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sushshshshon “I took FSFE to court. This is my story”

For me, the price of interaction is not worth the risk. I've never seen a time at work where speaking about literally anything has gained me something. And the risk of saying something someone else doesn't like is too big and too impactful on my career.

sushshshshon Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught

Reliable no, but difficult to access via a REST API yes

sushshshshon Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught

Which is probably the reason they were not compromised.

sushshshshon Sorry React, but I can’t keep up anymore

I largely agree with the writer. What I think we are experiencing is library fatigue, not javascript fatigue per se.

How do I know? I love writing pure js functions every day in my free timw

sushshshshon Ask HN: I have a game idea, would someone please make it so that I can play?

For anyone who'd like to help, crack open that text editor and make a string based js html version of the game. No need to mess with graphics and html canvas when a string based prototype is sufficient

Also use keydrown for handling arrow/WASD inputs and setInterval(draw, 33) to draw the scene at 30 fps

Good luck

sushshshshon Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote (2006)

We're all unfamiliar with assembly and electrical engineering too right, should we all invest the time to learn how to program bare metal? Only when the performance is needed, right?

sushshshshon Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote (2006)

I find that I can solve most of my jira tasks in 10 mins with string.length and string.charAt()

My estimated time to completion with regex is literally undefined

sushshshshon Ask HN: What games do you play with co-workers?

Seems like my company is where fun goes to die then

sushshshshon WavesMesh: Pay-what-you-can community-owned ISP for Baltimore

What happens when freeloaders show up? Perpetual energy?

sushshshshon Ask HN: Are there any companies that avoid too many dependencies/services

Hehehe... appreciate this answer. I wouldn't mind writing my own JSON parser because at least I can reason about how the code works, the only context I need is my language's syntax and not someone else's design assumptions :)

sushshshshon Covid-19 Vaccine: Should Lawmakers Get Priority?

according to that famous internet law about questions, "no"

sushshshshon My Son Was Killed Because I’m a Federal Judge

In our country, less than 10% of murders are between people who do not know each other. And if you do not live in the specific bad neighborhoods that account for nearly all of our murders, then our crime statistics are literally the same. My town of 100,000 had 0 murders last year.

If you are able to solve the problems plaguing both East London and West Baltimore, I'm all ears, however it seems the war on murder will rage on

sushshshshon My Son Was Killed Because I’m a Federal Judge

Several people per month are still shot in the UK. The guns are smuggled in through ports, much like drugs

sushshshshon My Son Was Killed Because I’m a Federal Judge

What about criminals who choose to use guns whether smart or dumb?

sushshshshon A container ship lost a record 1,800 containers

Why would I care about the damage done to my car if I'm knowingly paying for liability only on a sub $2000 car? When physics takes the wheel, I can't control who else I hit and how fast

sushshshshon A container ship lost a record 1,800 containers

Yeah, $50 a month for liability insurance always felt like a really fair deal to me. Pleasantly tolerable fee for a day where my car hits black ice and physics takes the wheel

sushshshshon Ask HN: Easiest way to setup a website for a non-techie

Probably a domain and web hosting registrar like namecheap with statically hosted html and css. If you are proficient at displaying high resolution images, then that is probably all thats needed for the average visually appealing website

sushshshshon Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?

Why would someone pay a 4x multiple on a site that probably wont be making anything 4 years from now? (4x being a rough estimate of the buying price).

That's 40 grand that could be used on traffic to the new site

sushshshshon Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?

How'd that work out for fox when they bought myspace?

sushshshshon Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?

I'll code you a competitor for much less than that person would charge, if they are even willing to sell :)

sushshshshon Over half a million Californians left the state last year

2 more leavin NY right here. Hello Florida and Colorado airbnbs

sushshshshon AWS Lambda pricing now per ms

Based. "That's just an edge case. Our customers love this service!"

It's like going to a restaurant that uses bottled water instead of tap water, and they dont provide an answer as to what the benefits of bottled water are

sushshshshon Violent, lively and brash, taverns were everywhere in early colonial America

NYC is smoothed out by a population of millions of people. Take a look at DC... Take a look at the average small American town. Most have 0 murders, or 1 or 2. Not everywhere is like Chicago and Detroit with hundreds of murders a year

sushshshshon Violent, lively and brash, taverns were everywhere in early colonial America

"Europeans" (everyone from Ireland to Moldova?) are constantly talking about how safe their countries are, but the reality is that in America, not everywhere is Detroit or Baltimore. You guys are literally falling victim to fake news.

The average small town will have a maximum of 1 or 2 murders per year. Cheyenne has only 60,000 people.

sushshshshon Violent, lively and brash, taverns were everywhere in early colonial America

Europe! Deweaponized! HAH!

Compare the murder rates of Detroit MI, Cheyenne WY, London, and Shanghai, and then tell me which city has a weapon problem and which city has a culture problem, or both!

sushshshshon Quake's 3-D Engine: The Big Picture by Michael Abrash (2000)

  i = * (long * ) &y; // evil floating point bit level hacking
  i = 0x5f3759df - (i >> 1); // what the fuck?

sushshshshon Quake's 3-D Engine: The Big Picture by Michael Abrash (2000)

That's correct, though there was plenty of other asm and bit level evil graphics voodoo that made quake able to run so fast on consumer hardware a few generations earlier than if they were stuck using slower division:)

sushshshshon Quake's 3-D Engine: The Big Picture by Michael Abrash (2000)

Insert obligatory reference to the fast inverse square root calculation which, thanks to its ability to more quickly generate (1/x) by using a bit shift with a magic number 0x5F3759DF, allowed performant lighting calculations for use in games. This number was known for this purpose for long before Quake (shout out SGI), but was popularized for the first time there

sushshshshon I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

Not the Chinese one apparently

sushshshshon I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

My wife is an H1B holder who is now in line for a green card. She is unable to leave the United States until she receives that green card within a year from now.

Her passport will likely expire before then. It's all just a giant game :) Our solution was to lawyer up and let them handle everything for us, there is no use in trying to understand a government system.