HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

adorton

293 karma · joined June 12, 2010

submissionscomments
adorton··on Steam Machine
It's a computer that runs Linux.
adorton··on Planet eBook: free literature for your device
The big one I noticed is 1984, which won't be out of copyright in the US for 20ish years.
adorton··on Show HN: Gitlab Meeting Simulator 2024
We need to hook this up to a boss key stat
adorton··on Ray and Tom Magliozzi, MIT 1999 Commencement Address [video]
Took me an embarrassingly long time to understand what they meant by "Erasmus B Dragon".
adorton··on ChatGPT web and mobile UIs unavailable
Yeah but if I'm doing research online I'm going to stick with sources I consider reliable, written by real people and not a text generator. So I'm not sure I understand the comparison you're trying to make.
adorton··on ChatGPT web and mobile UIs unavailable
How do you know the information you're getting is factual?
adorton··on Starbucks illegally fired US workers over union, judge rules
The company is supposed to negotiate with the union. That's the whole idea behind unions.
adorton··on A guide for playing The Sims 1 on Intel and ARM Macs
This is great. I very recently looked into getting the Sims 2 and found this:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UT0HX3cO4xLft2KozGypU_N7...

Still working on getting it (or a similar release) working in a Wineskin for macOS. But it works great on Windows 10.

adorton··on The dangerous playgrounds of 1900s through vintage photographs
My elementary school playground had several giant tires. Not sure what that was all about but we found ways to make them fun.
adorton··on The Hipster PDA (2004)
Reminds me of the Pocketmod, which to my surprise is still around:

https://pocketmod.com/

adorton··on Over-reliance on CGI in movies
Fury Road makes pretty extensive use of CGI and digital compositing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB3tdMDRQBc

But it looks great so you don't really notice it.

adorton··on Yet Another Roguelike Tutorial
Here's a great one for Rust: https://bfnightly.bracketproductions.com/rustbook/chapter_0....
adorton··on YAML: It's Time to Move On
YAML stands for "YAML Ain't Markup Language"
adorton··on “This project will only take 2 hours”
Scope creep happens when you discover new requirements after defining a project scope and delivering an estimate. The type of analysis outlined in the article is helpful to define a sane and reasonable scope upfront, to hopefully avoid creep down the line.
adorton··on Cashew of Pirangi
They boil them
adorton··on New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available
Yeah, mine drops after suspending. Sometimes it shows the device is disconnected and I need to re-pair it. Not sure if that is a problem with the system or my MX Ergo, but it never has problems on my Windows machine. Occasionally the whole bluetooth system dies and I need to reset.
adorton··on New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available
I have a pretty new one (9370 I think) and I love it. No coil whine, the build feels great, and I have no complaints about that keyboard or trackpad. My only real complaint so far is the bluetooth is flaky.
adorton··on My PHP Development Setup
Installing Make on Windows is easy. Works like a charm.

  choco install make
adorton··on YouTube Kids Is Going to Release a Whitelisted, Non-Algorithmic Version of App
A few months ago, my Chromebook was updated to support Android apps. YouTube Kids should be available on the Play store assuming your Chromebook is updated to support it.
adorton··on I taught myself Python on the Internet and so can you
Is Dive into Python still maintained by anyone? That's what I used when I learned Python about 10 years ago.
adorton··on Google Fiber Is Coming to Salt Lake City
I wonder what this means for the metro Provo/Salt Lake Area. I live in between the two cities and would love to have access. Has Google expanded to the metro areas of other Google Fiber cities?
adorton··on 'Bad Paper' Explores the Underworld of Debt Collection
There are also a couple of interesting articles about this. Here's one that I think was submitted to HN a few months ago:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/15/magazine/bad-p...

Fascinating stuff.

adorton··on Spacesuits of the future may resemble a streamlined second skin
"Jack, why are you wearing your EVA suit?"

"It's after 6pm, Liz. What am I, a farmer?"

adorton··on Apple Pay
This seems similar to Google Wallet, which has been around for a few years. How does Apple plan to make this a bigger success?
adorton··on They're Made out of Meat
These aliens obviously haven't visited the Meat Planet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP7K9SycELA
adorton··on Amazon’s Scorpion Problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_variation
adorton··on How GoG.com is growing beyond a back catalog
Gog may not have been able to negotiate a license to distribute the game for OSX.
adorton··on HBO programming available on Amazon Prime
HBO Go has a much larger catalog than Comcast on demand. You can also stream in HD, even if you don't have Comcast HD.
adorton··on WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript
Microsoft is doing a big developer conference this week, and is announcing a lot of new stuff that HN finds interesting. When WWDC rolls around again, I'm sure there will be a ton of Apple stories on the front page.
adorton··on Apple's Buttonless Mouse Came From Steve Jobs' Misunderstanding
Are those the ones that needed special metal mousepads? Those were rad. My dad had one for drafting.
Page 1 of 3Next →