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cschepon Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programming for iOS or Android?

I've been doing iOS for a while and I also fought AutoLayout for too long. I found doing it in code better than trying to get IB right, especially when working on a team.

cschepon Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?

Do something you actually like! :)

cschepon GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC

I was honestly curious, I will learn to ask better next time to protect my points :)

cschepon GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC

curious why people want this? I was under the impression that llvm is better than gcc?

cschepon Nothing Matters

Agreed, so we might as well do something interesting. We inject meaning. Or we don't and suffer. Totally up to us.

Wild.

cschepon Ask HN: Will getting a PhD lead to a more interesting life?

There is no piece of paper that will ever give you the permission all of us humans seem to desire from the universe.

Get out. Go to a place you like. Do what you like there. Permission is given by doing.

Or in short, if you have to ask if a PhD is the right thing to pursue, it's not. :) have fun and enjoy life! good luck!

cschepon Employer health plans are getting pricier and skimpier

It isn't what "most" people want. It's what the rich people in power want.

cschepon My Last Macbook Pro

So.. is it true? or just the downvotes? :D

cschepon My Last Macbook Pro

The Apple store broke your screen and didn't do anything about it? No chance in hell that is true.

Sorry about your keyboard, it does suck, but I think it will be changed soon.

cschepon Live coding a vi for CP/M from scratch

This type of content is why I come to Hacker News, brilliant!

cschepon Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti and Built Six Homes (2015)

https://my.charitywater.org/ has done an amazing thing in recognizing that a lot of people see this corruption and give up on the whole thing. They donate 100% of what you give. They get separate donations to cover operating costs, even using separate money to cover visa fees so that if you give 100$ on your credit card, 100$ goes to getting water to people. I find their work very impressive!

cschepon Swift 5 Release Notes for Xcode 10.2

2 to 3 was brutal. Otherwise totally fine.

cschepon Terminal latency (2017)

Wow this is really wonderful! Thanks for spawning that thread into existence and posting it here :)

cschepon Thousands of New Millionaires Are About to Eat San Francisco Alive

Absolutely. Good luck with the lake plan, sounds like a good idea :)

cschepon Thousands of New Millionaires Are About to Eat San Francisco Alive

That's fair. It also takes a certain amount of wealth to get to choose where you live in the first place. But I think my point is still "mostly" true :)

cschepon Thousands of New Millionaires Are About to Eat San Francisco Alive

Living in Texas just isn't the same as living in CA. Some people prefer it, but it's cheaper for a reason. On the whole, fewer people prefer it.

cschepon Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space

While the Intel switched helped, at least I thought it was great, the big deal was that OS X was a tremendously usable Unix on amazing laptop hardware.

I'm not sure the architecture mattered as much as that did.

cschepon Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

One specifically is just that Discord works well for me when used "natively", but doesn't work well (won't connect, worse latency, etc) when I used it from the webpage.

cschepon Many Americans Feel Cheated by Their Student Loans

Because they are cheated by them. :)

cschepon About V, the language Volt is written in

100+ MB down to 5 MB is such a nice win, it's amazing that the author even bothered to continue from 5 MB down to 100 KB. Very impressive!

cschepon Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?

https://imgur.com/gallery/L73De4L

wonderful in comic form! :D

cschepon Rough sleeping has been almost eradicated in Helsinki

where do the cops put them? you can't just remove people.

cschepon How I negotiated a software-engineering job offer in Silicon Valley

I'm sorry I used the wrong word. I meant RSU's. Actual stock. Not worthless at all.

cschepon How I negotiated a software-engineering job offer in Silicon Valley

220k base + 220k in options a year isn't underpaid. All depends on the options.

cschepon Problems plagued U.S. Navy destroyer Fitzgerald before fatal collision

Don't underestimate how effective a bureaucracy can be at making the best of the best.. completely mediocre.

cschepon FatBoy SoundFont

thank you! sounds AWESOME!

cschepon FatBoy SoundFont

Any chance someone with this already setup could share a sample of DOOM E1M1?? Man, I loved that song.

Thanks!

cschepon ‘A Minefield’: How Scholars Who Don’t Drink Navigate the Conference Social Scene

I'm not sure it's appropriate to comment on someone's progress through recovery, but I haven't been a part of that movement so I don't know. I get the feeling that whether early or late, it's always one day at a time.

Honestly, I mostly agree with you but I also think alcohol is entirely optional to human existence whereas food is not. So it's not exactly black and white.

Probably if we are all as thoughtful as we can be, the whole thing will keep mostly working :)

cschepon ‘A Minefield’: How Scholars Who Don’t Drink Navigate the Conference Social Scene

This isn't an alcoholic's reality unfortunately. I imagine they even wish it was!

cschepon Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week

I really enjoyed the "feel" of the movement!