ledzep2's comments

ledzep2 | 1 year ago | on: The Burnout Machine

The nature of free market is competition. And the nature of competition is to get more profit out of less people. It means longer hours, more focus, less complaint, less life. You think new technology is gonna save the poor workers coz it boosts productivity? Only temporarily until everyone has it. Then It's the same game all over again, pushing out new features, new compaigns, re-org, transformation around the clock.

Once one player in the market starts to work the longer hours, it's guaranteed to spread to every corner. Coz you need to up the game and catch up with the competition.

Endless grind.

ledzep2 | 7 years ago | on: 5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk

Cell on my phone contributes like less than 10% of total battery consumption. The most goes to screen and cpu. So there's limited improvement for 5G in this. But for IoT devices in which comms use most of the battery, this could be significant. However, it's debatable whether spending on billions of dollars on a regional 5g network is an optimal solution for a more durable IoT infrastructure. In my understanding, there should be a more economical way to build an efficient IoT infrastructure since most of them don't need that much data speed.

ledzep2 | 7 years ago | on: Oculus Rift S

I guess Rift S has lower manufacturing cost because it can share some parts with upcoming Quest. The same tracking, the same controllers. And since they are already heading in that direction, personally I'm curious to know the possibility of combining Quest and Rift S, or PC and standalone VR. My guts tell me it's possible. I'm excited about the idea of two in one VR, with which I can watch a movie in bed before sleep, or show it to friends at their places', and plug in a PC to play a full blown action game. Two headsets and two sets of controllers are really too much for these purposes. I don't mind two libraries of games/apps though. Windows 10 and XBox One are already sharing content. It should be possible for VR too.

ledzep2 | 7 years ago | on: Oculus Rift S

I'm thinking Rift S has an awkward position. It's not a gen 2 for those who already jumped in for Rift. So no buying there. It doesn't lower the bars for those who hasn't jumped in as neither headsets or graphics cards are getting cheaper. Then where is the market share?

Maybe a trade-in program could work. For the rift owners they get the upgrade for a discount. Then for the newcomers, certified pre-owned Rifts for a low price.

ledzep2 | 7 years ago | on: Payscrypt – Yet another watch-only cryptocurrency payment processor

I'm from the dev team of Payscrypt. I know our product is still pretty rough. We want to release early and listen to honest feedback. So here I am. Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.

ledzep2 | 11 years ago | on: YC S15 Interview Invites Today

Please do share with us if you got any replies...

ledzep2 | 11 years ago | on: YC S15 Interview Invites Today

Oh. This is just the longest day of the life you have lived so far. Lots of exciting stuff awaits, buddy.

ledzep2 | 11 years ago | on: HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can

This can be easily identified since other readers won't agree on this field.

ledzep2 | 11 years ago | on: HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can

So maybe we should propose a new field which is the approx. time to finish reading when submitting a story.

ledzep2 | 11 years ago | on: HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can

It's a game. Cheating the system without being caught is win in YC's universe. But now, this is hunters' turn to take one step ahead of the game!

ledzep2 | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Tagging all GitHub repos

Just visited it. Looks ok.

ledzep2 | 11 years ago | on: HeartForth: An Emoji-Based Stack Language

lol. This is awesome. Thank you!

ledzep2 | 11 years ago | on: What are your favourite sci-fi books?

The Three-body Problem. It raises the bar of sci-fi literature in China.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/07...

ledzep2 | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Apparel for entrepreneurs

People can be proud of a good spirit, quality, attitude and wear something about it to not only show off but also encourage other people. But this is different from bringing your work life into your social life by painting a job title on your tshirt.

IMO it's better to strip the 'Entrepreneurs' part and leave maybe "Let's make shit happen". At least it sounds more cheering to me.

ledzep2 | 11 years ago | on: Megaupload programmer goes to prison for one year

They are not retarded. They are just money driven IMHO.

And I bet the story behind this is no worse than the plot of House of Cards.

ledzep2 | 11 years ago | on: HeartForth: An Emoji-Based Stack Language

I wonder if there's a programming language that makes a program look like a poem or a regular article?

ledzep2 | 11 years ago | on: Google Maps 2D Driving Simulator

It would be fun to add some multiplayer support via websocket just like Mozilla did with BrowserQuest. Maybe make it run on phones and take it with you when you actually drive.

Then we can simulate the traffic jam in Mountain View together!

ledzep2 | 11 years ago | on: I'm Brianna Wu, and I'm Risking My Life Standing Up to Gamergate

Thank you. Now I know about Gamergate. Even if there is a corruption, justice needs to be done in a proper way. Otherwise it's not justice, but crime.

ledzep2 | 11 years ago | on: 0h n0 – A new game from the makers of 0h h1

When playing this kind of game, you are not actually playing, but training your brain to be like a cpu which is dumber in logic but stronger in following a procedure.

And your fun is over when you figure out the procedure, coz all you have to left is to get the input from whatever on the screen, feed it to the procedure and output the result to the mouse until u win.

ledzep2 | 11 years ago | on: Tinychart – simple, ready-to-go charts

Nice idea. A few possible improvements:

1. Import data from csv, excel etc, from file or textarea.

2. The chart should be resizable.

3. Color schemes would be nice to have.