PinnBrain's comments

PinnBrain | 11 years ago | on: Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free

## markdown

PinnBrain | 11 years ago | on: Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free

```other``` ``` test ```

PinnBrain | 11 years ago | on: Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free

mark _down_ `test`

PinnBrain | 11 years ago | on: Adware Bundler IronSource Raises $105M to Buy Startups Ahead of IPO

But the presence of a nuisance toolbar afterwards will be quite obvious.

PinnBrain | 11 years ago | on: Adware Bundler IronSource Raises $105M to Buy Startups Ahead of IPO

The people.

PinnBrain | 11 years ago | on: Make a Lisp

Hi--the project looks beautiful! Maybe the .gitignore could be improved?

PinnBrain | 11 years ago | on: Can neuroscience give my brain the plasticity of a child's?

Ah, thanks. Only had Adderall once, and it didn't feel the same. Modafinil had a much more subtle effect, with few downsides (just don't overdo caffeine while on it).

PinnBrain | 11 years ago | on: Adware Bundler IronSource Raises $105M to Buy Startups Ahead of IPO

Those that install adware are less intelligent--no need to paper over that. Do the writers of educational shows for small children think it ironic that they are more intelligent than their customers?

PinnBrain | 11 years ago | on: Can neuroscience give my brain the plasticity of a child's?

Neat. I take Modafinil or its enantiomer Nuvigil sometimes to be smarter or compensate for lack of sleep. Officially, it's for sleep apnea, which I had to take a sleep test to show. I don't see zero risk for cosmetic surgery (note the issues with any surgery), so perhaps that can serve as an analogue as we look more into enhancing "normal" people.

PinnBrain | 11 years ago | on: Lenovo's Promise for a Cleaner, Safer PC

This is a positive step. For now, you can try the Microsoft signature editions of various pcs. Or a Mac.

PinnBrain | 11 years ago | on: Results of the 2015 Soylent Eaters Survey

Thank you for the detail!

PinnBrain | 11 years ago | on: The Path to Parallel JavaScript

Oh no, will this become an ego thing? Parallelism must lie somewhere near abstraction as a premature optimization. Computers are hard, even single threaded.

PinnBrain | 11 years ago | on: Apple: March 9th 'Spring Forward' Event

But then relativity messes even that up.

PinnBrain | 11 years ago | on: Results of the 2015 Soylent Eaters Survey

Thanks!

PinnBrain | 11 years ago | on: Apple: March 9th 'Spring Forward' Event

Yes, tangent, but please support the movements in several states to abolish daylight savings time. Having time move out from under us has long been a pain for programming robust systems. Perhaps the 5th or 6th generation of Apple watch will not need to do such an archaic adjustment.

PinnBrain | 11 years ago | on: Results of the 2015 Soylent Eaters Survey

Does the headline writer not notice the irony at all? How about? `Nobody really said Soylent was the end of food, despite what click-bait headlines claim`

PinnBrain | 11 years ago | on: Lisp implemented in under 1K of JavaScript

So much effort to go under 1K (in the era of 128GiB fingernail chips), with this .gitignore:

node_modules -uglify -crush -regpack

PinnBrain | 11 years ago | on: Astronomers find an ancient black hole the size of 12B suns

Can we see it with less than a million bucks (or a trip to Wyoming)?

PinnBrain | 11 years ago | on: My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple

I don't understand--I thought we have no ego. There is no self. There is even "egoless" programming.

PinnBrain | 11 years ago | on: GPG and Me

I was thinking the opposite--most shell scripts seem to exist to show off arcane knowledge rather than document a task in the most straightforward way possible.