Hacker News: Shinchy

New comment by Shinchy in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"

Shinchy — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:06:24 +0000

I was literally just talking about this the other day—every app on my Mac that gives me trouble is from Apple (Music, Podcasts, Keynote). And don’t even get me started on the declining UX quality in iOS. It feels like the cracks are really starting to show now. I know Apple’s developer quality has been on a downward trend for a while, but at this point, it’s impossible to ignore.

New comment by Shinchy in "Why blog if nobody reads it?"

Shinchy — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:50:03 +0000

For me blogging acts as a function to learn about something. If I want to understand a particular subject (albeit a small one), I’ll write about it. Do some research on the matter, think over what I am trying to answer, and at the end I always feel more knowledgeable about that particular subject point. Another factor is that it improves my writing, which in turns helps expression which too is very valuable. Sure not many people read it, but honestly putting on some music and just tapping away on something interesting is quite therapeutic.

New comment by Shinchy in "Anthropic: "Applicants should not use AI assistants""

Shinchy — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 10:28:00 +0000

'"every line a hard-fought battle" style that really makes you understand why and how something works'

I totally agree with this and I really like that way of wording it.

New comment by Shinchy in "UK's hardware talent is being wasted"

Shinchy — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 10:49:33 +0000

I agree and it's a real shame, we used to spearhead some of the most initiative companies in technology (Acorn, Arm, Sinclair, Sage, Deepmind). Now it's just a shadow, while places like Silicon Valley or Stockholm have jetted ahead the UK just sort of stagnated - it's kind of embarrassing.

New comment by Shinchy in "Show HN: Tetris in a PDF"

Shinchy — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:03:30 +0000

That's truly amazing! I knew you could do a lot with PDF but that not to this extent.

New comment by Shinchy in "2400 phone providers may be shut down by the FCC for failing to stop robocalls"

Shinchy — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 10:11:02 +0000

Here is the UK it is very common, I must get 4-5 a week and I am also very cautious about who I give my number to.

New comment by Shinchy in "Open source AI is the path forward"

Shinchy — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:22:11 +0000

This is the exact thing I keep telling people. It's all well and good saying human made content will still be around, but it will be covered in a tidal wave of cheaply generated AI hogwash.

New comment by Shinchy in "Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)"

Shinchy — Thu, 16 May 2024 08:55:31 +0000

Wow, oddly enough that kind of sounds quite fun.

New comment by Shinchy in "Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'"

Shinchy — Fri, 10 May 2024 08:45:08 +0000

I'm not sure what others are saying, I re-watched Ghost in the Shell again recently and I had forgotten just how brilliant it is. There is something pure about it that you just don't find in modern anime, something that really resonated.

New comment by Shinchy in "The Myth of the Second Chance"

Shinchy — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:10:37 +0000

That's a great analogy, I'm now going to have to read this book.

New comment by Shinchy in "Obituary for a quiet life (2023)"

Shinchy — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 09:39:47 +0000

This is a great analogy.

New comment by Shinchy in "She slept with a violin on her pillow"

Shinchy — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 09:23:32 +0000

That's a great picture, it reminds me a lot of Final Fantasy XV.

New comment by Shinchy in "I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner"

Shinchy — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:22:09 +0000

That is so cool!

New comment by Shinchy in "Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub"

Shinchy — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 12:27:23 +0000

He's an extremely smart guy, so I'm not that surprised.

New comment by Shinchy in "The failure of self-checkout technology"

Shinchy — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 10:52:02 +0000

Not seen it on groceries, but I know Uniqlo use this same method and it's fantastic.

New comment by Shinchy in "What does and doesn't matter about Apple shooting their October event on iPhone"

Shinchy — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 09:31:44 +0000

Not sure about at the time, but I have had the opportunity to record onto one of the tape machines they used (they had multiple) and the studio had paid around £30,000 for it.

New comment by Shinchy in "A real-time 3D digital map of Tokyo's public transport system"

Shinchy — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 10:13:36 +0000

This is really awesome, I love the way you integrated the live camera feeds.

New comment by Shinchy in "Death by a Thousand Microservices"

Shinchy — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 08:11:02 +0000

Absolutely agree, I've seen far too many companies spend far too much time working out the infrastructural relationships of microservices. Spending very little time working on the actual applications needs itself.

New comment by Shinchy in "Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?"

Shinchy — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:12:28 +0000

Just from my own perspective and in speaking with recruiters (UK), I've never seen the job market this bad before. I have 20+ years’ experience, Harvard, senior leadership positions, and long tenures at reputable places. Yet I don't hear anything back from applications I put out (and these are senior positions).

I think one huge factor at play is the move to remote work, before you would compete with the people in your area who had to physically be able to turn up to a location to interview. What has happened is the opening of the gates to anyone in the world being able to apply to that same job, so you now have 500+ applications for roles that would have previously gotten 20. There’s only so much headspace one can give to that quantity of applicants so I suspect the first 25 get a look in and the others go in the bin.

New comment by Shinchy in "Microsoft Designer"

Shinchy — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 11:05:53 +0000

I couldn't agree more.