Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — eyeface

eyeface

HN member
Joined
Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 8:14 PM UTC
HN karma
98
Public activity
30 items

About eyeface

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #9725388

    It makes sense as a way to gauge interest, similar to pre-orders.

  2. comment
    Comment #9107160

    The problem is not that cold calling doesn't work, it's that I do not want you to cold call me.

  3. comment
    Comment #8913919

    Fair, but there have to be some diminishing returns there. If there had been two 9/11 style events in short succession, would we have gone to twice as many wars?

  4. comment
    Comment #8635706

    Well, the ones we can see are! They're very very very distant objects that are very very bright, but they mostly emit along their axes. So, we can only detect the ones that are poi…

  5. comment
    Comment #8624355

    Sure! If I trust your site but not my ISP, then https allows me to trust the connection between us. That means that nobody can tamper with the content and inject some malicious JS.…

  6. comment
    Comment #8437754

    I don't think the term is misleading at all. Autopilot on aircraft does not remove the need for a pilot, it just maintains course and speed.

  7. comment
    Comment #8016697

    If Verizon feels that Netflix should pass the costs on to the consumers, how would they go about that? Much like Verizon can't know if a user will be using Netflix, Netflix can't k…

  8. comment
    Comment #7817736

    The original link suits me better, as I've hit the article limit. The video link works fine.

  9. comment
    Comment #7779650

    If I remember correctly, there's a probability that a line will end with "...hic!" or that s will be replaced with sh. It won't happen every time, so your first message could go th…

  10. comment
    Comment #7610188

    Sarcasm? Can't tell. If it is, then it's ill-placed. A commissioner is someone who is granted a commission and is appointed.

  11. comment
    Comment #7600056

    If we're talking about returns, then C/C++ would behave the same way. The second return is unreachable. A duplicated line that isn't idempotent and that doesn't jump out of the cur…

  12. comment
    Comment #7349525

    Everything else aside, what caught my eye was "Change network connectivity, connect and disconnect from WiFi." That seems bizarre.

  13. comment
    Comment #7342814

    Parent knows this, and was asking what could be done with modern hardware, given that keyhole-class satellites have been up for 30 years.

  14. comment
    Comment #7319058

    The idea that was hammered into my head in school is that you should have a single point of truth.

  15. comment
    Comment #6901308

    I can't agree with this. The two-tap is my most common gesture on my phone's browser. A two-finger tap would be extremely awkward one-handed.

  16. comment
    Comment #6900216

    The original was called XCOM: UFO Defense in North America vs UFO: Enemy Unknown everywhere else.

  17. comment
    Comment #5794037

    It's not echo location, though. It's far easier to pinpoint where a sound is coming from than to echo locate; sighted people can do it, too.

  18. comment
    Comment #5744307

    It is easy to focus on the "glory" positions, but easy to forget all of the support required. For a doctor to save someone who comes in on an ambulance, there's the other staff in …

  19. comment
    Comment #5706369

    Do you mean that GET requests shouldn't modify data? A URL that deletes everything would be idempotent; if it's hit once, it's the same effect as if it's hit many times.

  20. comment
    Comment #5675619

    On the dashboard, there are four measures: Temperature, Light, Pressure, and Magnetic Flux. I know that my phone (Galaxy Nexus) has the last three, but I wonder where the temperatu…

  21. comment
    Comment #5572386

    Are the MA representatives allowed to vote while not present? It seems very strange that an entire state's representatives will not have a vote on this issue because of a schedulin…

  22. comment
    Comment #5533510

    An algorithm that takes polynomial time would not be feasible given the size of a dictionary, assuming you're running it on poor old Bob (who is not a computer).

  23. comment
    Comment #5525243

    I think you would suddenly have a great many political problems.

  24. comment
    Comment #5473001

    Being from the area, I don't recall Mayflower as being very rural. It's a town near Conway which, while small, is not rural. Right off I-40.

  25. comment
    Comment #4758178

    It also seems to assume that there is an intellectual capital of the world.