JudgeWapner (u/JudgeWapner)

JudgeWapner commented on The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News newyorker.com/news/letter... · Posted by u/lordnacho

krapp · 6 years ago

Why do opinions like yours always seem to come from accounts less than a year old?

Unless you're presenting yourself and your own comment history as an example of the problem... in which case, the opportunity is always there to try a bit harder.

JudgeWapner · 6 years ago

Absolutey irrelevant to my point. Why do so many of your comments in your post history denigrate women and minorities?

JudgeWapner commented on The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News newyorker.com/news/letter... · Posted by u/lordnacho

mieseratte · 6 years ago

I think the HN culture is slowly dying. Reflexive downvoting has become very common as of late, the eternal September is brining in more people steeped in political hivemindedness. That isn’t to say all is lost, but this site feels markedly different from the beginning of the decade.

JudgeWapner · 6 years ago

it's reddit-ization of the comments. Reddit -> facebook. HN -> reddit

JudgeWapner commented on The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News newyorker.com/news/letter... · Posted by u/lordnacho

xtracto · 6 years ago

I agree and want to put /. as an example. In the 2000's I used to visit /. as much as I visit hn now. At that time there were plenty of great comments and sometimes even people like John Carmack posted there. Sure there was GNAA spam and similar, but the mod system took care of that.

Nowadays the mod system remains but the community has moved on and although the stories are good, there is no intellectual discussion.

A similar thing happened to OSNews. Another news aggregator I used to visit a lot.

JudgeWapner · 6 years ago

what's happening here is reddit-style comments have been slowly but steadily creeping in. I dont blame the mods directly, but indirectly they should have just capped membership once the tone lost its tech edge and comments began to drift to "me too!/relevant username/orange man bad/etc" about 30-40% (by my estimation) of HN comments are what reddit comments were a few years ago. The only way to fix that is to throttle membership.

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JudgeWapner commented on Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate nytimes.com/2019/08/08/te... · Posted by u/jumelles

eanzenberg · 6 years ago

What happened to personal responsibility? Is that out the window as well? Or do we need intervention, similar to how parents point their kids in the proper direction to go?

JudgeWapner · 6 years ago

YES! Uber should be personally responsible for reimbursing all costs. I'm glad you get it.

JudgeWapner commented on How to Measure Indoor Air Quality with a Raspberry Pi, RuuviTags and PMS7003 joshefin.xyz/air-quality-... · Posted by u/joshefin

SeanDav · 6 years ago

> My Android device that runs slower after each "update"?

This is not only an Android problem, Apple is equally guilty of this. Arguably, more so.

Nor is it a Java problem. Some extremely speed-sensitive high perfomance code used by high speed trading algorithms use Java. This is in an environment where micro-seconds count.

JudgeWapner · 6 years ago

When microseconds/frame rates/audio buffers count, you're only one garbage collection away from a complete thread lockup. Those gigabytes of heap aren't going to clean up themselves!

JudgeWapner commented on How to Measure Indoor Air Quality with a Raspberry Pi, RuuviTags and PMS7003 joshefin.xyz/air-quality-... · Posted by u/joshefin

fouc · 6 years ago

Should be possible to compile Java such that it runs very efficiently. Java is commonly used for Android after all.

JudgeWapner · 6 years ago

My Android device that runs slower after each "update"?

JudgeWapner commented on Inflated Bond Ratings Helped Spur the Financial Crisis. They’re Back wsj.com/articles/inflated... · Posted by u/chibg10

codesushi42 · 6 years ago

Math got us into the financial crisis in 2008

That is a terrible misunderstanding of the 2008 financial crisis.

JudgeWapner · 6 years ago

there's a charitable way to read that, which is that they did ample statistical modelling/risk analysis of CDS and "concluded" they were safe enough to bundle mortgage debt under. Then you could sort of "blame math" (or the abuse thereof) in that circumstance. I know CDS is only like 1/10 chapters of the whole crisis, however.

JudgeWapner commented on Should lawyers learn to code? Arguments for and against lawtomated.com/to-code-or... · Posted by u/lawtomated

oarabbus_ · 6 years ago

I thought Big Law pays $200k+? Meaning that the typical programmer would be making considerably less, or is that not the case?

JudgeWapner · 6 years ago

Biglaw pays 200k in high CoL areas where Big-N tech workers start out at 200k.

JudgeWapner commented on How to Measure Indoor Air Quality with a Raspberry Pi, RuuviTags and PMS7003 joshefin.xyz/air-quality-... · Posted by u/joshefin

joshefin · 6 years ago

Python is great for prototyping, but my grand plan with this project is to add more sensors, integrate with some "smart home" devices and create a web UI - and I'm more comfortable coding all that in Java.

JudgeWapner · 6 years ago

just be sure to allocate enough swap space for the gigabytes of bloat.

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