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grovegames | 8 years ago | on: Ghana’s first satellite now orbiting earth

The do, frequently. I'm told daily that America did something. As a Canadian, we just accept that you guys have no idea how continents or countries work.

grovegames | 8 years ago | on: Mozilla’s Send makes it easy to send a file from one person to another

Wasn't microsofts version Groove become SkyDrive (now OneDrive)?

grovegames | 8 years ago | on: AltspaceVR is Closing Down

It is, but it's a far more nuanced version. Lack of funds is more leadership to blame. Getting sued by a patent troll, is what we all hope our side projects avoid long enough to obtain sufficient funding, so we can pay the crooks if need be.

grovegames | 8 years ago | on: A Closer Look at Swift Playgrounds for iPad

Son of a bitch, thanks for that first tip. But this speaks to a greater problem of feature discoverability on these devices.

grovegames | 8 years ago | on: First Human Embryos Edited in U.S

I'm confused. Terraforming is 1000+ years away, if we are ever even able to do it at all. I'm unclear of what you mean by 'small levels' because either you are terraforming, or you aren't. You have to create an atmosphere, you need to create a planets worth or water, you need to inject a crap ton of CO2 into the atmosphere to create the material plants will use as building blocks, to create the O2. All of this is millennia away. We've been non stop injecting CO2 into the atmosphere since the beginning of the industrial era, and that (while a bit of an issue today), isn't nearly enough carbon to begin to terraform a planet.

But for genetically modifying stuff, we're doing really well on that track. Most of the tech needed for designer babies is here. The issues with it aren't the tech existing, but our willingness to create massive numbers of defective offspring before we get a viable glow in the dark human. It's not the tech that's lacking, only our appetite for failed runs and a severe distaste for side-effects. But that's proven to work, CRISPR has already proven to be able to make glow in the dark pigs, so it's a matter of refinement. We don't have the slightest clue about terraforming. Just ideas at this point.

grovegames | 8 years ago | on: How Microsoft brought SQL Server to Linux

I have 20 years of experience with SQL Server, and zero experience with PostgreSQL. You aren't the target market, but I certainly am.

grovegames | 8 years ago | on: Ask Y Combinator: How often can YC companies post jobs to the front page of HN?

And it would help the applicants, if the bashing is justified.

grovegames | 8 years ago | on: No one is paying attention to the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II

Great examples. I was completely ignorant of the great Chinese famine, and didn't realize how high the death tolls of the other events you mentioned were. Thanks for educating me.

grovegames | 8 years ago | on: No one is paying attention to the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II

"the danger that about 20 million people in four countries will suffer famine in the coming months, and that hundreds of thousands of children will starve to death."

This does not qualify as clickbait.

grovegames | 8 years ago | on: Sha256 vulnerability for full rounds

How much of a concern is this? Do we now need to use SHA512 for everything, or is this more of an academic vulnerability that we won't see in the wild?

grovegames | 8 years ago | on: Betelgeuse captured by ALMA

So if our sun were replaced by Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse would engulf all the inner planets. That's huge. It's hard to fathom a star that big.

grovegames | 8 years ago | on: Why is the Internet so Slow?

How is angular making the web slower. An angular project can sit somewhere in the 130kb range, with lighter frameworks like vue sitting at 30kb. These are smaller than most images or gifs used on the web. So the trade-off is one image on your page, or a robust RIA experience, with much more maintainable code. If you build it correctly, you're decreasing the amount of bytes on the wire significantly when using client side frameworks, over re-rendering each and every page on the server for every interaction. I also maintain a large vanilla javascript application that was written before I arrived, and the javascript weighs in at almost 5MB, and we have a general no touch policy on it because of how fragile the vanilla javascript is. It was poorly written, but even a poorly written vue app, would come in at much less than the 5mb JS. I just don't buy this as the reason the web is slow.

grovegames | 8 years ago | on: Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak

I'm not saying this shouldn't have consequences. What I'm saying is this is far too nuanced to just say "lock up the CEO"

grovegames | 8 years ago | on: Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak

But what law specifically was broken? Should we have a law that punishes the CEO for data breeches? Is a CEO responsible if his experts recommended the practice? Is the CEO responsible if their staff went around and did this without conscent? That seems rife for abuse. Don't like your CEO, leak some data and have him go to jail.

grovegames | 8 years ago | on: Ringless voice mails from telemarketers

When I worked for a telco, you could easily call the voice mail main line, and then just use options to leave a voicemail in any mailbox. Easy peasy.

grovegames | 8 years ago | on: McDonald’s Universal Icons for 109 Countries [pdf]

> “We have accomplished our mission: keep the information simple, easy to understand, language-free and top line.”

I find this amusing since the first icon is "kcal"... The information is perhaps too simple, as none of these really lets me know what they mean. Without a legend, I wouldn't know what they mean, and if your icons need a legend, then they really aren't doing their job effectively.

grovegames | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Good examples of interactive command-line user experience?

yeoman is pretty good. It gives the option of interactive or command line. Reasonable use of colour, with some layout formatting. Dynamic options.

grovegames | 8 years ago | on: Arq 5.8.5 for Mac Fixes a Bad Bug

Everyone makes mistakes. This one hurts, but they aren't trying to sweep it under the rug.

grovegames | 8 years ago | on: I’ve become worse at programming

Honestly, trying to stay current on all the new technologies is causing me anxiety. After 20+ years at this, I always felt I was one step behind. But now I feel I'm 3 steps behind. I can't imagine what it's like to be a developer with a wife and kids. I just couldn't' stay on top of half what I'm able to do now.

grovegames | 8 years ago | on: Let them paste passwords

Don't blame me for some of those things, blame my clients. I can only suggest so many times that something is bad practice, without getting fired.