On: Swift-Keylogger – Keylogger for MacOS written in S...

[jwandborg]

S?he probably listened to the keyup event instead.

[iaml → jwandborg]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

[jwandborg → iaml]

Thank you, that is much better than

    /S?he|\w+kin|.*/

This irrational regular expression is an attempt at comedy.

On a serious note, I was looking for that word, but failed to remember it[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15490542

[Legogris → jwandborg]

You'd have to listen to both, right? Otherwise it'd be the same issue when the user tabs into the password input rather than out of.

[thomastjeffery → Legogris]

No.

You could listen for the keydown, but you wouldn't hear it, so you may as well ignore what you can't hear.

[michaelmior → thomastjeffery]

You should get a key down event when moving into the password field since you're coming from a field which is not secure.

[dangero → michaelmior]

Yes you're right. I made a variable that tracked the current state of keyup keydown and could detect this special case.

[Void_ → jwandborg]

His name is Dan ...

[jwandborg → Void_]

- I did not read their username.

- I did not click through to their profile.

The cause for both of these is that my mobile HN experience is horrible for me (a lazy person).

I spent a few seconds looking for a word to replace "She/He", when none came to mind I fell back to a regular expression[1]. As iaml pointed out[2] (along with others) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they is the proper solution to this issue, and I will try to remember that in the future.

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[1] as we so often do in our daily lives.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15489652

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In my second attempt at comedy today, Trying to perform the error-prone art of interpreting genders based on usernames, the best I came up with for you is

    /^\0_$/

Feedback welcome, this is my first attempt at matching null in a regular expression.

I'll explain the joke, so that no-one feels left out: I interpret name "Void" as gender "null", then carry the underscore over, using artistic license, to make the regex more interesting.

[Moter8 → Void_]

People don't first go to the user profile to look for a name. dangero seems like a random nick

[zbentley → Moter8]

dangero . . . us?

[dan1234 → Void_]

Dan could be short for Danielle or Danika or…

[jen729w → dan1234]

People always assume I’m “Jen”, female, which is often enlightening. They’re my initials.

[novium → Void_]

Still not a reason to assume things here.

[kupiakos → novium]

Should just default to the singular they then.

[jwandborg → kupiakos]

My fault. I'm more comfortable with regular expressions than the English language.

[eradicatethots → jwandborg]

Is it just me or is none of this a big deal?