Hacker News Reader

127001breweron [dead]

...someone needs to build an app for these situations? (Or, in other words, why is this on the front page?)

127001breweron Ask HN: New Hacker News T-shirts?

They were last available on 2013 March 19: https://teespring.com/hntees#pid=6&cid=619&sid=front

...unless my Google skills are also showing their age and I haven't found a valid link for it.

127001breweron The sugar conspiracy: sugar—not fat—is the greatest danger to our health

This is a duplicate from four (4) days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11444941

127001breweron A regex crossword from LinkedIn Engineering

The jumble of letters made sense in the context of the regex problems.

127001breweron Visual Programming Is Unbelievable (2015)

...otherwise you might just end up in the wrong side of history.

And I don't believe it worked within the US Army [0][1][2] - unless I'm not correctly remembering the history of Outsystem's Visual Programming there...

[0] https://www.outsystems.com/company/news/2012/outsystems-us-a... [1] http://www.army.mil/article/96352/SEC_s_Cloud_Mil_solution_f... [2] http://www.afcea.org/content/?q=us-army-innovates-cloud-comp...

127001breweron Saying 'no' to keep crap out of products

My impression was don't over-extend a product, such as Evernote or LinkedIn have done, and try to keep your product focused - similar to the Unix philosophy of "Do One Thing and Do It Well".

127001breweron Show HN: Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop

Both of these like promising applications, but I've just been using the Atom IDE (https://atom.io/) with the "Markdown Preview" and "Markdown to PDF" packages.

127001breweron The world beyond batch: Streaming 101

This might be too much of a newbie question, but how do these types of data stores (such as "data lakes") get populated?

For example, and again I might be too uninformed here to ask the correct question, do you use ETL-type tools to get and store data? Or is it usually scripts that pull in (and process) data from various sources?

127001breweron Apple Speeds Up Electric-Car Work

I have a hard time believing that Apple would manufacture an electric car, especially one, according to the article, that had an initial design resembling a minivan.

It's well known that Jonathan Ive and Marc Newson are "car guys"[1], so perhaps it will be a vehicle similar to the Cube[2] - meaning it will have a very low production run - while the underlying technologies, such the batteries, are sold to other manufacturers.

1: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/shape-things-co... 2: http://www.macworld.com/article/1153341/cube_10thanniversary...

127001breweron Captain401 (YC S15) Wants to Make Creating a 401k Easier for Businesses

The 401k is tied to a Vanguard fund, which Lee says ultimately leads to higher performance than other funds. ...

So there's only one (1) fund to available? I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, but, if that's the case, what's the reasoning behind this?

127001breweron Using the System Font in Web Content

Here's more information about this: http://furbo.org/2015/07/09/i-left-my-system-fonts-in-san-fr...

127001breweron Appropriate Uses for SQLite

SQLite works great as the database engine for most low to medium traffic websites (which is to say, most websites). The amount of web traffic that SQLite can handle depends on how heavily the website uses its database.

I am curious to know how many people here solely use SQLite to power the back-end of their web application(s), especially when the page states, "SQLite does not compete with client/server databases."

(Or is the page referring to content-management-system-type websites?)

127001breweron Brisket – A new single-page application framework

No, what I didn't initially understand is that only one page is loaded (and then reused, etc).

127001breweron Brisket – A new single-page application framework

What exactly is a "single-page application"?

Wikipedia states that it "is a web application or web site that fits on a single web page with the goal of providing a more fluid user experience akin to a desktop application. In an SPA, either all necessary code – HTML, JavaScript, and CSS – is retrieved with a single page load, or the appropriate resources are dynamically loaded and added to the page as necessary, usually in response to user actions." [1]

How is this any different from any other web application?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-page_application

127001breweron More than 39M Americans Only Have Access to One Wired Broadband Provider

This is a posting from July 22, 2014 that states, "Yet as of the 2013 over 39 Million Americans (12.1% of the population) only have access to 0 or 1 broadband providers..."

What are the numbers now that broadband has been re-defined as "25 mbps" [1]?

[1] http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-finds-us-broadband-deploymen...

127001breweron Announcing MongoDB 3.0

I agree with that MongoDB may have been overkill, but my web application's architecture was chosen before I joined the team.

127001breweron Announcing MongoDB 3.0

I have been developing with MongoDB for about the past year. (Briefly, I have developed, and continue to support, an ASP.NET MVC C# Web Application that's used by a few thousand people daily. For my personal projects that use MongoDB, I develop with PHP and Python.)

Overall, I enjoy working with MongoDB, because it (generally) maps directly to your object - there is no need for an additional layer (such as an Object Relational Mapper (ORM)).

However, you have to be more careful with your data structure. For example, having sub-arrays in sub-arrays is probably not a good idea.

I will be happy to share more, so feel free to look up my profile.

127001breweron Researchers work to counter a new class of coffee shop hackers

...it's actually a good compliment while (slowly) trying to complete the challenges on http://cryptopals.com/

127001breweron Researchers work to counter a new class of coffee shop hackers

This is also talked about in the book, "Silence on the Wire".

http://www.amazon.com/Silence-Wire-Passive-Reconnaissance-In...

127001breweron Researchers work to counter a new class of coffee shop hackers

ACHTUNG! ... ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights

127001breweron Sometimes, it’s just time to go home

If we don't have a working build by 3pm tomorrow, we're all fired...

This is a bothersome and worrisome comment that probably has been repeated (in some variation) too often. How is this the fault of the developer(s)?

I appreciate that founders need to fulfill their promises, especially when having the backing of investors, but these type of statements seem to indicate a failure in communication and planning (more than execution).

127001breweron The Art of Not Working at Work

*...time doing nothing was just getting closer to dead with nothing to show for it..."

I realized the same, however I understand and appreciate that others do not share this same view.

The question becomes "What would you do if you were financially independent?" For me, it still would be to create, build, explore, learn, and tinker - basically what I do at, and outside of, work.

127001breweron 20 years of false business intelligence promises

BI has been used and deployed for over 20 years now, but the truth is: there are very organisations that are really getting the most out of this technology.

I think there's a key word missing in that sentence...

127001breweron Show HN: Style – A very small, responsive style sheet

I've found that Chrome's responsive view does a better job than Firefox - but I'll check it out. Thanks!

127001breweron A message from Tim Cook about Apple’s commitment to your privacy

During the Charlie Rose interview, Tim Cook says that Google is a direct competitor. And that: "I think everyone has to ask: how do companies make their money. Follow the money."[1]

[1] http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple-ceo-tim-cook-on...

127001breweron Show HN: Style – A very small, responsive style sheet

Thanks for letting me know - I'll add another media query for these dimensions. (By the way, which device did you use to view it at these dimensions?)

127001breweron Show HN: Style – A very small, responsive style sheet

Thanks - I appreciate that.

127001breweron America’s Tech Guru Steps Down, But He’s Not Done Rebooting the Government

I would say that Agile processes is definitely a part of solution (and I have been part of Agile teams and implemented Agile processes within the government), especially because of the oversight it can allow.

127001breweron America’s Tech Guru Steps Down, But He’s Not Done Rebooting the Government

But that depends on the government’s success in luring great people to revive the dead zone of government IT.

In my experience, that's only a part of the problem - good people usually don't stick around for too long (since they don't want to deal with the inertia and other difficulties of this environment).

Also, I take issue that only "great people" can be found in Silicon Valley - for example, I recently developed a web application for the government (as a contractor) that's modern, mobile-ready and which uses MongoDB.

127001breweron MySQL: Why “My”?

Other than being seemingly more closed sourced, is there a reason to choose MariaDB over MySQL?