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irascible··on The Secret Life of a Tech VC and His $10M Infidelity
Republican donor. What a huuuge surprise. I hope the lawyers get super rich off of this guy and his hooker gf.
irascible··on Thank you for ad blocking
The answer is for advertisers to die in a fire. There is no content I need from the web that is worth the cost.
irascible··on Thank you for ad blocking
A single pixel image loaded from a domain that tracks the ip of the downloader? There are probably lots of variations.
irascible··on Thank you for ad blocking
When the police get hit with ransomware.. they pay the ransom.. and by they, I mean me.
irascible··on Anonymous Just Declared War on Donald Trump with a Massive Cyberattack
Yeah. Then he can grandstand about being attacked by "hooligans", thereby securing more scared old white people votes.
irascible··on AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5
Stored discretely and permanently you mean..
irascible··on AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5
Optimizing compilers do this already and they aren't 'intelligent'. Iirc alpha go is based on the same algo that could beat all atari games sight unseen.. satisfying the 'novel situation' requirement you set forth..
irascible··on AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5
Optimizing compilers do this already and they aren't 'intelligent'. Iirc alpha go is an extension of the same algo that could beat all atari games sight unseen..
irascible··on How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines
<video src="porn.mp4"/>
irascible··on Show HN: Peer-to-peer secure file transfer using WebRTC
Don't hate on js. It is beneath you.
irascible··on We're hearing about troubles at Nest
Nest is way overvalued. How can you screw up a thermostat or a webcam? Someone is going to eat their lunch.
irascible··on VCs, don't compare me to your wife
Seeing the text thread just reinforces my opinion that "VC's" are semi literate morons who happen to have stupid money.

I'll be a programmer until the day I die, but FUCK that aspect of this industry. The information age was born in California, in the most liberal, feminist, and intelligent crucible of the Bay Area, and these shit weasels have come swooping in to scrape their money of the top. It absolutely sickens me, and I will jump with joy the day this bubble bursts and leaves these fuckers high and dry.

irascible··on Isosurface Extraction Using Marching Cubes Algorithm
Marching cubes is 3d isosurface reconstruction, and recently it has become un-patent encumbered, so there's a new rennaisance of usage.

From my google searches, all I can find on "Marching tiles" is a bunch of 2d stuff. Hardly state of the art...

Can you direct me to what you meant when you said state of the art?

irascible··on Dementia rates decline in U.S., researchers unsure why
Ubiquitous Internet access keeps the elderly better engaged with the world.
irascible··on Why Stack Overflow Doesn’t Care About Ad Blockers
And importantly.. add servers brought this on themselves. If they had catered to users and given them the tools they needed to tailor their experience, they wouldn't be in the situation they are now. Salty tears...
irascible··on The Powder Toy
The sheer number of particle types would make a gpu implementation pretty tricky.. but for a vanilla version it can work.
irascible··on Why I killed my standing desk
I've been programming while sitting in a position that resembles a curled up prawn, for about 25 years now.

Zero back problems. My posture is a bit shitty, but my income makes up for it.

irascible··on Why a city should not build a stadium for an NFL team
It's all boring...

Shirling though... Now that's a sport.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gu3mbl8SAk

irascible··on Login Forms Over HTTPS, Please
I think you're the first person in this thread to explain why this problem is still allowed to exist.
irascible··on Login Forms Over HTTPS, Please
I'm not writing login code personally but this sounds like something fundamentally broken in the web and asking devs to fix it case by case is a complete copout. If a browser can detect this shit, why can't it fucking proxy it or do something clever to mitigate it automatically instead of putting up stupid hyroglyphs and expecting to shame developers into duplicating a bunch of work case by case and thereby probably getting it wrong in many cases? .. like.. ff detects insecure login form.. Browser DON'T FUCKING SEND CLEARTEXT PASSWORD (instead sending some encrypted bs to firefox grand central station, where it is securely forwarded through a secure backchannel? Maybe it has to talk to the isp directly who has to inject the password back into your process, and they charge u extra tax for securing your shit.. and then.. gasp.. problem solved and not every aspiring developer needs to become a cryptographer.

Passwords are stupid. The internet is broken. My Spyware infested machine and browser knows all my passwords anyway.

Note to any techies reading this.. fix this problem. Here is your killer app. Disrupt this shit.

irascible··on Apple Watch – 6 Months Later, Not That Great
Someone should make a watch that is just a second display for your android phone, via bluetooth.
irascible··on Ask HN: What's the most elegant piece of code you've seen?
duffs device.
irascible··on Farbfeld – A suckless image format
One of the few legit criticisms in this thread.
irascible··on This Battery Has Lasted 175 Years and No One Knows How
Just what I was thinking.. or external vibration making the bell periodically act as a generator..
irascible··on Magic+
I'll have my magic+ fungineer send one over. barf.
irascible··on Magic+
Seeing this makes me feel ashamed to be a part of the tech industry. This is why people despise the 1%. Show some taste/humility/discretion. A "service" like this is so narrowly focused on the ultra rich, that it should be marketing in high end magazines/direct outreach.. not on hacker news.
irascible··on “Because I'm a bastard, and proud of it” (2000)
This rant overlooks the use case of stepping through new code in a debugger regardless of whether it actually works or crashes. Inspecting intermediate values.. making sure execution follows the right paths etc. Debuggers aren't just for bugs.
irascible··on Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2016 Edition
Yep same here.
irascible··on Physicists in Europe Find Tantalizing Hints of a New Particle
First I read "heavy boson" and thought that sounded kinda metal, so it would be cool if they named it that, but then I misread "whale boy", which is even better, so I'm calling it now. Next heavy higgs boson will be called Whale Boy.
irascible··on Show HN: A few years ago my Type'o'Shooter went viral – here's the new version
Slick and Fun!!
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