Hacker News: Havelock

Why can't I buy audiobooks included with Spotify premium?

Havelock — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 22:42:01 +0000

Article URL: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Content-Questions/Why-can-t-I-buy-audiobooks-included-in-Premium/m-p/5739853#M56274

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40991011

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by Havelock in "The Hacker News Top books of 2023"

Havelock — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 02:46:25 +0000

Nice affiliate list.

New comment by Havelock in "Norway Joins Denmark in Swedish Tesla Strike/Blockade"

Havelock — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:01:38 +0000

Unfortunately either side can't blink. IF Metall can't back down because then other companies could get ideas to leave. And Elmu doesn't want to back down because then other countries could get ideas about unionising which would affect their bottom line.

New comment by Havelock in "The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable"

Havelock — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:28:50 +0000

Linus Torvalds $50M net worth says otherwise. There are however very few "winners" and a lot of losers.

New comment by Havelock in "The U.S. housing market vs. the Canadian housing market"

Havelock — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 22:52:54 +0000

I believe that the current housing bubble began to really go off the rails during the 2008 financial crisis due to decisions made by the Conservative Party of Canada at that time. Instead of addressing the issue directly, the government chose to stimulate the housing market through incentives and policies, effectively artificially inflating it. Subsequent governments have followed a similar path.

As we've seen, the accumulated potential energy in the housing market has now grown to such an extent that we don't know what to do with it. Eventually, the "sandpile effect" is likely to come into play, since the laws of nature always wins.

New comment by Havelock in "GCP CloudSQL Vulnerability Leads to Internal Container Access and Data Exposure"

Havelock — Fri, 26 May 2023 18:46:13 +0000

It reads like paint two circles... then the rest of the owl.

New comment by Havelock in "Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online?"

Havelock — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 22:13:13 +0000

Same. Wrote scripts to level up skills, set up runes to different stores to perform automated shopping rounds. Had one script for sparring that would recall to a bank or an Inn and log out if a staff appeared in the journal; since it was illegal to macro offline on some servers. It was all good fun and I always enjoyed having it running on my PC as some sort of Tamagotchi.

Me and my brother also ran our own servers for a while. Believe the last server I played on was one of the Zuluhotel ones.

Design of GNU Parallel (2015)

Havelock — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 02:49:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_design.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35215494

Points: 170

# Comments: 71

New comment by Havelock in "My bad habit of hoarding information"

Havelock — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 15:35:22 +0000

I do the same, but right now I just keep tabmanager.io on my right screen to show a grid of all my windows. Some which I save for later, e.g. switching between projects.

New comment by Havelock in "Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc."

Havelock — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 17:18:24 +0000

Looks good. What would be the difference from e.g. Basecamp?

New comment by Havelock in "Show HN: High performance custom element virtual scroller"

Havelock — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 14:07:29 +0000

In terms of performance and size it's much better. Though it's more of a base component and you can virtualize any sort of scrollable element that you can render, vertical or horizontal.

Show HN: High performance custom element virtual scroller

Havelock — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 14:28:25 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/holmberd/virtual-scroller

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31824328

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by Havelock in "Hexagonal Architecture and Domain Driven Design"

Havelock — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:33:09 +0000

DDD is about building maintainable software by trying to separate the business domain from the application technology. If there is no separation and/or the software is not easy to maintain(more than just being tired of looking at it year after year), then try something else.

New comment by Havelock in "Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4"

Havelock — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 15:32:40 +0000

In my experience productivity is up and people get their work done. What I do see is a lot of extrovert getting depressed because they no longer have access to the smorgasbord of interactions at the office. Certain managers also seem worried by this move to remote, since it has become harder for them to "play the game" of office politics.

My own opinion is let the people decide what to do. Once a week, everyday, once a month, only when needed... Let people and teams decide.

New comment by Havelock in "Gitlab Handbook's HN Page"

Havelock — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 04:28:36 +0000

Plot twist. Posted by a Gitlab employee

New comment by Havelock in "Who wrote this shit?"

Havelock — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 15:47:10 +0000

Negative bonding can be a fast way to feelings of camaraderie, but it can also cause resentment to fester.

New comment by Havelock in "MacBook Air M1: the best laptop?"

Havelock — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 17:25:14 +0000

Lots of issues running docker and other strange segfaults in VM.

New comment by Havelock in "Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?"

Havelock — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 16:01:00 +0000

- uBlock Origin - tabmanager.io - React Developer Tools

Show HN: Firestore Query Observer API wrapper library

Havelock — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 15:19:51 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/holmberd/firestore-query-observer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27749727

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Havelock in "Show HN: Open-Source Chrome Extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns"

Havelock — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 15:18:49 +0000

I'm using tabmanager.io for this purpose, i.e. syncing windows as group of tabs. But I know similar features to this extension for tab-groups are currently being added.