Hacker News Reader

GalacticDomin8ron Amazon’s Glacier secret: BDXL?

How is that interesting? Like when CNN speculates MA 370 was sucked in by a mini black hole or dolphins emit pings?

GalacticDomin8ron New axe design uses lever action to make splitting wood easier

It's pretty easy to known who really knows how to split wood with any kind of axe. You start on the outside working your way in splitting off sections that look like they present the best chance to avoid a knot. Anything other than that is snake oil and bluster.

And no, I'm not buying one of these axes, a traditional splitting axe works very well. I don't see how the featured axe could offer anything beyond the traditional since you aren't constrained to a plumb blow as the marketing would have you to believe.

GalacticDomin8ron The French way of cancer treatment

More like Freedumb™, at least in our approach to healthcare.

GalacticDomin8ron Ben Noordhuis's Departure

> I feel like wanting to remark that Bryan Cantrill only fanned the fire here in all of this.

You've expressed a thought, not an emotion. Please use "think" instead of "feel".

http://www.wildmind.org/applied/depression/distinguishing-th...

GalacticDomin8ron Yotaphone

> I feel like a lot of this trendy stuff comes out because it demos very well.

You've expressed a thought, not an emotion. Please use "think" instead of "feel".

http://www.wildmind.org/applied/depression/distinguishing-th...

GalacticDomin8ron Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing

> I feel like I would be better served by stapling my existing business card to a $10 bill...

You've expressed a thought, not an emotion.

http://www.wildmind.org/applied/depression/distinguishing-th...

GalacticDomin8ron With new USB connector, no more wrong-way-up cables

> I feel like Gruber's take

You have expressed a thought, not an emotion.

http://www.wildmind.org/applied/depression/distinguishing-th...

GalacticDomin8ron Has StackOverflow saved billions of dollars in programmer productivity?

> I feel like StackOverflow is a blade that cuts both ways.

That is a feeling, not a thought.

http://www.wildmind.org/applied/depression/distinguishing-th...

GalacticDomin8ron Has StackOverflow saved billions of dollars in programmer productivity?

> I am 100% sure

Your 100% certainty means nothing to me.

> makes my employees and me more productive.

A very strong claim.

> QAOP (Question and Answer Oriented Programming) boosts the productivity significantly.

First Google results don't even know what this is.

Listen, I actually think your claims have merit, but the way you present them is "crap, crap, mega crap". Please cite something we can take take to the manager or test or vet in some other way. Otherwise you comment is just "ME RIGHT. ME SELL YOU SOMETHING".

GalacticDomin8ron Has StackOverflow saved billions of dollars in programmer productivity?

> That's not a contradiction to the claim that wealth has been created.

There was no claim wealth was created.

GalacticDomin8ron Has StackOverflow saved billions of dollars in programmer productivity?

Don't hurt yourself trying to pat you on the back. The vast majority of those questions have already been answered by Google. Some people just like paying.

In other words, if you pay for something that you could get for free with just a bit more effort, how is that saving money?

GalacticDomin8ron Dell introduces 28" 4K Ultra HD Monitor for under $1K, shipping early 2014

How close are you to your monitor(s) at the exact moment you read this?

I'm not at 2 feet with a smaller dual display, and I'd imagine I'd sit further away with gigantic 30+ monitor(s). I know I do when I use a 27. Others at $work mostly sit at least as far away.

In this area of improved vision, what does it gain you? Did all the old hackers not amount to what they could have been because they perceived some less pixels than there could have been?

I don't think a serious argument can be made on this this front until standards reach at least 16k.

GalacticDomin8ron Dell introduces 28" 4K Ultra HD Monitor for under $1K, shipping early 2014

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-33199_7-57566079-221/why-ultra-...

Comment sections like this are why HN is called an echo chamber.

GalacticDomin8ron I Hope My Father Dies Soon

I don't think murder is a better translation, but my thoughts on the bible are best expressed by Tim Minchin's "The Good Book".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr1I3mBojc0

GalacticDomin8ron I Hope My Father Dies Soon

I believe the question is much, much bigger than simply the involvement of life support. Just address that issue, and you've ignored many people who suffer unnecessarily with no reasonable hope. For example, ALS sufferers don't require life support until the very late stages of the disease. This is long after they've lost the ability to move, speak, or interact meaningfully with those around them.

GalacticDomin8ron I Hope My Father Dies Soon

> Pointing it out with a logically equivalent blaming statement probably isn't going to help.

It wasn't meant to help the OP. I have no belief a logical and reasoned conversation could occur there. It was meant to help those reading it determine what methods were used. It does help those unfamiliar with structured reason and Socratic thought principles.

> It would be better to suggest an alternate wording:

I completely reject your alternate wording. Make it your own, not mine.

GalacticDomin8ron I Hope My Father Dies Soon

The bible doesn't condemn suicide(or abortion) anywhere in it directly. However, as with any good moral book, it is ambiguous. You can use it advocate any position you chose.

> Yet the Christian right insists that the agony be prolonged to a maximum.

Christianity didn't always hold this view. I suppose some of the movement comes from the commandment "Thou shall not kill". Of course that is a very poor translation. A better one would be "Thou shall not kill without justification".

GalacticDomin8ron I Hope My Father Dies Soon

Frontline had a nice piece on this issue a couple years ago called The Suicide Tourist:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/suicidetourist/

GalacticDomin8ron I Hope My Father Dies Soon

> I'm stunned when thinking people advocate.

So you come out swinging with a combined ad hominem and argument from incredulity. Brilliant!

GalacticDomin8ron Read less HN

> Less time being a mindless drone, never leaving your lane? ;)

So the way avoid being a mindless drone is to read articles and comments telling you how to act and think?

GalacticDomin8ron Read less HN

> Plus, most of what I see on HN these days is really bad business, political, social, and legal analysis

Yeah really bad. It's all crap except my own.

GalacticDomin8ron Clang is now feature complete for C++14

> The primary Clang user groups are Apple and FreeBSD communities. a.k.a. anti-GCC groups.

I think you meant to say anti-GPLv3 groups and you also forgot to include Linux kernel devs.

GalacticDomin8ron Why I won't get a Google+ Custom URL

Why I won't read articles that begin with "Why I"

GalacticDomin8ron USPS: ZIP Codes are “proprietary business information”

> They are forced to prefund their pensions unlike other government agencies but like private companies.

Which private company has to fund 75 years of pension plans? Can't say I've ever heard of a company being forced to prefund pensions for future employees not even yet born before learning about PAEA.

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/nader230911.html

Also I wonder if you care to comment on the sabotage provision in PAEA which stipulates the PO can't engage in non-postal forms of revenue.

GalacticDomin8ron A Dig Through Old Files Reminds Me Why I’m So Critical of Science

> mathematician make errors. I want something that can be checked formally.

So you mean math?

GalacticDomin8ron USPS: ZIP Codes are “proprietary business information”

> * A box for its use at every residence in the United States

There are plenty of places that don't have a box. That box is paid for privately and not required.

> A federal monopoly; it is unlawful for any company to carry a letter in the United States and charge a similar price to USPS rates.

You got that wrong, see here: http://about.usps.com/publications/pub542/pub542_ch1_001.htm...

GalacticDomin8ron USPS: ZIP Codes are “proprietary business information”

> Congress cut its taxpayer funding, and directed it to run itself like a business, not like a public service.

Not really. Congress forced the PO to run itself like no other business or government entity with the goal of ruining it. The 109th Congress wanted to promote the belief government can't do anything efficiently. It was called the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act and intentionally places huge burdens on the USPS which no other business has. Without those, estimates show the PO would still be hurting, but no where near its current state. So Bush can say "Mission Accomplished" about one thing and be right about it.

GalacticDomin8ron OpenBSD 5.4 Released

> From my experience FreeBSD documentation is often outdated and no longer applicable

You were using an open source project and as such feedback is critical. Can you list the bug report you filed on the problems?

> In my opinion incorrect documentation is worse than having no information as it often causes more problems and frustration.

That is your opinion of course. IMO experience, having outdated docs is much better than having none at all.

GalacticDomin8ron A Dig Through Old Files Reminds Me Why I’m So Critical of Science

> This is why I think it be important to have a language designed to express algorithms and can be verified of correctness to a certain point.

Do you mean math?

GalacticDomin8ron A Dig Through Old Files Reminds Me Why I’m So Critical of Science

Also he seems to lay at the feet of Petrofsky the failure of any further progess in the area and even seems to insinuate Petrofsky misled people intentionally. I don't follow him on point one, it seems a non-sequitur. As for the second, I'm going to quote a section from one of the articles he linked to:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“That was just for that event,” Davis, now Nan Huckeriede, said of her brief, but famous walk at graduation. “It was the computer-controlled electric stimulation, not me.” Davis had met Petrofsky while she was in college. “I was attending the WSU Lake Campus, and went to a spinal cord society conference there,” she says from her St. Marys home. “Jerry (Petrofsky) was a presenter, and afterwards, I introduced myself and told him I was interested in his research. “For about a month, I drove back and forth to Dayton to work with him, and then I transferred to the Dayton campus.” Following her graduation walk, Davis returned to her wheelchair, stayed in Dayton a few years, married, and then returned to St. Marys. “Jerry moved to California and stopped his research — I think he felt that he had gone as far as he could,” said Huckeriede. “But I still use the equipment he developed to get my exercise.” Last summer she traveled to Beijing for a procedure to strengthen her back and stomach muscles. “It didn’t work, but I knew it was experimental. It was worth a try.”

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Given all this, my take away is that John Horgan has axe to grind for almost 20 years now and it's still not sharp.