Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — bobbykjack

bobbykjack

HN member
Joined
Sun, Apr 27, 2014, 9:26 PM UTC
HN karma
47
Public activity
23 items

About bobbykjack

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #9261883

    When he finds the '@', he's gonna be delighted!

  2. comment
    Comment #9261878

    I hope she's not called Rebecca Mary-Rachel Ford ...

  3. comment
    Comment #9261805

    Apparently doesn't work if the words are just in your signature.

  4. comment
    Comment #9255551

    I'm not sure that's even 'large', let alone 'huge'.

  5. comment
    Comment #9183164

    Are government run lotteries also unethical? What about government run investment schemes?

  6. comment
    Comment #9031936

    You should clarify - that's the minified JavaScript!

  7. story
  8. comment
    Comment #8952079

    The trouble with that analogy is that water and electricity (just about) are absolutely essential to our day-to-day lives; a specific social media site isn't. Facebook needs to app…

  9. story
  10. comment
    Comment #8869607

    From the FAQ [1]: "Are reposts ok? If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok." As with…

  11. comment
  12. comment
    Comment #8846324

    There are a few similar slip-ups in the article; the author is presumably not a native English speaker. However, despite that - and what really motivated me to comment - I find thi…

  13. comment
    Comment #8826359

    Since Sergey stopped wearing it [1]. [1] http://beta.techradar.com/news/portable-devices/other-device...

  14. comment
    Comment #8826347

    Why " write native or .NET" but " hack together some javascript and CSS"?

  15. comment
    Comment #8780452

    And many of us object to that male default. About the first thing I learnt at any serious level of linguistics teaching is that language does not stand still, it evolves. It would …

  16. comment
    Comment #8780358

    Did he say he was a 'he'?

  17. comment
    Comment #8772466

    (Because http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973919.aspx#string... for anyone wondering 'Why Turkish?')

  18. story
  19. comment
    Comment #8728165

    Of course, this is how our browsers used to work before the makers decided to remove or hide that feature. I've never seen it on a mobile device. Does anyone understand the reasons…

  20. comment
    Comment #8696043

    It's easy to toss out statements like "monitor your network traffic"; do you have any good suggestions for how an average developer with relatively little understanding of networki…

  21. comment
    Comment #8692630

    To say "b has n more views than a", you need two operations whether you use signed or unsigned ints. Signed let's you say "these two videos have n different views" but, to be hones…

  22. comment
    Comment #8680019

    Yes, pretty poor usability to link two words only separated by a space, but terrible usability to extend that to linking two adjacent characters separately.

  23. comment
    Comment #8666406

    If IE didn't barf on a trailing comma after the last value, we wouldn't have this problem. That's probably the biggest source of all my IE JavaScript bugs. To be fair, I'm not actu…