Hacker News: Flipflip79

New comment by Flipflip79 in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

Flipflip79 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:24:45 +0000

….sorry what?!

New comment by Flipflip79 in "Why Ontario Digital Service couldn't procure '98% safe' LLMs (15M Canadians)"

Flipflip79 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:38:59 +0000

Im Canadian (Not Onario), so I really wanted to enjoy reading this as a peak inside what IT is like in that environment, but the LLM generated headers and patterns in the piece really put me off and I had to stop reading after a couple of minutes Im afraid.

I think this article would really benefit from being rewritten in your own words. The concept is good

New comment by Flipflip79 in "Don't push AI down our throats"

Flipflip79 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:13:13 +0000

What’s the problem there exactly? There’s nothing necessarily diametrically opposed in the two articles. They’re almost complimentary really

New comment by Flipflip79 in "Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event"

Flipflip79 — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 06:23:59 +0000

Strongly agree for the same reasons. I don’t subscribe to his stuff for any particular niche, I just enjoy the “this is a thing I am going to learn lots about and make a video”.

New comment by Flipflip79 in "They're Close to My Body: A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and Robin Finck (2020)"

Flipflip79 — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 22:24:55 +0000

These are very common in Canada still and anytime I see one I point at it and make the same joke “Looks it’s Vent Reznor” and my girlfriend has never once laughed. Oh well.

New comment by Flipflip79 in "We need visual programming. No, not like that"

Flipflip79 — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:41:54 +0000

No, they are very tailored to that use case. They arent general languages - but they are still probably the best examples of successful visual programming languages.

New comment by Flipflip79 in "We need visual programming. No, not like that"

Flipflip79 — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 00:15:30 +0000

It seems odd to me not to mention things like MaxMSP or PD in an article like this. Arguably Max is one of the most successful standalone visual programming languages (standalone in so far as it’s not attached to a game engine or similar - it exists only for its own existence).

New comment by Flipflip79 in "Okta says hackers stole data for all customer support users"

Flipflip79 — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 03:37:52 +0000

Gov orgs usually would use a FedRamp tenant and those weren’t impacted (apparently, my trust in Okta right now isn’t high)

New comment by Flipflip79 in "All Slack Employees Forced to Spend a Week Getting Salesforce Certifications"

Flipflip79 — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 13:56:51 +0000

I mean it is. I’m contesting it. So unless you have some quantifiable data it is in contention.

I like ICQ. I used it. But I really just don’t agree it had “more” features. It had _different_ features. And those features are just kinda wildly different because of how business and the internet had changed. I just really do not think it is a useful point to try and imply is a weakness of slack somehow.

New comment by Flipflip79 in "All Slack Employees Forced to Spend a Week Getting Salesforce Certifications"

Flipflip79 — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 13:52:15 +0000

I was there but thank you for the condescending assumption.

New comment by Flipflip79 in "All Slack Employees Forced to Spend a Week Getting Salesforce Certifications"

Flipflip79 — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 04:52:50 +0000

I find myself continuously blessed to run slack on a daily basis and literally never encounter an issue with it being an electron app. My laptop must be magic or something!

New comment by Flipflip79 in "All Slack Employees Forced to Spend a Week Getting Salesforce Certifications"

Flipflip79 — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 04:43:54 +0000

In what way did it have “more features than slack”? This feels more like “had other features that I like”

New comment by Flipflip79 in "Australians fight for the right to work from home permanently"

Flipflip79 — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 23:53:17 +0000

Not sure where I even remotely did that? The comment above was my only contribution to this thread. It’s an isolated reply to the comment I replied to

New comment by Flipflip79 in "Australians fight for the right to work from home permanently"

Flipflip79 — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 18:57:03 +0000

That’s an incredibly privileged point of view, with all due respect.

New comment by Flipflip79 in "‘I know about lying, I do it for a living’: Ben McKenzie as crypto critic"

Flipflip79 — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 16:21:44 +0000

You have a weird definition of rationality. If I am against Malware, a tech I don’t use, that would make me irrational? It’s completely acceptable to take an ethical stance against something you don’t use.

New comment by Flipflip79 in "Startups should consider starting their own podcasts"

Flipflip79 — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 14:45:40 +0000

"blog contributed by transistor.fm"

Just in case the content didn't give it away that this is just a weird ad.

New comment by Flipflip79 in "Show HN: Skip the SSO Tax, access your user data with OSS"

Flipflip79 — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 14:44:03 +0000

To be fair - if the SSO tax was just a single SKU for adding _just_ SSO to the platform and it was a reasonable like $2 - $4 a user addition, most people wouldn't care. When we refer to the SSO tax what we normally mean is that SSO is gated into the "Enterprise" category of a tool for some reason, implying that only Enterprises use SSO. The difference usually also includes other tools that the customer doesn't need (we only want SSO) and so the price difference is usually huge. It makes SSO unrealistic for non-enterprise size customers.

IMO thats generally what people refer to when they say SSO tax. It isnt discounting that providing SSO requires work, its that its never decoupled from a huge platform upsell.

New comment by Flipflip79 in "Show HN: Skip the SSO Tax, access your user data with OSS"

Flipflip79 — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 14:35:36 +0000

I think using the term "Skip the SSO Tax.." has done a little disservice to you, and I understand why you chose that term, but this is more "Skip the SCIM tax" I think?

Regardless, I totally understand the use case and I can immediately put this to work for my team - we will likely contribute some recipes too.

Thanks for sharing!

New comment by Flipflip79 in "Getting work done with PowerShell on Linux"

Flipflip79 — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 15:28:46 +0000

Obviously, this is a totally subjective opinion without much critical thought - but for me PowerShell is just...ugly. Its ugly to write, the PowerShell Terminal in Windows is aesthetically ugly (the blue, yellow, and red). Error output is verbose (good) but awfully formatted. The whole thing just makes it feel "cheap" to me. Find it really hard to get over that bias now when I need to work in PS.

New comment by Flipflip79 in "ElonJet Is Now Suspended"

Flipflip79 — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 15:29:37 +0000

No, this is publicly available information. Flight tracks are not private