olskool's comments

On: Show HN: Regex Cheatsheet

[olskool]

If you believe it is possible to become an expert in regular expressions as they exist in modern computer languages in "a couple of hours at best" you are delusional.

[doliveira → olskool]

He didn't say you could become an expert in a single afternoon.

On: Minimal Viable Programs (2014)

[olskool]

Knuth once wrote that you should plan to throw away the first version of any program because you will anyway.

[papln → olskool]

That was Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month

On: Show HN: A command-line flat-file note management app in Python 3

[olskool]

UNIX shells are available on Windows. I use git bash.

On: Seattle is building more apartments from 2015-2020 than in the previous 50 yrs

[olskool]

The quoted article also says that 25% of downtown area apts are currently vacant.

On: Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging sabotage' by employee

[olskool]

Every company I've worked at had a responsible person who was the only one able to push code into production. If you allow anyone to do that you are an idiot.

On: Patterson's Cipher for Jefferson – Challenge Solved After 200 Years (2009)

[olskool]

This type of transposition cipher has been easily cracked for decades.

On: Ask HN: Elizabeth Holmes has 200 patents – if tech didn't work, why not noticed?

[olskool]

She went to Stanford university which is not an Ivy League school.

On: Ask HN: Elizabeth Holmes has 200 patents – if tech didn't work, why not noticed?

[olskool]

I worked at a small tech company that was bought by a large company. They sent a patent attorney to talk to us. He said to send his office anything that might be patentable. He said that patents for big companies were kind of mutually assured destruction in the sense that if someone sued us over infringing on one of their patents if we had enough patents they were probably infringing one of ours.

On: Learn just a little Awk (2010)

[olskool]

Back in the 1980s my company wouldn't buy me a database so I hacked one up in awk.

On: Google is working on Python 3 for App Engine Standard Environment

[olskool]

I tried Appengine when it first came out but Google never seemed to support it much so I gave up on it.