jasonhanley

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by jasonhanley 2y ago
I’ve recently been perplexed by the new policy to charge 25% tariffs on incoming goods from America’s two closest suppliers: Canada and Mexico. So I decided to put the question to 3 of the most advanced AIs I have access to using their “rea
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by jasonhanley 2y ago
You know what's wild? Not ever having heard of him, I can find out who he is and how this relates to the conversation in milliseconds. For others' benefit: "Kurt Vonnegut explored themes of humans being observed by extraterre
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by jasonhanley 2y ago
As far as I can tell, the training is still going pretty well. Once humans learn enough, they are able to start coming up with and evaluating their own ideas. This ability isn't 100% apparent with current public AI models, but I strong
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by jasonhanley 2y ago
I agree the multimodal stuff is amazing. I'm seriously impressed with the new Gemini 2.0 family of models and can't wait until the full multimodal capabilities are in general release. In terms of the HeyGen vid, it's passable
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How quickly will AI improve?(jasonhanley.com)
8 points by jasonhanley 2y ago|13 comments
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$1.50/month per _condition_ – Seriously?(cloud.google.com)
3 points by jasonhanley 2y ago|0 comments
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by jasonhanley 6y ago
I've quit caffeine several times on and off, but overall I think that a small amount of caffeine does more for mental acuity than none at all, even considering sleep quality. But it's really easy to overdo. And really easy to kee
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by jasonhanley 8y ago
Dare I say there's a mini-movement starting? :D https://www.jasonhanley.com/blog/2018/09/making-websites-eff... Here's hoping...
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by jasonhanley 8y ago
If anything, the rants about this are getting better. That's probably a good sign. This rant is at least 10x better than mine from last year :) https://www.jasonhanley.com/blog/2017/08/when-did-software-g
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Making websites efficient again(beta.jasonhanley.com)
8 points by jasonhanley 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Is there anywhere besides Shenzhen that can build a touchscreen device?
2 points by jasonhanley 8y ago|1 comments
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by jasonhanley 8y ago
Down here. Hardly news considering it's Twitter :P
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The slow, painful death of social media(blog.jasonhanley.com)
2 points by jasonhanley 9y ago|0 comments
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by jasonhanley 9y ago
I feel like stuff like this is why golang and rust were created. (edit: Forgot about Rust, sorry!)
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by jasonhanley 9y ago
Windows NT4 was "peak stability" in my experience. Although some have said that Windows 2000 was more stable, I found the fusion of 95/98 into the NT kernel made it less so.
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by jasonhanley 9y ago
As a software developer and manager of software development projects, I wouldn't say that software quality has increased significantly since I started working professionally in the industry (1997). As mentioned elsewhere, web apps freq
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by jasonhanley 9y ago
Thanks :) That's what I was hoping for. It's a serious problem with no clear solution.
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by jasonhanley 9y ago
Didn't really expect to hit HN front page with my random rant :) In any case, glad I was hosted on Google infrastructure but embarrassed by the bloated, default Blogger template. Interested in suggestions for simple, lightweight altern
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by jasonhanley 9y ago
Agreed. I used Office XP (2002) until... I think about 2013 or so where I started running into incompatibility problems that just couldn't be resolved no matter what I tried.
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by jasonhanley 9y ago
This is true. Except that now the "desktop" apps are even worse! Now they've taken web apps and packaged them up to run their own web server and browser locally with even more abstraction layers that chew through your system
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by jasonhanley 9y ago
The irony is not lost on me. The unfortunate thing is that Blogger started out being fairly light and clean -- at least it was back when I migrated to it. At least static site generators are coming back into fashion. I've always consid
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by jasonhanley 9y ago
I was actually just thinking about this. Yeah, it probably doesn't really help the situation when you build several layers of abstraction in an interpreted language that runs in a virtual space on a virtual machine using another abstra
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by jasonhanley 9y ago
That's the type of example I've come across all too frequently. Software that's 5-10 years old, has all the same functionality, uses a fraction of the resources, and is often "better" in several ways. Older versions
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by jasonhanley 9y ago
As a developer and development manager, I haven't personally noticed major improvements in any of those metrics over the past 20 years. But I'd definitely be interested in any studies that have tried to measure these over long tim
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by jasonhanley 9y ago
This is all very true, but I feel like we (as users) haven't really gained proportionally compared to the increase in computing power and storage. For example IDEs: Visual Studio in 2017 is certainly better than Visual Studio in 1997,
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When did software go off the rails?(blog.jasonhanley.com)
244 points by jasonhanley 9y ago|323 comments
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by jasonhanley 10y ago
I considered that but worried the comments might get unruly. But perhaps I'm prematurely optimizing :) Does anyone know a good way to do this with MediaWiki? (I'm new to the platform) Is the Comments extension a decent way to go?
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Show HN: The Lean Party
4 points by jasonhanley 10y ago|2 comments
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by jasonhanley 11y ago
I'm the CTO of an organization that has been delivering cheap tablets with educational content to rural areas for several years: http://www.rumie.org/ Some of the challenges: 1) Making sure the tablets actually make it
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by jasonhanley 11y ago
These should be normalized for the number of births per year.

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