Hacker News: Spinfusor

New comment by Spinfusor in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

Spinfusor — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:43:05 +0000

This is one of the reasons I opt for PayPal in the US when I have the choice. I've been in too many breaches. Direct to bank would be better, but I trust PayPal's security more than a random ecommerce website's security.

New comment by Spinfusor in "Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design"

Spinfusor — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:43:52 +0000

If it had a backlight, I would have bought one by now.

New comment by Spinfusor in "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"

Spinfusor — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:59:41 +0000

I had a mostly bad experience with Kagi, but I have to say I miss the account-level domain blocking.

New comment by Spinfusor in "Safe and reliable production changes, and how Rivian recently got this wrong"

Spinfusor — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:15:14 +0000

At this point I would like to be there. Telecom companies don't seem to care about spam calls much.

New comment by Spinfusor in "Framework Laptop Wins Two Design Awards"

Spinfusor — Tue, 03 May 2022 21:02:29 +0000

Acer has a few 3:2 Windows/Chrome laptops

New comment by Spinfusor in "Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances"

Spinfusor — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 21:45:03 +0000

Oracle's OpenJDK binaries are GPL; the Oracle JDK has a better license as of a few months ago (v17): https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/introduci...

New comment by Spinfusor in "People Keeping BlackBerry Alive"

Spinfusor — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 01:13:11 +0000

The N9 was only two years behind the Palm Pre!

New comment by Spinfusor in "Quibi Is Shutting Down"

Spinfusor — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 21:23:12 +0000

eBay did well when she was CEO.

New comment by Spinfusor in "Performance of modern Java on data-heavy workloads"

Spinfusor — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 08:30:24 +0000

Not true. You can use the OpenJDK for free until the end of time. If you want ongoing updates beyond six months, there are a bunch of free distributions: Azul Zulu Community (7/8/11/13/14), AdoptOpenJDK (8/11/14), etc.

New comment by Spinfusor in "Anti-Cheat Kernel Driver"

Spinfusor — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 21:05:05 +0000

Tencent owns 100% of Riot; Tim Sweeney is Epic.

New comment by Spinfusor in "New Features in Java 14"

Spinfusor — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 23:53:35 +0000

It's mostly FUD: it's only relevant for the Oracle JDK; it doesn't apply to OpenJDK (or the other open distributions by other orgs).

New comment by Spinfusor in "Bazel Release 1.0"

Spinfusor — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 13:13:34 +0000

Yes: the internal tool is Blaze

New comment by Spinfusor in "Microsoft’s Q4 earnings and 2020 expectations"

Spinfusor — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 18:13:46 +0000

Azure's Java support is not up to par and doesn't seem to get much love, so I'd use AWS or GCP given the choice.

New comment by Spinfusor in "On Jony Ive Leaving Apple"

Spinfusor — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:35:14 +0000

iOS 7 was so much better than 6 it's not even funny. I'm so happy the skeuomorphic look was finally killed.

New comment by Spinfusor in "Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service"

Spinfusor — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 18:05:15 +0000

They didn't talk about monetization. They could presumably sell Stadia games like Steam games (i.e. there's no subscription). They did mention being able to jump into games quickly, but there are plenty of ways to make that work (e.g. giving everyone some free time).

New comment by Spinfusor in "New iPad Air and iPad Mini"

Spinfusor — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 15:35:53 +0000

The Surface Pro has never had any USB-C ports.

Microsoft released a Surface Connect adapter only last year, and it has terrible reviews: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/surface-connect-to-usb-c-a...

The Surface Go, Surface Book 2, and Surface Studio 2 are the only Surface devices with USB-C ports.

New comment by Spinfusor in "Autodesk to Acquire PlanGrid (YC W12) to Accelerate Construction Productivity"

Spinfusor — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 22:56:04 +0000

They’ve done a great job with PlanGrid.

I wonder what role Carol Bartz played in the deal (she’s been on the board for 2.5 years and was Autodesk’s CEO for 14 years).

New comment by Spinfusor in "Introducing Surface Book 2"

Spinfusor — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 15:52:19 +0000

I hope the hinge is much tighter than on the old models (the display shook waaaaay too much).

New comment by Spinfusor in "Google could face a $9B EU fine for rigging search results in its favour"

Spinfusor — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 16:14:25 +0000

What are you suggesting they show first? Most people would argue that Google's translation service is the best of the free/ad-supported options out there.

Even Bing shows Google's translator first (after their own inline version).

New comment by Spinfusor in "Gett in advanced talks to buy Juno for $250M as Uber rivals consolidate"

Spinfusor — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:55:09 +0000

Re Grubhub/Seamless (I used to work there):

The sense I got was that they haven't unified the brands yet because they're really afraid of messing up the NYC market. Grubhub merged with Seamless in 2013 because leadership wanted to get into NYC, and Seamless owned/owns NYC. It's a hugely profitable market for the company.

They've toyed with the idea of bringing the brands closer (particularly around the Grubhub rebrand last year), but nothing's happened so far.