jayrwren's comments

On: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

[jayrwren]

haha, no you don't.

On: Symbian Won

[jayrwren]

I hope this is the stupidest thing that I read today.

On: Products I Wish Existed

[jayrwren]

#4: vivint smart home already has #4, including an app called streetwatch which does the multi-camera with neighbors grouping.

#10: a mouse is a mammal. perhaps author meant apes?

[eladgil → jayrwren]

Thanks - #10 was a typo. Updated to "human". :)

On: I thought I understood recursion

[jayrwren]

I feel the opposite. I find the C# more readable than the Haskell. I haven't written C# regularly in 10yrs.

On: I thought I understood recursion

[jayrwren]

came here to point out that the author doesn't seem to know C# very well if they don't know about Enumerable.Range.

On: Show HN: A Senior Engineer's CheckList

[jayrwren]

> It's essentially the scientific method.

I had never considered this before and it is right and true.

Thank you for enlightening me.

On: Database IDs Have No Place in URIs (2008)

[jayrwren]

Pretty sure the last 10yrs of stackoverflow proves that this is not a concern.

I'd file this under: things to not worry about.

[geezerjay → jayrwren]

Sequential numeric ids leak information regarding your operations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem

[wutman → geezerjay]

This is exactly right, but in my opinion usually not important. If Joe Public, or a competitor, or whoever knows how many posts you have, users you have, administrators you have, etc how much does that actually affect your operation? I guess they can better compete against you in some small way with that information, but in my opinion it's almost never worth the effort to obfuscate. It's like optimizing for a problem you don't have.

[geezerjay → wutman]

> how much does that actually affect your operation?

If it's a business service then the operation is not the end goal but the means to the end.

If it's a business service then the question you should be asking is "should I care that my competitors are able to observe and monitor my service metrics?".

Quite often, businesses do care a lot.

On: Ask HN: What is your money-making side project out...

[jayrwren]

+1

Who needs a side project when the day job is enough and there are loved one with whom we have limited time.

Live is short. Take time to enjoy it.

[justin66 → jayrwren]

Does it seem to you like most of the people here have chosen side projects they do not enjoy?

[quickthrower2 → jayrwren]

A side project might end up meaning you don’t need a job.

On: 58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

[jayrwren]

This is definitely better than nothing.

I personally prefer a bit more so that It looks good on my old crappy phone with far fewer than 600px wide. water.css is great.

On: SQL databases come up with algorithms you’d never ...

[jayrwren]

When .NET introduced LINQ this is 90% of what the .NET world talked about for the next 3yrs.