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hc5 | 11 years ago | on: Sum Types in Go

> Most Go-ic? Maximally Go-ful? What's Go's equivalent to "Pythonic"?

Gophery

hc5 | 11 years ago | on: South Korea Sent Thousands of Chocolate Pies Over North Korea via Balloon

Choco Pie isn't like "chocolate pie" in the Western vernacular. It's a knock-off (of a knock-off) moon pie. [1]

> In the wake of World War II and the Korean War, the snack gained popularity in East Asia through its introduction by American GIs. Starting in 1958, a similar type of marshmallow filled cake was developed by Morinaga in Japan as 'Angel Pie'.

> Tongyang Confectionery began selling a similar product known as 'Orion Choco Pie' in 1974.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choco_Pie

hc5 | 11 years ago | on: Late night shuttle service that makes Caltrain 24/7

Also, 680/880 is severely underserved by public transit. Every day it's bumper-to-bumper traffic from Walnut Creek->San Jose.

BART will eventually connect this, but you would still need to transfer in Oakland, which is roughly 20-30 minute detour. Walnut Creek -> Fremont currently takes over 1 hour on BART, to cover a distance of roughly 30 miles.

hc5 | 11 years ago | on: Personal names around the world

FWIW, my parents didn't give me a generation name, and my kids don't have one. I have cousins and uncles (I think this is for males only? I could be wrong) who do have generation names. From what I understand, this practice is slowly dying out in favor of better sounding or more native-Korean names (without Chinese characters) in recent generations.

hc5 | 11 years ago | on: Personal names around the world

> People in Korea, who typically do have 3 names but who don't usually initialize them...

No, not really. This is a completely wrong interpretation of Korean names. Most of us have two names: family/clan name ("last" name like "Park", "Kim", etc) followed by given name ("first" name like "Chan-Ho" or "Geun-Hye"). The given name typically consists of two parts, but that doesn't mean we have three names.

hc5 | 12 years ago | on: Accept my accept-language

Thanks! There is a corollary to this that would have prevented all this - when I went back in the Chrome settings and set the settings to the same order, it reset my header to this: "en-US,en;q=0.8,ko;q=0.6" - which makes things work for all sites again. I haven't touched my language settings since ~2012, so it's possible Chrome "fixed" this a while back, but didn't change my existing settings.

hc5 | 13 years ago | on: Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time

It was a bug in Lotus 1-2-3 that was intentionally implemented into Excel, so technically it was a backwards-compatibility "feature". And some items from the original list aren't exactly "truths" as much as implementations or configurations, e.g.

> 19. The system clock will never be set to a time that is in the distant past or the far future.

> 20. Time has no beginning and no end.

hc5 | 13 years ago | on: Pay $100.000 if you link to Saygent's website

When I put "saygent" in the second field:

> $100k fine for linking to saygent.com

> $200k royalty fee for using the term 'Saygent' in anchor text

Yet it shows $350,000 total fine.

hc5 | 14 years ago | on: Cracking Siri

> The iPhone 4S sends identifiers everywhere.

So if I'm reading this right, Apple is sending UDIDs over HTTP?

hc5 | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: Monster Coloring Book, my first App just launched. What do you think?

a) Yup, I have same experience here on iPad 1. b) I disagree with this, but my kid is 3 years old. I thought the music selection was playful and best of all, not annoying when played ad infinitum. c) I bought the paid version thinking that it would come with all the extras. I don't like in-app purchases in paid apps, and I think this should have been an option in the free version only.

With that in mind, I would also suggest that you provide a way to earn monster bucks for free, through offerwalls. Disclaimer and shameless self-promotion: I work for Tapjoy, that does this: https://www.tapjoy.com

hc5 | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (July 2011)

San Francisco, CA (111 Sutter st.)

Rails engineer, fulltime, onsite

Tapjoy is looking for backend Rails engineers to join our current engineering team of 12 (6 backend, 2 frontend, 3 client, 1 designer). The company is 4 years old, profitable, and looking to grow.

https://www.tapjoy.com/careers/software_engineer

I would appreciate it if you mention me (hc5) for referral, but no pressure ;)

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