zachsnow | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: BetterSlack – A Chrome extension to make Slack better
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zachsnow | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How long does it take to learn a new keyboard layout?
Re: stick vs automatic, is QWERTY more fun though?
zachsnow | 7 years ago | on: Black: An uncompromising Python code formatter
I believe the point is whether the string is intended to be displayed to a human, not whether a human might read it in the code. Still some wiggle room around logging, etc. I guess.
zachsnow | 7 years ago | on: How 2 M.T.A. Decisions Pushed the Subway into Crisis
That’s so interesting! I see now what you mean (hi google), but my initial mental image was a rich old man with a death-grip on his riches.
zachsnow | 8 years ago | on: A Taxonomy of Technical Debt
I have found the closer I am to the product and the clients that will be affected, and the more thoroughly I understand the usecase from the client’s perspective, the better I am at understanding how much effort to spend on “getting it right” in this way. Still wrong sometimes though!
zachsnow | 8 years ago | on: Best ways to kill your startup
> people who can see themselves wanting it if someone else pays (i.e. future them could pay)
Great way to make this point! So when you ask someone "would you pay for it?" you are really asking "would you use it if someone else paid for it?" Which, really, doesn't tell you very much at all.
zachsnow | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Triangulart – Isometric graphic editor, like pixel art with triangles
A minor suggestion: give more buttons in the UI `pointer: cursor` and hover states; it will be easier to see when a click will actually do something (thinking in particular of the black bar of icons at the bottom of the page).
zachsnow | 8 years ago | on: Enabling the F4 key in macOS
They meant ctrl-a and ctrl-e.
zachsnow | 8 years ago | on: Cross-Head, Cross-Point, Cruciform, Square Drive Screws and Drivers
Absolutely; I've also worked with screws that were, as far I as I could understand, purposely made of less rugged metal to ensure that when they were tightened against the object they were meant to fasten (made of plastic), they would strip before damaging it.
Still sucks to accidentally strip a screw that really should be that tight!
zachsnow | 8 years ago | on: Researchers discover bees can be left or right-handed
Snowboards? In what way? (Genuinely curious what you mean, been snowboarding for 24 years and can't guess, but of course I'm right handed!)
zachsnow | 8 years ago | on: Cross-Head, Cross-Point, Cruciform, Square Drive Screws and Drivers
Stripping a torx or "star drive" screw takes real effort; switching over was the best thing that ever happened to my mediocre carpentry and framing work.
zachsnow | 8 years ago | on: Cross-Head, Cross-Point, Cruciform, Square Drive Screws and Drivers
I imagine the idea was that, despite there being so much "car culture" around Japanese cars, many within the culture aren't aware of these things. I certainly had never heard of JIS screws, and I have worked on the odd Japanese motorcycle now and again.
zachsnow | 8 years ago | on: No big deal, Boston Dynamics’ Atlas can perform backflips now
It's a multi-paragraph description of a video that takes longer (and is far more boring) to read than watch. And there are choppy gifs illustrating the paragraphs narrating the video.
I don't understand why this is being done. Presumably it increases engagement?
zachsnow | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Orange Forum – Web 1.0 style forum written in Go
This person said only that there is a lot to do, not that it is complicated.
zachsnow | 8 years ago | on: The Ainu, the Indigenous people of Japan
This is a sweet and considerate approach that many pet owners would do well to emulate. Thanks for sharing.
zachsnow | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?
"Self: the power of simplicity" really lives up to its name!
zachsnow | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?
Olin Shivers's work on various control flow analyses, in particular the paper "CFA2: a context-free approach to control-flow analysis", is a really cool static analysis via abstract interpretation. Matt Might had a bunch of papers in a similar vein.
zachsnow | 8 years ago | on: The Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat
I'm 5' 9" and I notice that, in a group in which I'm the shortest person, I am less likely to be addressed or listened to than in one in which I'm average or the tallest.
zachsnow | 8 years ago | on: I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon
Policy is programming, against the fuzzy computer that is the human CPU.
zachsnow | 8 years ago | on: Companies play around with their origin stories
My favorite quote from an investor what he had learned in 35 years of investing? "It doesn't fucking matter what I think." If the market likes it, that's what matters. "Maybe I'm not the market."
It would be cool if you made it so that users could inject it manually (via enabling --dev and $.getScript() or so) into the app; I for one don't restart Slack very often, so it wouldn't be too much of a pain.