Hacker News: JosephGuerra

New comment by JosephGuerra in "What's Going on with ‘Nonplussed’? (2017)"

JosephGuerra — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:10:37 +0000

Egregious is like that, if I remember correctly

New comment by JosephGuerra in "Anatomy of a credit card rewards program"

JosephGuerra — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 22:03:39 +0000

Yeah I often see small print on the fuel cost per gallon as "cash price" .. I assume this happens mostly on low-margin products.

New comment by JosephGuerra in "Ask HN: Name 3-5 books that had the most impact on your career and knowledge?"

JosephGuerra — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 12:37:45 +0000

For me it was "Teach yourself...Assembler" - not because it was a great book or anything, but it was the first book I purchased to learn actual programming.

I don't think I even finished the book. (assembler is tedious and hard!) But it began a lifelong love of computers and software.

New comment by JosephGuerra in "Twilio CEO announces 11% in 'Anti-Racist' focused layoffs"

JosephGuerra — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 12:29:24 +0000

All things being equal, they should just use a lottery system. But that's only if all things are equal. first and foremost should be job performance / salary weighed against necessity of people in a given position.

Trying to force a social context in a business scenario is asking for trouble, IMHO.

New comment by JosephGuerra in "Plasma Bigscreen"

JosephGuerra — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:29:30 +0000

No way. that would be a 9'9" experience, I believe..

Although I think your point is correct.

New comment by JosephGuerra in "Software component names should be whimsical and cryptic"

JosephGuerra — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 13:13:11 +0000

Bill, Bert, Tom, Sed and Awk. It kind of works.

New comment by JosephGuerra in "Software component names should be whimsical and cryptic"

JosephGuerra — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 13:11:08 +0000

In theory, it makes sense that you would just create a new library with a better name, but if the original product has been on GitHub long enough to have amassed followers and a significant number of stars, they may be hesitant to have to ask those contributors to re-add the new repo.

New comment by JosephGuerra in "Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices"

JosephGuerra — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 13:11:39 +0000

Where i live in the suburbs we don't even have sidewalks ffs. I live about 3 blocks from my kids' school, yet they are driven or take the bus to school because kids are not allowed to bike or walk to elementary or middle school, unfortunately.

wow, didn't realize so much of EU can afford electric vehicles. They are more expensive over here in the U.S. - especially compared to a decent used car. Is this a function of the cost of fuel being much higher over there? Or are there subsidies for purchasing electric or something else?