Hacker News: Zelmor

New comment by Zelmor in "Cybersecurity is not very important [pdf]"

Zelmor — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:47:37 +0000

Fuck this person in particular.

New comment by Zelmor in "The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]"

Zelmor — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 09:11:57 +0000

^ underrated

New comment by Zelmor in "Ask HN: Are there too many people in the world?"

Zelmor — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 20:19:57 +0000

Yes.

New comment by Zelmor in "Lockdown Mode on the Librem 5: Beyond Hardware Kill Switches"

Zelmor — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 20:12:26 +0000

You cannot do that in the EU. Also, phones communicate imei and other sim information, not OS information on the header plane during handshakes with the towers.

New comment by Zelmor in "Lockdown Mode on the Librem 5: Beyond Hardware Kill Switches"

Zelmor — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 20:05:44 +0000

what ifs

New comment by Zelmor in "Lockdown Mode on the Librem 5: Beyond Hardware Kill Switches"

Zelmor — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 20:03:01 +0000

I am yet to see actual images of this phone. Sounds like something I would buy, especially if I can install just a plain Debian release on it.

New comment by Zelmor in "Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH (2017)"

Zelmor — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:41:48 +0000

It's straightforward for me, but to each his own.

New comment by Zelmor in "Ask HN: Where should I start as a 34-year-old switching to software as a career?"

Zelmor — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 09:41:22 +0000

>interpreters, compilers, memory hierarchy Those are nice if you want to do embedded and C. A complete waste of time for Frontend/Backend, mobile and desktop people in the beginnings.

Tell me why someone picking up Python/JS should learn the above mentioned things, rather than learn basic security principles and not pip/npm install blindly all the packages without checking the source? Change my mind.

New comment by Zelmor in "Ask HN: How would you monetize software that runs mostly offline?"

Zelmor — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 17:01:36 +0000

Sure, patch your software, but you can keep accumulated feature requests on a separate branch. Then, as time goes on, decide whether you should rather monetize on an updated and more feature rich version, or just push updates and make people happy. I'd say there is more money in the first option, while the second makes me feel better. It's the developer's choice. Check https://www.holdemmanager.com/ how they do it.

For OP's kind of software, I'd say one time license purchase would be the most user friendly. So yeah, sell it like people did in the good old days, before the cancer that is SaaS took over the world.

New comment by Zelmor in "Launch HN: Searchlight (YC W19) – Hiring based on past performance, not resumes"

Zelmor — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 23:23:53 +0000

This is what references are for.

New comment by Zelmor in "YouTube bans comments on all videos of children"

Zelmor — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 23:12:33 +0000

Just remove children altogether from Youtube and be done with it. Fallout 1 was better without kids (stealing from you in Arroyo), so will Youtube.

New comment by Zelmor in "Pagedraw is shutting down and going open source"

Zelmor — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 23:06:04 +0000

Was this like a wysiwyg editor for badly performing web applications?

New comment by Zelmor in "Ask HN: How to cope with job hunting and depression?"

Zelmor — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 13:47:57 +0000

I'd advice you to start exercising. I recommend kettlebell and weight training, not cardio. This will help with your chemistry and make you more confident in your abilities.

New comment by Zelmor in "Ask HN: Looking for ideas"

Zelmor — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 23:15:46 +0000

>I’m taking a year off to live off my savings and work on an idea, but I don’t have one

Why take a year if you are clueless as of what you want to do? Do some traveling and air your head. If you still cannot find something you want to do, go back to your 9-5 job.

New comment by Zelmor in "Why Google won't let you leave a review for Jiminy Peak"

Zelmor — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 23:12:54 +0000

Bombing Steam/Gmaps is not how you should voice your opinion. That is not the intended use of the platform.

New comment by Zelmor in "Ask HN: What technology do you think will take off in 2019?"

Zelmor — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 08:42:25 +0000

low hanging meme

New comment by Zelmor in "Ask HN: Is having an inside connection the biggest factor in landing a next job?"

Zelmor — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 08:38:24 +0000

1. yes 2. EU, but no. Companies hire from the EU first, immigrants second.

New comment by Zelmor in "Bye, Bye, Google"

Zelmor — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 10:59:42 +0000

Switching from one email service to another instead of self-hosting, isn't he just trading a cow for a cattle?

New comment by Zelmor in "A Python Interpreter Written in Rust"

Zelmor — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 23:09:00 +0000

I'd send you a bottle of wine for saving me the time and effort.

New comment by Zelmor in "How do you sue / torpedo your ex-employer's IP after you have left a startup?"

Zelmor — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 19:30:39 +0000

Well you got paid for your 8 hours, didn't you? There, welcome to being an employee.