rsmckinney's comments

rsmckinney | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are compiler engineers still in demand, and what do they work on?

Meh. No doubt there are snobs in the field, but in my experience most of the grit and innovation tends to come from solid engineers without a language/compiler focus, let alone the phd.

rsmckinney | 6 years ago | on: Why Japan is so successful at returning lost property

It’s more to do with the purity of their culture resulting from low immigration which fosters a high level of mutual trust. Invariably immigration corrupts the hosting nation’s culture with trust absorbing the initial impact.

rsmckinney | 6 years ago | on: Schwab Leaves San Francisco for Texas

One man’s “flame bait” is another man’s truth.

rsmckinney | 6 years ago | on: Frink

https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/tree/master/man...

rsmckinney | 6 years ago | on: India Acknowledges Lunar Lander Crashed

And it was accomplished in 1969 — engineering with a slide rule. I wonder what was different with American culture 60 years ago that enabled such an achievement?

rsmckinney | 6 years ago | on: Four-hundred Thirty-Five Representatives Can Not Represent 300M Americans

In essence you are saying “low information” votes are harmful and should be discounted. Would you agree the vast majority of potential voters targeted with “get out the vote” campaigns are “low information”?

rsmckinney | 6 years ago | on: Four-hundred Thirty-Five Representatives Can Not Represent 300M Americans

...unless they elect your candidate.

rsmckinney | 6 years ago | on: Things I’ve learned in 20 years of programming

Sage advice from an obvious veteran in the field.

rsmckinney | 6 years ago | on: Things I’ve learned in 20 years of programming

10 years of coding in trade for 10 years of middle management... why would I follow your coding advice? A serious question.

rsmckinney | 6 years ago | on: Active Oberon Language Report Update 2019

Also for Wirth/Oberon fans: Oberon for the JVM — https://github.com/lboasso/oberonc

rsmckinney | 6 years ago | on: Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (2009)

Retirement itself is a 20th century concept that requires a ponzi scheme to work. Unfortunately the family unit that used to support its elderly members unable to support themselves no longer exists in America. Instead we have nursing homes which amount to concentration camps for our elderly. But that’s okay, most of us are good nazis and deny that reality in trade for an uninterrupted screen viewing experience.

rsmckinney | 6 years ago | on: Trillion-dollar coin

$100 is the largest federal reserve note today. And even that is under pressure, mostly from the anti physical currency crowd.

Considering inflation a $100 note today is comparable to a $10 note from just a few decades ago. Thus currency denomination should shift in the opposite direction eliminating the cent and nickel, and adding larger notes.

rsmckinney | 6 years ago | on: Tesla Batteries Are Keeping Zimbabwe’s Economy Running

> Electriticity infrastructure was built to provide electricity to privileged few

What group of people built the "electricity infrastructure" you now enjoy? And if they hadn't built it, do you think you would have access to dependable electricity right now?

rsmckinney | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Type-safe metaprogramming for Java (and other killer lang features)

Think code generators are the only way to type-safely connect your Java code to JSON, XML, SQL, Javascript, etc.? Think again. Manifold offers a radical new way to connect Java to structured data.

IntelliJ IDEA provides comprehensive support for Manifold via the Manifold Plugin. Connect directly to your data without wedging an expensive code gen step in your build. Make incremental changes to files and type-safely access the changes instantly. Plus usage searching, deterministic refactoring, navigation, template editing, hotswap debugging, etc.

Manifold is both an API to build powerful metaprogramming features AND a set of awesome prebuilt features such as: - JSON Schema support - Extension methods (like C# a Kotlin) - Template files, 100% Java scripted - Structural Typing (like TypeScript and Go) - more

Manifold is just a JAR file you can drop into your existing project – you can begin using it incrementally without having to rewrite classes or conform to a new way of doing things.

Give it a go: http://manifold.systems/

rsmckinney | 9 years ago | on: Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming

Should they?

rsmckinney | 9 years ago | on: Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming

Anothet characteristic of the liberal mind: it cannot be endeared to an alternate point of view.

rsmckinney | 9 years ago | on: Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming

That's a good Nazi.

rsmckinney | 9 years ago | on: Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming

Sorry, you are confusing nationalism with racism. For example, there is nothing racist about border security (the wall). In fact without significant border security, a nation ceases to exist.

rsmckinney | 9 years ago | on: Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming

Wait. What does the relevance of a new idea have to do with the ethnic composition of the people with the idea? Isn't that a racist statement? Fascinating.

My favorite part about the liberal mind are its obvious contradictions and, thus, the unintended consequences of its thought process.

rsmckinney | 9 years ago | on: How Tinder's “feedback loop” forces men and women into extreme strategies

true story