SloughFeg's comments

SloughFeg | 8 years ago | on: Facebook is an attack on the open web

Use mbasic.facebook.com. It can access any URL the heavy webclient can and uses no JS at all.

SloughFeg | 9 years ago | on: Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year

Would you like to know more?

SloughFeg | 9 years ago | on: Switching to Sublime Text from Vim in 2017

This is essentially the choice I made a couple years back. Vintageous isn't perfect but it's the best vim emulator I've used. Sublime is a great text editor on top of it.

SloughFeg | 9 years ago | on: Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year

Has anyone who is raising ethical concerns of this been around a horseshoe crab? They are essentially large insects. Killing a cockroach because it was in your house is objectively worse. It was just bugging you. This is saving human lives.

SloughFeg | 9 years ago | on: Ask a Female Engineer: How Can Managers Help Retain Technical Women?

Young women in software get paid 7% more than young men. http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/12/pf/gender-pay-gap/

Where does this pay gap start to come into play?

SloughFeg | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?

I host Ghost on a digital ocean VM. $5 a month isn't too bad hosting anything.

SloughFeg | 9 years ago | on: Wages rise on California farms, Americans still don’t want the job

The staggering low wages on Californian farms is preventing proper incentivisation to automate these processes. It reminds me of how slaves in the antibellum south prevented the area from becoming industrialized.

SloughFeg | 9 years ago | on: John Carmack on the Government

> tech focused white male > How could he possibly see the world in any other way? Most everyone on HN or Silicon Valley sees it in another way, white males included.

SloughFeg | 9 years ago | on: Staying Motivated as a Software Developer

I've found the biggest thing for me being able to continue to be motivated is to have the freedom to really craft the software I'm working on. Nothing is as soulcrushing as having to pump out a substandard delivery.

SloughFeg | 9 years ago | on: George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon

Doublethink is pervasive in a lot of modern thought. Hopefully this trend will make people evaluate it a bit more.

SloughFeg | 9 years ago | on: Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week

Politics (outside of those that affect tech) should have never been allowed in the first place. Any place where politics isn't specifically forbidden always degenerates into this sort of situation.

SloughFeg | 9 years ago | on: Choosing Ember over React in 2016

Make sure they are using Typescript/ES6. JavaScript still has some oddities in behavior but I actually prefer some aspects of the language design now compared to python.

SloughFeg | 9 years ago | on: Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest flaws

It's the washington post. What else would you expect from them?

SloughFeg | 9 years ago | on: JsonLogic – Build complex rules, serialize them as JSON

Reminds me of the early 00s where everyone and their son were making unmaintainable DSLs in XML

SloughFeg | 9 years ago | on: Be Kind

The hardest thing for me when I was junior dev was simply being noticed. I'd rather someone be hard on me than to pretend I don't exist.

SloughFeg | 11 years ago | on: Is College Worth It? It Depends on Whether You Graduate

These sorts of articles always conflate the most basic premise of success- the quality of the people.

Sure, you can point to statistics about how people who graduate from college earn more over a lifetime, but does that really tell you having a degree accounts for their success?

If, tomorrow, we took away all diploma's from people who had graduated from college and gave them to people who hadn't, do you really believe wages would follow?

SloughFeg | 12 years ago | on: Tell HN: Call your mom

You don't like your mom? What kind of monster are you?!?

SloughFeg | 12 years ago | on: Hugin – Panorama photo stitcher

Quick, somebody make a news article about the Munin daemon.

SloughFeg | 12 years ago | on: Huginn: Like Yahoo Pipes plus IFTTT on your server

Is there an online sandbox anywhere to check it out? A project like this simply calls out for their to be a live demo.

SloughFeg | 12 years ago | on: Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO

In a sad way, all the activists have really done given a good example for why political donations records should be kept away from the public.