Hacker News: JohnClark1337

New comment by JohnClark1337 in "AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B"

JohnClark1337 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:19:09 +0000

So companies go there to die

New comment by JohnClark1337 in "Warner Bros Completes Worldwide Sale of 'Coyote vs Acme'"

JohnClark1337 — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:58:18 +0000

I can't see them NOT sanitizing the old cartoons

New comment by JohnClark1337 in "Why aren't we all serverless yet?"

JohnClark1337 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:33:44 +0000

Because some of us need to have the servers that the "serverless" people use.

New comment by JohnClark1337 in "Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems?"

JohnClark1337 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:51:03 +0000

Also a product of the mentality that you get ahead in your career by adding new features, not by maintaining existing features. Maintenance is boring and the new kids straight out of college don't want to do the boring thing.

New comment by JohnClark1337 in "Japan's declining births on track to fall below 700k"

JohnClark1337 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 20:20:52 +0000

Not only that, but the young have to support the old in their retirement. This becomes a huge problem when there are multiple elderly per young person and the young find that they are spending most of their time and effort supporting the aging population. The elderly start being seen as a burden on society.

New comment by JohnClark1337 in "The short, happy reign of CD-ROM"

JohnClark1337 — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 13:21:46 +0000

Deadly Tide on Windows 95 was amazing. I still consider it to be one of the best rail-shooters ever made.

New comment by JohnClark1337 in "T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock–guess what happened next"

JohnClark1337 — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:58:30 +0000

One of the reasons I used to swap out the OS on my android phone. Back then I used CyanogenMod (now LineageOS) and they weren't able to track when I was using tethering and when I was just using my regular data.

New comment by JohnClark1337 in "Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?"

JohnClark1337 — Wed, 08 May 2024 14:04:05 +0000

Yeah, the US is big. Movies and TV shows usually only show like 2 or 3 cities which makes everything seem like it's close together. For instance I live on the east coast, and I've never been to LA California, which might seem weird but it's over 2500 miles away. Different regions have basically different sub-cultures that emerge because we're so spread out.

New comment by JohnClark1337 in "Second Life's Formula Will Never Be Replicated"

JohnClark1337 — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 20:12:04 +0000

I remember when Second Life was new and touted as "The Future". Gamers jumped into it but many left because there was simply nothing to do unless you were a creative type who had the skill to create and sell items in the 'game'. I'm guessing today it's just creative people hanging out with creative people, which is probably a fun experience for them, but not something that will appeal to a wide audience.

New comment by JohnClark1337 in "Fifty years of the personal computer operating system"

JohnClark1337 — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:56:38 +0000

I've heard 3 different versions of this story now. 1. Gary was out joyriding in his plane and when the reps from IBM showed up, his wife turned them down because she didn't feel like she had the authority to continue negotiating without him

2. IBM reps showed up, but it was Gary's wife's birthday, and so he told them he would need to reschedule

3. This version

I wonder if we will ever really know what took place that day.

New comment by JohnClark1337 in "'Mathematically perfect' star system being investigated for potential alien tech"

JohnClark1337 — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:48:20 +0000

Not to mention if we did pick up an alien signal it would have been sent a very very very long time ago

New comment by JohnClark1337 in "The high cost of return to office mandates"

JohnClark1337 — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:03:51 +0000

Surprised the author didn't bring up the corporate mentality of having to justify having (sometimes) large office buildings, cafeterias, etc that make their campuses look impressive but are a massive cost sink if nobody is utilizing them. You can say "just get rid of the buildings" but then (thinking of tech companies) they won't APPEAR to be as big or popular as other tech companies.

New comment by JohnClark1337 in "GenZ treat employers like bad dates 93% ghost interviews 87% don't show for work"

JohnClark1337 — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:19:16 +0000

Anyone who has looked for a job knows the feeling of going through an interview and then never hearing back from the company. It's fine when the company wastes your time, but never ok when you waste the company's time.

New comment by JohnClark1337 in "Amazon Prime Video Ad Tier Sparks Class Action Lawsuit from Subscribers"

JohnClark1337 — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 21:49:31 +0000

Cable TV didn't have ads when it started, and then started adding advertisements once they realized they could get away with it. That's when you ended up with HBO, which was an additional cost above standard cable TV. Corporations are never "content", but always require more and more income.

New comment by JohnClark1337 in "Jackie Coogan and the fall of Hollywood's child stars"

JohnClark1337 — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 14:16:00 +0000

"Gentle Parenting" is another instance. It could mean that you set boundaries but are more cautious about how you give punishments, attempting to fit the punishment to the bad deed. Or it could mean that you let the child do whatever they want and give them everything, teaching them that there are no negative consequences to their actions and that others are there to serve them.

New comment by JohnClark1337 in "Why do so many people think they are in a bullshit job?"

JohnClark1337 — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 15:53:37 +0000

As a small cog in a large corporate machine, I get this. You just keep spinning and spinning, seemingly doing the same kinds of projects and the same work over and over again, often with no understanding of where the projects are coming from or whether or not the hard work you're putting in has any real value. And then there's constant changing and revisions and sometimes the project gets dropped, which is a clear indication that your hard work was basically wasted by higher ups who seem to have no understanding of the work that has to go into the projects.

I get paid though, so I'll keep spinning and find my value as a human outside of work.

New comment by JohnClark1337 in "Five Kinds of Friends (2022)"

JohnClark1337 — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 13:40:15 +0000

I think it's more of a gut reaction against making all of life cold, calculated, and sterile. Reducing everything to a number

New comment by JohnClark1337 in "Fake town built exclusively for filming TV and movies"

JohnClark1337 — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 20:10:38 +0000

Done way better than a lot of modern "natural lighting" movies and shows, where the picture is so dark that you can't tell what's going on.

New comment by JohnClark1337 in "A buggy Windows 11 update keeps slowing down SSDs"

JohnClark1337 — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 18:51:28 +0000

Ah, so others have been having this problem too. My work computer has been taking about 2 minutes to fully boot up (with ssd) after the march update when it used to just take a few seconds. Unfortunately it's my work computer so I don't have admin access and have just been living with it.

New comment by JohnClark1337 in "Life before cellphones: The after-work activities of young people in 2002"

JohnClark1337 — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 18:45:19 +0000

A lot of startup-minded engineers are younger, fresh out of college with the single goal of excelling in their field. They work and work until one day they finally get tired of the grind and/or find life and responsibilities outside of work. You also have the workaholics, but that's another issue.