javanix

1,666 karma · joined March 26, 2009

Linux software engineer

Yikes. That hits a little too close to home.

I concur. The userbase of IRC and StackOverflow is going to be fairly similar, I'd imagine.

javanixon Only 21% of companies care that you’re working too hard

taking actions to reduce stress due to excessive workload and long hours

That's not really caring that you're working too hard, or trying to fix the problem that you're working too hard. That sounds like trying to make you less angry about working too hard.

javanixon Poor People Should Probably Gamble More

And uneducated people shouldn't read this at all.

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14) Something smarter than us is going to emerge

Thank you, algorithms and cloud computing.

Really? I respected Coupland before I read that. I thought blithely throwing around buzzwords was beneath him.

javanixon Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)

For anyone unfamiliar with it, many wifi issues can be taken care of with a little research and the compat-wireless (http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download) downloads. Very easy to patch in the latest drivers for your chipset.

javanixon Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)

That's how their version numbers work - 9.10 was released in October 09, 9.04 in April 09, etc.

javanixon Ask HN: Strange: Why haven't TI graphing calculators dropped in price?

Well, part of the reason why TI hardware is required and not just graphing software is that students often need something they can take home with them.

Laptops running GNU/Linux, despite having no software costs, will still be significantly more expensive than even $140 calculators.

What is needed is an open source, cheap hardware calculator, and as far as I know, nobody has anything like that on the market.

javanixon How many of you don't use Google CS Curriculum search?

I don't.

I might if I ever need any info on algorithms in the future, but I'd wager that there are quite a few professional programmers on here who, not being in college anymore, don't really need to read academic papers.

javanixon Adobe Installs 1.2 MW of Bloom Boxes—Cheaper Than Grid Power

"The price includes maintenance, fuel and the amortized cost over the operative life of the fuel cell (ten years), along with the 30 percent federal tax credit and the California incentives available for companies that use the device."

While still an improvement, without the 30% subsidies the rate would shoot up to ~$.11.

Always important to keep subsidies in mind when dealing with new large-scale tech like this.

javanixon Low-power, wireless displays made possible

I try not to get too worked up over press releases but it seems like they have a working prototype of this device - and that makes me excited.

javanixon How to Raise Boys Who Read

I do - because many parents weren't raised to read themselves.

javanixon Cancering - a new approach to fighting cancer

Interesting article, but one of the most confusingly-organized pieces of science coverage I have run across lately.

javanixon The Next Big JVM Language

Another possible definition that 15% of the developers in the world are using that language at a point in time. Based on these, I listed C, C++, Java, C#, COBOL, VB, Perl, PHP and Javascript as Big Languages.

As an aside, are Perl and PHP in wide enough use to really support that 15% figure? Just curious - if I were making that list based on my own perceptions and experience I would leave those two and possibly COBOL off of it.

javanixon India's red rain may contain life not seen on Earth

Is 'all-in boffin barney' a respectable news phrase in Australia?

javanixon Load Balancers need static IPs

The title may be a little broad (his concerns are mostly in certain use cases, not in general) but he definitely raises some real concerns.

javanixon Seaswarm: we can clean up the Gulf in a month

Why should they be "held responsible" to try untested technology? Better to spend their resources on things that are known to work (and will work now), and contribute to a general R&D fund or something like that.

javanixon Break Glass in Case of Google Turning Evil

I enjoyed the article, but does the phrase "Break Glass in Case of Google Turning Evil" even appear anywhere on the page?

javanixon Germany to outlaw employers checking out candidates on Facebook, Googling is OK

That wouldn't disallow them from screening in the pre-interview stage though, would it? If the company sees something on Facebook that they don't like, it'd be virtually impossible to prove what effect it had on their decision to not interview someone.

javanixon 25 Best Hangman Words

Sorry to say, but "Error establishing a database connection" is only 5 words.

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I'm sure this is far from the first time something simple got messed up because of a mistake with data entry.

Implying that Congress "didn't even bother to name it" seems a bit unnecessary.

javanixon StarCraft 2: help us mourn the death of content freedom

I think that's kind of a woeful generalization. The most vocal members of the population certainly have something like that, but plenty of people who play games (myself included) bought SC2 because they were happy enough with the content and not dissuaded enough by the downsides - I'm sure plenty of other people quietly went about their business, passing it up because of the various issues discussed in this thread.

javanixon Ask HN: How are you securing your laptops in public places?

1. I avoid leaving it around in public places.

2. If I were to think about leaving it in a public place, I'd think of ways to make people not want to steal it - it's a laptop, it takes about 2 seconds for someone to grab it and run if it's not secured. No alarm or tracking system is going to do anything to PREVENT theft if the thief doesn't know about it.

javanixon Rooms irc app removed after 4 minutes in app store

And lose out on whatever chance they had of making a decent profit? I doubt that this jailbreak ruling is going to result in a spate of common-joe iPhone hacking.

javanixon Data sorting world record: 1 terabyte, 1 minute

I was under the impression (could be remembering something wrong, however) that sorting algorithms had a provable (or at least strongly believed) best-case of O(nlogn), and that we already have algorithms that meet that.

If that is correct, most improvements would probably come from hardware and software use-case tuning.

javanixon Nature thinks we could safely wipe mosquitoes off the face of the earth.

Yes. The "use original title" rule would work just fine in this case.

javanixon Solving the IT Turnover Crisis

Because if there is any training that stays relevant forever it is old college software engineering courses ...

javanixon One of the most amazing physics engines I’ve ever seen

Maybe, but I doubt it.

Those real-time versions for modelling packages tend to be really rough approximations using the same code, and not worth the time it would take to optimize for a real, resource-restricted environment like a gaming console.

javanixon One of the most amazing physics engines I’ve ever seen

The article seems to have the wrong idea about what that engine is.

While impressive, it was developed using ICE - a rendering package addon for Softimage, and is probably not able to be calculated in anything remotely resembling real-time.

So no, you won't be able to tell what religion Kratos is unless it's during a cutscene.

javanixon Old Spice on Twitter

One of the best things about this is they've made the videos unlisted (at least some of them - the one's I've browsed anyway) on YouTube.

Relatively pure, realtime feedback on their ads has to be pretty fantastic for the team.