grey on slightly-lighter-grey is a terrible color combination for reading. I read the first paragraph and gave up on it because it wasn't worth the eye strain.
Jernik
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4 years ago
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on: An unsolicited streaming app spec
> TV shows have seasons. Seasons have episodes
This isn't always true. Some shows release specials that aren't linked to any season, but go between seasons. Some shows (like web serials) release in one continuous stream. Sure there are workarounds/hacky solutions to these, but assuming all shows have the exact same hierarchy is a bad assumption to make.
Jernik
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4 years ago
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on: Windows Subsystem for Android
This is a Windows subsystem. It is a system that runs inside of Windows, so it is a Windows subsystem. What is this subsytem for? It is for running Android (or previously Linux) applications and software. I agree that it is confusing, but I think it is incorrect to say that the name is outright wrong.
Jernik
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4 years ago
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on: Debunking our narratives of the late 70s and early 80s
Every graph on this page comparing the USA and the USSR needs a legend, they are unreadable unless you pick them apart with context from the surrounding paragraphs.
Jernik
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6 years ago
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on: Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads
This may be the difference between an acquisition vs a homegrown product at Google
Jernik
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Advice for a new and inexperienced tech lead?
The advice that I was given when I temporarily took a team lead position is to overcommunicate everything. Build good relationships with the people you report to and your peers and (hopefully) you can lean on them and ask questions as you learn and adapt to this new role
Jernik
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6 years ago
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on: SurfingAttack: attack on voice assistants using ultrasonic guided wave
This requires the phone to be unlocked to do most of this, doesn't it? What is the attack vector here, someone leaving their phone unlocked on a table and not paying attention to the screen?
Jernik
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6 years ago
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on: The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done
They used miles and years right before that, so I'm not sure how it is confusing that m/yr is miles/year
Jernik
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6 years ago
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on: Creating a deepfake took two weeks and cost $552
The article addresses this, the point is that someone new to the technology can make this one that's ok
"The video isn't perfect. It doesn't quite capture the full details of Data's face, and if you look closely you can see some artifacts around the edges.
Still, what's remarkable is that a neophyte like me can create fairly convincing video so quickly and for so little money. And there's every reason to think deepfake technology will continue to get better, faster, and cheaper in the coming years."
Jernik
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6 years ago
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on: Bot can beat humans in multiplayer hidden-role games
On the other hand, I would bet that this is a small dedicated community. Much like mafia game communities, I would expect this is a dedicated fan group
Jernik
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6 years ago
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on: Grocery Industry Confronts a Problem: Only 10% of Americans Love Cooking (2017)
I'm assuming they mean "a quarter protein heavy dish like a meat, etc"
Jernik
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6 years ago
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on: Show HN: wehatecaptchas – we’ll keep the bots out without annoying your users
It can easily do it, the point is that doing this makes it more expensive to spam your site. Let's say normally, it takes 1 second to post, now it might take 10 secs. Now you're spending 10x as much to post a comment or form, etc
Jernik
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7 years ago
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on: Micro-promotions and mentorship: impact of small actions in engineering culture
I've heard from multiple engineers that have been put in a similar situation and hated it. It directly negatively impacted their self-esteem as developers and some of them quit at the soonest possible point.
Jernik
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7 years ago
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on: Why Hashbrown Does a Double Lookup
Reading the article reveals that you can either use tombstones or move the elements back into the slot they "would have been in" if the deleted element was never added
Jernik
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7 years ago
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on: How random can you be?
What was the result? 50%?
Jernik
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7 years ago
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on: This person does not exist
It looks like there is just throttling on requests, if you request a new one too quickly, it will just give you the same one
Jernik
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7 years ago
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on: Steganography Based Ad Payload That Drops Shlayer Trojan on Mac Users
unfortunately for content producers, this kind of advertising is typically more work and less profit
