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1qaz2wsx3edc··on Cryptocurrency is like taking the worst parts of today's capitalist system
artificially enforced scarcity is something I wholly agree with, at anytime in the future the MAX_MONEY could change.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/7fcf53f7b4524572d1d0...

Code is not immutable. If there was a algorithm for MAX_SUPPLY immutability that would be something of interest.

1qaz2wsx3edc··on Cryptocurrency is like taking the worst parts of today's capitalist system
Counter point, what gold really fixed? From a google search:

"Between all of the gold sources in the world, current estimates suggest that roughly 2,500 to 3,000 tons of new gold is mined each year. At present, experts believe that the total amount of above ground gold in the world stands at just over 190,000 tons."

1qaz2wsx3edc··on Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices
My 55" is much more reasonable.
1qaz2wsx3edc··on Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
Wearing an eye tracker creates one hell of a different context.

Being ask to solve a problem without your typical tools does as well.

I assume these tests don't actually get to the root of the issue but only represent a portion of behaviour.

1qaz2wsx3edc··on Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
I just pulled out my laptop and if they aren't cool with the solution I google'd in 30 seconds, they can test my critical thinking in another manner. That was my critical thinking and resolve under pressure.

These are nothing but shit test.

What are shit tests? When somebody fucks with your head to see how you will react, what you are experiencing is typically a (series of) shit test(s). Everyone has been shit tested, gets shit tested and will continue to be shit tested; We use shit tests to make value judgements about people, likewise they can be used to determine how people cope under pressure. The underlying mechanism of shit tests is to test your mettle.

1qaz2wsx3edc··on Data from man's pacemaker led to arson charges
IANAL nor American but this feels like another thing stepping on top of their constitution, specially the spirit of the fifth:

> nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself

I can be tried for my data? That's kind of messed up, what if the data was faked, etc.

1qaz2wsx3edc··on Chrome 56 will mark HTTP pages with password fields as non-secure
Developer - "any could see the password..."

Pm - "put one of them modal over it"

Developer - "but then how will anyone..."

Pm - "we're switching to <completely different stack they heard about from someone in their uber last week>"

1qaz2wsx3edc··on Steve Wozniak Was My Computer Teacher in 1995
I as well, he's probably my top role model, up with Chris Sawyer, John Carmack, Rich Hickey and more.
1qaz2wsx3edc··on 8M GitHub profiles were leaked from GeekedIn's MongoDB
Init protocol 0: wipe everything, airgap with tails
1qaz2wsx3edc··on A Simple Request: VLC.js
The root cause is/and continues to be that we want HTTP to be an application protocol, which it was never intended to be or designed to be. I feel that until browsers behave more like independent operating systems / vms, this kind of tension between what we want to do and what we can do will always exists on the web as we know it...

I mean, Canvas, WebGL, Audio APIs, Video APIs, VR APIs, etc, when do we realize that what we want is a way to run applications...

1qaz2wsx3edc··on Nyancat on the touchbar
My bet is after this okay-to-failure of a product iteration Apple will pivot to a detachable dual screen model... Fear not though, they'll still happily lag behind current hardware for better margins. /s ;)
1qaz2wsx3edc··on Panama Papers Reveal How Wealthy Americans Hid Millions Overseas
The only thing my weak recall can summon was that the IRS was finger wagging at guilty parties to come clean early: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/panama-papers/irs-urges-ame...
1qaz2wsx3edc··on Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat
I for one approve of this pre-emptive strike against robot-kind and skynet-like future. Especially after seeing the abuse we've put countless robots through. I mean, it's probably a good idea to have robots decentralized from google's AI.

:P

1qaz2wsx3edc··on Issue and Pull Request templates
I think the `_TEMPLATE` is unnecessary and the `.github` folder a good compromise. However I'll take github listening to the community regardless. +1
1qaz2wsx3edc··on GitHub Outage
One of my clients is on BB, they have frequent service issues. I need to switch them over to github.
1qaz2wsx3edc··on VertiGo – A Wall-Climbing Robot including Ground-Wall Transition
Take stuff out of the vault. /s
1qaz2wsx3edc··on Meteor Galaxy, a cloud platform for Meteor applications
You might be interested in seeing the efforts on `clinical track`: https://clinical.meteor.com/ for HIPAA
1qaz2wsx3edc··on Reddit shell
`lynx reddit.com`
1qaz2wsx3edc··on Ask HN: How to Find the Best Info on Cancer Treatments?
I was diagnosed with a low grade diffused tumour about a year and a half ago after having a seizure at 26. I understand the difficulty of having to grok through all that terse information. That said, I found http://astrocytomaoptions.com/ by Stephen Western to be a helpful portal of information.

All the best to you and your family.

1qaz2wsx3edc··on Socket.IO P2P
Neat, when can we expect a DHT (distributed hash table) for decentralization? ;)
1qaz2wsx3edc··on Material Design Lite Components in HTML/CSS/JS
As someone who used polymer/paper-elements recently in a project, these are some downsides:

1. The whole design guide is not implemented (date picker for example)

2. Web components polyfill while pretty fast still slows things down a bit

3. Extra effort required to debug/style components (shadow DOM)

4. It's still fairly bleeding edge, not for the faint of heart

5. Vulcanizing required for assets to avoid hundreds of imports/requests

These are some of the factors that would make me reconsider using it on another project. It still turned out very nice for the project however.

1qaz2wsx3edc··on Why Are People Still Playing Ultima Online?
I have very similar stories with UO. I ran servers. I wrote scripts, in fact I owe much of my entry into my career to running private servers: it taught me how to run a server, how to setup a forum, how to program, how to setup a site, domain, etc, etc, etc. Ragnarok did much the same for me, it taught me about mysql, php (well I knew some by then). Time-warp and now I'm an expert in Rails/Ruby/Meteor/Node/Devops/etc. I really owe many thanks to gaming for giving me my entry and the devs whoms backs I stood on.

I agree that Minecraft is what UO was to our generation, although I'm a bit worried they're learning java, but I guess php is no better. Oh well, just more tools for the toolbelt. :D

1qaz2wsx3edc··on Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React
Right, that works to some extent. However there is still an upfront cost of drawing each component I want to use.

I think share-ability is important (seo/community, think of github repos). I'd like to do something like google for "precursor datepicker" view/fork or 'save'/star/insert it or maybe search in app for "datepicker"s.

That just my two cents, I think it creates a community and then as a whole everyone benefits, while the tool still remains uncluttered (the workflow remains the same, but components could be incorporated). Consider this: I could have say 4 tabs open which I then copy & paste some components I found into a mockup I'm working on. No searching in app, no component drawers, just simple copy & pasting between tabs.

Also, tracking a clipboard doesn't really classify something as "important", I mean, won't that list just get cluttered, I don't necessarily want to look through 20 copies to find the one time I copied the whole component. And workflow to update it might be a bit weird, do I edit it, re-copy it and re-star it, delete the previous staring?

Really, just my two cents, food for thought, great work, I'm sure you know better!

1qaz2wsx3edc··on Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React
I think something that could really help this app succeed, is sharable UI elements.

There are a lot of common things I don't want to redraw (date pickers, dropdowns, file uploads, etc, etc). However, I don't want these provided as a static set, because the web and my needs are always changing/growing.

If I was able to browse the community's drawings and add them to my profile for quick insertion into a mockup that would be great or even create my own for reuse.

Just my two, - Cheers

1qaz2wsx3edc··on Ask HN: Should I unplug my laptop charger at 100%?
Same but slightly worse, mine is generally always plugged in.

100/8460*7633 or 90.22%

1qaz2wsx3edc··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)
I think there's 3 reasons for that.

1. Most companies here are at a later stage in their development (post first round/prototype)

2. Meteor is still new and solidifying

3. There are other outlets for hiring: weworkmeteor.com

1qaz2wsx3edc··on T.H. Tsien, 105, Dies; Scholar of Chinese Books Rescued 30,000 of Them
Knowledge is power, I mean, you can't just give that stuff away!
1qaz2wsx3edc··on Rails API is coming to Rails 5
Because Rails has become bloatware and has been since they lost sight of the future of the web and stagnated on innovating...
1qaz2wsx3edc··on Introducing T3: Enabling Large Scale JavaScript Applications
I love writing Regex for my router: https://github.com/box/t3js/blob/gh-pages/examples/todo/live...

> Regexs and parsing borrowed from Backbone's router since they did it right

Hahahaha.

PS: If it matters I'm using Meteor, but I've used angular/ember/backbone/knockout/etc/etc

1qaz2wsx3edc··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)
Meteor, Coffeescript, Jade, Stylus? Groovy.
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