Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | ugh123's comments login

Are you saying just let them figure it out on their own?

I prefer to give my kids opportunities in things they wouldn't otherwise have known about, or had the resources to discover. They can then decide if thats something they want to go deeper on.

This notion of "let kids be kids" minimizes their development needs and exposure to important learning experiences.


>When was the last time you had to debug an ancient codebase without documentation or help from a team?

Uh.. just about every company i've worked at in the last 20 years has had little to no documentation and the guy who last touched the code left already.


What if you downloaded from a US wifi network?

It doesn't work. You need to set your App Store or Play Store region to US. The Waymo app itself requires a US credit card for payment, but apparently works if you have a non-US credit card setup in your Apple/Google Pay.

Neither LAX nor the valley (san fernando valley) are covered. Still excited

Seriously. Managing these threads must feel like tax season for a CPA


Believe it or not, the hardest part right now is Javascript's lack of tail recursion. The browser extension I rely on for moderation (written in Arc and transpiled to JS) is stack-overflowing on this thread because there are so many comments.

Not sure whether it's more efficient to fix these errors first, or just power through moderating the thread manually, but boy does the latter suck.


The hardest part of moderating a big, high-traffic, heated political thread being JavaScript's lack of tail recursion is the most HN thing I've ever seen.


> Javascript's lack of tail recursion

Even in Safari? [1]

[1]: "As of July 22, 2023 Safari is the only browser that supports tail call optimization" https://stackoverflow.com/a/37224563


The software I'm talking about is, alas, a Chrome extension.


Hacking a Lisp compiler is a perfectly reasonable sidequest for any task!


I have a little extension I wrote for myself to improve some things, and that's also having difficulty. So yeah, not just you.


> The browser extension I rely on for moderation (written in Arc and transpiled to JS) is stack-overflowing

Throw more hardware at it! Get a maxed-out Macbook same day delivered.

Server(s?) seems to be holding up well given what must be record activity levels.


>81% of recruiters admitted to posting ads for positions that were fake or already filled

Ah... recruiters at it again.


>If it was as simple as eating less makes these issues go away, we would've figured that out a long long time ago.

You can't get people in large enough quantities to do that reliably and for long enough as part of a study. Best you can do is a small quantity of lab rats.

The data is already rolling in as part of prescribed out-patient data.


>If this additional service were provided during your patronage, would that warrant a tip even though interaction was at a register?

Sounds like a convenience for everyone involved. Maybe they should have tipped him?


Also used in sex toys


These are mostly made of silicon based plastics, glass or metal and by definition don't have that much exposure time to the user's body.


Of course i'm not referring to toys made from glass or metal.

> Prior material analyses of sex toys like those characterized here revealed phthalate concentrations in most tested products at concentrations ranging from 24–60% by weight [11, 14, 15]. In addition, there is growing concern over human exposure to micro-and nano-plastics. The translocation and biouptake of nano-sized particles is now well established [16]. Human exposure to nanoplastics and the potential for enhanced release of plastic additives are of potential concern.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10034881/#:~:text=P....


This has been a great extension but i'm always nervous about Chrome extensions and their seemingly global access to everything and some dev's willingness to sell to malware devs.

It would be interesting if Chrome let you point an extension to a github repo (and tag or commit hash) and pull source from there.


You can do this by enabling developer mode in chrome://extensions, which lets you install from a directory.

You lose automatic updates though.


yeah the permissions and ecosystem are scary. I have a very small extension (1000-ish users), and even I get "monetization opportunity for your extension" emails maybe... every other week?

Sometimes I feel like the only reason it's not a platform-breaking problem is that most extension devs make enough money from their day job to not care about a quick buck.


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: