ColdHawaiian

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

The title of the article says "Human memory-saving devices", but none of the devices actually store any memories. They're currently just being designed to help people form and retrieve new memories by stimulating certain parts of the brain.

ColdHawaiian

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

You can read it at the Way Back Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140618142018/http://blog.42flo...

ColdHawaiian

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

Here's the Wikipedia article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_of_Mana. I never played the game myself, but the article mentions that mana was used as "spell points", and that

> The story takes place in a fictional world where mana represents an ethereal, but finite, energy source.

ColdHawaiian

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

Do you have a hobby? Something that you like to do for fun? Hobbies that you can share with other people are a great way to make and keep friends. You might even find a girl friend through a hobby.

Your hobby can be anything. For me, it's dancing. For other people, it might be video games. Take your pick. There are a lot of cool things to do out there in the world. Go out there and explore, meet people.

For example, Polaris is a YouTube network of people who generally like to play video games: https://www.youtube.com/user/Polaris. It's a bunch of friends (and business partners) who all share a love of video games and games in general. So even something like video games can be a vehicle for making friends (and meeting girls), if that's your thing.

ColdHawaiian

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

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ColdHawaiian

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

I see, thank you. I'm sorry that I forgot to put "[video]" in the original title too, but of course that doesn't matter anymore.

ColdHawaiian

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

Open source Hacker News. I think the community can get together and talk about new features (maybe on GitHub pull-requests and/or on HN itself, or maybe a Discourse forum instance), and get those features implemented quickly.

ColdHawaiian

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

Please provide more tools to help users moderate their own comments. In particular, I think the following features are sorely needed:

1. The ability to delete your own comments indefinitely, instead of having a window of only a few hours within which to delete your own comments.

2. The ability to flag your own comments for moderation.

I suppose one possible reason for not allowing comment deletion after a certain amount of time is that it forces people to really only make high-quality comments, otherwise they'll be downvoted and they won't be able to do anything about it after a few hours.

But if you're trying to improve the quality of Hacker News threads with high-quality comments, then I argue that it's counter-productive to force low-quality comments to remain by not allowing users to self-delete them after `X` hours.

Both Reddit and Stack Overflow allow users to delete their own comments indefinitely. Heck, Stack Overflow even encourages you to delete your own comments, if they don't contribute useful information to a post.

ColdHawaiian

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

In case anyone goes searching the source for this comment right away before reading it the whole way through on Hacker News, it says at the bottom that it will only show up 50% of the time, so if you don't see it the first time, keep refreshing the page until it shows up in the source.

ColdHawaiian

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

Why did I get a downvote? Seriously, when I searched "So this guy we just interviewed" in the page source, I didn't get any results. Did I miss something?

ColdHawaiian

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

For the curious, these are the languages of the example Hello World programs:

* Brainfuck[0]:

    >+++++++++[<++++++++>-]<.>+++++++[<++++>-]<+.+++++++..+++.[-]
    >++++++++[<++++>-] <.>+++++++++++[<++++++++>-]<-.--------.+++
    .------.--------.[-]>++++++++[<++++>- ]<+.[-]++++++++++.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

* This one I googled, it's called Ook![1][2]:

    Ook. Ook? Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook.
    Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook! Ook? Ook? Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook.
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    Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook.
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    Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook! Ook.

[1]: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/ook.html [2]: http://esolangs.org/wiki/ook!

* This one is in Perl[3]:

    #:: ::-| ::-| .-. :||-:: 0-| .-| ::||-| .:|-. :||
    open(Q,$0);while(<Q>){if(/^#(.*)$/){for(split('-',$1)){$q=0;for(split){s/\|
    /:.:/xg;s/:/../g;$Q=$_?length:$_;$q+=$q?$Q:$Q*20;}print chr($q);}}}print"\n";
    #.: ::||-| .||-| :|||-| ::||-| ||-:: :|||-| .:|

[3]: http://mysite.verizon.net/les.peters/id2.html

ColdHawaiian

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

Are you sure that's in the source for the blog post? Because I don't actually see it in there, I searched for "so this guy" and "interviewed" too.

ColdHawaiian

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

The key concept that you need to truly understand how Git works is to just remember that Git is just a tree of commits, with temporary and movable Post-it notes attached. (The Post-it notes representing branches and other references).

ColdHawaiian

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

I would like it if HN could be divided into separate sub-topics, or have each submission tagged with a few topical tags, like "web development", "javascript", "compilers", "linux", "graphics", etc. For bonus points, allow HN to be customized for each user so that they can subscribe to their favorite topics, which then populate the front-page and /best page.

I find that keeping up with news on HN is essential to me learning new things and becoming more skilled in my field. However, HN caters to a wide variety of interests, and it is time-consuming to have to sift through a bunch of posts on topics that I'm not really interested in.

ColdHawaiian

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

It would facilitate more convenient discussion if you had the option of getting notifications that someone has replied to your submission or comment. Along those lines, it would be cool to be able to "subscribe" to a thread and receive notifications whenever someone posts a reply to anyone.

The notifications can be on the site itself, like a little box in the corner that shows the number of unread notifications, Facebook/StackOverflow/Google+ style. And/or set up notifications as emails (though personally, I already get tons of spam in my inbox, I'd rather just have on-site notifications).

ColdHawaiian

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

> I couldn't agree more. I've gone on and on endless rants on how people in the computer science/software engineering field (including but not limited to SO users) usually avoid "unusual" questions by asking what is it exactly you're trying to do, instead of being objective and answering.

I can't say that this is generally always the case, but when people ask "what is it exactly you're trying to do?", it's often because they're trying to figure out if you have an XY Problem[0].

[0]: http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/66378/163250

ColdHawaiian

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

> Start thinking for yourselves, ditch this shit before it’s too late and learn how to write some actual fucking code. The information is out there, you can do it. If you need handholding with factories and providers and service provider factories then consider that the world doesn’t need your bullshit code and go and get a job you’re actually good at. Stop ruining it for the rest of us.

It's unfortunate that this post was written in a provocative manner with a very inflammatory tone, because once you look past its rant-y nature, I think it raises an interesting argument.

From what I could tell, the gist of the post seems to be that instead of relying on someone else's pre-made, out-of-the-box general framework solution (which you have to heavily configure to your specific needs, and is so complicated that you end up needing to hire highly trained consultants), you can create simpler, more elegant solutions simply by writing them yourself from scratch.

I'm not going to agree nor disagree with that argument, I'm only trying to state what I think the gist of it is.

ColdHawaiian

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

FYI, here is an Ars Technica article that talks about the break-in into the Linux Kernel, and Git's role in revealing the tampering[1].

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/who-rooted-kernel-or...

ColdHawaiian

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

Apparently there are other Easter Eggs in git as well. I tried the one in [this blog post][0] but couldn't get it to work. If you do `git grep "Yeeah"` in a clone of the Git repo though, you'll definitely see that the line is still there, even in version 1.9.0.

[0]: http://gal.steinitz.com/blog/2011/06/18/easter-egg-cause-git...

ColdHawaiian

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

Why is this a big deal? One of the changes is that your reputation on Meta Stack Overflow is now based off your reputation on Stack Overflow, instead of being independent[1]. So now you no longer gain or lose reputation on Meta Stack Overflow for questions and answers you post there, though people can still upvote and downvote your posts.

[1]: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/212631/stack-overflo...

However, the new Meta Stack Exchange maintains its own reputation system, so reputation there still works the same way it did on the old Meta Stack Overflow.

ColdHawaiian

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