Viewing profile — bobmaxup
bobmaxup
HN member- Joined
- Mon, Jan 27, 2020, 5:59 AM UTC
- HN karma
- 517
- Public activity
- 392 items
- HN profile
- View on Hacker News ↗
About bobmaxup
No profile information was provided.
Recent public activity
-
comment
Comment #39172169
It is hard to know if you have fixed or broke something when there are hundreds of distinct variants of it and no way to test its correctness. Also, not all maintenance involves co…
- comment
- comment
- comment
-
comment
Comment #39170162
...said no one who inherited the maintenance of hundreds of thousands of lines of copy pasted code.
-
comment
Comment #39159940
An article on the topic: https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/why-the-death-of-the-firefo...
-
comment
Comment #39150401
Is NLU really this reliable yet? I tried making some scripts like this with LLMs, and it seemed to do very poorly. So, I abandoned the effort.
-
comment
Comment #39114646
To be fair, they did qualify the statement with "or so".
-
comment
Comment #39109087
> Youtube isn't a social network. Certainly seems to be one to me?
-
comment
Comment #39070599
not all of these domains always resolve to what you expect, depending on your dns provider. archive.today (main) archive.ph archive.is archive.li archive.vn archive.fo archive.md
-
comment
Comment #39070175
Not if you still had the original system as well. I imagine it is not the norm though.
-
comment
Comment #39070129
> this is being widely misinterpreted It sounds like Ubisoft wants their streaming and subscription services to grow, but reality doesn't line up with their vision. They are purcha…
-
comment
Comment #39065664
How do you know if nothing happens? It isn't like the people siphoning, selling, or purchasing this data are broadcasting their wins on news aggregators.
- comment
-
comment
Comment #38910904
In my opinion, all of these things exist because CSS is confusing to people, not because anything is inherently better. This is especially true with modern build tools. CSS modules…
-
comment
Comment #38910601
https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules
-
comment
Comment #38904441
Nice recommendation. Although, it is 3-6x the price of the Microsoft products' original pricing. A Kinesis Freestyle is cheaper
-
comment
Comment #38904398
Or just answer randomly. You might get rejected for inconsistent answers, but at least no one will have a "personality profile" for you that they can sell.
-
comment
Comment #38900079
I think that the Microsoft ergonomic keyboard is selling for nearly $400 on Amazon.
-
comment
Comment #38899513
This planet has a lot of time left in it for humans to do things. One human missing an opportunity doesn't lead to the statistical outcome that that opportunity wont be fulfilled i…
- story
-
comment
Comment #38899436
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
-
comment
Comment #38896858
Isn't The Lancet infamous for high profile retractions?
-
comment
Comment #38896794
Not many people can understand a very large code base without taking notes, using an IDE, or similar tooling. > Not a dig at nice IDEs, just code that requires one to navigate and …
-
comment
Comment #38889570
Maybe it boils down to how well you are able to navigate a code base. With a full-featured language specific IDE, it is very easy to navigate through even complicated spaghetti. It…