WingNews logo WingNews GitHub [2]

hvm's comments

hvm | 6 years ago | on: Facebook is using the iPhone’s camera as users scroll their feed

Sorry for getting all political on this but we need to stop associating success only with financial wealth.

He is successful at amassing billions of dollars. From my point of view, his success in the grand scheme of things is below zero. His actions have degraded quality of life and hurt future generations.

hvm | 6 years ago | on: Facebook is using the iPhone’s camera as users scroll their feed

Well if we didn't have an economy that makes us replace everything every year (an exaggeration but you get the point), we wouldn't care about the expensiveness.

We already have good enough technology that a phone should last us 10 years at least without having issues with the performance. The only problem is having replaceable batteries.

We need to move back towards things that last and backwards compatibility. Then it would make sense to pay $1000 or even $2000 on a phone, since you know it works perfectly and it'll last you 10-20 years.

hvm | 9 years ago | on: How do you stop a randomized game from randomly being boring sometimes?

I've seen this in an older version of NFS on PC. I can't remember which one it was (I think Underground?). The way they always caught up with me when they were behind was insane.

I actually tried a bit to look back and see it happen beacuse, I was wondering, do they just teleport or actually drive at like 800km/h.

hvm | 9 years ago | on: GitHub down

I dunno, I'd see it as the opposite. The bigger the scale the more cost effective it is to have more redundancy. I can't remember the last time Google search wasn't working or saw news about it being down.

The fact that github keeps going down while being a huge business shows they still need to work on having more redundancy, something that's expected of big services like theirs.

hvm | 10 years ago | on: Europe nearing Google antitrust charges

We could create a political body that is outside any of the countries. Everyone that agrees to be part of it will have to respect its decisions.

Once this is setup the world will be united. We can then call it the United Countries or something like that. It's going to be great!

hvm | 10 years ago | on: Shrink Go binaries 7x with this one weird trick

> "Church of the Byte Savers"

I like that. I see people preaching how we've become accustomed to large drive space and fast internet and we're just wasting it all out of laziness.

Kind of like the post Muad'dib Fremen that got soft on water discipline.

hvm | 10 years ago | on: TIS-100: the Programming Game You Never Asked For

I've been working as a programmer for more than 6 years now.

I still think my best work is a graphical library I built in 9th grade in assembly to use with my Pascal programs in MSDOS.

  mov ax, 13h
  int 10h      ;SCREEN 13 rules!!!

hvm | 10 years ago | on: Deep Space Industries

Or maybe they did start with the engineers. Maybe they already have some pretty cool technologies but they realised they don't know how to sell it all so they're looking for business people (yes, yes, very wishful thinking).

hvm | 10 years ago | on: Metal foam obliterates bullets

I've seen that before and I am so disappointed in the slow motion part. I wish I could see those bullets going one behind the other in a perfect 8 pattern.

hvm | 10 years ago | on: Composing Programs – Python 3 in the tradition of SICP

I think it's a matter of taste or what you're used to. I find the first two examples clearer than the map/filter ones.

Are map and filter more concise? Yeah but only in this case. If you would need to do some processing, they would get messy fast because of a lambda.

hvm | 10 years ago | on: Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders

> After a certain number of orders I'm beating the system, and that's fun.

That's only true if you would have bought those items anyway. If you wouldn't have then the system is beating you.

page 1
more